"Last Train Home" represents the best kind of documentary filmmaking: It is transportive cinema, taking viewers to a place they never much considered and immersing them in an experience they never ...

Over the course of his very long career, director Frederick Wiseman has always worked in nonfiction, in the realm of the real, yet his films may best be described as novelistic. Embedding himself in ...

Cinema verite is one of those flexible French phrases, like piece de resistance; it covers a multitude of meanings. Back in the early ’60s, the technique was its own justification, as film makers with ...

"The word 'documentary' is outmoded now," said Scorsese at the Metrograph in New York City Tuesday night, where he premiered his eighth music documentary, "Personality Crisis: One Night Only." ...

In my recent Filmmaker conversation with Julia Loktev about the making of her monumental documentary, My Undesirable Friends, I cited the work of the late documentary filmmaker Joel DeMott, because I ...