LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The moment of discovery is a complex thing for any artist working in obscurity. For the fascinating, unclassifiable subject of "Marwencol," it's also the most recent ...

Steve Carell as Mark Hogancamp photographs the dolls for his fictional town in "Welcome to Marwen," directed by Robert Zemeckis.Ed Araquel - Universal Pictures - DreamWorks Pictures. In the 2010 ...

In 2000, Mark Hogancamp, an upstate New York resident, was beaten outside a bar by four men so badly that he incurred a brain injury and woke up to a life he barely remembered. Seriously disabled ...

Jeff Malmberg’s “Marwencol” portrays an accidental artist for whom creativity serves as catharsis, rather than angst. Mark Hogancamp, an upstate New York resident left with brain damage after several ...

KEENE — After nine days in a coma from a brutal attack outside a New York bar, Mark Hogancamp woke to find his memories of adulthood had been ripped from his brain. The trauma from a beating by five ...

There aren’t too many documentaries I return to often, and I’m not really sure why. I probably watch as many docs as fiction films, but the latter show up more frequently in my “repeat viewing” list.

Following its world premiere at this year’s SXSW where it won their Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary, Jeff Malmberg’s “Marwencol” has gone on to lock distribution and garner critical acclaim. The ...

'Welcome To Marwen' features a huge nod to one of Robert Zemeckis' most iconic movies that will catch audiences completely unaware. Welcome To Marwen. It’s a dramatic retelling of the story first told ...

“Welcome to Marwen” is about a grown man who plays with toys. That’s what it looks like Mark Hogancamp is doing, anyway. His house in Kingston, New York, is full of dolls, action figures and ...

In the spring of 2000, Mark Hogancamp was brutally beaten outside a bar in Kingston, N.Y. After paramedics brought him back from certain death, he stayed in a coma for several days; when he emerged ...

After being brutally attacked outside a bar and recovering from a coma and extensive physical injuries, Mark Hogancamp suffered brain damage and nearly total memory loss. Unable to afford therapy he ...

Exactly the sort of mysterious and almost holy experience you hope to get from documentaries and rarely do, Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol is something like a homegrown slice of Werner Herzog oddness, ...