It’s coming to the end of July and soon my favorite movie season will be upon us. Fall movies means the big Oscar bait features glow across the silver screens. There’s been a few this year that deserve recognition. Chiefly, the trio known as, The Rider, First Reformed, and Sorry to Bother You.
As you slide down the Oscar ballot to a more obscure category, you’ll find a variety of strong contenders have already been projected on to the screen. Of course I’m talking about documentary feature film.
There’s been a variety of the standard biographical documentaries, from the first half of the year. Some of the very strong entries include: Itzhak (about the violinist Itzhak Perlman), Bombshell: The Hedy Lamaar Story (about actress and inventor Hedy Lamaar), Leaning Into the Wind (about artist Andy Goldsworty), and Pope Francis: A Man of his Word (no explanation needed).
There have been three incredible documentaries I’ve seen this year, in a year of strong documentaries, and am rooting for these three come Oscar season. First up is RBG, about the Supreme Court Justice and Women’s right activist Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She’s an incredible woman whose story is just as incredible.
Won’t You Be my Neighbor? is the second documentary of the three. It tells the story of Mr Rogers and his work on television. The man was a genius and one hell of a genuine human being. His story is more then worth the price of admission.
The third documentary, and the strongest one this year, is Three Identical Strangers. The film focuses on a set of triplets who discover one another at community college. To further complicate things they uncover a study on nature v nurture they were taking part in. This movie is a great conversation piece, and one I look forward to talking about. Yes it’s designed to be uncomfortable at times but thus is life. See it, talk about it, and come awards season let’s cheer it on to win best documentary of the year.
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