If, as Roger Ebert famously claimed, movies are “like a machine that generates empathy” for the people who view them, then “Procession” argues that they can also be a machine that generates healing ...

Robert Greene’s latest film, created with six men who were abused by Catholic priests and clergy, is a collaborative exercise in trauma recovery. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Memories of ...

When Pennsylvania's grand jury report on clergy sex abuse was released in 2018, Kansas City, Missouri, attorney Rebecca Randles wondered how many clergy in her diocese, as well as in St. Louis, ...

Filmmaker Robert Greene knows well the burden of responsibility in making a documentary. It’s not just to the film itself, the audience or the storytelling. It’s the responsibility to the subjects in ...

Robert Greene's signature mode of performance-based documentary finds potent purpose in this shattering study of six abuse survivors processing their pain through art. Reconstruction in documentary ...

Telluride: "Bisbee '17" filmmaker Robert Greene returns with a documentary in which six abuse survivors escape their trauma through cinema. The self-reflexive cinema of Robert Greene has covered a ...

Procession director Robert Greene said he would have stopped filming at any point if it was harming his subjects. He followed six survivors of sexual abuse by Kansas City priests as they re-created ...

Leila Fadel talks with filmmaker Robert Greene about his latest project, "Procession." It follows six men who suffered abuse from Catholic clergy. They scripted, acted and filmed their stories. A few ...

Many current filmmakers have been expanding the art of documentaries, but none quite so boldly or originally as Robert Greene. His films, which include “Kate Plays Christine” and “Bisbee ’17,” embody ...

Update: Netflix acquired Robert Greene's film "Procession" and announced it will be released in the fall. Robert Greene’s nonfiction movies are studies of processes and re-examinations of the past.

This review of “Procession” was first published on Nov. 9. If, as Roger Ebert famously claimed, movies are “like a machine that generates empathy” for the people who view them, then “Procession” ...

This image released by Netflix shows Michael Sandridge, foreground left, and Dan Laurine, center, in a scene from the documentary "Procession." (Netflix via AP) Filmmaker Robert Greene knows well the ...