Documentaries

Rethinking Homelessness

Amy LaVere

8 p.m. Thursday, December 27. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Deicide

8 p.m. Friday, November 16, The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Them Bones

Scott Hutcheson, Documentarian, Wants Your Horrible Facebook-Related Break-Up Stories

Scott Hutcheson had no idea he'd made a terrible mistake when he changed his Facebook status to "in a relationship" without consulting his then-girlfriend. Hutcheson, a local filmmaker and graphic designer, recently went through a divorce and emerged on the other side like Rip Van Winkle -- the dat ... More >>

Detroit, Wrecked City/

Even China can't shut up artist/gadfly Ai Weiwei

St. Louis on Screen

Broke*: A Film About Music Screening Tonight at Off Broadway

Broke*: A Film About Music is a new documentary about the State of the Music Industry, following in particular the success and failures of musicians Reva Williams and Will Gray. But it deals with the challenges faced by musicians in a dying market in global, ambitious terms and features interviews w ... More >>

Life After People

Documenting Dreams

The Columbine Effect: Thirteen years and a hundred school shootings later, why is Hollywood obsessed with this one?

Sweet, sincere, cloying, average, beautiful: Oscar nominees, in brief

One Man War

Fishbone

8 p.m. Wednesday, December 7. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Comment of the Day: Black on Black Hatin' = Extremely Vicious Cycle

Today's comment comes from a post on City of Haterz, a new documentary exploring the question: Are St. Louis' blacks keeping each other down?Commenter "Dyarborough" has seen the film and believes it has a lot to teach.  S/he writes:

Jews on First, and Other Surprises

New Documentary Spotlights Short Life of Pruitt-Igoe

Missouri History Museum​Those of you interested in local urban development and socioeconomic history might know of the upcoming Pruitt-Igoe reunion party, which celebrates (for better or for worse) the once-heralded north-city housing development that opened in 1954 to meet the public housing ... More >>

QFest Starts Tonight: LGBT Film Festival Continues All Weekend

You know you wanna see what happens to the dancing lesbians in Fishnet. ​Tonight's the night! St. Louis' lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film festival, Stella Artois QFest kicks off at the Hi-Pointe Theatre. The festival, in its fourth year, celebrates the experiences of queer folks around ... More >>

Out on Film

Interview: Lemmy: 49% Motherfucker, 51% Son of a Bitch Directors Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski

On Sunday, Motörhead is playing at Pop's with Valient Thorr and Clutch. The show isn't sold out yet. In this week's paper, D.X. Ferris spoke with Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski, the co-directors of a new documentary on Lemmy, titled Lemmy: 49% Motherfucker, 51% Son of a Bitch. That interview is here ... More >>

Twelve Music-Based Documentaries Screening at the Saint Louis International Film Festival

The movie Do It Again.​The annual St. Louis International Film Festival (that's SLIFF for short) began last night and runs through November 21. As it does every year, SLIFF features a generous selection of music-related documentaries. Here's the rundown. For the RFT's full coverage of the film ... More >>

Circus Kids

1:30 p.m. Sunday, November 21, at the Hi-Pointe

Home Movies: SLIFF honors a native son and gives us films worth watching

The Freakonomics cottage industry multiplies

Davis Guggenheim ignores too many inconvenient truths in Waiting for Superman

Jimmy Vivino Talks Johnnie Johnson, Conan O'Brien, and St. Louis' Role as a Rock & Roll Breeding Ground

Bernard Ente/jimmyvivino.comThe man himself playing with Felix Cabrera in 2007.​Watchers of late-night television knew Jimmy Vivino as the guitarist for the Tonight Show band during Conan O'Brien's short-lived stint as host. Before that, Vivino was part of the Max Weinberg 7 on Late Night with ... More >>

Legends of Flight

Student Film Exposed

The Tillman Story sets the record straight

Rush

7:30 p.m. Sunday, August 22. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights.

Art Holliday's documentary on Johnnie Johnson comes together

Local Filmmakers Explore Currency Design as an Art Form in The Art of Making Money, Host Interactive Art Show Fundraiser

artmoney.orgart money by Elisabeth Maria Hansson Wejsflog​From its independent movie theater/DVD shop/cafe, the Ragtag, to its annual True/False Film Fest, Columbia, Missouri, is a college town known for supporting art-house cinema, especially documentaries. Nathan Truesdell, a Columbia res ... More >>

Local Filmmaker Asks: Is Black-on-Black Hatin' in St. Louis Caused by a "Slave Mentality"?

Check out this trailer for "City of Haterz," a documentary by Horace Williams of Low Blow Video & Photography that's due out this summer:

Doors of the 21st Century The New Doors Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek Coming to St. Louis

A new documentary about the Doors -- titled: When You're Strange: A Film About the Doors -- is out now in select theaters. Narrated by Johnny Depp, the film doesn't yet have a St. Louis opening date. However, original members Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek -- seriously, that's how they're billed -- ... More >>

Interview: Lepers TV's Chad Elvins Makes a Documentary on Skarekrau Radio, Sees More Male Nudity Than He Probably Ever Needed To

In the late '90s and early '00s, Chad Elvins ran Lepers TV, the local-access show which filmed tons and tons of St. Louis concerts. (Some of the national bands they filmed: Deftones, Far, Helmet, Clutch, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Incubus, System of a Down, Man-or-Astroman, Jesus Lizard, Queens of t ... More >>

Watch a Little, Learn a Lot

Another Brick in the Crumbling Wall

Fancy Birds

Long walk

Bless the Rains

Good for the Ganser

Continental Divide

Noon Ramble

The Slowest of Slow Rides

Stay Home and Travel