All these wonderful docs.

In the thick of the International Documentary Association's 11th annual DocuWeek (through Thursday), AJ Schnack, who's taken his own film to LA, Kurt Cobain About a Son ("one of the very best films of the year," says David Lowery), snaps pix and is running Tom White's talks with Alex Gibney about Taxi to the Dark Side, Joan Brooker-Marks about Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone and David Sington about In the Shadow of the Moon.

Then a few bones are picked with Gina Piccolo regarding her recent piece on docs in the Los Angeles Times: "Are we really still talking about whether or not the options are Al Maysles's vérité purity or nothing at all?"

Updates, 8/21: First, the entry's been tweaked a bit; see comments. And second, another interview, this time with Irene Taylor Brodsky about Hear and Now.

Another: Paul Taylor, director of We Are Together. And Chops director Bruce Broder.

Updates, 8/22: Peter Raymont, whose A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman sees its official premiere in Toronto in a couple of weeks. And Nanking directors Bill Gutentag and Dan Sturman.

Update, 8/23: It's AJ Schnack himself this time.

Updates, 8/25: War/Dance directors Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine and The Price of Sugar director Bill Haney.

Posted by dwhudson at August 20, 2007 9:52 AM