Spike Lee’s filmed version of the beloved stage show is one of the all-time great concert films.
Your guide to Asheville's vibrant and diverse movie offerings.
Your guide to Asheville's vibrant and diverse movie offerings.
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Spike Lee’s filmed version of the beloved stage show is one of the all-time great concert films.
Kirsten Johnson and her father confront mortality head-on in this imaginative documentary.
This highly-personal documentary about kicking addiction through psychedelics showcases film's capacity as a force for good.
There are huge information gaps in this doc, but there are also extensive interviews with the subject — and all those amazing pre-MTV videos.
This documentary on public lands issues pretends to be objective but is a pure advocacy film.
Combining excellent archival footage and photos with fresh interviews, it’s both a Carter presidency primer and a fine music documentary.
Barbara Kopple’s terrific documentary pays tribute to a largely forgotten act of bravery.
It is a great story, like something out of “Zelig,” a one-week encounter stretched out to the length of a feature documentary.
This documentary about the French Impressionist uses only excerpts from his rather unilluminating letters as narration, but the paintings are still stunning.
Like a great album backloaded with filler tracks, this music format documentary starts strong then runs out of things to say.
Taghi Amirani's documentary is a fascinating convergence of imagination and education — and might very well be the first truly must-see film of 2020.
Is universal pre-K a worthy cause? Yes. Is this quasi pharmaceutical commercial the way to make it happen? Probably not.
Five ACLU attorneys are lovingly profiled in this inspirational and educational documentary.
This worshipful, star-studded, oh-so-Canadian documentary will leave you with a warm nostalgia for the man it argues is the Bob Dylan of the North.
The provocative fashion photographer is lauded and assessed by his fellow icons, including Grace Jones and Isabella Rossellini.
Unless you’re an art historian, this film is guaranteed to tell you things you didn’t know about the artist, his works, and his family.
Essentially a “making of” documentary, “Yours Truly” chronicles the creation of a remarkable art installation at Alcatraz in 2014.
No preview trailer or still image can do justice to the beauty of this documentary and its subject, gender-bending astrologer Walter Mercado. Put it on your watch list now.
Vivian Liberto, aka Johnny Cash’s first wife and mother of their four daughters, finally gets her due in this serviceable documentary.
Dawn Porter’s bio-doc on the influential leader cements his legacy — and may help preserve it.
