Sentences with phrase «as a documentarian of»

Lee Friedlander in Louisiana explores the ways in which Louisiana, and New Orleans in particular, have had a profound impact on the career of this important artist, while also highlighting Friedlander's significance as a documentarian of the local music community.

Underlying a new body of work by the New York — based artist Ari Marcopoulos is a wintry restraint that adds new depth to his more than forty - year career as a documentarian of subculture.

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«In my work as a documentarian, I have witnessed the confidence crisis among girls and the negative impact of stereotypes first - hand,» said Lauren Greenfield, filmmaker and director of the #LikeAGirl video.

Documentarian Frederick Wiseman has been noted for his ability to capture the nuances of life in American institutions such as prisons, hospitals, welfare offices, and high schools.

As both a fiction filmmaker and a documentarian, Wim Wenders has always been more concerned with the journeys of individuals than the systems and institutions in which those journeys are made.

I have to give Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky a lot of credit, not just as documentarians carrying microphone on their hands and camera on their shoulders pointing and focusing to its unwary subject, but as urgent human beings, not there just to cyclically perform «ask and hear», «question and answer», but to «listen and heed», «immerse and absorb».

During the shoot of John Cassavetes» momentous 1970 film Husbands, BBC documentarians visited the low - budget production to chronicle not only the pioneering director's filmmaking process but also his collaboration as an actor with co-stars Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara.

Stiller is also keenly aware that he's never lived up to his potential, all the more so as the son - in - law of a legendary documentarian (nicely played by Charles Grodin).

Much as he downplays the human overseers of the park, Côté never obscures his own hand in the proceedings: The disorienting reverse shot of the drawing woman through the stuffed beast's antlers is the first of countless droll (and uncomfortable) compositions that forces us to wonder if documentarians and spectators are really so far from taxidermists after all.

Taika Waititi's boyish face is put to great use as Viago, a 317 year old vampire who sweetly welcomes his documentarians, eager to present a benevolent and modern look into the life of the average vampire.

Though directors Chin and E. Chai Vaserhelyi take breaks to interview the wives, the documentarians want as many of the eighty - nine minutes taken up with close - ups of the climb, and in a feature that could snatch a nomination for cinematography, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk capture the rain and sleet and pour down on the group as though Mother Nature is determined to keep the summit of Meru pristine, untouched by human hands.

Former documentarian Michael Campus (Christmas Cottage, Z.P.G.) takes a more personal approach to Robert J. Poole's oft - revised, oft - improvised - off - of script, showing these characters as fully realized people, each with his or her own strengths and weaknesses, all a bunch of gray areas instead of the black and white, both figuratively and literally, of other Black cast films to come out at the same time.

Oh, and lest I forget, as if there wasn't enough already going on, for the entire movie, there is a documentarian shooting all of this as footage for his documentary.

Having been stuck on the same arcane, decidedly non-commercial project for the past decade, Josh feels an entire career's worth of pride and self - doubt come bubbling to the surface as Jamie's first film enjoys instantaneous payoff — and worse, garners the approval of Cornelia's father, the renowned documentarian Leslie Breitbart (an excellent Charles Grodin).

In 1975, a cult classic was born as documentarians David and Albert Maysles stepped onto the estate of Grey Gardens located in East Hampton.

Justine Smith explores the filmography of documentarian Robert Drew as his Kennedy box set is released on Criterion Blu - ray.

Watching the destruction of Jordan acted as a documentarian's insight that felt like I was watching «Intervention» without the family that cares.

It's not without significance that Vivian's documentary, determined to expose weaknesses in marriages, only reinforces their strengths, but Bell's script seldom uses the documentarian's lens as a sincere mirror for relationship issues that are later exposed or discussed, and then later forgets her for large chunks of its running time.

Originally performed at the 2004 Edinburgh Festival as a tribute to the director, documentarian Mike Kaplan recorded a 2007 performance and, with the blessing of McDowell, supplements the performance with illustrative stills and film clips for this production.

After graduating as valedictorian of her film school, Laney (a luscious Winona Ryder) gets a job assisting unctuous morning - show host Grant Gubler (John Mahoney) but moonlights as an amateur documentarian, compulsively videotaping the goings - on of roommates Vickie (Janeane Garofalo) and Troy (Ethan Hawke) and gay fourth - wheel Sammy (Steve Zahn, a dead ringer in character for «Party of Five»'s Mitchell Anderson).

Lovelace is directed by the documentarian - turned - biopic - specialist team of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (Howl), who make an interesting choice to show Linda's rise from relative nobody to one of the most famous women in America at the time as a tale split into two halves.

Academy Award - winning documentarian Alex Gibney («Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,» «Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer») has quickly evolved as a filmmaker synonymous with rise and fall character portraits.

In his debut as a documentarian, actor Kevin Pollak seeks to find the answer to that question by asking it (or variations of it) to 50 or so of the brightest comic minds of the day.

The fact that many of the victims of what became known as «the Bisbee Deportation» were Mexican workers and European immigrants did not escape the attention of documentarian Robert Greene (Kate Plays Christine)-- or that 2017 would be the centennial anniversary of the incident.

Kirby Dick is a man of strong principles and good investigative instincts, but he lacks some of the filmmaking finesse of other contemporary documentarians, such as Eugene Jarecki, Alex Gibney, Lucy Walker and Steve James.

Documentarian Greg Barker's new film, «The Final Year» — which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday as it seeks distribution — is the result of a painstaking process to court President Barack Obama's foreign policy staff, particularly U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power and senior advisor Ben Rhodes.

Writer - director Lake Bell follows her 2013 debut feature In a World... with this ensemble story about three pairs of couples recruited into a documentarian's project examining marriage as an antiquated social contract.

Tilda Swinton (Trainwreck, The Grand Budapest Hotel) stars as Marianne Lane, a Bowie-esque, world renown rock star who is on vacation with Paul (Schoenaerts, The Danish Girl), her documentarian boyfriend of six years, on Pantelleria, a small, secluded Mediterranean island off between the coasts of Sicily and Tunisia.

Having earned his industry stripes as head of the Sydney - based production company Temple and fresh off his directing debut UNindian (2015), Sharma proves himself a naturally gifted long - form documentarian (his 2013 doco - short Indian Aussies Terms and Conditions Apply earned international acclaim).

Dern stars as producer and documentarian Jennifer Fox in a drama based on Fox's own life, in which she confronts repressed memories of sexual abuse she suffered as a young teenager.

Linklater as true documentarian, which is not to say he is a filmmaker committed to realism as a mode of representation.

His only true source of stability, his relationship with Sylvia (Charlotte Gainsbourg), is upended, as is the life of his Jewish documentarian mentor and father - in - law (László Szabó), when Ismael's wife Carlotta (Marion Cotillard), who disappeared twenty years earlier, returns, and, like one of Hitchcock's fragile, delusional femmes fatales, expects that her husband and father are still in thrall to her.

It's only fitting that he'd open up to a documentarian, and thankfully he chose Wim Wenders, who films not a traditional bio doc but a travelogue, capturing the sumptuous halls of the Vatican and the unique scale of the pope's public appearances as he travels the world delivering his message.

Coppola, who has shown a sure hand as a documentarian — she made the superb «Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse» in 1991 — has turned in a poorly acted, colossal bore of a film that strikes wrong notes from beginning to end.

Helmer Marsh may be better known as a documentarian courtesy of the award - winning Man on Wire and Project Nim, however he acquits himself well in his latest foray into fictional territory (after Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980).

Writer and director Bart Layton uses his background as a documentarian to spice up what should have been a run - of - the - mill heist film.

«Megan Leavey»: A first narrative for documentarian Gabriela Cowperthwaite, the film is the story of a young woman (Kate Mara) who joins the Marines to escape her troubled circumstances, deploys to Iraq as a handler of a canine bomb detector, and saves hundreds of lives, including that of her beloved dog.

Furthermore, there will be much goodwill towards its director Steve James, widely regarded as one of the greatest documentarians of our time.

Yogi's diminutive sidekick Boo Boo (a nasal Justin Timberlake in a role we can only assume was offered to him long before The Social Network made him a «serious» actor) serves his comedic purpose well, as does nature documentarian and love interest Rachel (a half - hearted Anna Farris) who bonds with Smith over their geeky shared love of nature.

Documentarians Rachel Belofsky, Rudy Scalese, and Michael Bohusz (the film doesn't appear to have a proper director, with Belofsky and Scalese credited as producers and Bohusz as editor) share an infectious love of slasher cinema.

In this searching book, Shachtman draws on his skills as a documentarian to capture young people on the cusp of a fateful decision, and to give us an original and deeply affecting portrait of the Amish as a whole.

In addition to the ease of travel, what sets this trip apart is its exclusive experiences such as a day spent with Jonathon Scott, the documentarian and host of the hit BBC program «Big Cat Diary,» and a dinner in Cape Town with Joss Kent, AndBeyond's CEO, and Denis Goldberg, a friend and fellow activist of the late Nelson Mandela.

As photographer of the destruction, Lyon could easily have settled into the position of removed documentarian.

The exhibit looks at this specific genre of photography and the surprising variations in the way it has been captured for nearly 175 years: from classic portraitists such as Richard Avedon and Herb Ritts, to masters of the genre like Neil Leifer, to documentarians including Rineke Dijkstra and Brian Finke, to those better known for other art projects such as Catherine Opie and Andy Warhol.

The camera moves through the simulation like a nature documentarian, uncertain as to what in the frame is truly of interest, hedging on every emergent story.

Perhaps that is why Adam Curtis, the documentarian whose practice of testing theories of power through multimedia essays linking subjects as remote as Bikram yoga and peace and stability in Iraq, has become so popular.

This under - recognized Swiss documentarian made over one hundred videos in her life, having picked up her first video camera in 1970 and using it both to assist the women's movement in France in the early»70s, but also as a tool for upheaval and confrontation, as seen in the jumpy Maso et Miso vont en bateau (1975), and reenactment — such as her staging of a reading of Valerie Solanas's S.C.U.M. Manifesto, ten years post-publication.

Evans's 1938 book, American Photographs, inspired the show's title as well as the design of its catalogue; ephemera, films, and photographs by the original FSA documentarians will provide historical context.

Much of East Meets West is set in New York City, where Tseng was a documentarian of the»80s Lower East Side art scene, serving as eager witness, archivist, and attendee to many a nightclub opening, art exhibition, and posh social gathering.

The work selected for this show present the various viewpoints from mugshots of the artists» family members in Tyanna Buie's large works on paper, to the artist - as - collaborator and documentarian of addressing the struggles of family members neighbors and victims in the black and white photography by Carlos Javier Ortiz and the video installation and archive by Tirtza Even.