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The filmmakers behind Julia, the in-depth exploration of iconic television cooking show host Julia Child, said her profound impact on the culture was felt far beyond introducing lovingly prepared French cuisine to a mass American audience. Co-director Julie Cohen said during a panel for the Sony Pictures Classics…

The late African American civil rights activist, author and legal scholar Pauli Murray spent a lifetime taking on the system—fighting inequality, institutionalized racism and gender bias. Just how successful Murray became in waging those battles emerges in the Amazon Studios documentary My Name Is Pauli Murray…

Why did I not know about Pauli Murray? That is the overwhelming response of viewers to the new documentary My Name Is Pauli Murray, directed by the Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated team behind RBG, Julie Cohen and Betsy West. As West put it in a tweet Friday, "Some people are furious, some dumbfounded that they…

In the early 1960s, American "cuisine" meant for convenient but fairly nasty stuff. Example: this recipe for "Crusty Tuna Surprise." Take two cans of StarKist Tuna, mix with cheese soup, "then top it crisply with Kellogg's Corn Flakes Crumbs." Yum. Then Julia Child arrived, armed with sauce pans and cast iron…

Sony Pictures Classics has released the trailer for Julia, the documentary about groundbreaking TV chef and author Julia Child who ended up influencing generations with her series The French Chef and the seminal cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The documentary, which doesn’t have a release date yet, hails…

On Wednesday, Amazon debuted the first trailer for My Name Is Pauli Murray, which hits theaters on September 17 and will be available to stream on Prime Video on October 1. The latest doc from Oscar-nominated RBG filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen tells the story of Pauli Murray, one of the most influential figures…

Amazon Studios has acquired worldwide rights to My Name Is Pauli Murray, the Participant, Drexler and Storyville Films documentary which made its world premiere at Sundance. Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat, a full decade before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned separate-but-equal…

Betsy West and Julie Cohen, who directed RBG, the feature-length documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, reacted Friday to Ginsburg’s death Friday at age 87. “Like so many Americans, we are crushed by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” West and Cohen said in a joint statement. “Even had…

When it comes to the great surge we’ve seen at the box office for documentaries, “investment by someone or some entity” like CNN Films makes all the difference according to RBG co-director and producer Julie Cohen. “If you’re making a documentary for $50K, there’s going to be limitations on what the quality is going…

Since its Sundance 2018 unveiling, the documentary RBG has — like Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — proven to be most resilient. While fellow successful theatrical release docus from that Sundance like Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and Three Identical Strangers were strangely excluded from the final Oscar ballot …

This morning’s nomination for RBG as Best Feature Documentary serves a welcome cap to a banner year for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the SCOTUS whose culture status has been greatly elevated thanks, in part, to this film and the Felicity Jones-starring biopic On the Basis of Sex in which Ginsburg made a cameo. It didn’t hurt…

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is said to be working from her hospital bed as she recovers from surgery to remove cancerous lobes from her lung, welcome news to progressives anxious that she continue her service on the nation's highest court. Her admirers may also take comfort from the words of RBG…