The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences certainly isn't short on documentarians. Atop its existing 400 or so documentary branch members, the Academy in July invited almost 100 additional doc-makers to join. Despite some internal concern that a few invitees might need help with the dues, now $450 a year, it…
UPDATED with additional films and adjusted grosses. All was fairly quiet on the specialty box office front this week, with the debut of just a handful of films. The most notable of the bunch was Matt Tyrnauer’s riveting Where’s My Roy Cohn? Other openers this weekend included a Loro, as well as Gunpowder & Sky’s…
A documentary about the McCarthy-era lawyer who eventually became Donald Trump’s mentor, a story about a corrupt billionaire prime minister, a corporate retreat that might or might not end in casual cannibalism, a dramatic thriller about the gig economy and a light-hearted Indian romance about luck and cricket — the…
“Power in the hands of someone that reckless and arrogant is a dangerous thing.” So says the last interviewee at the end of Where’s My Roy Cohn?, Matt Tyrnauer’s fascinating and timely new documentary on the life of infamous and, many say, evil New York lawyer Roy Cohn. He’s the man known for serving as Chief Counsel…
In the second live podcast recording of the New Hollywood Podcast at the Sundance Film Festival, we dive deep into LGBTQ content from the documentary angle with Where’s My Roy Cohn? director Matt Tyrnauer and Bedlamsubject Patrisse Cullors, who is also the co-founder of Black Lives Matter.
During the panel titled…
In the documentary, Where’s My Roy Cohn?, director Matt Tyrnauer dives into the life of the titular lawyer and political figure who was the “Svengali” and “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” to Joseph McCarthy and mentor to the sitting president.
“Roy Cohn would have been a bold footnote to American history except for the…