Barbara Kopple
Musanna Ahmed reviews four more great films that he saw during CPH:DOX’s online edition this year.
The acclaimed Melbourne Documentary Film Festival has returned with a program filled with local and international delights; we list the top ten films to catch.
The intro to Miss Sharon Jones, likely tacked on by the film’s distributor, announces a standard music bio-doc kind of film, complete with voice-over, performances and talking heads. It was enough to make me roll my eyes at the prospect of sitting through another paint-by-numbers film on an under appreciated musician. Well, that intro was a deft bait-and-switch, as Miss Sharon Jones is anything but typical.
