DOCNYC: ALAN DERSHOWITZ, WHO'S BEHIND BLACK ART, SHARI AND LAMB CHOP, BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
There’s just so much to cover from DOCNYC, here are four films I saw the first week of the festival.
Love, Gilda
Directed by Lisa Dapolito
Starring Andrew Alexander, Anne Beatts, Chevy Chase
Running time: 1 hour 28 minutes
by Sandy DeVito, Witchqueen of Darkness
A lovely, sincere slice-of-life documentary about Gilda Radner, first woman on the National Lampoon radio show and one of the first original seven members of Saturday Night Live. I particularly liked director Lisa Dapolito including some popular SNL comedians from today (Bill Hader, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy) reading bits of Gilda's journals aloud. To see how beloved she is still by the comedy community was particularly moving, even when some of the structure of Dapolito's film veered into a kind of paint-by-numbers scriptedness.
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