Sentences with phrase «documentary frame story»

One of my least favorite things about the current season of American Horror Story is that it's essentially sidelined Lily Rabe in the thankless role of a talking head in a documentary frame story.

Not exact matches

With the exception of a couple of music video like sequences, «Polisse» attempts to use a documentary like realism in a story that is framed by Melissa (Maiwenn, who also directed, and not at all well), a photographer, being assigned to follow the unit.

Gillespie smartly uses the known and builds upon it with context and some style, using «modern day» Tonya, Jeff and LaVona among others as interview subjects for a documentary of sorts that frames the film, but also has the characters speak into the camera in non-interview segments to help give Tonya some humanity, or at least make sure you have a better idea about all of her story and life coming out and you did going in.

Framed with documentary film — like interviews with the key players in what remains the most infamous story to come out of Olympic figure skating, his Tonya Harding script straddles a tricky tone of pitch - black humor, affecting pathos, and winking self - awareness.

Then, in an obvious gimmick, he couches his weak story inside the framing device of a faux - documentary.

Premiering at Sundance in 2015, where it won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize, The Wolfpack is a maddening documentary for opposite, simultaneous reasons: chaotic story framing and contrivDocumentary Grand Jury Prize, The Wolfpack is a maddening documentary for opposite, simultaneous reasons: chaotic story framing and contrivdocumentary for opposite, simultaneous reasons: chaotic story framing and contrived framing.

He frames the film with documentary maker Laura Poitras (Melissa Leo) getting Snowden (Joseph Gordon - Levitt, geeky but nice) to tell his story to camera in a hotel room in Hong Kong for Citizenfour, accompanied by Guardian journalists Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto) and Ewan MacAskill (Tom Wilkinson)-- and ends it with the actual Alan Rusbridger inteviewing the actual Snowden on stage, via the internet.