Sentences with phrase «documentary film movement»

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.

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For the most part, though, this documentary is worth watching because of the vintage footage, and because someone thought to capture on film almost all of the principal figures of the Black Power movement of the late «60s and early «70s.

However, this year has seen movement on a prequel series of films, a documentary about real life Quidditch players, and even a short story updating the...

From «King: A Filmed Record» to «Freedom Riders,» eight documentaries that tell the story of the U.S. Civil Rights movement through film

Also new this week: «Blank City» (Kino Lorber), a documentary on the «No Wave» movement of DIY films in New York City in the eighties (Blu - ray and DVD); Nicolas Roeg's «Track 29» (Image), with Theresa Russell and Gary Oldman; «A Town Like Alice» (VCI) and «Carve Her Name with Pride» (VCI), two British war dramas starring Virginia McKenna.

Kicking off this week's dose of daily video content is a time capsule: a 1972 documentary from Luca Verdone entitled Neorealism, which explores the the Italian film movement that came to personify Italy's cinematic identity in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Kicking off this week's dose of daily video content is a time capsule: a 1972 documentary from Luca Verdone entitled Neorealism, which explores the the Italian film movement that came to personify Italy's cinematic identity...

However, I give director Stephen Hopkins credit for including an interesting subplot involving famed German director Leni Riefenstahl, who was commissioned by the Nazis to film the entire Olympics for a documentary that was supposed to become a propaganda film for the Nazi movement, but instead became a showcase for Owens.

With his charismatic and incredibly likable character clear throughout the film, this biographical documentary reveals his true passion is not just singing and acting but fighting injustice and creating awareness for the civil rights movement, on which he had great impact.

He has researched and completed academic papers on a numbers of films, filmmakers and historical film movements, including French New Wave, Italian Neorealism, Hollywood Cinema, New Korean Cinema, New Iranian Cinema, Documentary Cinema, Silent Cinema, New German Cinema and Post-Revolutionary Cuban Cinema.

NEW JOURNALISM AND NEW NONFICTION By Eric Hynes Embedding himself in the production of hybrid film Kate Plays Christine provokes a writer to think about documentary's fresh affinities with a seminal journalistic movement

In the Society's most prestigious category, the Buried Treasure, the nominees are: DAVE MADE A MAZE, a unique adventure film about a frustrated artist and his creation; the compelling documentary THE DEATH AND LIFE OF MARSHA P. JOHNSON, about an icon of the queer and trans movements; Dee Rees» MUDBOUND, a story of 2 families working the same land in 40s Mississippi; PATTI CAKE$, whose eponymous white lead dreams of being a rapper; the latest from the Dardennes brothers, psychological drama THE UNKNOWN GIRL; and WINDOW HORSES, an animiated film based on a graphic novel written by its Asian - Canadian director.

One was familiar to me: «The War at Home», the documentary about the anti-Vietnam War protest movement in Madison, Wisconsin, which was compiled from the news film archives of Madison TV stations.

The film didn't emerge from Tony Richardson and John Osborne's Woodfall Films, which produced «Saturday Night and Sunday Morning», «A Taste of Honey» and «The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner», but it was very much part of the same movement of filmmakers coming to drama from documentaries and theatre, and looking to represent the lives of young working - class men and women more truthfully.

This documentary film project, produced in collaboration with WHYY and Equality Forum, will illuminate the 50 - year history and progress of the LGBTQ civil rights movement by highlighting the powerful experiences of Gay Rights movement pioneers and documenting a planned reenactment of the 1965 — 69 peaceful demonstrations at Independence Hall.

Filmed by the artist on New Year's Day, its footage shifts between documentary and experimental styles, using both wide - angle and detail shots that, at times, abstract the figures» bodies into a chaotic arrangement of imagery, colour, and movement.

Focusing exclusively on art -, music - and culture - related movies, Arthouse Films («Where art and film collide») produces and / or distributes around 15 to 20 titles a year, from documentaries about specific artists (c: The Radiant Child) or other figures in the art world (Herb & Dorothy, on art collecting duo Herb and Dorothy Vogel) to in - depth looks at specific movements (Beautiful Losers, a tribute to the»90s DIY movement) or communities (The Cool School, about the Ferus Gallery and its role in bringing the L.A. art scene of age).

Filmed by the artist on New Year's Day, its footage shifts between documentary and experimental styles, using both wide - angle and detail shots that, at times, abstract the figures» bodies into a chaotic arrangement of imagery, color and movement.

Kicking off the 2018 Spring Season on April 24 at the San Francisco Main Library Koret Auditorium is Sanctuary Rising, an in - progress film screening by documentary filmmaker Theo Rigby followed by a panel discussion addressing the history of the sanctuary movement in San Francisco.

This includes photography and many films — including the forthcoming documentary, Linda Karshan, Choreographic Page, by Ismael Annobil of Stonedog Productions; a group of 4 short films from Dresden by Harald Schluttig; the seminal film by Candida Richardson, Movements and their Images; and the acoustic drawing, «Soundings» as Karshan drew during one day in her London Studio.

The documentary A Fierce Green Fire, a film synthesizing major environmental movements of our time, was screened and the film's director, Mark Kitchell, skyped in to discuss his vision and motivations behind the film.

When I posted the trailer for In Transition — the documentary about the Transition Towns movement as a response to peak oil and climate change — commenter CB was less than enamored with the film making style.

The environmental movement seemed to have a leader in former Vice President Al Gore, whose documentary film An Inconvenient Truth had raised more awareness of the issue than McKibben's books ever could.