‘Taking Venice’ Review: A Tasty Doc About Robert Rauschenberg Winning the 1964 Venice Biennale. But Was It a U.S. ‘Conspiracy’? Uh, No

If you had to name the greatest documentaries of all time, well, that’s tough, but if you had to name the greatest portrait documentaries of all time, well, at the very least, “Burden of Dreams” would easily be in the top ten and likely on the all-time list too. Directed by the late legendary documentarian Les Blank, the award-winning “Burden Of Dreams” (1982) centers on German filmmaker Werner Herzog, actor Klaus Kinski, and the nearly disastrous making of their third collaboration, “Fitzcarraldo” (1982).

EXCLUSIVE: A new documentary will tell the harrowing story of 10 youngsters who fled the Nova Music Festival on October 7. They were subsequently attacked as they took cover in a bunker and had to hide under the bodies of those who had been killed to survive.

Siddhant Adlakha “Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme” centers on an immensely interesting subject — financial fraudster and D-List actor Zach Horowitz, a.k.a. Zach Avery — but ends up telling his tale in uninteresting ways. The film draws its various techniques from far better and more accomplished documentaries, resulting in a multifaceted, mixed-bag approach that never clicks, thanks in large part to how the movie chooses to reveal information.

In an emotional post, Joe Swash shared the reason as to why he didn’t post about his dad on Father’s Day despite wife, Stacey Solomon, paying tribute to the dad of four. His dad, Ricky, died suddenly of an undiagnosed heart condition at the age of 39, when Joe was just 11 years old. Sharing throwback photos, Joe captioned the post: “Some people have asked about my dad over Father’s Day and why I didn’t post.

Murtada Elfadl The melancholy, fable-like French drama “Eternal Playground” has a glowing warmth from its very first moments. That comes from the open beaming face of its lead actor, Andranic Manet. He plays Gaspard, a young music teacher in Paris who’s grieving the death of his twin sister.

Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash have headed away for a family trip to the seaside for Father’s Day.The mother-of-five shared snaps of their trip away in a fun getaway where they’ve spent quality time together lapping up the sun and having a dip in the ocean. On her Instagram stories, Stacey shared a snap of the view from inside their holiday home with the caption: “Made it. Straight into the sea.

EXCLUSIVE: The award-winning documentary Union, about the first successful unionization drive at an Amazon warehouse, has been making the rounds of film festivals – it just held its U.K. premiere at Sheffield DocFest, and on Saturday it plays at DC/DOX in the nation’s capital. In a matter of months, the film will reach its widest audience yet, through a self-distribution plan announced today.

Lexi Carson The cast and creatives behind “The Sopranos” reunited at Tribeca Festival Thursday night in celebration of the series’ 25th anniversary. They gathered for the premiere of Alex Gibney’s HBO documentary, “Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos,” which played to a packed audience at the Beacon Theatre on the Upper West Side of Manhattan Thursday night. The two-hour-and-40-minute documentary begins with “The Sopranos” opening credit sequence driving into New Jersey.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent French shark movie “Under Paris” made a sneak attack on worldwide streaming last week, scoring the best launch for a non-English language film on Netflix with 41 million views in its five first days on the service. Dropping a month before the start of the summer Olympics in Paris, the movie about triathlon athletes who get devoured during a swimming race in the Seine river ranked first on Netflix’s top 10 for non-English language films across 93 countries.

Bryan Cranston is responding to the rumors that he wasn’t the first choice for Walter White in Breaking Bad.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Of all the heady-cool, matrix-of-reality, the-digital-future-is-now movies released in 1999, “Run Lola Run” may have been the 1999iest. Sure, “The Matrix” was the sci-fi landmark that bullet-timed audiences into the 21st century. But science-fiction movies have always looked ahead.

Cara Delevingne and her girlfriend Minke are celebrating a big anniversary!

Fake poppies and jewellery with dangerous levels of lead have been seized after the dodgy goods were imported to Manchester.

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Jane Fonda has signed on as an executive producer of Norita ahead of the film’s world premiere June 25 at the Dances With Films festival in Hollywood.

David and Victoria Beckham are determined to come out on top amid their bitter feud with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry!

last summer, we are super excited about Netflix's Black Barbie documentary, which is out next month.From Shondaland, the company that brought us and , and executive produced by herself, the documentary will explore the campaign for a Black Barbie and the journey so many women went on ensure it was made.Looking at much more than just the impact of a doll on the world, it looks at the importance of representation in the workplace. Here's everything you need to know.In short, it's about the process that three women went through while producing and releasing a Black Barbie doll at toy manufacturer Mattel back in the 1970s.According to a Netflix synopsis, it “explores the impact of three Black women at Mattel responsible for the Black Barbie debut in 1980: Beulah Mae Mitchell [the documentary's director, Lagueria Davis, is her niece], Kitty Black Perkins, and Stacey McBride Irby.“Through insider interviews and charismatic retellings of what went down at Mattel in the days leading up to Black Barbie’s debut, the documentary examines the importance of true representation—and how dolls aren’t just dolls, but childhood symbols that can be crucial to identity formation and imagination.”Beulah's campaign for a Black Barbie began in the early 1960s, a few years after she began working at .

Daisy Ridley is stepping out to promote her new Disney movie!

Albert S. Ruddy, who earned two Best Picture Oscars for producing The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby and co-created TV shows including Walker, Texas Ranger and Hogan’s Heroes, died May 25 at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center after a brief illness, a family spokesman said. He was 94.

Girls Aloud have paid an emotional tribute to the late Sarah Harding during their reunion tour.The iconic ’00s girl group took over Dublin’s 3Arena on Friday (May 17), kicking off the first night of their ‘The Girls Aloud’ reunion tour. The gig marked the group’s first live performance in over 10 years and their first following the death of Harding, who passed away in 2021 due to breast cancer.Numerous tributes were paid to Harding throughout the night.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic “How dark do you want to go?” The man asking that is named Karsh (Vincent Cassel), and he’s seated in a minimalist art-chic restaurant having lunch with a blind date (though as she points out, how blind can a date be in the age of Google?). The one who’s really asking the question, though, is David Cronenberg, writer-director of “The Shrouds.” He’s been asking that question — to audiences — for his entire career, and to him the answer has always been the same: The darker the better.