Romanian film ‘Collective’ shows us the very best of journalism and deserves an Oscar – or maybe even two James Moore
This year’s Academy Award nominations contained a welcome surprise.
Collective didn’t just pick up Romania’s first Oscar nod (for Best Documentary), it garnered its second, too (for Best International Feature).
Cinematic documentaries have to do some hard running to find an audience, let alone think about awards. But Alexander Nanau’s film is deserving on both fronts.
Collective highlights the work of journalists at Romanian newspaper
Gazeta Sporturilor following a fire at a Bucharest nightclub in 2015. The blaze took 27 lives but that was just the start. Many more people were killed in unsanitary hospitals while being treated for their burns. It is the investigation into what went on in those hospitals – the reporters discovered that diluted disinfectant was being used at medical facilities across Romania – that is the subje
‘Collective’ Named Top Documentary at Cinema Eye Honors
Other awards go to “Time,” “Welcome to Chechnya,” “The Truffle Hunters” and “The Mole Agent”Steve Pond | March 9, 2021 @ 6:37 PM Last Updated: March 9, 2021 @ 6:54 PM
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The Romanian film “Collective” has been named the best nonfiction film of 2020 at the 13th annual Cinema Eye Honors, a New York-based awards show devoted to all facets of documentary filmmaking.
Kirsten Johnson took the directing prize for “Dick Johnson Is Dead,” while the award for outstanding debut went to Garrett Bradley for “Time,” which also won for its editing.
“Boys State” won the Audience Award, the only Cinema Eye Honor category in which the public was invited to cast ballots.
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January 7, 2021
2020 was not so much a year that changed cinema, but the way we experience it––at least in the United States. The countries that contained COVID have largely reopened to box office success. The proof is in the numbers as the global box office champion of the year was the Chinese war epic
The Eight Hundred, not a film from a major US-based studio. Instead, high-profile event films like a new Pixar animation or a major superhero movie became “must-stream TV,” leaving theatrical exhibitors largely high and dry. For cinephiles, most of us enjoyed Steve McQueen’s masterful
Small Axe anthology at home on Amazon Prime or the BBC, further blurring the line between prestige television and prestige cinema.
Cinema Chat: 12/24/20
2020 IN REVIEW: NEW YORK WRITERS (EDITED & ADDED TO BY RUSS REFLECT ON THE YEAR S HIGHS AND LOWS
Since March, the year in cinema has been defined by a near-total absence of significant theatrical releases first, because theatres across the country were shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic and, subsequently, because even after they reopened people largely stayed away. The new 007 film and the new Wes Anderson film, among dozens of others, were bumped to next year’s schedule; “Soul” [“Hamilton”] and “Wonder Woman 1984” are being released on streaming sites rather than in theatres; the Cannes Film Festival was cancelled, and many others, such as the New York Film Festival, were held online. In spite of this, 2020 has been, against the odds, a wonderful year for new movies. … [However,] even the best new independent films were being met with a muted response, stemming in part from … a collective sense of numbness … and the disa