![]() ![]() What’s even more surprising is that their bank, Abacus Federal Savings, was a tiny, local institution catering to New York City’s Chinatown residents-hardly one of the massive financial corporations that helped crater the world economy. In it, James details the ordeal of the Sungs, who ran the only bank to face federal prosecution in the aftermath of the 2008 financial collapse. Imperiled families are popular forms of community in documentaries this year-on the more heartwarming side is Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, the deceptively straightforward new film from Hoop Dreams director Steve James. Scored by Portland ambient artist Eluvium (Matthew Cooper), Buzz One Four will, with hope, make it out of the Pacific Northwest and find some distribution care of its growing number of festival appearances. The film’s strength is its wordless, practically impressionistic sense of gravity when pouring over so much found footage and assorted documents from the time, detailing just how much of the world’s destiny was shaped by human beings as susceptible to error-to the failings of the human body-as any one of us. It tells the story of McCormick’s grandfather, one of the U.S.’s select B-52 bomber pilots burdened with flying world-clearing, 4-megaton nuclear weapons on marathon missions over North America, staying ever-ready to drop them on Russia should the Cold War come to a disastrous head. ![]() ![]() release date, such as Matt McCormick’s excellent Buzz One Four, which premiered at the Portland International Film Festival. ![]() This list also doesn’t take into account the documentaries we’ve seen which are still without a U.S. Narrowing down the best documentaries of 2017 we’ve seen so far to only a list of 15 movies felt more than difficult-it seemed unnecessary given the glut of vital (we do not use that word lightly) and groundbreaking documentary films this year to come out of a festival like True/False, to name but one. ![]()
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