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Die-Hard Fans: 'Britney Spears Saved My Life'

Troubled teens tell documentary of singer's impact

(Newser) - Britney Spears may not be the most obvious role model for the troubled, but hardcore fans credit her with changing their lives in a new BBC documentary, Newsweek reports. In Britney Spears Saved My Life, the superfans testify that Britney and her music guided them through the darkest times of...

Lynch on Prowl for American Dreams
 Lynch on Prowl for 
 American Dreams 
review
Jul 21, 2009 11:30 AM CDT

Lynch on Prowl for American Dreams

Director takes time-out from surreal films to study reality

(Newser) - All of David Lynch's work, writes Lee Siegel on the Daily Beast, seems to take as its starting point Norman Mailer's observation that the essence of America is the smell of gasoline and cheap perfume. For his latest project, the director of “bare-knuckle surrealist films” takes a 20,000...

N. Korea Biopic May Signal Kim's Final Act

(Newser) - North Korea has started making a documentary honoring Kim Jong-il's life, leading many to suspect that the leader's final chapter is looming, Bloomberg reports. The leader, 67, is thought to have suffered a stroke last year and recent reports say he is now battling terminal pancreatic cancer. Analysts believe Kim,...

Turlington Models a More Charitable Path

At 40, she's earning a master's and educating the world on maternity risks

(Newser) - Christy Turlington still considers modeling her work—“It’s the only thing that pays me; everything else is school or volunteerism,” the Columbia masters candidate, often described as one of the world’s most beautiful people, tells Vogue. “My face is a dime a dozen in many...

Michael Moore Wants to 'Save Our CEOs'

Teaser trailer is actually stunt for new movie

(Newser) - Let the viral marketing begin. Michael Moore pulled a fast one on New York moviegoers Friday night when, instead of a conventional trailer for his new film, he appeared onscreen Will Rogers-style asking for donations to “save our CEOs,” the New York Daily News reports. Audience reactions were...

Food, Inc. Feeds the Brain
  Food, Inc. Feeds the Brain 
MOVIE REVIEW
Jun 12, 2009 10:10 AM CDT

Food, Inc. Feeds the Brain

Documentary explores US food production

(Newser) - Food, Inc., which opens today in limited release, is a super documentary that's good for you—unlike the profit-driven food-production practices it exposes. Director Robert Kenner highlights and expands on work by authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation).
  • David Edelstein, New York: "The
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Moore's New Movie Targets Wall St. 'Bloodsuckers'

After Bush, GM, and guns, filmmakers sets sights on 'robber barons' behind crisis

(Newser) - Michael Moore promises to tear chunks out of the people behind the Wall Street meltdown in his new movie, USA Today reports. The documentary filmmaker, who calls the financial crisis "the biggest robbery in the history of this country," is targeting the corporations and politicians responsible. He hopes...

Film Shoots Aging Rockers to Success

But Anvil would have 'kept rocking' anyway

(Newser) - After decades, the heavy-metal band Anvil has finally broken into the mainstream thanks to a well-received documentary—and “kismet,” guitarist Steve “Lips” Kudlow tells CNN. After he saw the film, he said, “I started crying, because it seemed like kismet, as if it was all meant...

Winehouse Documentary in the Works

Singer promises 'revealing look at her complicated life' on the way

(Newser) - Amy Winehouse's troubled life is the subject of an upcoming documentary from Israeli-American interviewer Daphne Barak, People reports. "In honest-to-goodness Amy style, the doc will be a truthful and revealing look at her complicated life," according to Winehouse's MySpace page. The documentary is being filmed at Winehouse's...

Sex Tape Ruined Princess Di Dream: Paris

Cannes documentary reveals socialite's inner turmoil

(Newser) - Of all the hard-hitting documentaries being screened at Cannes, the juiciest is probably Paris, Not France. The film, which delves into Paris Hilton’s world, reveals the socialite’s inner thoughts, the Sun reports. For example, “That’s not what I wanted when I was a little girl,”...

Producer Sues Fawcett, O'Neal Over Documentary

(Newser) - An unfortunate mess of a lawsuit has emerged over the documentary about Farrah Fawcett's fight with cancer, just a day before it airs in primetime. A producer is suing Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal, and others, claiming he was forced off the project and physically threatened after he worked on it for...

Private Maddy Probe Yields Sketch of Suspect

Man watched family for days: witnesses

(Newser) - Madeleine McCann's parents say they hope a new artist's sketch of a pockmarked, frail man seen lurking around their Portugal apartment before the child disappeared will yield fresh clues. Detectives the couple hired interviewed witnesses and combed police files to produce the image, People reports. Gerry and Kate McCann will...

TV Show? Check. 'OctoMom' Jeans? Coming Soon.

She's planning to launch clothing line with the nickname

(Newser) - Thought octuplet mom Nadya Suleman’s 15 minutes were about up? Not hardly. Not only is TMZ reporting that she’s filed to trademark the name “OctoMom”—for use on a clothing line including “textile diapers”—but has signed on to do a British show with...

Hero Pilot Documentary Headed for Cable in Late '09

Film to air in late 2009

(Newser) - Cable channel TLC has obtained exclusive rights to make a documentary on the story of Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who successfully saved US Airways Flight 1549 with a daring water landing in January. The documentary will feature extensive interviews with Sullenberger discussing both his specific actions to save the plane...

VH1 Brings Back Behind the Music

Lil Wayne, Scott Weiland to be featured

(Newser) - VH1 is reviving Behind the Music—yes, it was gone—after the success of last fall’s popular New Kids on the Block special. “It felt like the time was right,” a network exec tells the Hollywood Reporter. “There’s all sorts of new artists who have...

Iron Mike's a Thinker, Not a Fighter
 Iron Mike's a 
 Thinker, Not 
 a Fighter 
DOC REVIEW
Mar 14, 2009 5:11 PM CDT

Iron Mike's a Thinker, Not a Fighter

Boxer enjoys reading Wilde, German philosophy

(Newser) - Mike Tyson has traded in Don King for Oscar Wilde: A forthcoming documentary portrays the former world heavyweight champion as a pensive soul who reads German philosophy and relates to Wilde’s self-destructive flamboyance. “I don’t like the person I’ve become,” Tyson admits. Iron Mike looms...

Must Read a Must-See
Must Read a Must-See 
MOVIE REVIEW
Feb 20, 2009 1:44 PM CST

Must Read a Must-See

Doc realizes the horrors of dysfunctional family life

(Newser) - If you’re looking for a fright at the movies, skip Friday the 13th and hunker down with Must Read After My Death. Using archived audiotapes and home movies, the documentary chronicles the tumultuous suburban marriage of the filmmaker’s grandparents, who “lived on the unmapped border between Revolutionary...

Polanski Judge Wise to Resist Whitewashing

Director's bias skews media narrative

(Newser) - The judge who refused to throw out Roman Polanski's rape conviction Tuesday—unless he agreed to come back to the country to challenge it in person—was right to resist the whitewashing of Polanski's crime, writes Bill Wyman in Salon. The movement to rehabilitate the acclaimed director was based on...

Right America Divides Critics
 Right America Divides Critics 
Documentary Review
Feb 16, 2009 1:11 PM CST

Right America Divides Critics

Doc offers voice to McCain supporters Feeling Wronged

(Newser) - Right America, Feeling Wronged, a documentary airing tonight on HBO, follows filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi as she chats with die-hard McCain/Palin supporters on the campaign trail, some of whom fear Barack Obama is the anti-Christ. Critics are mixed on the result: While David S. Glasier calls it “one of the...

She Wears Prada, But Forget the Devil Part
 She Wears Prada, 
  But Forget the Devil Part 
film review
Jan 24, 2009 3:55 AM CST

She Wears Prada, But Forget the Devil Part

The September Issue parlays blanket access into 'engrossing' portrait

(Newser) - A Sundance documentary offering a rare, unfettered look at steely Vogue editrix Anna Wintour proves “engrossing even if you don't care much about fashion,” Andrew O’Hehir writes in Salon, and goes a long way to humanize the subject of The Devil Wears Prada. In a Q&A,...

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