Opening with a deeply sincere “I don’t give a fuck!” Austin filmmaker Ben Steinbauer’s investigative doc Winnebago Man sets out to prove the contrary. Steinbauer’s mission is to find Jack Rebney, the ...

Jack Rebney, the foul-mouthed "Winnebago Man" who emerged as one of the internet's first viral personalities, died Wednesday at 93. Ben Steinbauer, a friend of Rebney's and the director of the 2009 ...

In the grand tradition of making sitcoms out of Twitter feeds, it should come as no surprise that YouTube videos have also spawned feature-length film efforts — and ...

He’s been quoted by everyone from Ben Affleck to SpongeBob, but until recently, Jack Rebney had no idea why. Ben Steinbauer’s documentary focuses on the filmmaker’s search for Rebney, the unwitting ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The documentary film has acquired a new subgenre, which for want of a more polite term could be called the "stalking doc." It might have begun with "Roger & Me" in ...

“Winnebago Man,” a new documentary directed by Ben Steinbauer, hits theaters today in a limited New York release. As Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter terms it, an example of the new doc ...

Here at the Sarasota Film Festival, I finally caught Darius Marder’s award-winning documentary, Loot, and then re-watched Ben Steinbauer’s acclaimed new documentary, Winnebago Man. Both films are ...

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Ben Steinbauer's "Winnebago Man" is a film that starts out as a gimmick but winds up as a genuinely touching character study, though one does wonder whether that is what the filmmaker initially ...