There seems to be some recurring themes this year at
SilverDocs, the film festival devoted solely to documentaries. Two
concerning cats, two about
middle aged white guys marrying
younger Asian mail order brides. The obligatory
inner-city-school-plays-chess, musical docs, several about immigrants and several about senior citizens who have quirky pasts or do unconventional things. Several which take place in New York City, and as we know, "There are eight million stories in the naked city."
I looked over my
last year's choices and of the 25, only five have been available to me here, of which I've seen two (Miss Representation and Pruitt-Igoe). Some of the others are short films I probably won't get a chance to see outside of a film festival.
For this year here's what looks interesting to me. I hope to find some of these by me in the coming year:
