The REEL Recovery Film Festival is a two-day festival of documentary and feature films covering the recovery experience.
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Portland’s Space gets weird with 2 ambitious documentaries
‘Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted’ follows the blues-country singer and songwriter, while ‘Japanese Avant-Garde Pioneers’ takes a look at art in post-WWII Japan.
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‘Bad Press’ tells a tale of bad government and a fearless reporter
A trio of Midcoast organizations helped bring the documentary, about a Native American reporter going up against tribal leaders, to Rockland’s Strand Theatre.
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‘Outsider’ documentary brings an artist’s mental struggles — and talent — into focus
The film about outsider artist Maury Ornest, who died in 2018, paints a portrait of ‘the ultimate insider’ whose career-ending injury changed his life.
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‘The Arboretum Cycle’ is an experimental meditation, captured on film
The filmmaker’s exacting requirements for screening the seven-film series are almost as intriguing as the work itself.
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Maine’s Smooth Feather celebrates a decade of empowering young filmmakers
Built in an 1880 movie palace in Porter, Smooth Feather is a nonprofit, community-based film school for young nonprofessionals.
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In the documentary ‘Paint Me a Road Out of Here,’ art exposes hope in a hopeless place
A painting by artist Faith Ringgold, ‘For the Women’s House’ was displayed at New York’s Rikers Island women’s jail. Until it disappeared.
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Filmmaker’s ‘Eephus’ shows the complicated joys of playing America’s pastime
The debut film from director and co-writer Carson Lund understands the complicated joys that come from playing the game you love long past the time you should have given it up.
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Maine filmmaker’s documentary on restaurant workers gets a second life on late night
Late-night host John Oliver featured Elora Griswold’s ‘The City of Servers’ on a ‘Last Week Tonight’ segment about tipping.
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PMA Films celebrates the legacies of David Lynch, Gene Hackman
It’s a cliché to note the passing of a celebrity with a social media post reading, “Oh, scr*w you, 2025.” But I get it. Especially with the recent deaths of film giants Gene Hackman and David Lynch, two completely different movie world figures whose passing hit me with a rapid, one-two sock right to my […]