Sentences with phrase «documentaries about cinema»

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Special Features New high - definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interview with British cinema scholar John Hill, author of «Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics» Postwar Poetry, a new short documentary about the film New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score «Home, James,» a 1972 documentary featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O'Herlihy Plus: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith

Fans get a documentary on Parisian Horror, an interview with Stephen Thrower about Franco's career in cinema, selected commentary from Robert Monell, and an interview with Alain Petit, author of Jess Franco Ou Les Prosperites Des Bis».

However, we can find one clue in Graf and Siebert's documentaries about the history of German cinema in which they passionately advocate for a rejuvenation of German genre cinema.

A tireless explorer of cinema's discarded past, Bill Morrison brings his unique approach to found - footage filmmaking to his latest project, a documentary about lost reels of nitrate film found in Canada's Yukon Territory.

Director Bertrand Tavernier waxes lyrical about the great and the good of French cinema in this wonderful documentary.

Keanu Reeves produced and narrates this engaging documentary about the history of digital cinema technology and its vast impact on the movie industry.

After an eclectic start to his career that included a powerful documentary about a death row inmate, an intense Harold Pinter adaptation, and a Sonny & Cher sketch movie, Friedkin became one of cinema's most striking voices, best known for his unmatched one - two - three hit of The French Connection (1971), The Exorcist (1973) and Sorcerer (1977).

EXTRAS: In addition to a pair of new interviews with British cinema scholar John Hill and music scholar Jeff Smith, there's a new featurette about the film's production, the 1972 documentary «Home, James,» the 1952 radio adaptation of the movie, and an essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith.

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.

Less successful in my opinion, although I seem to be in the minority here, is Kent Jones» Hitchcock / Truffaut, a documentary about the making of the famous book while also an appreciation and analysis of Hitchcock's cinema.

Special Features New 4K digital restoration New interview with cinematographer John Bailey about director of photography Conrad Hall's work in the film New interview with film historian Bobbi O'Steen on the film's editing New interview with film critic and jazz historian Gary Giddins about Quincy Jones's music for the film New interview with writer Douglass K. Daniel on director Richard Brooks Interview with Brooks from a 1998 episode of the French television series «Cinema Cinemas» «With Love From Truman,» a short 1966 documentary featuring novelist Truman Capote, directed by Albert and David Maysles Two archival NBC interviews with Capote: one following the author on a 1966 visit to Holcomb, Kansas, and the other conducted by Barbara Walters in 1967 Trailer Plus: An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara

Disc Features - High - definition digital restoration, approved by cinematographer Mark Lee Ping - bin, with 5.1 surround DTS - HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu - ray edition - @ «In the Mood for Love,» director Wong Kar - wai's documentary on the making of the film - Deleted scenes with director's commentary — Hua yang de nian hua (2000), a short film by Wong - Archival interview with Wong and a «cinema lesson» given by the director at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival - Toronto International Film Festival press conference from 2000, with stars Maggie Cheung Man - yuk and Tony Leung Chiu - wai - Trailers and TV spots - The music of In the Mood for Love, presented in an interactive essay, on the DVD edition - Essay by film scholar Gina Marchetti illuminating the film's unique setting on the DVD edition - Photo gallery on the DVD edition - Biographies of key cast and crew on the DVD edition - Two new interviews with critic Tony Rayns, one about the film and the other about the soundtrack, on the Blu - ray edition - A booklet featuring the Liu Yi - chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the film, an essay by film critic Li Cheuk - to, and a director's statement (DVD edition); a booklet featuring an essay by novelist and film critic Steve Erickson and the Liu Yi - chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the film (Blu - ray edition)

Spike Lee's documentary about Hurricane Katrina's indelible impact on the entire nation placed him beside Jonathan Demme, Oliver Stone and Martin Scorsese as American filmmakers who can effortlessly excel as much at true - life cinema as fascinating fiction.

Whether it's simply a confirmation of your fears or a shocking awakening into the diminshment of privacy, this paranoia - instilling film is must - see cinema, even if you only average about one documentary a year.

Emer Reynolds» inspirational documentary about NASA's Voyager program was unlike anything else we saw in cinemas last year.

This documentary focuses on the explosion of Australian cinema that occurred from the 1960s through to the 1980s, bringing about some of the best underground filmmaking that the country had to offer.

He patronizes Michael Powell and Humphrey Jennings (accorded one measly clip each); fails to mention Joseph Losey, Cy Endfield, or Richard Lester (presumably regarding all three as American interlopers); reduces Ken Russell and Mike Leigh to the worst single clips imaginable (and has nothing to say about the TV work of either); limits John Boorman, Bill Douglas, Terry Gilliam, Peter Greenaway, Isaac Julien, and Sally Potter to one fleeting movie poster apiece; and omits virtually the entire English documentary movement (though he includes a disparaging nod to Night Mail), along with the cycle of Hammer horror movies — while paying abject obeisance to the Academy Awards and every crumb they've offered British cinema (special points to Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, and Four Weddings and a Funeral).

This is a thought - provoking documentary about Yeşilçam, Turkey's trashy cinema from the 70s and 80s, which reveals a panorama of the inventiveness, the humour, and the creative resilience that mark this wonderfully weird strand of popular culture.

In part one of our talk, Walter takes questions from other leading sound designers Ren Klyce and Gary Rydstrom about his work, talks about how documentary film has affected modern cinema style, discusses his work in Apocalypse Now and The Conversation, and ends the episode with a discussion of the use of music in The Godfather and The English Patient.

Throughout the history of cinema, there have been many great films dedicated to the arts and artists, from biopics about great historical art figures to documentaries on living ones.

Roman Polanski selected the films unspooling in the museum's plush two - hundred - seat cinema with a documentary about him.

Combining narrative films like «Body Double» and «A Short Film About Love» with experimental films, documentaries, and video art, the series demonstrates how the ideas of voyeurism, surveillance, and identity have been central throughout the history of cinema.

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