Documentary Films reviewed by Meredith Lavitt
Meredith Lavitt
, reviewer of
0 bad
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2 ok
and
0 good
documentaries:
Mardi Gras: Made in China
(
2005
)
The Execution of Wanda Jean
(
2002
)
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DRAMATIC COMPETION 2008
American Son
Anywhere, USA
Ballast
Choke
Downloading Nancy
Frozen River
Good Dick
North Starr
Phoebe in Wonderland
Pretty Bird
Sleep Dealer
Sugar
Sunshine Cleaning
The Last Word
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
The Wackness
DOCUMENTARY COMPETION 2008
American Teen
An American Soldier
Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
Fields of Fuel
Flow: For Love of Water
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
I.O.U.S.A.
Nerakhoon (The Betrayal)
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Secrecy
Slingshot Hip Hop
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
The Order of Myths
Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
Trouble the Water
DRAMATIC COMPETION 2007
Adrift in Manhattan
Broken English
Four Sheets to the Wind
Grace is Gone
Hounddog
Joshua
Never Forever
On the Road with Judas
Padre Nuestro
Rocket Science
Snow Angels
Starting Out in the Evening
Teeth
The Good Life
The Pool
Weapons
DOCUMENTARY COMPETION 2007
Banished
Chasing Ghosts
Crazy Love
Everything's Cool
For the Bible Tells Me So
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Girl 27
Hear and Now
Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
My Kid Could Paint That
Nanking
No End in Sight
Protagonist
War Dance
White Light/Black Rain
Zoo
DRAMATIC COMPETION 2006
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Come Early Morning
Flannel Pajamas
Forgiven
Half Nelson
In Between Days
Puccini for Beginners
Quinceanera
Right at Your Door
Sherrybaby
Somebodies
Stay
Steel City
Stephanie Daley
The Hawk is Dying
Wristcutters: A Love Story
DOCUMENTARY COMPETION 2006
'Tis Autumn -- The Search for Jackie Paris
A Lion in the House
American Blackout
An Unreasonable Man
Crossing Arizona
God Grew Tired of Us
Iraq in Fragments
So Much So Fast
TV Junkie
The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends
The Trials of Darryl Hunt
The World According to Sesame Street
Thin
Wide Awake
Wordplay
small town gay bar
DRAMATIC COMPETION 2005
Between
Brick
Ellie Parker
Forty Shades of Blue
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
Hustle & Flow
Junebug
Loggerheads
Lonesome Jim
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Police Beat
Pretty Persuasion
The Squid and the Whale
They Dying Gaul
Thumbsucker
Who Killed Cock Robin?
DOCUMENTARY COMPETION 2005
After Innocence
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Frozen Angels
Mardi Gras: Made in China
Murderball
New York Doll
Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story
Romantico
Shakespeare Behind Bars
The Aristocrats
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
The Education of Shelby Knox
The Fall of Fujimori
Trudell
Twist of Faith
Why We Fight
DRAMATIC COMPETION 2004
Book of Love
Brother to Brother
Chrystal
Down to the Bone
Easy
Evergreen
Garden State
Harry and Max
Maria Full of Grace
Napoleon Dynamite
November
One Point 0
Primer
The Best Thief in the World
The Woodsman
We Don't Live Here Anymore
DOCUMENTARY COMPETION 2004
A Place of Our Own
Born into Brothels
CHISOLM '72 -- ONBOUGHT AND UNBOSSED
DIG!
Deadline
Farmingville
Heir to an Execution
Home of the Brave
I Like Killing Flies
Imelda
In the Realms of the Unreal
Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army
Persons of Interest
Super Size Me
The Fight
Word Wars
DRAMATIC COMPETION 2003
All the Real Girls
American Splendor
Camp
Die Mommie Die
Dopamine
Party Monster
Pieces of April
Quattro Noza
Rythm of the Saints
The Cooler
The Mudge Boy
The Station Agent
The Technical Writer
The United States of Leland
What Alice Found
thirteen
DOCUMENTARY COMPETION 2003
A Certain Kind of Death
A Decade Under the Influence
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Bukowski: Born into This
Capturing the Friedmans
My Flesh and Blood
Robert Capa: In Love and War
State of Denial
Stevie
The Education of Gore Vidal
The Murder of Emmett Till
The Pill
The Same River Twice
The Weather Underground
Tom Dowd & the Language of Music
What I Want My Words to Do to You
DRAMATIC COMPETION 2002
Bark
Better Luck Tomorrow
Cherish
Face
Killing Time
Love Liza
Love in the Time of Money
Manito
Narc
Paradox Lake
Personal Velocity
Pumpkin
Real Women Have Curves
Secretary
Tadpole
The Slaughter Rule
XX/XY
DOCUMENTARY COMPETION 2002
AMANDLA! a revolution in four part harmony
American Standoff
Blue Vinyl
Close to Home
Daddy & Papa
Daughter from Danang
Derrida
Family Fundamentals
How to Draw a Bunny
Miss America
Ralph Ellison: An American Journey
Senorita Extraviada
Sister Helen
The Cockettes
The Execution of Wanda Jean
Two Towns of Jasper
DRAMATIC COMPETION 2001
30 Years to Life
Donnie Darko
Green Dragon
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
In the Bedroom
L.I.E
Lift
Macarthur Park
Memento
Scotland, PA
Some Body
The American Astronaut
The Believer
The Business of Strangers
The Deep End
The Sleepy Time Gal
DOCUMENTARY COMPETION 2001
An Unfinished Symphony
Chain Camera
Children Underground
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Go Tigers!
Home Movie
Lalee�s Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
Scout�s Honor
Scratch
Southern Comfort
Startup.com
The Endurance: Shackleton�s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
The Natural History of the Chicken
Trembling Before G-D
DRAMATIC COMPETION 2000
Beyond the Ocean
Blessed Art Thou
Chuck & Buck
Committed
Compensation
Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
Drop Back Ten
Everything Put Together
Girlfight
Other Voices
Our Song
Shadow Hours
Songcatcher
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
The Tao of Steve
Urbania
You Can Count On Me
DOCUMENTARY COMPETION 2000
Americanos: Latino Life in the United States
Coming to Light, Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians
Dark Days
First Person Plural
George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
Just, Melvin
Legacy
Long Night's Journey Into Day
Nuyorican Dream
Paragraph 175
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
Sound and Fury
Stranger with a Camera
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Well-Founded Fear
DRAMATIC COMPETION 1999
A Slipping-Down Life
Getting to Know You
Guinevere
Happy, Texas
Joe the King
Judy Berlin
Roberta
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
The Autumn Heart
The Hi-Line
The Item
The Minus Man
Three Seasons
Treasure Island
Trick
Tumbleweeds
DOCUMENTARY COMPETION 1999
American Hollow
American Movie
American Pimp
Death: A Love Story
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Home Page
On the Ropes
Rabbit in the Moon
Regret to Inform
Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle
Speaking in Strings
The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords
The Legacy: Murder & Media, Politics & Prisons
The Living Museum
The Source
DRAMATIC COMPETION 1998
2by4
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
Buffalo 66
Hav Plenty
High Art
How to Make the Cruelest Month
I Married a Strange Person
Jerry and Tom
Miss Monday
Next Stop, Wonderland
Once We Were Strangers
Pi
Slam
Under Heaven
Wrestling with Alligators
DOCUMENTARY COMPETION 1998
A Letter without Words
Baby, It's You
Beautopia
Divine Trash
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frat House
Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart
Modulations
Moment of Impact
Out of the Past
Paulina
Slavegirls
Some Nudity Required
The Decline of Western Civilization, Part III
The Farm
Wild Man Blues
DRAMATIC COMPETION 1997
All Over Me
Arresting Gena
Black & White & Red All Over
Colin Fitz
Eye of God
George B.
Going All the Way
Hurricane
In the Company of Men
Love Jones
Santa Fe
Slaves to the Underground
Smoke Signals
Strays
Sunday
The Clockwatchers
The Delta
The House of Yes
The Myth of Fingerprints
love jones
DOCUMENTARY COMPETION 1997
A Healthy Baby Girl
An Act of Conscience
Family Name
Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary
Girls Like Us
Hide and Seek
John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk
Licensed to Kill
My America ... or Honk if You Love Buddha
New School Order
Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End
Poverty Outlaw
Riding the Rails
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
The Fight in the Fileds, Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle
The Long Way Home
DRAMATIC COMPETION 1996
Bandwagon
Big Night
Care of the Spitfire Grill
Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
Eden
Femal Perversions
Follow Me Home
Freeway
Girls Town
God's Lonely Man
I Shot Andy Warhol
Late Bloomers
Meet Ruth Stoops
The Darien Gap
The Keeper
The Whole Wide World
Walking and Talking
Welcome to the Dollhouse
DOCUMENTARY COMPETION 1996
A Leap of Faith
Belly Talkers
Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud
Cutting Loose
Fire on the Mountain
Halving the Bones
Hype!
Jane: An Abortion Service
My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Synthetic Pleasures
Tender Fictions
The Battle over Citizen Kane
The Celluloid Closet
Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
When We Were Kings
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