From teenage model to upper-crust caterer to domestic doyenne to media-spanning billionaire to scapegoated convict to octogenarian thirst trap enthusiast and Snoop Dogg chum, Martha Stewart has had a life that defies belief, or at least congruity. It’s an unlikely journey that has been carried out largely in the public eye, which gives R.J. Cutler …
Brooke Shields’ youngest daughter, Grier Hammond Henchy, is opening up about the moment she learned of her mother’s sexual assault while watching her 2023 documentary Pretty Baby. “I was learning about things the same time that the world was and I just took it more deeply and personally,” Grier recently told People magazine in a …
In Piece by Piece, Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, 20 Feet from Stardom) tries to upend the conventions of the celebrity documentary using LEGOs. Yes, you read that correctly: LEGOs. Premiering at Telluride before its October 11 theatrical release by Focus Features, Piece by Piece tells the life story of multihyphenate Pharrell Williams …
The 51st Telluride Film Festival officially kicked off on Friday afternoon with the world premiere of Piece by Piece, an animated documentary about the innovative singer, songwriter and record producer Pharrell Williams, as the Patron Preview screening at the Werner Herzog Theatre. And the consensus of those in attendance was that the film is a …
The bond between John Lennon and Yoko Ono, mutually inspired artists from very different worlds, is only one of the love stories at the core of director Kevin Macdonald’s vibrant and stirring new documentary. Tracing an eventful year, One to One: John & Yoko is, first and foremost, a portrait of the couple’s love affair …
“The oddest throuple in Telluride,” joked the filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer, while driving from his Beverly Hills home to the film fest in Colorado, will be Tyrnauer and the colorful characters at the center of the two vérité documentaries that he is premiering in the Rockies this Labor Day weekend: the legendary Democratic political strategist James …
“All you have to do,” says author Shawn Levy, who wrote King of Comedy, the definitive Jerry Lewis biography, is to give the plot summary. “If you just tell people: Jerry Lewis wrote, directed and starred in a drama about a clown in a concentration camp leading children into the gas chambers, people say: ‘What? …
If you go back to the earliest days of his career — Gates of Heaven and Vernon, Florida — Errol Morris’ great gift appeared to be giving voices to people on the margins of American society. Morris’ interests have shifted or evolved somewhat since then. Sometimes he’s issue-driven and sometimes he’s determined to get under …
HBO‘s Chimp Crazy is looking like it will be the outlet’s most watched documentary series in several years. The show, from Tiger King director Eric Goode, isn’t drawing The Last of Us-level (or even Curb Your Enthusiasm-level) audience numbers. But Chimp Crazy is on pace to be the biggest docuseries at HBO since McMillions in …
In the first episode of Netflix‘s Simone Biles Rising, the titular sports icon details her approach to the 2023 World Championships. “Not talking to media,” Biles says. “Staying in my zone. Still following up with my therapist. I turned off my comments on Instagram… Twitter I have actually deleted a couple times off my phone.” …