In ‘The White House Effect’, now available on Netflix, archival footage is used to show how the US right moved from believing to disputing the climate crisis
The Velvet Underground (2021) Dir. Todd Haynes
‘The Velvet Underground. A hypnotic new documentary and the first major film to tell the band’s legendary story. Playing in theaters and on Apple TV+ now. The Velvet Underground created a new sound that changed the world of music, cementing its place as one of rock and roll’s most revered bands. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage. ‘
The film looks great, superb editing using split screen and much of Andy Warhol's films from the period. The film is as much about the experimental art/ film scene as well as the music and band. Featuring interviews with film maker Jonas Mekas too
INTERVIEWS / Director Q&A…
This filmmaker conversation (below) from IDA, features director and producer Todd Haynes and producers Carolyn Hepburn, Christopher Clements, and Julie Goldman, moderated by Anne Thompson, Editor at Large at IndieWire.
At 12.53 Todd Haynes talks about the way the interviews were shot and why they were treated, edited, formatted how they were.
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Tarnation (2003) Director: Jonathan Caouette
‘Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette's documentary on growing up with his schizophrenic mother -- a mixture of snapshots, Super-8 film, answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, and more - culled from nineteen years of his life.’ IMDB
I for India - Sandhya Suri (2005)
‘The myth of return. In 1966, Yash and Sheel Suri leave India for a temporary stay in England while he burnishes his resume as a doctor. He buys projectors, tape recorders, and movie cameras, and sends one set to India beginning a 40-year exchange of tapes and Super 8 movies between his family in India and his household near Manchester. We watch their three daughters grow and we hear increasingly plaintive calls from Yash's parents and sister to return home. In 1982, it's back to India where Yash sets up a practice. A return to England, one daughter's marriage, another's move to Australia, and the third's film project complete the 40-year story. Yash still loves his homeland.’ IMDB
Director: Sandhya Suri
A chronicle of immigration, from the Sixties to the present day, as seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their 40 years worth of Super 8mm home movies.
