Documentary Now! (Fourth Edition, Revised and Expanded) is out wherever books are sold NEXT WEEK. Enormous thanks to Seth Meyers (@latenightseth ) for showing it off on air!
Bookshop.org link in bio to order (in the spirit of Seth’s appeal, we love our indie store friends)
Documentary Now! (Fourth Edition, Revised and Expanded) is coming in just one week from McSweeney’s and Broadway Video. Now, take another look inside as some of the greatest artists of all time celebrate the very finest in nonfiction filmmaking.
Link in bio to preorder our limited edition collaborative bundle with the @criterioncollection .
*this is a work of parody, all celebrities are impersonated*
Documentary Now! (Fourth Edition, Revised and Expanded) is coming this month from McSweeney’s and Broadway Video. Now, take another look inside as some of the greatest artists of all time celebrate the very finest in nonfiction filmmaking.
Link in bio to preorder our limited edition collaborative bundle with the @criterioncollection .
*this is a work of parody*
Documentary Now! (Fourth Edition, Revised and Expanded) is coming next month from McSweeney’s and Broadway Video. Take a look inside as some of the greatest artists of all time celebrate the very finest in nonfiction filmmaking.
Link in bio to preorder our limited edition collaborative bundle with the @criterioncollection .
*this is a work of parody*
CRITERION X McSWEENEY’S X BROADWAY VIDEO
Prepare for the release of McSweeney’s and Broadway Video’s official comprehensive (over-six-hundred-pages) companion book to IFC’s Documentary Now!, with a special bundle pairing this mammoth ode to nonfiction filmmaking and four of the greatest films ever made: Larry and Abraham Fein’s Globesman, D. A. Pennebaker’s Original Cast Album: “Company”, Albert and David Maysles’s Salesman, and R.C. Baumgartner’s classic Original Cast Album: Co-Op.
McSweeney's has partnered with our friends and fellow cinéastes at Criterion to bring you all four seminal works across two Blu-rays, along with the book featuring the complete sheet music for Co-op: The Musical (written by John Mulaney and Eli Bolin), new writing by Seth Meyers and Pulitzer Prize finalist Matt Zoller Seitz, posters, stills, essays, and much more, made ade with the assistance of Documentary Now! directors and co-creators Rhys Thomas and Alex Buono.
Link in bio to order.
Documentary Now (fourth edition, revised and expanded) is coming next month from McSweeney’s. Made with the assistance of series directors Rhys Thomas and Alex Buono and including new writing by Seth Meyers, a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–finalist Matt Zoller Seitz, the complete sheet music for John Mulaney and Eli Bolin’s Co-op: The Musical, and much more.
Link in bio to order and join us at Symphony Space in New York on May 21 and the Roxie Theater in SF on June 13 to celebrate.
Something big (in more ways than one) just arrived in the mail.
Coming this May. Find the doc now preorder link in our bio.
Ps. All books are 25% off through the first exclusively on the McSweeney’s site!
Coming this spring from McSweeney’s and Lorne Michaels Broadway Video: Documentary Now! (Fourth Edition, Revised and Expanded). Link in bio to order.
The best film texts touch our lives and leave an indelible imprint on our shared cultural experience, deepening and enriching our relationships with this most universal of modern artistic mediums.
In this new, fully revised and expanded edition of Documentary Now!’s seminal 1975 text, the curators behind the beloved long-running Documentary Now! program invite us to celebrate the craft, legacy, and minutiae of some of the most brilliant works of nonfiction ever put to celluloid.
This remarkable book presents unique access to stills, posters, scores, and archival materials from some of the most celebrated documentaries in film history; alongside essays from some of the greatest cultural luminaries of the last fifty years. Enjoy a new letter from the president of the Documentary Now! Foundation; the classic introduction by original host Burt Lancaster; and some of your favorite classic essays like Peter Bagdanovich on Kunuk Uncovered, Tom Wolfe on sports on film, David Foster Wallace on Two Hairdressers in Bagglyport, and more
In over six hundred full-color beautiful, hilarious, and never-winking pages (made with the help of series directors Rhys Thomas and Alex Buono and featuring new writing by Seth Meyers, a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–finalist Matt Zoller Seitz, the complete sheet music for John Mulaney and Eli Bolin’s Co-op: The Musical, and more), Documentary Now! (Fourth Edition, Revised and Expanded) celebrates and skewers this most vital of art forms.
Coming soon wherever books are sold, preorder link in our bio.
