This documentary about the French Impressionist uses only excerpts from his rather unilluminating letters as narration, but the paintings are still stunning.
Your guide to Asheville's vibrant and diverse movie offerings.
Your guide to Asheville's vibrant and diverse movie offerings.
All in Documentary
This documentary about the French Impressionist uses only excerpts from his rather unilluminating letters as narration, but the paintings are still stunning.
Like a great album backloaded with filler tracks, this music format documentary starts strong then runs out of things to say.
Taghi Amirani's documentary is a fascinating convergence of imagination and education — and might very well be the first truly must-see film of 2020.
Is universal pre-K a worthy cause? Yes. Is this quasi pharmaceutical commercial the way to make it happen? Probably not.
Five ACLU attorneys are lovingly profiled in this inspirational and educational documentary.
This worshipful, star-studded, oh-so-Canadian documentary will leave you with a warm nostalgia for the man it argues is the Bob Dylan of the North.
The provocative fashion photographer is lauded and assessed by his fellow icons, including Grace Jones and Isabella Rossellini.
Unless you’re an art historian, this film is guaranteed to tell you things you didn’t know about the artist, his works, and his family.
Essentially a “making of” documentary, “Yours Truly” chronicles the creation of a remarkable art installation at Alcatraz in 2014.
No preview trailer or still image can do justice to the beauty of this documentary and its subject, gender-bending astrologer Walter Mercado. Put it on your watch list now.
Vivian Liberto, aka Johnny Cash’s first wife and mother of their four daughters, finally gets her due in this serviceable documentary.
Dawn Porter’s bio-doc on the influential leader cements his legacy — and may help preserve it.
The brilliant documentary on Blind Melon lead singer Shannon Hoon should at last put him in the same breath as other ’90s rock greats.
A compact, star-studded, and informative biography of America’s most beloved jazz singer.
No one needs to the “Ghost in the Noonday Sun,” a terrible slapstick pirate comedy from 1973, but anyone interested in moviemaking should certainly see this doc about how the star sank the film.
One of the most intimate and unlikely documentaries you’re ever likely to see, the film traces an artist’s obsession with the thief who stole two of her paintings.
With expert commentary, the artist’s correspondence in voiceover by Brian Cox, and lovely travel photography, Portraits of a Life is a complete package for art lovers.
An engaging blend of densely packed history, countless interviews, and soaring performances, all grounded in the Big Easy’s musical traditions.
Justin Pemberton’s informative, entertaining documentary chronicles the global path to our current wealth disparity issues, and offers solutions to reverse destructive economic trends.
A wealth of contemporary film footage as well as fresh interviews recount the rise and fall of the ecological utopia Biosphere 2 in the early 1990s.
