In Asif Kapadia’s latest documentary, “2073,” Ivanka Trump celebrates 30 years since leading the nightmarish fascist police state that America once was. The docudrama mixes interviews with journalists and archival real-life news footage with a fictional story starring Samata Morton to tell a story about a dystopian future that doesn’t seem too far away. The … Read more
The Titan submarine disaster, an exploration of the Titanic wreck gone wrong that dominated headlines in the summer of 2023, has inspired a new documentary by Aaron Arngrimson, who was the last person to see the crew alive. Arngrimsson closed the submersible hatch before waving to the crew one last time. He will produce and … Read more
She went to “Suburban Fury,” a documentary about Sarah Jane Moore, who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975 (and failed, mostly because of a faulty weapon), and didn’t know much about her and didn’t offer much interest. I thought, frankly, about those strange outbursts of violence in the 1970s. (There were many, such … Read more