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Eric Hynes

Observe and Report

By Eric Hynes
May 1, 2020
Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s The Viewing Booth holds up a mirror to the insidious spiral of bad faith in a media-saturated age

Embracing Entropy

By Eric Hynes
March 4, 2020
Complexity is truth in three unreleased films that our nonfiction critic ranks among the year’s best

Make It Real: We the Living

By Eric Hynes
March 2, 2020
Death becomes a creative force in three Sundance films that dance at its edge

Interview: Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar

By Eric Hynes
February 5, 2020
Working class heroes: the directors of the Oscar-nominated American Factory on how class and labor shape and inform us as people

Do You Hear What I Hear?

By Eric Hynes
November 13, 2019
Through audio artistry, nonfiction filmmakers get into your head to shape perceptions of both sonic and visual spaces

Make It Real: Double Shifts

By Eric Hynes
August 29, 2019
With American Factory, Julia Reichert caps four decades of clocking in with labor by adding the view from the top

Interview: Roberto Minervini

By Eric Hynes
August 15, 2019
“Fear is a good thing”: the director of What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? on his powerful new doc

Interview: Gu Xiaogang

By Eric Hynes
July 16, 2019
The first-time filmmaker’s Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains has a wide scope, yet feels minutely observed

Interview: Mati Diop

By Eric Hynes
May 22, 2019
Crossing over: the director on her debut feature Atlantics, a love story haunted by the failures of the global economy

Make It Real: Mistaken Identity

By Eric Hynes
May 1, 2019
Three recent portraits of women achieve the sadly rare art of leaving their complexity intact

Interview: Joe Bini and Sam Green

By Eric Hynes
April 23, 2019
Time present and time past: a "live documentary" about the Kronos Quartet makes the foundational tension of cinema actively experienced and felt

The All-Seeing Eye

By Eric Hynes
March 1, 2019
In Carlos Reygadas’s autobiographically drawn Our Time, the camera captures how fiction lives in the real world

Make It Real: Shots Heard Round the World

By Eric Hynes
January 2, 2019
Our nonfiction critic remembers the moments in 2018’s movies that live on

Directions: Claude Lanzmann

By Eric Hynes
November 9, 2018
The late filmmaker resisted reducing the totality of experience, or of cinema

Make It Real: The Big Game

By Eric Hynes
November 1, 2018
The elder statesmen of documentary are pouncing upon our dire moment, but to what end?

Interview: Ognjen Glavonic

By Eric Hynes
September 6, 2018
Keep the motor running: The Load, showing in Toronto, charts an ominous road trip that shows the universal burden of war

Make It Real: Notes on Nonfiction Camp

By Eric Hynes
September 5, 2018
In The Gospel of Eureka, the humor and fabulous pageantry are more than just for laughs

Make It Real: Evidence of a Life

By Eric Hynes
July 2, 2018
Wang Bing’s Dead Souls does justice to the few who lived to tell the tale of mass atrocity

Cannes Interview: Christopher Nolan

By Eric Hynes
May 17, 2018
Beyond the infinite: the Dunkirk director talks about the 70mm restoration of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey he oversaw and the life of celluloid

Interview: Sergei Loznitsa

By Eric Hynes
May 16, 2018
Normalization: the director of Donbass discusses exploring the border of fiction and documentary in the Ukrainian conflict