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advertisement advertisement advertisement In 2018, director RJ Cutler ( The September Issue , Belushi ) was invited to Billie Eilish’s Los Angeles home with her parents and brother/producer Finneas O’Connell to discuss the possibility of directing a documentary of her life. At the time, the buzz around Eilish was building to a fever pitch with her breakout single “Ocean Eyes,” her well received 2017 EP Don’t Smile at Me , and her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? on the horizon. advertisement advertisement “She was just back from a trip to Asia, and there was a fitting going on. The house was overflowing with racks of clothes and boxes of sneakers that people had sent to her,” Cutler recalls. “The house was like a metaphor for Billie’s life—it was bursting at the seams.” Cutler says he was intrigued by Eilish prior to that meeting but became exponentially so afterward. “She’s a magnetic force,” he … [Read more...] about Inside the “full feast” of Billie Eilish’s life in the Apple TV doc ‘The World’s a Little Blurry’

advertisement advertisement advertisement The most important word in the title of Netflix’s latest documentary, Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell , is “I.” advertisement advertisement Fans of the Notorious B.I.G., who sold over 30 million albums and was inducted last year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , have already heard the story most filmmakers want to tell about the revolutionary rapper: mainly, his deadly beef with Tupac Shakur. That story has been aptly cinematically covered by now. It was the subject of the 2002 documentary Biggie & Tupac as well as the basis for City of Lies , the floptastic 2018 detective thriller inexplicably starring Johnny Depp. Even in Notorious , the hagiographic feature from 2009, a lot of screen time is devoted to the dynamic between the pair—their friendship, their falling out, the media stoking tensions between them, and of course, the tragic outcome. In I Got a Story … [Read more...] about Netflix’s ‘Biggie’ documentary lets Christopher Wallace tell his own story