It’s that time of the year again: AFI Docs, the documentary festival formally known as Silverdocs. Here’s what to see.
The festival opens on June 18.
AFI Docs, which was formerly known as Silverdocs, will open with a film about the letters of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
The big, annual documentary film festival up the road in Silver Spring is no longer known as Silverdocs. Get ready for AFI Docs.
Films about New York’s late-night radio host Bob Fass, dancing garbage collectors in Austin, and shorts about total strangers.
Today at Silverdocs: Films about canned food, birds in Central Park, staging Wagner’s Ring cycle, the artist Marina Abramovic and Charles Bradley, a James Brown impersonator finally striking out on his own.
Local viewers will delight in pointing out the local landmarks that pepper the Bad Brains: A Band in D.C. Washington stars in this film as much as the four members of the seminal hardcore reggae-punk band.
Films about the Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, Texas Gov. Ann Richards, George Plimpton, New York Shakespeare Festival founder Joe Papp and the tragedy of Detroit. And, yeah, one about a penis museum.
Today at Silverdocs: Audio Only, Taxi Drivers and Juggalos
As we predicted yesterday, Journey guitarist Neal Schon and his girlfriend, White House gatecrasher Michaele Salahi, showed up for the opening night of Silverdocs. But then they bailed before Schon’s scheduled panel appearance.
