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Sundance 2024: Discovering the rich inner lives of mediums is at the heart of this thoughtful documentary from Lana Wilson

A report on three interesting films from this year's NEXT section.

Thomas von Steinaecker goes deep beneath the skin of the much-mythologised German film-maker in his documentary Radical Dreamer

A beginner’s path through Werner Herzog’s visionary cinema of eccentric adventure and ecstatic truth.

The founder of Arhoolie Records photographed and recorded musicians across the U.S., from stages and front porches to studios and backyard parties

Screening this week in L.A.: 'All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,' 'A Poem Is a Naked Person,' 'Mod F--- Explosion' and tributes to Terence Davies and Bérénice Reynaud.

  Harrod Blank is a hero of underground culture, taking the prankster spirit to the world of documentary film.  His mother was the erotic ceramicist Gail Perrin Blank and his father was legendary director Les Blank, known for his filmic studies of ethnomusicology.  Harrod will be bringing his own films and the films of Les Blank to Portland in November.

All the Oscar winner’s talents are on show in The Pigeon Tunnel, his gripping documentary about the great espionage writer John le Carré

Now that Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and Talking Heads have revived the genre, here are the greatest live-music movies.

As Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour storms into theaters, we decided to take a look back at the best concert films ever seen on the big screen