The British experimental filmmaker Charlie Shackleton is probably best known stateside for his protest film Paint Drying. A ten hour and seven minute compilation of the very thing named on the tin, ...
Premiering at the BFI London Film Festival, and soon to stream on Disney+, the doc alternates between the explorer's legendary Antarctic expedition and the 2022 mission to find the wreck of his ship.
Premiering at Sundance, director Charlie Shackleton salvages an unproduced project with a humbled, humorous video essay that's only limited by the tropes it's lampooning. The candid narrator, who is ...
The film crosscuts between Shackleton's expedition, which was all filmed, and the 2022 attempt to retrace his path and find the wreck of his ship. Yet Shackleton, who had an early 20th-century showman ...
None of us talk about the inherent predatory nature of true crime documentaries. They pick over the bones of cold cases and unspeakable crimes, retraumatize survivors, dramatize crimes to the point of ...
Some artists are too interesting to sell out, as British filmmaker Charlie Shackleton discovered for himself when his formulaic Zodiac killer doc went off the rails. It’s a rhetorical question, but ...
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winners Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin and BAFTA-nominated director Natalie Hewit are boarding the National Geographic documentary Endurance (working title), the incredible story of ...