"I thought he was going to talk about mistakes he'd made, but he doesn't, so then the shape of the film inevitably changes," the director told IndieWire of his documentary on Richard Davis. One of the ...

This review originally ran January 22, 2022, in conjunction with the film’s premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. If, at the end of your days, you were shown a nifty graph determining the average of ...

Richard Davis infamously shot himself almost 200 times to test the strength of the vest, as captured in the Sundance documentary. The true American dream? A former Marine turned bankrupt pizzeria ...

Ramin Bahrani’s first documentary feature profiles Richard Davis, the irrepressible inventor of a modern bulletproof vest. By Nicolas Rapold When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

When Ramin Bahrani was first asked to work on a film about Richard Davis, the eccentric inventor of the first concealable bulletproof vest, who is the subject of Bahrani’s doc, “2nd Chance,” it… ...

'Man Push Cart' and 'Chop Shop' director Ramin Bahrani makes his feature documentary debut with the story of bulletproof vest pioneer and certified eccentric Richard Davis. By Daniel Fienberg Chief ...

Detroit, history and pizza are very near and dear to me, so when I heard this story about a pizza shop owner in Detroit inventing the kevlar vest after being shot at while out on delivery, I couldn't ...