BFI Flare 2020 took place entirely online. Orla Smith highlights Dungarees (dir. Abel Rubinstein) and Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen (dir. Sam Feder) as the best of the online festival.
Documentary
Explore the innovative and artistic strategies documentarians use to narrativize nonfiction stories on screen.
Deceptive Nostalgia: Patricio Guzmán’s Cordillera of Dreams
Documentarian Patricio Guzmán complete his trilogy contrasting the beauty of Chile’s landscapes with the horror of its recent political history by focusing on the deceptively unchanging Andes cordillera.
Sundance ’20 review: Aggie is a documentary about allyship
Catherine Gund’s Aggie is both a celebration of an extraordinary woman, and a call to arms for the viewer to think about how they too can enact change.
Sundance ’20 Review: Okavango: River of Dreams
Okavango: River of Dreams is a stunningly photographed nature documentary about the ecosystem in and around the Okavango in Africa.
Review: What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael is a good introduction to the legendary film critic, but ignores much of the context and legacy of her work.
The search for strange: Werner Herzog re-examines Bruce Chatwin’s travels in Nomad
20 years after travel writer Bruce Chatwin’s death, Herzog’s new film Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin serves as both a celebration of Chatwin’s curiosity and a retrospective of Herzog’s own explorations.