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Lauren Greenfield, director of the new release «The Queen of Versailles,» admitted in a recent interview to playing around with the order of a few scenes for the sake of a narrative arc.

The Queen of Versailles - The recession's curbing of a wealthy family's excess makes for an intriguing documentary.

Documentary director Lauren Greenfield won a U.S. Documentary Directing Award at Sundance in 2012 for her unforgettable «The Queen of Versailles,» and she returns with another examination of excess with this Documentary Premieres entry.

She was previously nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary in 2012 for Queen of Versailles.

«Audiences have been packing the theater for over a month now, making Sean Baker's film one of our best performers since «Moonrise Kingdom» and «The Queen of Versailles» back in 2012.»

Best Film: Zero Dark Thirty (tied for 2nd: Moonrise Kingdom and Amour) Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty (2nd: Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master) Best Actor: Daniel Day - Lewis, Lincoln (2nd: Denis Lavant, Holy Motors) Best Actress: Emmanuelle Riva, Amour (2nd: Deanie Yip, A Simple Life) Best Supporting Actress: Sally Field, Lincoln (2nd: Emma Watson, Perks of Being a Wallflower) Best Supporting Actor: Ezra Miller, Perks of Being a Wallflower (2nd: Christof Waltz, Django Unchained) Best Screenplay: Tony Kushner, Lincoln (2nd: Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom) Best Cinematography: Mihai Malaimare Jr, The Master (tied for 2nd: Moonrise Kingdon, Life of Pi) Best Editing: William Goldenberg, Dylan Tichenor, Zero Dark Thirty (2nd: Argo) Best Use of Music: Moonrise Kingdom (2nd: Django Unchained) Best New Filmmaker: David France, How to Survive a Plague (2nd: Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild) Best Documentary: How to Survive a Plague (2nd: Queen of Versailles) Best Animated: Frankenweenie (2nd: ParaNorman) Best Foreign Language Film: Amour (2nd: Holy Motors)

Category FFCC Awards · Tags 2012 Winners, Anna Karenina, Anne Hathaway, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Ben Affleck, Chris Terrio, Daniel Day - Lewis, Frankenweenie, Jessica Chastain, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Looper, Quvenzhane Wallis, Rian Johnson, Roger Deakins, Skyfall, The Intouchables, The Master, The Queen of Versailles, Zero Dark Thirty

A very thorough Watch - List sees Gamble enamored with German Cats, Fundamentalist Christians and the Queen of Versailles.

The US Directing Award: Documentary was presented to The Queen of Versailles, directed Lauren Greenfield — Jackie and David were triumphantly constructing the biggest house in America — a sprawling, 90,000 - square - foot palace inspired by Versailles — when their timeshare empire falters due to the economic crisis.

Sundance also premiered documentarian Lauren Greenfield's follow - up to «The Queen of Versailles,» «Generation Wealth.»

The intimate crowd of 25 was dense with doc A-listers: Lauren Greenfield («Queen of Versailles»), Morgen, Amy Berg (upcoming Janis Joplin doc «Janis») and Liz Garbus («Nina Simone»).

It is also available on UK home video distributor Dogwoof «s DVD of The Queen of Versailles.

Her latest feature, The Queen of Versailles, premiered at Sundance in 2012, where Greenfield received the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary.

Best Documentary: Bully The Imposter The Invisible War The Queen of Versailles Searching for Sugar Man

The Queen Of Versailles casts an amused but ultimately compassionate eye on the jaw - dropping hubris of David Siegel, a time - share magnate whose spectacular commercial success allows him and his wife Jackie to begin construction on what was to be the largest, most expensive single - family home in America.

Documentary Joslyn Barnes — «The House I Live In,» «Trouble the Water» Danielle Renfrew Behrens — «Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,» «The Queen of Versailles» Joe Bini * — «Tales of the Grim Sleeper,» «Encounters at the End of the World» Douglas Blush — «The Hunting Ground,» «The Invisible War» Rachel Boynton — «Big Men,» «Our Brand Is Crisis» Irene Taylor Brodsky — «The Final Inch,» «Hear and Now» Margaret Brown — «The Great Invisible,» «The Order of Myths» Nancy Buirski — «Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq,» «The Loving Story» Maro Chermayeff — «Marina Abramovic The Artist Is Present,» «The Kindness of Strangers» Ramona S. Diaz — «Don't Stop Believin»: Everyman's Journey,» «Imelda» James Gay - Rees — «Amy,» «Senna» Haile Gerima — «Teza,» «Ashes and Embers» Laurens Grant — «The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,» «Freedom Riders» Richard Hankin — «Art and Craft,» «God Loves Uganda» Kazuo Hara — «A Dedicated Life,» «The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On» Thomas Allen Harris — «Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People,» «Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela» Matthew Heineman — «Cartel Land,» «Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare» Judith Helfand — «The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement,» «Blue Vinyl» Amy Hobby — «What Happened, Miss Simone?

Next week's indie fare features a trio of indies I haven't seen yet, though I've heard that the documentary The Queen of Versailles (about rich people) is very good.

ALLAN KING DOCUMENTARY AWARD «Stories We Tell» (Mongrel Media) Runners - up: «The Queen of Versailles» (Mongrel Media) «Searching for Sugar Man» (Mongrel Media)

The Queen Of Versailles gleans some big, guilty laughs out of its subjects» rampant egotism and surreal disconnect from everyday reality, but it's ultimately less interested in laughing at the Siegels» misfortune than in attempting to understand them.

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0:00 — Intro 4:45 — Review: Silver Linings Playbook 33:45 — Review: Life of Pi 52:50 — Other Stuff We Watched: Holy Motors, The Queen of Versailles, Anchorman, Rudy, Sunset Boulevard, Cyborg, 3 Women, I Heart Huckabees, The Fighter, Three Kings, Flirting with Disaster, Spanking the Monkey, Touch of Evil, The Ipcress File, Tombstone 2:06:35 — Junk Mail: Best Musical Moment in a Non-Musical, Favourite Scenes Set to Non-Score Music, DVD and Blu - ray Cataloguing, Trailers We Got Sick of Seeing, Changing Ratings Without a Rewatch, Upcoming Terrence Malick Film + Theatre Employees, Niagara Region 2:42:16 — This Week on DVD and Blu - ray 2:44:10 — Outro

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This Year's Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Film Industry, presented only when warranted to a female who has had a banner — making, record — breaking, industry — changing achievement during any given year: Women Documentary Filmmakers — including Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady («Detropia»), Lauren Greenfield («Queen of Versailles»), Alison Klayman («Ai Weiwei Never Sorry») and Sarah Burns («The Central Park Five»).

The much buzzed - about Lauren Greenfield documentary The Queen of Versailles, a rags - to - riches - to - rags story about Florida billionaire David Siegel and his self - described trophy wife, Jackie, was underwhelming.

Women Documentary Filmmakers, including Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (Detropia), Lauren Greenfield (Queen of Versailles), Alison Klayman (Ai Weiwei Never Sorry) and Sarah Burns (The Central Park Five).

The Queen of Versailles is an important historical document because it's a microcosm of the financial collapse of 2008 and its aftermath.

Although it's a guilty pleasure, The Queen of Versailles is artful enough that both the prosecution and the defense could invoke it when the peasants cry «Off with their heads!»

Okay, so maybe the Queen of Versailles never met the Queen of the Greens, but now kale is poised for a royal welcome in France thanks to The Kale Project.

Okay, so maybe the Queen of Versailles never met the Queen of the Greens, but now kale is poised for a royal welcome in France...

Not exact matches

July 17th The first signs that this isn't your average fussy costume drama is the way the servant Laborde (watchful intriguing Lea Seydoux) slips and falls as she races around Versailles to serve the whims of her fickle queen Marie Antoinette (a brilliantly distracted Diane Kruger).

If King Louis XIV, in all his love of luxury, had decided it was time to buy an SUV, one gets the sense that the Sun King would have been very pleased to see a 2018 Land Rover Range Rover SVAutobiography parked outside Versailles, and that it may be time for the current Queen of England to add one more Land Rover to her collection in the Scottish Highlands.

From the lush gardens of Versailles to the lights and gaiety of Paris, the verdant countryside of France, and finally the stark and terrifying isolation of a prison cell, the young queen's life is joyful, poignant, and harrowing by turns.

Built by Queen Hedvig Eleonora, Drottningholm Palace was inspired by France's Palace of Versailles

Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY Claxons (four - person exhibition, curated by Walter Robinson), Haunch of Venison, New York, NY Grey Area, New York, NY The Queen's Feathers (one - person exhibition), John Tevis Gallery, Paris France 2011 Peacocks and Bottles (one - person exhibition) Organized by Nana Kipiani in conjunction with Artisterium, National Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia Forever and Never, One More Time (two - person exhibition), Season, Seattle, WA Color Theory, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY 2010 Birdbaths and Birdhouses (one person exhibition), Le Petit Versailles, New York, NY The Visible Vagina, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art & David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY 2009 Modern & Contemporary Ceramics, A.M. Richard Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY Bazvalon (one person exhibition), Rose Burlingham Living Room Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Momenta Art (one person exhibition), Brooklyn, NY French Kiss, organized by Rob Wynne, JGM Galerie, Paris The Demoiselles Revisited, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL (Momenta Art booth) 2006 The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York, NY 2005 Picture Window, (site specific, city organized), Baltimore, Maryland 2004 Hall of Portraits, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland College Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD 2003 The Recurrent, Haunting Ghost, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY Sleight of Hand, Salena Gallery, Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY 2002 Kismet, The Work Space, New York, NY 2001 Bad Touch, Lump gallery / projects, Raleigh, NC (also traveled to Keith Talent Gallery, London, Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Boston, Space (1026, Philidelphia & UIMA, Chicago) Beautiful You, curated by Larry Krone, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York, NY Your Humble Servant the Genius (two person exhibition with Rob Wynne), Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY Nijinsky, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY 1999 The Fin - de-Siécle Salon, curated by J. A. Poisson, P.S. 122, New York, NY 1998 Re: Duchamp (organized by Mike Bidlo), Abraham Lubelski Gallery, New York, NY Bowie, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY 1997 Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France (one person exhibition) The Whole World in a Small Painting, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY 1996 Cadmium Cathode, Sauce, Brooklyn, NY

The Versailles palace was the home of Marie Antoinette, the 18th Century queen of France.