Talking with the “Helen and the Bear” Filmmakers
When they tie the knot in 1982, Helen Hooper and Pete McCloskey are both a likely and utterly unlikely match. […]
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Talking With the Durham Team Behind “The Last Partera”
Over the course of nine decades, Doña Miriam delivered much of the population of the Costa Rican village of Tres
Incoming! Marriage Fraud, British Comedy, and Festival Favorites
Thanks to the relentlessly bleak news cycle, laughs are a little hard to come by these days. But it’s important
In a Repressive Political Time, Championing Documentaries Is Vital
One morning in early March, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival team is on its last mad programming dash. “We’re
Five Films to Catch at This Year’s Full Frame
Overview: The ballad of a Chilean miner, the covert rebellion of a Russian primary school teacher, a look back at
About Those Southern Accents on This Season of The White Lotus
“I was also a Tar Heel,” drawls Victoria Ratliff, Parker Posey’s dull-eyed, pill-popping character, talking to a bewildered resort staffer
Yance Ford to Curate Full Frame’s 2025 Thematic Program
“Urgent” is the kind of description that gets applied often to documentary content, which skews toward catalyzing positive change. But
Yance Ford to Curate Full Frame’s 2025 Thematic Program
“Urgent” is the kind of description that gets applied often to documentary content, which skews toward catalyzing positive change. But
Incoming! Big Dogs, Pop Stars, and Space Clones
The term “doppelgänger” comes from the German (literally “double walker”), and it refers to a ghostly apparition that manifests as
Incoming! Brazilian Dissidents, Mumbai Nurses, and AI Satellites
My single favorite quote about the movies, from the annals of film criticism, comes from the late, great Roger Ebert.