Docs to Watch: JLo, George Carlin and a Texas Marching Band

Docs to Watch: JLo, George Carlin and a Texas Marching Band No images? [Click here]( ID=167008;size=700x180;setID=556349;uid={EMAIL}5803641;click=docs_to_watch_top ID=167008;size=600x111;setID=523775;uid={EMAIL}5803641;click=docs_to_watch_top [- - -] [TheWrap - SUMMER TV WATCH LIST] Week of June 13, 2022 Jennifer Lopez gets a Netflix film about her Super Bowl halftime show (and a lot more to boot!), Tribeca debuts a slate of fascinating docs and the Emmys nonfiction categories are filled with strong documentaries. Plus, there’s a real-time doc unfolding with coverage of what’s happening in Washington. [- - -] [Premiere of the week] “Halftime” Tuesday, June 14, Netflix Photo: Netflix This documentary about Jennifer Lopez’s 2022 Super Bowl halftime show got headlines for Lopez complaining that she shouldn’t have had to share the slot with Shakira — but a[s Dan Callahan writes in his review for TheWrap](, there’s lots more to Amanda Micheli’s film. “Lopez is extraordinarily likable here: tough, self-aware, guarded, and very proud,” he writes. “At a key moment, we see Lopez walking a fashion runway in a version of the green Versace dress that is probably her most famous look, and there is something about the way she charges forward and flares the skirt of the dress in back of her that can only be called stunning, a word that shouldn’t be overused.” [- - -] [Premiere of the week] “George Carlin’s American Dream” HBO [George Carlin's American Dream] Photo: HBO The comedian George Carlin may have died in 2008, but his routines about abortion, censorship and the consolidation of wealth and power could not be more timely. Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio knew that when they made their two-part Carlin doc “George Carlin’s American Dream,” and they lavished time editing a single five-minute sequence that juxtaposes Carlin’s words with footage from today. “We spent (a) month on nothing but that five minutes because we wanted to make sure that it reflects the complexity of his opinions,” [Apatow told TheWrap](. ID=167008;size=300x250;setID=523778;uid={EMAIL}5803641;click=docs_to_watch_medium [- - -] [Premiere of the week] “Lynch/Oz” Tribeca Festival [Lynch Oz] Photo: Tribeca Festival Do the bizarre, transgressive films of David Lynch have anything to do with a children’s classic from 1939? They sure do, according to “Lynch/Oz,” a film from Rodney Ascher that premiered at the Tribeca Festival and does an exhuastive job of tracing links between Lynch and “The Wizard of Oz.” “While some talking points tend to be belabored and others don’t get unpacked at great enough length, ‘Lynch/Oz’ still offers movie-lovers a variety of thoughtful and dynamic new ways of seeing Lynch’s work,” [wrote Simon Abrams in his review for TheWrap.]( [- - -] [Premiere of the week] “The Beatles: Get Back” Disney+ [Beatles Get Back Rooftop] Photo: Disney+ / Apple Corps Giles Martin, son of the Beatles producer George Martin and a noted producer in his own right, [talked to TheWrap’s Jason Clark]( about the herculean task of pulling together and engineering the eight-hour “The Beatles: Get Back” with director Peter Jackson. One of the strangest parts, Martin admits, was seeing his father as a major player cutting such a dashing figure in January 1969. “I was conceived at some point during this film!” he told us. [Premiere of the week] “March” The CW [March] Photo: Stage 13/The CW The eight-hour documentary series “March” follows the Marching Storm band at Prairie View A&M University in Texas, a college located on the site of an old plantation. “We are our ancestors’ wildest dreams, so we have to uphold that responsibility,” [co-executive producer Precious-Tuesday told TheWrap during our screening panel.]( “We are on a plantation. There are people buried right next to where people are playing drums. So the responsibility was (to show) real respect, love, honor … and Black joy.” [- - -] [Premiere of the week] The House Select Committee’s Jan. 6 Hearings Multiple Networks This is news coverage rather than an actual documentary, but let’s face it: The TV broadcast of the House Select Committee’s hearings on the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is documenting history as it happens. [The latest from our reporting](: Witnesses said that Rudy Giuliani got drunk on election night and Donald Trump used $250,000 of donations made to fight election fraud for other purposes, while former attorney general Bill Barr called Dinesh D’Souza’s election-fraud documentary “2000 Mules” “unimpressive” and “indefensible.” [- - -] [Update your profile]( | [View our privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( Sent from: TheWrap | 1808 Stanford Street | Santa Monica, CA, 90404 | attn: Email Coordinator [TheWrap]( ID=167008;size=600x111;setID=523777;uid={EMAIL}5803641;click=docs_to_watch_top ID=167008;size=700x180;setID=556350;uid={EMAIL}5803641;click=docs_to_watch_bottom This email was sent to {EMAIL}. If you are no longer interested you can [unsubscribe instantly](.