For its first hour, “The Kingmaker” is a charming and wistful portrait of the former First Lady of the Philippines, whose affluence and outsized persona once loomed large across the nation. Then it ...

The Philippines, and its long tug of war between democracy and autocracy, is the subject of two timely documentaries. In A Thousand Cuts, set for U.S. release later this summer, director Ramona Diaz ...

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In Lauren Greenfield’s new documentary The Kingmaker, former Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos demonstrates her largesse, reaching through the window of her limousine to hand banknotes to kids on ...

Sitting through Lauren Greenfield’s “The Kingmaker,” a follow-up to such Greenfield efforts as “Generation Wealth” and the award-winning “The Queen of Versailles,” you may think, why am I watching ...

Lauren Greenfield joined Alex Gibney, Julia Reichert, Asif Kapadia, Todd Douglas Miller and Nanfu Wang for the Oscar Documentary Roundtable. By Annie Howard “I had a very unreliable narrator,” ...

Lauren Greenfield's doc examines connections between the Marcos family and the country's current president, Rodrigo Duterte. When “The Kingmaker” director Lauren Greenfield began making what would ...

During the first half of “The Kingmaker,” filmmaker Lauren Greenfield’s fresh look at Imelda Marcos, the former Philippines first lady appears vulgar and bombastic, yet fundamentally harmless. She ...

“DURING MY TIME, there were no beggars,” Imelda Marcos says. Driving through the slums of Manila, her chauffeured car stops at a red light; she leans out of the window and proffers a wad of cash to a ...

When Imelda Marcos turned 90 in July, about 260 guests at her birthday party were hospitalized with food poisoning. The culprit was apparently some bad meat stew and eggs. The family issued an apology ...

“The Kingmaker” is a natural outgrowth of Greenfield’s “Queen of Versailles,” but the stakes here are much higher. For its first hour, “The Kingmaker” is a charming and wistful portrait of the former ...