Amazon Prime has a documentary about Celine Dion dealing with a rare neurological disorder and Eva Longoria plays a woman whose life changes completely in “Land of Women.” Marvel star Anthony Mackie swam with sharks in the Gulf of Mexico for National Geographic’s SharkFest line-up, while the franchise creator behind “CSI” offers a non-scripted version called “The Real CSI: Miami,” which looks at how science was used to solve true crime cases. Celine Dion gets an intimate documentary portrait in “I Am Celine Dion,” a film chronicling the Canadian singer’s battle with Stiff Person Syndrome.
For the film, director Irene Taylor spends time with Dion at home and in her personal life as she reflects on her career and discusses the difficulties of her condition, a rare affliction that she first divulged she’s living with in 2022. Streaming this week on Prime Video. Before Lily Gladstone was Oscar-nominated for Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” she starred in the Sundance 2023 entry “Fancy Dance,” director Erica Tremblay’s drama about life on the Seneca-Cayuga Nation reservation in Oklahoma.
The film, which debuts Friday, June 28, on Apple TV+, is about Jax (Gladstone), who, with her niece Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson), searches for her missing sister. “Fancy Dance,” rich in both cultural detail and genre plotting, marks Tremblay’s directorial debut. The life and style of fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg is chronicled in directors S.
