Documentary

Fire of Love

  • Title: Fire of Love
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Narrated by Miranda July, Fire of Love makes use of archive footage from Katia and Maurice Krafft and their friends to chronicle the careers of the married French volcanologists and their love affair with volcanoes which eventually took their lives in 1991. While offering some insight into the pair and the course of their relationship, which earned them fame outside their chosen profession struggling to make people aware of both the dangers and beauty of volcanoes, the documentary is most notable for the incredible amount of close-up video of erupting volcanoes captured by the Kraffts over the years.

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Good Night Oppy

  • Title: Good Night Oppy
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Examining the lifespan of the two NASA Mars rovers launched in 2003 which explored the planet for years longer than the expected 90 days, Good Night Oppy captures the spirit of space exploration from the creation of Opportunity (nicknamed Oppy) and Spirit to Oppy’s final transmission (lasting nearly a decade longer than Spirit, continuing to send data back to NASA as it navigated the Mars surface rewriting the record books on off-world travel for nearly 15 years).

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Bowie: Moonage Daydream

  • Title: Bowie: Moonage Daydream
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The first documentary to be authorized by David Bowie‘s estate, Moonage Daydream is filled with clips, performances, interviews, and both public and private moments from Bowie’s life chronicling his career. While making use of a tremendous amount of archival footage, it touches on all aspects of the artist’s life championing his experimental nature without ever needing to rely on talking heads to explain specifics instead allowing Bowie’s own words to do all the heavy lifting.

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Bad Axe

  • Title: Bad Axe
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Near the beginning of the pandemic filmmaker David Siev, who, like his siblings, moved back home to support his parents and the family business they started decades earlier, begins to record a film which will grow into a portrait of the American experience of an Asian-American family through their struggles and triumphs of 2020 in the decidedly white Conservative small town of Bad Axe, Michigan. 

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