You may know Brandy Burre from her work on HBO series The Wire. Or you may not. Burre dropped off the map seven years back and moved to upstate New York to become a mom, just as her career was taking ...

Style is a question many documentarians are implicitly cautioned to avoid. Documentary favors the unforeseen and the accidental, and style suggests the inverse: It gives the impression of control, or ...

Documentary for some may be a form of journalism — films of pure information, with people in the know looking into the camera and offering basic intel. You won’t learn much from “Actress,” Robert ...

In the opening scene of Robert Greene’s new documentary Actress, a woman in a red party dress and high heels stands before a carefully lit kitchen sink, washing and drying dishes in dreamy slow motion ...