This is a true story. During the Q&A; of the screening I attended of Actress, Robert Greene’s complex and artfully human new documentary, one woman couldn’t get through her question before losing her struggle with tears. She commended Brandy Burre, the subject, more or less for he... Read More »
Maybe I just picked the perfect year to start coming, but I suspect that the 2014 True/False Fest was fairly typical of the event’s high quality and welcoming atmosphere. It’s definitely a film festival to watch, and to attend yourself, if you get the chance. I know I’ll be back.... Read More »
Though almost all the films I have seen at True/False have felt fresh and inventive in some way, The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga is the most formally daring film I have taken in. Somewhere between ethnography and filmic essay, the film examines the relationship between peo... Read More »
It can be easy to miss amidst the heavy emotional punch the film carries, but Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters brings a refreshing nuance to its story of a pastor torn between his family and congregation on the one hand, and the pull he feels to love his neighbors, in this case the i... Read More »
By the end of the final performance in 20,000 Days on Earth, it’s clear we’ve been watching a Nick Cave show the whole time. The film’s construction is enigmatic. Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s direction is evocative. They keep us at the precipice of the musician’s psychic creat... Read More »
This is my first year attending True/False, and the festival definitely has the buzz of an event that’s about to explode into the mainstream. The energy so far has been incredible – no doubt partly due to Columbia, Missouri’s status as a bona fide college town, but also because t... Read More »
