At Sundance Film Festival, a Sense of Uprooting Onscreen and Off
On Monday, Jenkins was onstage at the festival, and the audience was on its feet. He is one of the producers on “Sorry, Baby,” a sometimes bruising, sometimes bitingly funny,…
TikTok True Crime to Stream: ‘Dancing for the Devil’ and More
TikTok continues to be on shaky ground in the United States. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court upheld a law passed by Congress last year that required a ban of…
Three Great Documentaries to Stream
The proliferation of documentaries on streaming services makes it difficult to choose what to watch. Each month, we’ll select three nonfiction films — classics, overlooked recent docs and more —…
‘Dean of American Historians’: Ken Burns on William E. Leuchtenburg
Ken Burns was in his studio working on the final edits of a forthcoming documentary film series on the American Revolution when he learned on Tuesday that the historian William…
‘Mo,’ Plus 4 Things to Watch on TV This Week
Between streaming and cable, there is a seemingly endless variety of things to watch. Here is a selection of TV shows and specials that are available live or streaming this…
Mike Hynson, Surfing Star of ‘The Endless Summer,’ Dies at 82
Mike Hynson, who epitomized the image of the bronzed surf god as a star of the hit 1966 surfing documentary “The Endless Summer” and, with his outlaw instincts, embodied the…
Tom Green, Former Provocateur, Is Building Something New
“We probably won’t fall through,” Tom Green said as he stepped out onto an expansive frozen lake that sits along his bucolic 150-acre farm in the hinterlands of Ontario, periodically…
‘Eternal You’ and the Ethics of Using A.I. to ‘Talk’ to Dead Loved Ones
In the 1960s, the science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke coined a useful adage: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” He was right, as demonstrated by the almost mystical…
‘Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story’ Review: Her Life as a Cabaret
To tell her story, the director Bruce David Klein has assembled a trove of archival material — culled from films, television, newsreels and the like — that he has woven…
Questlove on Parsing 50 Years of Music for His ‘S.N.L.’ Documentary
Did anything come out of nowhere and surprise you? The Fear story was one that I wanted to know about forever. When I first got to 30 Rock in 2009…