The opening or closing night of a film festival can make a statement — about where that festival, or the larger world of film, is headed.
Tonight, the Tribeca Film Festival made a striking statement by presenting Liz Garbus’ “The Fourth Estate” as its closing-night selection.
Garbus is a reknowned documentary filmmaker whose artistry has only grown with the years, culminating in the luminous, heartbreaking, Oscar-nominated musical psychodramatic portrait “What Happened, Miss Simone?” (2015).
But “The Fourth Estate” isn’t, technically speaking, a feature film.
It’s the first episode of a four-part documentary series, produced by Showtime (it premieres there on May 27), that takes a close-up look at the inside hustle and bustle of The New York Times as it covers the Trump presidency.The distinction between a film or TV documentary may, at this point, seem academic.
There’s a mountain of nonfiction now produced for the small screen.
Almost every year at Sundance,
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