Sentences with phrase «as documentarian»

As a documentarian, my responsibility is to illuminate the truth as I see it.

The Swiss American photographer and filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt was a robust contributor to the New York art scene as a documentarian and participant, from 1935 until the end of the century.

The fact is that either as a documentarian or as a fantasist, Bradley's work has always stemmed from his desire to preserve, or otherwise re-animate, a cultural artifact.

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.

Renowned San Francisco - based artist Leland Rice operates as a documentarian, translator and archeologist through his texture - rich photographs, most famously of the graffiti on the now collapsed Berlin Wall.

Detailed Description: Renowned San Francisco - based artist Leland Rice operates as a documentarian, translator and archeologist through his texture - rich photographs, most famously of the graffiti on the now collapsed Berlin Wall.

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.

He began his career in photography as a documentarian in the New York Photo League in 1932.

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.

With the Academy Award - nominated Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock established himself as a documentarian who could simultaneously educate and entertain.

Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite on how her experience as a documentarian helped her tell Megan Leavey's story.

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.

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).

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.

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.

This attitude parallels Zwigoff's relation to the pseudo-hip independent - cinema bandwagon, as a documentarian interloper whose 1995 breakthrough, Crumb, was intransigently unfashionable.

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

«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.

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».

In «All Things Must Pass,» Hanks, as documentarians and biographers often do, lets his affection for his subject run over.

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

The students profiled in this video acted as documentarians for their local community and its changing demographics, attitudes and experiences.

Not exact matches

As he and collaborator Lynn Novick prepare to debut their new 10 - part documentary film series The Vietnam War on September 17 on PBS stations nationwide, we spoke with the tireless documentarian about leadership, productivity, managing gigantic projects and how to achieve immortality through storytelling.

As Apple employees prepare to move in to their new headquarters, one documentarian is looking back over the past year to show what it took to get them there.

Too many pregnant women assume a hospital birth assisted by a doctor is their best choice for delivery, according to two documentarians who want to spread the word about childbirth options, such as midwifery.

(July 13, 2017) Students are putting finishing touches on an original song while faculty prepares to host acclaimed documentarian Kim Hunter as Toronto's Waldorf Academy unveils several events marking the independent school's 30th anniversary.

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.

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.

Soon, Jamie is sharing a financier, an editor, and a mentor (the still great Charles Grodin, as Cornelia's accomplished documentarian father) with Josh, who has been struggling for close to ten years to finish his own boring high - minded doc.

Documentarian Rohan Spong (T Is For Teacher, All the Way Through Evening, Winter At Westbeth) joins us as we wrap up the year that was.

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.

Some also might complain that the Canadians» role in the rescue operation is heavily downplayed in the film, but as this is a rescue picture, an entertainment and not solely a documentarian dramatization, we do need to spend more time with the people moving around on the ground than with those sitting in place.

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).

As he makes his rounds, Ned inadvertently injects conflict into his sisters» relationships: Liz's documentarian husband Dylan (Steve Coogan), Miranda's boyfriend Jeremy (Adam Scott), and Natalie's lawyer girlfriend Cindy (Rashida Jones).

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

Crumb (Terry Zwigoff, 1994) It's only fitting that an artist with as singular and «other» a vision as Robert Crumb would get a documentarian as daring as Terry Zwigoff, and a film as profoundly weird, disturbing, and entertaining as this one.

As directed by documentarian Kevin Macdonald (Touching the Void, One Day in September), the film version differs from the book in making the relationship between Garrigan and Amin more intimate, and eventually much more deadly.

Kore - eda started his career as a TV documentarian, working regularly at TV Man Union, before making his feature debut in 1995 with «Maborosi.»

Morris is a documentarian whose lifelong commitment to both truth - seeking and storytelling I revere — and with whom I once conducted my most awkward interview ever, as the new voice - recording app I'd diligently downloaded to tape our conversation kept making the call drop every minute or so.

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).

Legendary documentarians Barbara Kopple and Werner Herzog find themselves in the mix — as does the increasingly ambidextrous Ava DuVernay for her NYFF opener 13th — while well - received titles such as Under the Gun, The Eagle Huntress, and Strike a Pose (reviewed) are left on the sidelines.

We don't just observe a man leaping from many stories up, we follow him down; elsewhere, a car chase unfolds as it might if a documentarian were lucky enough to catch one in the act.