Sentences with phrase «real documentary about»

Delayed for more than a year, Dimension Films has been attempting to market this like it is a real documentary about a real NASA mission to the moon that went wrong (but of course that's BS).

Filmmaker Meema Spadola made Our House: A Very Real Documentary About Kids of Lesbian and Gay Parents, because it was the type of movie that didn't exist when she was a child.

Not exact matches

In a March appearance with Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - MA), documentary filmmaker Michael Moore called the Daniels story — as well as questions about the Trump campaign's alleged collusion with Russia — «shiny keys to distract us» from the real problems in the country.

Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.

Now, Space Station the video — a two - part documentary about man's biggest construction project off the globe — makes the fantasy real.

18 - minute documentary about the real dietary villain: SUGAR.

That's all well and good but Sony's Anniversary Edition DVD from 2004 had a lot more: an hour - long documentary on the making of the film, a lengthy doc about real - life AIDS victims, and Bruce Springsteen's «Streets of Philadelphia» music video.

Director George Ratliff applied a much clearer eye to «Hell House,» his chilling 2001 documentary about a real church.

What initially seems hard to watch, even excruciating at times, becomes hard not to, a fascinating fiction that seems to be more real than just about any actual documentary you can imagine.

Still, the negatives of working in pornography are the real emphasis - which should be apparent to anyone who thinks about the situation - although I strongly doubt this documentary can in any way prevent very young women from going into it anyway... which is worrisome.

(Incidentally, a documentary about the real life Bloody Face and the exposé of Willowbrook, entitled Cropsey, is available to view on Netflix in the US.)

Perhaps a documentary about the real Sam Childers might be more effective, because the slim extra features (an interview with Marc Forster, a featurette on the music, and a video of Chris Cornell's bid for a Best Song Oscar) don't help either.

«Zoo» (May 25): A real talker at Sundance, Robinson Devor's documentary is about an otherwise normal Seattle man whose sexual appetites, which include bestiality, ultimately kill him.

In this moment when the incoming president of the United States has questioned whether climate change is real, documentaries about the environment are a hard sell at movie theaters.

The disc has a nice suite of extras including a wide - ranging audio commentary by the director, a good making - of documentary (30 minutes), a short featurette in which the real - life brothers discuss their family's boxing background, about a quarter hour of deleted scenes with optional director commentary, and the theatrical trailer (all of the latter four in HD).

On the Map, a documentary about Maccabi Tel Aviv's improbable success in the 1977 edition of the tourney, is a feel - good Cinderella story, the real - life details are at least apropo of this kind of athletic fairy tale.

American Teen Nanette Burstein, director of «The Kid Stays in the Picture,» about the storied producer Robert Evans, focuses on real kids in her latest documentary.

The third in director Helmrich's trilogy about the changes in Indonesian society, his parents» homeland, following The Eye of the Day (2001) and Shape of the Moon (2004), this documentary bristles with real life as...

Ostensibly a documentary about a real - life horse whisperer, this film actually has more to say about how people treat each other than how they interact with horses.

Okay, back to black and white, a (real) documentary from the talented Maysles Brothers and Charlotte Zwerin about door - to - door Bible sellers.

«78/52»: In a way that seems similar to how Sundance movie «Room 237» dissected every inch of «The Shining,» this documentary about the shower scene in «Psycho» has the intrigue of using real people for its unsettling nature.

Bilge's lucid summary of the twisty - turny documentary Kate Plays Christine — in which director Robert Greene follows around a real - life actress while she rehearses for a fictional movie about the life of a real person — got me thinking: Aren't we starting to need more words for the bounteously proliferating forms of nonfiction filmmaking besides just documentary?

«The Good Postman»: Fans of documentaries with excellent real - life comedy, political relevance and superb filmmaking can not miss «The Good Postman,» a film about a Bulgarian village's mayoral election, and the two men with contrasting takes on how Syrian refugees should be treated.

However, this year has seen movement on a prequel series of films, a documentary about real life Quidditch players, and even a short story updating the...

This documentary about the worst World Cup competitors in history is much more than a football movie: it's an engaging and hugely uplifting exploration of people with real passion for their community.

The film closes with some interviews with the real Doss and his commanding officer, which were pulled from a documentary made about him before he died in 2006.

The second, Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine, is a fascinating, more unconventional docu - fiction hybrid that's as much about the events leading up to Chubbuck's suicide and the sensationalism that draws the populace's attention to such real - life horrors as it is, per our own Chuck Bowen, «the element of performance that's integral to documentaries.»

There's a real overlap in sensibility between director and subject in the new documentary about the Fab Four.

But the documentary points up what is flagrantly wrongheaded about «Taking Woodstock,» where the machinations of the producers and promoters lack any real bite or guile; the cavorters descending on the scene are without exception sweet - souled; and the acid trips, including Elliot's, are fun - house frolics.

On the documentary side of things, Sundance Selects grabbed the North American rights to the Buck, a documentary about the real life «Horse Whisperer» Buck Brannaman.

This is the second, more serious problem with the film: it's fictional status means the filmmakers could have done anything they wanted to, and this is what they chose to film — a fabricated and unflattering characterization of a real person disguised as a documentary about the making of her film.

, a documentary about the battle over prescription pain medicine; Pet Fooled, a documentary about the dangers that lurk in your pet's food; the Criterion Collection's Blu - ray release of actor Marlon Brando's sole outing as a director, the 1961 Western One - Eyed Jacks, a great revenge tale that pits partner against partner; and the Criterion's massive Blu - ray collection, «Trilogía de Guillermo del Toro,» which features director Guillermo del Toro's Cronos, The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth (his three Spanish - language films), each exploring different facets of the juncture of the real and the fantastic.

The Garden (Unrated) Oscar - nominated documentary about the ugly legal battle being waged over a 14 - acre plot in a South Central L.A. ghetto sold by the City to a real estate developer over the objections of the hundreds of local residents who had turned the blighted piece of property into a productive farmland.

So in a year with four of the most - acclaimed Chinese - language films of all - time (the two that appear on Sight & Sound - type lists, the one that is the only Chinese film to ever get any real Oscar consideration and a favorite among the critical intelligentsia), I'm going with a four hour documentary about a leftist revolt in 19th Century France.

David Gordon Green directs the satirical comedy from a screenplay by Peter Straughan inspired by Rachel Boynton's documentary about the American political campaign marketing tactics used in the real - life 2002 Bolivian presidential election.

At the film's recent press day, McKay, Lewis, Bale, Carell, Gosling, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, producer Jeremy Kleiner, and screenwriter Charles Randolph talked about turning the book into a movie and adapting it to the screen, why McKay was the right person to direct, what drew them to the project, how the actors met their real - life counterparts in preparation for their roles, the decision to combine a cinema verite documentary approach with other stylized elements, breaking the fourth wall, and using celebrities and pop culture figures as an entertaining storytelling device to explain complex financial concepts to the audience.

«Finding Vivian Maier,» a documentary about a mysterious photographer, is a real - life detective story that raises thorny issues about ethics and about art.

«Breaker Morant» Special Features Audio commentary featuring Beresford from 2004 New interviews with Beresford, cinematographer Donald McAlpine, and actor Bryan Brown Interview with actor Edward Woodward from 2004 New piece about the Boer War with historian Stephen Miller «The Breaker,» a 1973 documentary profiling the real Harry «Breaker» Morant, with a 2010 statement by its director, Frank Shields Trailer Plus: An essay by film scholar Neil Sinyard

Summer Catch is the first feature film by Michael Tollin (Radio), whose only real previous work of note was a documentary about Hank Aaron, who coincidentally makes a cameo appearance in the movie.

There's a good documentary about Christian Bale's real life character, Dicky Eklund on snagfilms.com.

EXTRAS: Unfortunately, there's no director commentary, but the Blu - ray does include a making - of featurette, a short documentary about the real - life Bling Ring, and an interview with Paris Hilton and tour of her house.

Photos over the closing credits show Kumail and the real Emily, and it's impossible not to yearn for a documentary that might tell us more candid stuff, particularly about Kumail's parents and how they came to terms with the relationship.

Actor Bill Paxton goes on a real adventure in the IMAX film Ghosts of the Abyss when he tags along with a film crew making a documentary about the Titanic.

Then, after the Berlin - premiering «Resurrected» in 1989 (about a Falklands soldier returning home) he became a TV mainstay, mainly writing and / or directing dramatizations of incendiary real - life events that already then blurred the line between documentary and fiction in their approach.

Battle for Brooklyn (Unrated) Eminent domain documentary about the seven - year legal fight led by resident David Goldstein against real estate developers determined to flatten his Prospect Heights neighborhood in order to build a stadium for the NBA's New Jersey Nets.

Matthew Heineman's documentary about the Mexican drug wars plays like a real - life version of some grim Sam Peckinpah Western in which violence and corruption have become endemic.

Now, however, thanks to director Brad Osborne, we have The Real Great Debaters, a fascinating documentary which doesn't merely correct the record, but amplifies that priceless legacy by sharing a cornucopia of rich details about Tolson and his talented young protégés, Hobart Jarrett, Hamilton Boswell, Rudolph Henry Heights, James Farrmer, Jr., and Henrietta B. Wells.

The real gem, however, is «Access: Source Code,» an in - movie feature that lets you view cast and crew interviews, pop - up trivia, animated documentary shorts about the film's scientific theories, scene - specific commentary from a time travel expert, and more.

Written as a mock TV documentary with plenty of laughs but lots of real factual information about Christmas traditions.

I remember watching a documentary several years back about a doctor turned writer that said he didn't have any real success until he finished his tenth novel... I'm on number four.