This Machine News
Ron Howard’s World Series doc for Apple takes cinematic approach
The 2024 World Series doc will air on Apple TV+, in partnership with MLB and Imagine Entertainment. Yankees legend Derek Jeter is an executive producer via his production company, Cap 2 Productions. R.J. Cutler, who heads This Machine Filmworks, is the director.
A Prickly Martha Stewart Makes for a Bracing Netflix Portrait
The re-evaluation of maligned celebrities — especially women who reached the height of fame in the 1990s — has become its own mini-genre of pop culture. Often the story tells a bigger tale: a culture bent on taking down successful women, or beautiful ones, or just ones who accidentally strayed into the spotlight.
Netflix’s New Martha Stewart Documentary Renders Her More Powerful Than Ever
When Martha Stewart eventually passes away, she should order that director R.J. Cutler also be buried along with her inside her death pyramid.
Top Docs: "Martha" with R.J. Cutler
In his highly engaging new Netflix documentary “Martha,” Emmy award-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler (“Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry”, “Big Vape”) calls Martha Stewart the original influencer.
‘Martha’ Stokes a Debate: What’s a Documentary, Anyway?
As a vérité filmmaker for the past 31 years, Mr. Cutler has tackled a wide variety of subjects, from politics (“The World According to Dick Cheney”) to Vogue magazine (“The September Issue”) to e-cigarettes (“Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul”). He has been nominated for an Oscar. He has won three Emmys, including one for “American High,” a docuseries that tracked 14 high school students over a year.
"Martha" presents a side of Martha Stewart we haven't seen before: hers, in her voice
Under R.J. Cutler's direction, the influential icon tells her story honestly, albeit with a high-sheen polish.
‘Martha’ Review: R.J. Cutler’s Splendid Documentary Taps Into Everything We Love, and Don’t, About Martha Stewart
The film takes us through her rise and fall and rise, a transfixing saga enhanced by Cutler's ongoing meditation on The Meaning of Martha.
‘Martha’ Review: Martha Stewart Unplugged In Candid And Surprising Tell-All Netflix Documentary
When I set out to see R.J. Cutler‘s new documentary, Martha, quite frankly I wasn’t focusing on it other than just another screening I had, and that it would be all about Martha Stewart. So I expected it would be mostly gardening, cooking and setting the perfect dinner-party table.
Martha Stewart is an ‘unreliable narrator’ but also ‘a visionary,’ documentary director says
The way Martha Stewart sees it, her life story is pretty simple. “Here’s this girl from a family of eight in Nutley, N.J., living modestly, who gets a good idea, builds it into something really fine and profits from it,” she says in “Martha,” a documentary premiering Wednesday on Netflix. Then, Stewart continues, she “falls in a hole” and has to climb out of it.
Martha Stewart’s American Dream
Let’s play a game: What do you think of when you think of Martha Stewart? Her unlikely friendship with Snoop Dogg? A pre-#tradwife trad wife? A daytime television personality who served jail time? Something else entirely?
R.J. Cutler Reveals Martha Stewart’s Strengths and Weaknesses and Elton John’s Vulnerability in Two Docs
Documentary filmmaker R.J. Cutler (“Billie Eilish: The World is a Little Blurry”) is enjoying a busy fall with two documentaries releasing back to back. Netflix is now streaming “Martha,” his searing and fascinating portrait of the lifestyle icon, and Disney+ will air his moving tribute “Elton John: Never Too Late” after its November 15 theatrical release.
Martha Stewart Gives Netflix’s ‘Martha’ a Scalding Review
When a reporter phoned about her new documentary, the lifestyle star didn’t hold back: “I hate those last scenes. Hate them.”
In Netflix doc, Martha Stewart looks back at her triumphant highs, humiliating lows
Tracing her arc from model to stockbroker to author to TV personality to inmate, film comes close to achieving the level of perfection famously demanded by the lifestyle maven.
We Had Martha Stewart Wrong All Along
Long before Instagram and TikTok existed as places for us to stoke our insecurities, there was Martha Stewart.
Apple TV+ Sets Docuseries on 2024 World Series
Apple TV+ is stepping up to the plate for a three-part docuseries on the 2024 World Series, Variety has learned exclusively.
“Elton John: Never Too Late” review – a rollicking look at the life of a music legend
It was in Los Angeles that Elton John first found stardom in 1970 and it was there, 52 years later in November 2022 that he said goodbye to touring, playing at Dodger Stadium for the final time, his iconic 'ELTON' baseball outfit traded in for a more age-appropriate robe (still bedazzled with glitter, naturally).
Elton John: Never Too Late review — an intimate and consequential portrait
Elton John’s epic retirement party gets another poignant chapter in a documentary that focuses largely on the Seventies, when he made most of his best music — and took most of his drugs.
Netflix’s ‘Martha’ Trailer: R.J. Cutler Doc Chronicles Martha Stewart’s Rise And Fall — “I Was A Trophy For These Idiots”
Martha Stewart is sharing her story in Netflix‘s new documentary Martha, directed by R.J. Cutler.
Next Big Picture: “ELTON JOHN: NEVER TOO LATE”
Elton John’s songs have soundtracked the lives of almost everyone in the English-speaking world at this point.
Elton John Looks Back at Career in New Trailer for ‘Never Too Late’ Documentary
Elton John: Never Too Late, a documentary about the music icon looking back on his career ahead of his final U.S. concert, will head to Disney+ this December following its premiere earlier this month at the Toronto International Film Festival.