Sentences with phrase «documentaries about filmmaking»

Along with Lost in La Mancha, about director Terry Gilliam's failed attempt to adapt Don Quixote, Jodorowsky's Dune ranks as one of the best documentaries about filmmaking ever made.

There are no retrospectives this year, but there's a promising sidebar titled «Film on Film» that features documentaries about filmmaking, plus one pseudo-documentary titled «Hitler in Hollywood.»

Whether you're looking for Keanu Reeves - led blockbuster hits, racing epics, something to watch with the kids, or intelligent documentaries about filmmaking greats, you've covered this month.

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* documentary filmmaker - I make films about social issues * teacher - I teach socially conscious filmmaking to children...

His new film, screening in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival, combines his skills at narrative and documentary filmmaking to create a brutal mockumentary of loosely connected vignettes about the propaganda - and conflict - riddled Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.

Insightful all the way through, «Side By Side» is a great documentary, filled with tons of well - known celebrities as they talk about their thoughts on the conversion from digital filmmaking and the future of the industry.

As a result, ethical questions about this kind of documentary filmmaking are rising up.

Bilge's lucid summary of the twisty - turny documentary Kate Plays Christine — in which director Robert Greene follows around a real - life actress while she rehearses for a fictional movie about the life of a real person — got me thinking: Aren't we starting to need more words for the bounteously proliferating forms of nonfiction filmmaking besides just documentary?

«The Good Postman»: Fans of documentaries with excellent real - life comedy, political relevance and superb filmmaking can not miss «The Good Postman,» a film about a Bulgarian village's mayoral election, and the two men with contrasting takes on how Syrian refugees should be treated.

Just as modernist painting bears the traces of the painter's movements and presence, and modernist literature has moved toward the first - person essay, the autobiography, and the diary, so the strain of modernist filmmaking that was launched with the French New Wave has integrated the filmmaker's methods with the movie itself, and turned fictions into documentaries about their making.

It also highlights the effort that Linklater has made in support of Independent filmmaking and how he was influential in helping create the Austin Film Society whereby old film prints could be saved and showed, as well as raising money from filmmakers to help make more films.Overall, it does little but scratch the surface and a bit more in - depth analysis to his films would have been welcome but to paraphrase Billy Bob Thornton on the outtakes at the end; «Rick Linklater doesn't need anyone to make a documentary about him.

«At Berkeley» In theory, the 70th Venice Film Festival was something of a banner one for documentaries: two in competition, one of which, «Sacro GRA,» won the Golden Lion, several others in sidebars or out of competition, and a number of films - about - filmmaking in the Classics strand, including «A Fuller Life,» «Bertolucci On Bertolucci» and «Double Life: James Benning and Richard Linklater» (the latter two we didn't make it to, but heard good things about, and hope to catch up with in the near future).

At this year's DOC NYC festival, 15 of the filmmakers behind the year's buzziest documentaries sat down to answer questions about their filmmaking process, offering wisdom and perspective on the craft of documentary.

This year's Sundance was overrun by two distinct kinds of documentaries: ones about major issues (Going Clear, Racing Extinction, The Russian Woodpecker) and ones about the power of filmmaking (The Wolfpack, Chuck Norris vs Communism).

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.

The ultimate filmmaking chameleon, in the past five years alone Steven Soderbergh has directed an action infused spy thriller, a globespanning medical disaster movie, a seventies - set comedy about corporate corruption, an experimental drama starring a hard - core pornstar, a four hour Che Guevara biopic, and a documentary about Spalding Gray.

The filmmaking team behind post-WWII documentary Naples ’44 approached First Run Features about releasing the film this past June.

«Cameraperson «The recently deceased Jacques Rivette famously said that all films are documentaries of their own making, but Kirsten Johnson, a long standing filmmaker and non-fiction cinematographer, has taken that concept to its logical extreme and has made a documentary that is both about her own life and about the very nature of documentary filmmaking.

Folayan, a former pre-med student in New York City, now a documentary filmmaker, talked with me about why she dropped her pre-med path to pursue filmmaking, her influences in life, and why she made this particular film.

From this pattern, Polley's film seems to forward an argument about autobiography and documentary filmmaking: that these are plural, collaborative genres most effectively and truthfully made through a chorus of many and diverse voices, a «medley» as her other sister, Susy, describes it, each given freedom as well as equal weight.

(1951), a film he got made by organizing the workers of Genoa into a filmmaking cooperative, and he returned to documentaries at the end of his career, making films about the great Italian directors he knew and admired: Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini, Giuseppe De Santis.

With «Stories We Tell,» which evades both the pitfalls of overly personal filmmaking and those of fiction - documentary hybrids — not to mention the philosophical trap of making a film «about narrative» instead of simply telling a story — Polley has delivered the first masterpiece of what promises to be an important career.

In the top category, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking, «Citizenfour» will compete against the Steve James» Roger Ebert documentary, «Life Itself»; Ian Forsythe's and Jane's Pollard's «20,000 Days on Earth,» about musician Nick Cave; Jesse Moss» «The Overnighters,» about workers flocking to oil fields in North Dakota; and Orlando von Einsiedel's «Virunga,» which deals with threats to a national park in the Congo.

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.

Here, McClain writes about her filmmaking process, why she's making this documentary and what she's learning from doing so.

Courage In Filmmaking Laura Poitras: For bringing the Edward Snowden NSA revelations to light, driven into exile in Germany for doing so, and currently making a documentary about it.

French filmmaking legend Agnés Varda teamed up with street artist JR for this moving documentary about France's «faces and places» and Varda's own history.

The film does seem to violate my cardinal rule about documentaries, though I'm beginning to question whether that's a meaningful way to approach non-fiction filmmaking.

Here, McClain writes about her own filmmaking process, why she's making this documentary series and what she's learning from doing so.

Director Justin Webster talks about getting access to world - renowned superstars like David Villa and Frank Lampard and the challenge of vérité - style documentary filmmaking.

I think one of the stranger moments in the history of documentary filmmaking — if not filmmaking generally — is from a 1974 BBC documentary called Cracked Actor: A Film About David Bowie.

Before the U.S. premiere of his documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, Joseph Klarl spoke with director Matthew Akers about the challenge of bringing filmmaking and performance art together.