IFI Documentary Film Festival

Much Ado About Dying opens with a prosaic, if not ominous, panoramic shot of a rainy night on a modest London residential street while the noise of dogs barking clamors with the hum of raindrops. Simon Chambers—the writer, director, and…

King Crimson awaits in perpetual potentiality. All one has to do, according to Bill Rieflin, is play the right note at the right time. If this makes being in the band sound easy, allow me to recount a short anecdote. Bill Bruford, who…

One of the difficulties in talking about gun violence in the United States is the enormity of the problem. It must strike anyone outside of the US as particularly alien. Awareness flares when mass shooters strike like clockwork, though…

In The Story of Film: A New Generation, Mark Cousins picks up right where his landmark, 15-hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011) left off. After a few glimpses at the inside of cinemas, he finds strange bedfellows in…