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Just wanted to let you know that the first high heel documentary film opens today in New York!!

Mr Ayikoi Otoo maintained that side - stepping an injunction to show that documentary film opens up the country's judicial system for contempt by expatriates.

Not exact matches

Fusion Academy Evanston and Yellowbrick Consultation and Treatment Group are excited to present a screening of the acclaimed documentary, «Angst: Raising Awareness Around Anxiety,» a new film created to open up the conversation about anxiety and provide tools, resources, and hope.

That journey — filled with personal milestones for Joe, and eye - opening experiences with average Americans — was captured on film, and has become the award - winning documentary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead.

While the Future of Studio Ghibli hangs in limbo, Mami Sunada's Documentary is an eye opening film delving into the mind of the studio's founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata on the verge of producing their last ever features.

Antonio Campos's film «Christine,» which opened last Friday at Film Forum and nationwide, is the second one this year about its title character, following Robert Greene's documentary «Kate Plays Christine.»

This year brings two Jarmusch films to theaters: his 13th, the Iggy Pop and the Stooges documentary Gim me Danger, is now playing, while his 14th, Paterson starring Adam Driver, will open the final week of December.

Now audiences can watch her new film on the opening night of the festival with features and documentaries that include 12 world and 15 U.S. premieres.

«Independent film, even documentaries, can be a joyous and triumphant experience,» said Alexandra Lipsitz, director of the wildly entertaining documentary «Air Guitar Nation,» which opens Friday.

To spotlight a few of those 7 percenters, BFF included in its five - day run an all - female From the Director's Chair panel featuring Oscar - nominated director Jennifer Yuh Nelson («Kung Fu Panda»), actor - filmmaker Maggie Kiley («Caught,» «We Own the Night»), documentary director Elisa Paloschi («Driving Selvi»), and Meera Menon, director of the fest's opening film «Equity,» the first female - centered Wall Street story (Anna Gunn stars opposite Alysia Reiner, Sarah Megan Thomas, and James Purefoy.)

There are more stylistic riffs, like the opening «documentary» Peter creates, that make an otherwise fairly safe superhero film feel fresh and not overly manicured.

That's when Paramount Pictures, Participant Media and Walden Media announced that 50,000 people pledged to see the award - winning documentary film «Waiting for «Superman»» when it opens in the fall, meaning they hit their third goal -LSB-...]

Part comedy - concert film, part documentary, Ahmed Ahmed's «Just Like Us,» opening in limited release Friday (6/10/11), is an enjoyably sprawling travelogue with a point.

Voting is open until December 12 at 11:59 p.m. Categories include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent film).

From its opening scene, the film willingly exposes itself to unfavourable comparison by opting to start at the exact same time and place as the critically acclaimed documentary.

The below list only includes domestic (U.S. and Canada only, unless otherwise indicated) grosses for specialty films — which we define to include independent, foreign (including Bollywood films), and / or documentary films — that opened in limited release (599 screens and under) in 2018 AND / OR were acquired or produced for 2018 distribution by an independent distributor (including STX Films, Annapurna, A24, Entertainment Studios, Amazon, Netflix, Aviron, Global Road, and Bleecker Street) or a studio or its specialty division (including Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics, and Focus Features).

Reaction: The noteworthy films that didn't make the cut is too long to list, but that just reflects how wide open this year's Best Documentary Oscar race is.

The opening night film was a documentary that felt like a reunion with an old friend.

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The film opens with an ingenious British Pathé - style archive documentary that airdrops us into deepest darkest Peru in the company of handlebar -» tached explorer Montgomery Clyde (Tim Downie), whose lost expedition succinctly establishes a young bear's motives for stowing away on a cargo ship bound for present - day London with little more than a literal hatful of marmalade sandwiches for sustenance.

It would have been easy to poke fun at the crass kitsch of the Bollywood hit parade that opens the film, but James Ivory's socio - artistic commentary (narrated by director Anthony Korner) sets a detached, almost disinterested tone, lending the documentary a gloss of seriousness.

His original scores have appeared in work from National Geographic, Center Stage and in films, including the documentary Open Secret.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

Deraspe opens her film in a very unique manner for a documentary, recreating the imaginary affair between Amina and Sandra in hypersexualized images of women undressing under explicit texts between the pair.

Laura Poitras, as she clearly outlines within the film's opening sequences, has a history of producing documentaries that have aggravated the US government.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS American Swing (Unrated) Wife - swapping documentary revisits the rise and fall of Plato's Retreat, the New York City sex club which opened in 1977 and catered to its orgy - loving clientele until the specter of AIDS began to take the luster off the hedonistic lifestyle by the early Eighties.

The opening night film is «From the Sky Down,» Academy Award - winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim's documentary about Irish band U2.

Filmmaker Dawn Porter's Trapped, the abortion rights film that won Sundance Film Festival 2016 ′ s U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking, is set to open theatrically on March 4, with subsequent broadcast dates in June on Independent Lens.

Release Date: Since her excellent 2010 debut I Will Follow, DuVernay has become an impressive force to be reckoned with, challenging herself across a dizzying number of projects and platforms (including the short film The Door, which went to Venice 2013, television projects such as a compelling portrait of Venus Williams with Venus Vs. for ESPN's «Nine for IX» series, and «Scandal,» plus she unveiled a surprise documentary project this year with The 13th, an excellent portrait of the troubling history of racial injustice within the criminal justice system — and also the first documentary to open the New York Film Festival).

They make for a potent, eye - opening double feature, and I'd venture to say this probably belonged among the films nominated for Best Documentary Feature as well as for its Diane Warren - penned song.

The film won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award at Sundance this year, and was the opening night film last night at San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, where it made its west coast debut.

In fact, Amazon is kicking off the whole show, having already snapped up the rights to opening night film, Woody Allen's Cafe Society, but that's just the first of many Amazon acquisitions to air on the Croisette: Amazon is also behind Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon, Jim Jarmusch's Paterson and Iggy Pop documentary Gim me Danger, plus Park Chan - wook's The Handmaiden.

Starring a top cast including Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci and Paul Bettany, «Margin Call» returns us to where previous films, including the Oscar - winning documentary «Inside Job» and the HBO drama «Too Big to Fail,» have gone before: the opening days of 2008's global financial crisis.

Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.

They join previously announced films such as Opening Night film Kick - Ass, as well as narrative features Cold Weather and Elektra Luxx, and documentaries Hubble 3D, Lemmy, SATURDAY NIGHT and The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights.

With his first film, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer — a US film - maker who has spent many years in Indonesia — broke open the documentary genre, fusing it with something much richer and more disturbing than the word «nonfiction» can summon, by stepping inside the psyches of the mass murderers who assisted President Suharto's dictatorship from 1968 to 1998.

Note this article only includes North American grosses for specialty films — indie, foreign and / or documentary — that opened in limited release (initially under 500 screens — so that's why «The Butler» or «Don Jon» aren't included, for example) in 2013 and were released by an independent distributor or a studio specialty division.

Note this list only includes North American grosses for specialty films — indie, foreign and / or documentary — that opened in limited release (initially under 500 screens) in 2013 and were released by an independent distributor or a studio specialty division.

Previously available in a movie - only edition from MGM, Criterion delivers a stunning DVD and Blu - ray two - disc edition with a magnificent transfer and the correct aspect ratio (1.66:1, not the open - matte 1.33 as previously released, which reveals the top of the set in at least one scene), on a two - disc set featuring with commentary, an original 40 - minute documentary, new and archival interviews and clips, but the great treasure is the 159 - minute documentary Charles Laughton Directs The Night of the Hunter, an unprecedented look at a director directing composed almost entirely of recently discovered outtakes and production footage from the film.

Andersen opens the film with an idea: if people can appreciate documentaries for their fictional qualities, why can't the opposite be true?

Remix, Remake, Ripoff: About Copy Culture And Turkish Pop Cinema (Cem Kaya, 2014) At last the mysteries of the Turkish film industry and their cavalier attitudes to copyright conventions are revealed in this eye - opening documentary.

The festival opens tonight with a screening of Martin Scorsese's new film, Shine a Light, a documentary on the Rolling Stones.

Gkids on Friday opens its Swiss - French animated film My Life As A Zucchini, which is up for an Animated Feature Oscar this Sunday, while Gravitas Ventures digs into comedy with documentary Dying Laughing by Lloyd Stanton... Read

Some Background: This project, Derki's fifth documentary, made its debut last November as the first film from the Arab World to open IDFA.

His last film, the tongue - in - cheek documentary «How to Make Money Selling Drugs,» was well reviewed and opened a lot of eyes to the drug problem facing this country.

Opening Night Screening of «Stories We Tell» — I can't officially tell you how incredibly good this documentary is, so I will just say that it is true this film may or may not be an excellent way to kick off this festival.

Open lesbianism was practically unheard of in the 1940s, but Jinny and Laura (an Italian expatriate who played violin in the Los Angeles Philharmonic and worked as a documentary film producer) were «companions» whose relationship was evident to those in the know, according to Hemingway's Boat author Paul Hendrickson.

Danny Lyon: Message to the Future, which opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York this weekend, collects 175 pictures, vintage work prints, never - before - seen films and ephemera from Lyon's archives to take an in - depth look at his work as an immersive documentary storyteller who is just as engaged in writing, filmmaking and collage as is he in photography.

Using both archival and filmed material, his films question our reading of the documentary form as a fixed representation of reality, opening up the boundaries between the actual and the imagined, record and interpretation.

Beauty is Embarrassing, one of this year's documentary films slated to debut at SXSW — featuring the art of Wayne White, also comes in the form of an art exhibition at Domy Books in Austin — opening Sunday, March 11th, 7:00 — 10:00 pm.