Sentences with phrase «documentarian filmed»

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It's for reasons like this that a German documentarian named Ulli Wendelmann, known for hard - hitting exposés on the German prison system and Russia's oligarchy, recently filmed a documentary examining the oddball marriage between the New York startup and the former East German factory.

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.

However, Fox News host Tucker Carlson ran an interview on Friday night's broadcast of «Tucker Carlson Tonight» with documentarian and media personality Ami Horowitz, who presented a clip from a new film documenting alleged violence committed by refugees in Sweden.

It was enjoyable but not a breakthrough composition in terms of the film, sort of just standard fare biopic montage of interviews and old photos with the main thread of the piece being the documentarian's footage of Toback's then newest adventure in film - making.

Before making the film Menashe, documentarian Joshua Weinstein donned a yarmulke and explored Brooklyn's Borough Park, getting to know the stories and personalities of New York's Hasidic Jews.

Little is known about the project, but Vulture does reveal that the film looks at the impact that a young Brooklyn couple (James Franco and Gerwig) has on a documentarian (Stiller) and his wife (possibly Cate Blanchett).

Although documentarian Kirby Dick is known for visually imaginative films («This Film Is Not Yet Rated,» «Outrage»), he wisely chooses to depend on the powerful stories told here.

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.

Our Brand is Crisis by Hope Madden In 2005, with her film Our Brand is Crisis, documentarian Rachel Boynton unveiled... read more →

Documentarian Steve James partnered with film critic Roger Ebert to give a look back at his life and career.

Filmed practically and intimately by «Black Panther» cinematographer Rachel Morrison, the images parallel the societal examinations of American documentarians, painters and photographers who previously captured the era's poverty - stricken communities.

To Spain they go, where Hemingway lends a hand — and later his voice — to the anti-Franco propaganda film The Spanish Earth, made by the great Dutch documentarian Joris Ivens (well played, in an audacious bit of casting, by Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich) in collaboration with the writer John Dos Passos (David Strathairn) and photographer Robert Capa (Santiago Cabrera).

Walker, a Sundance award - winning documentarian with two Oscar nominations, made a deal with Broad Green shortly before the 2015 Cannes Film Festival to finance her new film, a sequel to Wim Wenders» 1999 hit «Buena Vista Social Club.»

It's unclear what drove Danish documentarian Jeppe Ronde to focus on this phenomenon for his first narrative film.

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.

Lovelace is the most conventional feature film that award - winning documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have made, and their discomfort shows.

Mr. Herzog in discursive mode is more interesting than many fine documentarians at their most tightly focused, and he has excused himself from close analysis, after all, by using «reveries» in the film's title.

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.

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).

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.

It was a memorable night for my class, following a strong semester with a wide array of guests and films, from documentarian Ondi Timoner (with her Russell Brand feature Brand: A Second Coming) to composer Harry Gregson - Williams (with The Martian), Oscar - winning production designer Adam Stockhausen (with Bridge of Spies), writer Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, who co-directed the offbeat animated feature Anomalisa.

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.

One of Broomfield's hastier exposés (for starters, it was shot entirely on consumer DV instead of his typical 16 mm), Aileen 2 became a film more or less on the spur of the moment when the documentarian was subpoenaed to testify at one of Wuornos's pre-execution hearings.

Laura Poitras — «Citizenfour» Easily the most talked - about non-fiction film of the year, a front - runner for the Documentary Oscar (and even, some suggest, a dark horse for a Best Picture nomination), «Citizenfour» looks to make director Laura Poitras, if she wasn't already, one of the best known documentarians working today.

Sean Baker directs fiction films like a documentarian hesitant to work within a journalistic framework, often casting nonprofessional actors in roles that draw upon marginalized experience.

A director of indie films, a documentarian of Los Angeles» punk rock scene, and a Season 2 story editor on «Roseanne», Penelope Spheeris perhaps wasn't an obvious choice to helm Wayne's World, but that hit 1992 «Saturday Night Live» comedy benefitted one of Hollywood's few female filmmakers.

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).

The fact that these types of questions are never asked or answered is a direct byproduct of the fact the film was made by a resident, not a documentarian.

Over the last eight years, the festival has provided opportunities for nearly 300 Asian and Asian American filmmakers and documentarians to share their vision, often providing the only venue for their films to be shown in Dallas.

Documentarian Laura Poitras jumped into the spotlight with her Oscar winning film Citizenfour, but she had previously made two powerful docs that are now available on MUBI.

See the film that catapulted documentarian Michael Moore from grassroots obscurity to a constant thorn in the side of conservatives worldwide.

Today marks the birthday of influential British filmmaker (also documentarian, theater director, and film critic) Lindsay Anderson, whose legacy is most deeply felt with his membership in the Free Cinema documentary film movement of the 1950s and his contributions to the British New Wave.

Documentarian Laura Poitras not only offers a complete overview of all the facts but gets under the skin of the issue by closely tracking the emotional transformation of the controversial figure at the center of her film.

Paul Rudd is set to star in a new feature film from noted documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line).

It's from documentarian recently turned feature film director James Marsh, who doesn't do much for the story besides move it along.

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.

Documentarian Matthew Heineman filmed during shoot - outs, in meth labs and in the dark of the desert night.

Much of the film's effectiveness is due to the vigor and vigilance of director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, who brings the keen eye of a documentarian (her 2013 exposé Blackfish shined a light on the plight of captive orcas at SeaWorld) to her debut in features.

Frederick Wiseman is one of the most gifted and prolific documentarians in the world; this film is a cause for celebration.

The Festival also presented tributes to director Catherine Hardwicke, with a screening of her latest film Miss You Already; acclaimed actor Sir Ian McKellen; and Oscar ® - winning documentarian Marcel Ophuls, with autobiographical film Ain't Misbehavin».

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.

Albert Maysles» final film brought in four much younger documentarians to co-direct and shoot their own sequences aboard Amtrak's heavily trafficked cross-country Empire Builder line.

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.

A summary of thousands of memos written by Donald Rumsfeld across his political career, and 33 hours of interviews conducted in master documentarian Errol Morris's signature film - making framework, The Unknown Known is essential viewing to understand the backdrop to today's self - satirising political insanity.

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.

Oscar - nominated documentarian Lilibet Foster took on the task of filming Whitfield's life from that day on and the result is the film Be Here Now — which won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival last year.

Documentarian Amy Berg makes her feature debut with a slow burn of a mystery, one that takes cues from her amazing fact - based films, Deliver Us from Evil and West of Memphis: the banality of evil, the inequities of the criminal justice system, the abuse that can occur when those who are supposed to love and protect the innocent and vulnerable don't have the best intentions at heart.

Director Steve James, whose work Ebert championed early in the documentarian's career, began filming while the critic was alive.

«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.