Sentences with phrase «documentarians with»

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.»

Richard (Luke Evans) is a documentarian with a screw loose and more than a few probing questions.

«The risks a documentarian with a camera faces are physical, emotional and ethical,» we expressed in remarks presented by juror Kirsten Johnson.

Photographer Nathan Gibson has a beautifully nuanced documentarian with an eye for a brilliant story; as exemplified in a gorgeous recent series entitled Wavering Shadows.

A documentarian with a heart, his canvases strike a balance between blunt description and narrative empathy.

Beginning his photographic career in the 1930's as a social documentarian with the New York Photo League, he ultimately radicalized the medium by emphasizing the photograph as an abstract form of expression and an aesthetic end in itself.

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.

We spoke with the great documentarian about topics ranging from creativity to productivity to the American spirit.

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.

Documentarian Rob Rapley, the writer and director of the series, talked with Religion News Service about the role religion played in the lives of the abolitionists.

Jandreau is a real - life Pine Ridge rodeo rider, playing a barely fictionalized version of himself, and director Chloe Zhao (Songs My Brothers Taught Me) brings a documentarian's eye to his story, augmented with some striking photography making the most of the movie's picturesque Badlands geography.

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.

First - time documentarian Crystal Moselle won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance for her slow unveiling of the brothers» disturbing situation, flecked with surreal visions: a downbeat Batman stares longingly out at the world from behind the window bars of a high - rise.

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.

Considering how at ease Francis seems with the documentarian's spotlight, and how refreshingly direct he's been in the past, one can't help but wish Wenders» questions probed deeper into this thoughtful, unexpectedly forthcoming man, and the often opaque organization for which he speaks.

A former documentarian whose understanding of the human condition often results in movies with realistic and honest personalities, Arcand has seemingly cornered the market in cerebral, character - driven stories in an era when computer - generated explosions fill the multiplexes.

The documentarians follow Miyazaki with warmth through his daily routines at work and occasionally at home, discovering lots of humor and bits of wisdom.

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.

Wearying of their longtime friends Fletcher (Adam Horovitz) and Marina (Maria Dizzia), who are preoccupied nonstop with their new baby, Josh and Cornelia find themselves happily ensnared in a new friendship with a Millennial couple in their mid-20s: «Jamie (Adam Driver), an aspiring documentarian who seeks Josh out at a lecture and proceeds to flatter him mercilessly, and Darby (Amanda Seyfried), who makes — in a perfect Baumbach touch — artisanal ice cream.

However, that doesn't keep Hollywood moments from creeping in now and then, with lots of soap opera antics and fisticuffs that would seem injected in order to make the tale of these boys more cohesive in terms of story development, resulting in a forced climax and epilogue that probably comes more out of fantasyland than out of the recollections of a documentarian.

He has a very happy marriage with Cornelia (Naomi Watts), but resents his father - in - law (Charles Grodin), himself an intimidatingly successful documentarian, a titan in the league of a Wiseman or Maysles.

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.

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

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).

Much of the blame for this deadly comedy must rest on the shoulders of director, co-writer and co-producer Rick Friedberg, a one - time documentarian whose previous claims to fame were the rent - a-car commercials he did with Nielsen and the music videos he directed for Kenny G and Van Halen.

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.

Throughout, filmmaker Bill Morrison mixes documentarian detail with an ecstatic sense of poetry.

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.

B The Civil War: Commemorative Edition Available on DVD What many consider to be the crowning achievement from documentarian Ken Burns is getting a fresh re-release with this commemorative edition of the masterpiece series about the war that almost tore America apart.

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.

This isn't someone, for example, who wants to showcase the looming specter of governmental distrust, and in doing so shoots scenes at Guantanamo Bay, adds a Washington, DC interview between a documentarian and a Marine willing to go to jail to avoid a second tour of duty in the Middle East, and caps it off with a shot of a mysterious thumb drive being entombed in fresh cement at an undisclosed location.

Extras begin with long - time Jonze documentarian Lance Bangs's «The Untitled Rick Howard Project» (24 mins., HD), the cryptic title of which appears to be what Her was called during production, according to slates glimpsed throughout.

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.

Snowden also stars Nicolas Cage, Rhys Ifans, and Timothy Olyphant, with the trio of trusted journalists in Citizenfour — documentarian Laura Poitras and journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill — played by Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto and Tom Wilkinson, respectively.

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.

In it, Ben Stiller plays a fortysomething documentarian, both smitten with and horrified by a director in his twenties (Adam Driver).

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.

Meanwhile Brian is doing his best to remain the objective documentarian, but the more time he spends with Jane the more he becomes pulled into her, umm, charm?

Vulture indicates the story centers on «a free - spirited Brooklynite twenty - something couple (Franco and Gerwig) who inspires an uptight documentarian (Stiller) and his wife (Blanchett) to loosen up — with comedic consequences.»

Irish documentarian Ken Wardrop heads to Oklahoma for an examination of mother / son love with universal appeal despite its limited scope

Documentarian Matthew Heineman's «City of Ghosts» profiles a group of citizen - journalists from the Syrian city of Raqqa who are fighting the terrorist group ISIS with pens and cameras,» not guns.

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.

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.

The first two couples are miserable, and the spark to make things worse is Vivian (Dolly Wells), a British documentarian who has come up with a new way of approaching marriage.

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.

«At the Death House Door: Steve James on the Roger Ebert Doc «Life Itself»»: Brandon Harris of Filmmaker Magazine has an in - depth interview with the acclaimed documentarian.

Initially, the movie looks like a rumination on the creative frustrations of documentarian Pierre (Stanislas Merhar), who's developing a project about the French resistance during WWII with his wife Manon (Clotilde Courau) in the wake of Pierre's resistance fighter dad's recent death.