Category: Podcast – Documentary
Sound On Sight Radio #293: Director Steve James (‘The Interrupters,’ ‘Hoop Dreams’)
Hoop Dreams might very well be the most acclaimed documentary of the 1990s, but its co-director, Chicago-based documentarian Steve James, has continued to create distinctive, relevant films in the near-20 year interval since that film’s release. His latest, The Interrupters, … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Radio #289: Telluride 2011 – ‘Pina’ / ‘A Dangerous Method’ / ‘Into the Abyss’
SoS host Simon Howell was lucky enough to not only get to attend this year’s Telluride Film Festival, but also to take part in the fest’s Student Symposium, which grants access … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Radio #287: Documentary Roundup
It’s been too long since we checked in on the world of documentaries – not aided by the cinematic scheduling discrepancies between Montreal and Toronto – so it seemed time to finally talk about two of the summer’s best-loved ones: … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Radio #275: Errol Morris’s ‘First Person’
While we wait around to see his new film Tabloid (which, between our recording this episode and its publication, has a new trailer – see below), we thought it appropriate to take a look at Errol Morris’s First Person, the … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Radio #269: Justice Is Not Served
For our first documentary special in quite some time, we decided to give ourselves an emotional beating for some reason by sticking with an unusual theme: three docs that focus on miscarriages of justice. First up in Paradise Lost: The … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Radio #259: Four Sports Docs For People Who Don’t Care About The Super Bowl
ESPN’s 30 for 30 – a collection of 30 documentaries by 30 filmmakers crated to commemorate the sports network’s thirtieth anniversary – has finally hit DVD, and with the help of special guest Mike Waldman, we’re going to discuss four … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Radio #257: Restrepo / Armadillo
In our latest spotlight on recent documentaries, Derek, Justine and Simon tackle two very different visions of the war in Afgahnistan: first up is Restrepo, which has just been announced as an Academy Award nominee, and which takes a talking-heads … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #240: Hot Docs 2010
Back in 2007, software-entrepreneur turned documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson made a big splash with his debut feature No End In Sight, a thorough examination of the second Gulf War that earned him an Academy Award nomination. He’s back with Inside … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #228: Catching Up With This Year’s Docs
Throughout the last 9 months, documentaries of note have been cropping up, and on this hour of Sound on Sight Justine, Derek and Simon finally get to round them up in one place. First up is Joan Rivers: A Piece … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #164: Anvil the story of Anvil
Now that it’s finally hit DVD, Sound on Sight takes a long-delayed look at a documentary that some are lauding as one of the year’s best: Anvil: The Story of Anvil, which chronicles its titular Toronto metal band as they … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #149 – The Cove
2005′s March of the Penguins proved that animal documentaries, even those with a subtle environmental message, could generate good box office. Moving off the ice flow and into the ocean, a couple of recent docs have taken up the plight … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #142 – Documentaries From The Edge
As usual, this year’s Fantasia Film Fest was loaded with quirky, offbeat documentary content, and on this episode of Sound on Sight, Al, Simon and returning guest Derek Gladu take on three of them: Wild and Wonderful Whites of West … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #129: Dance, Eat, Fight: New Docs on Screen
The last few weeks have seen an uptick in wide-release documentary activity, so returning guest Derek Gladu joins us to help dissect three of them: Every Little Step, a look at the 1970s and 2000s Broadway productions of A Chorus … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #102 – Hot Docs #4
Download show in another window There’s an eclectic new slate of documentaries to be found on DVD aisles in the last few weeks, including Kurt Kuenne’s provocative “Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father,” which wowed festival … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #89 – Hot Docs
Download show With the Oscars just a month away, we take a look back at two Oscar-nominated films we did not have a chance to review yet. Israel’s “Waltz With Bashir” is up for Best Foreign Film, although it might … [Read the Rest]
