September brought a rash of film festivals (well, maybe "rash" is the wrong word; that sounds like a skin condition. How about a "slew" instead?). In any case, it was one film festival after another this month, beginning with Venice, continuing with Telluride, then Toronto, and for documentary…

Rejoice! It’s the weekend! And that means it’s time to read all those juicy long-form features you missed. Among our curated picks from the past week: sit-downs with Ari Emanuel, whose new memoir Roll the Calls is rocking Hollywood (including recollections of our founder Nikki Finke), and James…

Fifty years ago, a young director named Barbara Kopple came out with her first film, a documentary she thought would be little seen. "When I started making the film, I thought, 'Oh, my parents will see it and their friends and maybe a museum will show it,'" she recalls. That film was Harlan…

The American Cinematheque's This Is Not a Fiction festival, which kicks off this week in Los Angeles, has emerged as something truly special in the documentary exhibition space. The third edition of the event, running April 16-24, will welcome some of the biggest names in nonfiction filmmaking…

EXCLUSIVE: Very few documentary filmmakers have won two Academy Awards during their career. Among that rare group is Barbara Kopple, who earned her first Oscar for 1976's Harlan County USA and her second for 1990's American Dream. Kopple has supervised and approved a new 4K restoration of America…