Notizie

The 8th annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is all set to run for ten days this Feb. 11-20 in Missoula, Montana. This year, the fest will have a whopping 140 film programs, a growth that necessitates an expansion from its regular home at the Historic Wilma Theatre — where it will occupy two screens — to also feature screenings at the former Pipestone Mountaineering store.

Special events at the fest include a free opening night screening of How to Die in Oregon sponsored by HBO Documentary Films. The film, directed by Peter D. Richardson, examines the impact the legalization of physician-assisted suicide has had on the state. (In 1994, Oregon was the first state to legalize the practice.)

Also, indie rock band Yo La Tengo will perform their acclaimed live score of the films of pioneering French underwater documentary film director Jean Painlevé, something they have done for other film festivals all over the world.

Aircraft are among the most photogenic objects you can put onscreen—they're beautiful, they move in a realm humanity always dreamed of entering and convey power, force and excitement—and few flying machines were as stunning to behold as the Graf Zeppelin. This German airship is the star of Dutch documentarian Ditteke Mensink's “Farewell,” an account of the first airborne circumnavigation of the globe by a commercial craft, in August of 1929. Anyone with a soft spot for these giant silver cigars will positively swoon for 90 minutes at the sight of the Lz-127 making its way from New York to Germany,…...