Sentences with phrase «cinema verite»

It «Äôs his ode to American Burlesque theatre and he directs the film like a true veteran, infusing hand held camera with a loose narrative to give a kind of cinema verite style to his film.

It uses a kind of cinema verite style that wouldn't be out of place in a Ken Loach film.

Soon she and her crew were traveling with the politician, filming him in cinema verite style for online «webisodes.»

Anyone expecting cinema verite on the order of Rocky or Raging Bull, for which Robert De Niro won an Academy Award in 1981, is destined to be disappointed.

The Board of Managers added an additional special award to William Jersey for his thoughtful cinema verite statement A Time for Burning.

It's a low - budget winner combining a sharp, protean visual style — one minute music video, the next cinema verite — with impudent humour, raw emotion, a thumping good rap soundtrack and some pertinent lessons in choice and responsibility.

«Filmmaker Robert Drew, a pioneer of the modern documentary who in Primary and other movies mastered the intimate, spontaneous style known as cinema verite and schooled a generation of influential directors that included D.A. Pennebaker and Albert Maysles, has died at age 90.

The film starts off with a distracting flurry of sound bites and later even includes several portions of an earlier documentary, Thomas Reichman's hour - long Mingus (1968)-- a piece of cinema verite about Mingus getting evicted from his loft that also gives us long stretches of uninterrupted music.

It could be the distracting cinema verite style, it could be the heavy improvisation and at times inconsistent acting, it could be the terribly transparent exposition, the way the first 45 minutes takes a few too many shortcuts to force its intrigue to the fore.

What We Do in the Shadows Even if you're sick of vampire movies, you'll enjoy this one, a mock documentary from New Zealand that follows, in the style of low - budget cinema verite, four vampires sharing a house in Wellington.

A trio of cult classics for folks inclined to keep it real via cinema verite.

He takes every tool in the directing toolbox, giving us steady - cam shots jammed against extreme close - up next to that shaking camera cinema verite then mixed with actual news footage.

Yet «In Transit» isn't quite cinema verite.

The camerawork and mise en scene move into a kind of cinema verite existence feelung often like do umentary rather than dramadoc.

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami Sophie Fiennes» documentary shows the legendary singer, model and actress still at it as she nears age 70, and it has lots of good concert footage, but the film is frustratingly short of any context or depth — just a no - explanations cinema verite approach.

They agreed, «Fulfilling the promise of classic cinema verite, where camera serves as both observer and provocation, this film connected two artists, filmmaker and subject, pushing nonfiction intimacy to bold new places.

Writer / director Isabel Coixet uses a loose cinema verite style to give the film a dreamy blanket of quiet.

Though shot in the comedy group's signature cinema verite style (read: hand held camera), the production values are surprisingly high and the acting surprisingly moving — the dude playing the Colossus gets some serious props for his pathos - evoking growl, not to mention his surprisingly strong back.

The film is entirely within the caught - on - the - run tradition of cinema verite, which makes it all the grittier and its conclusion all the more wrenching.

In cinema verite style, two men impersonate active duty combat soldiers on leave from Iraq in a small town near West Point.

for those not familiar with the hbo program, hard knocks is a cinema verite series that highlights a different professional football team each season.

I Am Cait is, on some level, the most respectful melding of television's notion of cinema verite and Hollywood's highest form of top - notch, controlled publicity.

But he was beloved by actors and changed the language of cinema, moving the speedy overlapping dialogue of Howard Hawks into the»70s vernacular with sinuous, moving, zooming cameras, presaging the cinema verite, Steadicam era.

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Shot with heavy reliance on shaky cam and a cinema verite style, the aesthetic is designed to produce an easy, conversational atmosphere from which events can degrade.

The actors are all far more conventionally attractive professional actors (a baby faced Emmanuelle Chriqui shows up in one of the more thankless roles), most of them ill suited for the cinema verite» approach.

Director Farida Pacha follows one family in a cinema verite documentary.

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries DIANE LANE / Pat Loud — «CINEMA VERITE» (HBO) MAGGIE SMITH / Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham — «DOWNTON ABBEY» (PBS) EMILY WATSON / Janet Leach — «APPROPRIATE ADULT» (Sundance Channel) BETTY WHITE / Caroline Thomas — «HALLMARK HALL OF FAME: THE LOST VALENTINE» (CBS) KATE WINSLET / Mildred Pierce — «MILDRED PIERCE» (HBO)

Special issue on documentary film: An American Family, cinema verite, interview with Pat Loud, Susan Raymond, Alan Raymond and John Terry, Robert Flaherty, the documentaries of Georges Franju, Alain Resnais, Dušan Makavejev

The Amityville Tapes — a cinema verite - styled sequel — had been in development for quite some time, I wonder if this will be revived?

Casting real - life heroes, from left, Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone is Clint Eastwood's take on cinema verite.

He takes a cinema verite - like approach to this portrait of a resilient young girl (Brooklynn Prince) who's living on the flickering - out neon fringes of Orlando's Disney World with her ill - suited mother.

Wanda (1971) Film and TV actress Barbara Loden wrote and directed this affecting and insightful character study about an uneducated, passive woman from the coal - mining region of Pennsylvania, where the cinema verite - like film was shot.

One was the idea of showing life as it is, the cinema verite side of movies — films imitating life almost to the point that they seem conjoined.

I won't give it away, except to note that Baker drastically shifts his camera technique for an exhilarating burst of cinema verite, one that also functions — at least for the comfortable, middle - class viewer — as a punch in the gut.

So, they renamed their makeshift fort Restrepo in honor of their fallen comrade, and the filmmakers followed suit in terms of the title of this graphic, super-realistic example of cinema verite».

While the cinema verite nature of this bonus feature is certainly compelling and the design and angles make use of DVD technology, watching all six angles all the way through would probably only interest the most technically - inclined of viewers.

He is very good at the cinema verite style film making.

Though fiction, the story is filmed as if it were a cinema verite documentary, the camera wandering from scene to scene, character to character.