Docs, 1/16.

A "minority found [Control] a slug-paced, insight-free bore - and you can count me in on that judgment," writes Dennis Harvey at SF360. "The other movie, Grant Gee's documentary simply titled Joy Division, is, for my money tar superior analysis of the band's, and [Ian] Curtis's, legacy. It is playing the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts screening room this weekend - and hie thee there, because this gorgeously B&W-shot (like Control) work should ideally be seen on the big screen."

"'He was trouble and he was beautiful,' an interviewee muses early in Let's Get Lost, and it might as well be the film's byline," writes Max Goldberg. "Though less remembered today than James Dean or Jack Kerouac, [Chet] Baker had a comparable rogue appeal, his missing front tooth suggestive of wounded sensitivity, his shoulders bent under the unknowable weight of being himself."

Also in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Cheryl Eddy on Lake of Fire: "[T]o bypass this provocative film would be to miss one of the best docs ever made on the subject." The subject being abortion, of course.

AJ Schnack responds to Tom Roston's take on the new NonFiction Awards at the new POV Blog.

Posted by dwhudson at January 16, 2008 11:34 AM