The Film Panel Notetaker

Stranger Than Fiction
“Which Way Home”
IFC Center
New York, NY
January 5, 2010

Stranger Than Fiction’s Thom Powers and “Which Way Home Director” Rebecca Cammisa. Photo by Brian Geldin.
***FEBRUARY 2, 2010 UPDATE: As of this morning, “Which Way Home” received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature. Congratulations, Rebecca!

For its Winter 2010 pre-season, Stranger Than Fiction presented the [...]

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Stranger Than FictionThe Axe in the AtticQ&A with directors Lucia Small and Ed PincusIFC CenterNew York, NYFebruary 10, 2009

(A sold-out crowd enjoys the Q&A with Lucia Small & Ed Pincus moderated by Thom Powers. Photo by A.M. Peters.)

Last winter, I conducted a One-on-One Q&A with filmmakers Ed Pincus and Lucia Small before their documentary, The [...]

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Stranger Than FictionMust Read After My DeathQ&A with director Morgan DewsIFC CenterNew York, NYFebruary 3, 2008

(Morgan Dews and David Nugent. Photo by Brian Geldin.)
Last night’s Stranger Than Fiction was Morgan Dews’ Must Read After My Death, “a documentary about documentation” or in other words, Dews took his late Grandmother Allis’s home movies and audio tapes [...]

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Stranger Than FictionThe Education of Shelby KnoxQ&A with Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt and Shelby KnoxIFC CenterNew York, NYJanuary 20, 2008

(L to R: Hugo Perez, Marion Lipschutz, Shelby Knox, and Rose Rosenblatt. Photo by Brian Geldin.)
Marion Lipschutz’ and Rose Rosenblatt’s 2005 documentary, The Education of Shelby Knox, that centers on then teen Shelby Knox’s advocacy for [...]

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Stranger Than FictionUpstream BattleQ&A with director Ben KempasIFC CenterNew York, NYJanuary 13, 2008

(Upstream Battle director Ben Kampas and STF’s Thom Powers)
Tuesday night was the first screening of 2009 and new season of Stranger Than Fiction at the IFC Center. It’s been since last spring that I last reported from STF. Upstream Battle is story of [...]

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Stranger Than Fiction’s Thom Powers offers his Top 10 Favorite Documentary Events in 2008 over at the STF Blog. Thom’s #2 (March: Cinema Eye Honors) is similarily my #2 from last week’s Top 10 Favorite Panels and Q&As of 2008.
As a tribute to Stranger Than Fiction, here’s my notes from the STFs I attended in [...]

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Stranger Than Fiction
When We Were Kings
IFC Center
New York, NY
May 20, 2008
Tuesday night at IFC Center, a second week of nonfiction film programming co-presented by the Woodstock Film Festival for the weekly series Stranger Than Fiction, showcased director Leon Gast’s 1997 Academy Award-winning documentary feature When We Were Kings, about the events surrounding the famous 1974 [...]

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Q&A after screening of Barbara Kopple’s My Generation at IFC Center.
This week I saw some really incredible nonfiction films at IFC Center. Monday night was a travelling festival of short documentary films called doxita, and last night was Barbara Kopple’s 2000 feature documentary My Generation, about all of the Woodstock music festivals (1969, ‘94 & [...]

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Stranger Than FictionJoin UsIFC Center – New York, NYApril 8, 2008

Tuesday night at IFC Center in New York, Ondi Timoner’s Join Us, a documentary that chronicles four families who undergo treatment at a cult recovery center in California after being controlled and abused by a pastor in a South Carolina church, played during Thom Powers’ [...]

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Stranger Than Fiction
WHOLPHIN
IFC Center
February 12, 2008

Wholphin’s Brent Hoff and Emily Doe at Minetta Tavern after Stranger Than Fiction

Two weeks ago, The Film Panel Notetaker shared notes from the Film as A Subversive Art Q&A at Thom Powers’ popular documentary series at New York’s IFC Center, *Stranger Than Fiction. Last night was week six of STF [...]

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