Sentences with phrase «film cameraperson»
Kirsten Johnson's film Cameraperson was named one of the Top Ten Films of 2016 by The Washington Post and The New York Times.
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Another cameraperson even filmed her tripping a man carrying a small child.
«Cameraperson» is a very personal film.
The key to Cameraperson's triumph is that nothing in the film was created with the knowledge of being used for this purpose, which leaves the footage itself — shot for movies directed by the likes of Laura Poitras, Kirby Dick, Amir Bar - Lev, Gini Reticker, Moore, and many others — uncompromised by manipulation or intentionality.
Sophie and Lee look back at some of the key films released in January, including Pablo Lorrain's Jackie Bouvier Kennedy biopic Jackie, Martin Scorsese's meditative Catholic drama Silence, and Kirsten Johnson's unique memoir Cameraperson.
«Cameraperson «The recently deceased Jacques Rivette famously said that all films are documentaries of their own making, but Kirsten Johnson, a long standing filmmaker and non-fiction cinematographer, has taken that concept to its logical extreme and has made a documentary that is both about her own life and about the very nature of documentary filmmaking.
It's a dizzyingly reflexive concept that could be too self - involved to really connect, but as our reviewer discovered, the fragmentary, impressionistic «Cameraperson» (often employing off - cuts of films she worked on) actually builds to «a surprisingly emotional and heartfelt film... Humanity permeates [the film], so as experimental as it is, it's also stirring and poignant, with a tangible sense of empathy intact in every frame...» [A]
Cameraperson is without a doubt the best documentary of 2016, and just maybe the best film of the year, period.
«Cameraperson» — This documentary feels very little like a fully composed film at all, and yet that's really the beauty of it.
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Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016) O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman, 2016) Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene, 2016) If there was one genre of film that felt truly innovative this year, it was documentary, and these three films stood out as revolutionary in their own way; even more importantly, all are intensely passionate and emotional.
Special section on 54th New York Film Festival, including Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann, Ava DuVernay's The 13th, Barry Jenkins's Moonlight, Bertrand Tavernier's My Journey Through French Cinema, Pedro Almodóvar's Julieta; American movie acting, film criticism in the age of social media, Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson, Charles Burnett's To Sleep with Anger, Kleber Mendonça Filho's Aquarius