Sentences with phrase «documentary genre films»
District 9 is an interesting concept (borrowed from other «fake» documentary genre films), but the script was a mess and the film needed better structuring and themes.
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As the pioneer of this new genre in the adult industry, Buck Angel Entertainment focuses on education through motivational speaking and award - winning documentary films, while striving to spread the message of empowerment through self - acceptance.
With an eclectic mix of ground - breaking and genre - defining content including horror films, documentaries, Director's Nights and supernatural series, you'll be entertained, informed and terrified.
The Look of Silence feels more like an extended DVD extra to his genre - defying previous film than a stand - alone documentary.
Utilizing both a documentary - style news format and a classic, cinematic narrative, the film is said to explore genre themes with a new twist on structure.
Language: English Genre: Documentary / Biography MPAA rating: R Director: Steve James Actors: Roger Ebert, Werner Herzog, Martin Scorsese Plot: A look at the life and cultural impact of Roger Ebert, one of the world's renowned film critics and social commentators - from his Pulitzer Prize film reviews, to his long career with Gene Siskel to his late - life battle with cancer - it a both a poignant and insightful look into Ebert's world.
Nominated for Best Documentary at the Hawaii International Film Festival and winner of the Special Jury Mention at the San Sebastian Surfilm Festibal, this Sundance Channel co-production by Director Justin Mitchell (Death Cab for Cutie: Drive Well, Sleep Carefully, Jenny Lewis: Welcome to Van Nuys, Ted Leo: Dirty Old Town & Songs for Cassavetes) and Writer Vince Medeiros (Surfing & Huck Magazine) is an inspired and hugely original documentary that takes the surf film genre into never - before - seenDocumentary at the Hawaii International Film Festival and winner of the Special Jury Mention at the San Sebastian Surfilm Festibal, this Sundance Channel co-production by Director Justin Mitchell (Death Cab for Cutie: Drive Well, Sleep Carefully, Jenny Lewis: Welcome to Van Nuys, Ted Leo: Dirty Old Town & Songs for Cassavetes) and Writer Vince Medeiros (Surfing & Huck Magazine) is an inspired and hugely original documentary that takes the surf film genre into never - before - seendocumentary that takes the surf film genre into never - before - seen territory.
Bustin» Down the Door The latest entry in the time - honored surfing documentary genre, joining the likes of «Step Into Liquid» and «Riding Giants,» this film profiles the group of brash Australians and South Africans who challenged Hawaiians at their own sport in the mid-1970s.
This is fitting as the latter is an «Ozploitation» fan and a major contributor to this documentary, bestowing praise on many of these genre films including The Man From Hong Kong (Brian Trenchard - Smith and Yu Wang, 1975), Long Weekend (Colin Eggleston, 1978) and Next of Kin (Tony Williams, 1981).
The annual IDA Documentary Awards celebrates the best nonfiction films, programs and filmmakers of the year at the world's most prestigious event dedicated solely to the documenDocumentary Awards celebrates the best nonfiction films, programs and filmmakers of the year at the world's most prestigious event dedicated solely to the documentarydocumentary genre.
That said, while at times uneven, Grabham and Sharp's tone nevertheless creates something unique for both a genre exercise and a documentary: a science - fiction film that doesn't contain an ounce of fiction.
Indeed, the notion of these documentaries as belonging to a particular genre is challenged the most by French and Japanese films that borrow narrative techniques from their coinciding «new waves.»
The Popcornflix library includes more than 3,000 titles within a variety of genres, ranging from action and comedy to award - winning foreign films, TV series, National Geographic documentaries, classic cartoons and the recently added extreme sports category.
7:25 am — IFC — A Hard Day's Night Richard Lester's 1964 Beatles - starring film straddles several genres — musical, concert film, documentary, comedy.
At the film's recent press day, Shyamalan and Blum discussed their creative partnership and the most surprising aspect of working with each other, why the scares in this film are deceptively simple yet terrifying and original, how the mock documentary style format gave Shyamalan new cinematic tools for keeping the audience guessing, his directing style, what he was looking for in his young actors, why he cast experienced stage actors for the grandparents» roles, his collaboration with award - winning DP Maryse Alberti, how he recruited Oxenbould to shoot the chase sequence underneath the house, why he likes treating B genre movies like they're A dramas, and more.
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.
Founded in 1983, by festival director Ally Derks, it is unique for its international film program featuring a wide variety of documentary genres with political and socially conscious themes.
New to this edition and featured on both Blu - ray and DVD editions is commentary by film historian and Mario Bava biographer Tim Lucas and the almost hour - long «Psycho Analysis,» an in - depth documentary on Blood and Black Lace and the origins of the giallo genre featuring interviews with directors Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi among others.
The CCDAs are the first awards given in recognition of the various genres of documentary film by critics.
Founded in 1983, and is unique for its international film program featuring a wide variety of documentary genres with political and socially conscious themes.
Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016) O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman, 2016) Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene, 2016) If there was one genre of film that felt truly innovative this year, it was documentary, and these three films stood out as revolutionary in their own way; even more importantly, all are intensely passionate and emotional.
The auteur is alive and well, arthouse and blockbusters are plentiful, documentary films are on fire, genre films are stronger than ever, and let's just echo it all once more for posterity: female - led projects are popular, bankable, and breathtaking, as are strong women characters.
A film that feels like it is in freefall, Ben Safdie (director, co-star) and Josh Safdie (director, co-writer, co-editor) jangle documentary - style realism together with instinctive genre film expressionism.
Rather than spending your time scrolling through categories, trying to track down the perfect film to watch, we've done our best to make it easy for you at Paste by updating our Best Movies to watch on Netflix list each month with new additions and overlooked gems alike, bringing you our favorites from across genres: Oscar - winning dramas, independent and art - house films, action blockbusters, documentaries, comedies, sci - fi flicks and animated movies for both kids and adults.
Actually, this film never seems to be able to make up its mind what its genre is - sashaying back and forth between the documentary in which characters address the camera, slapstick, melodrama and stand - up.
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.
While you could compare The Lazarus Effect to at least a dozen raising the dead and you'll be sorry films, director David Gelb's 2011 documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi has me intrigued as to what this talented young filmmaker has to offer the horror genre, and exactly how he plans to weave all of these different inspirations together in his film.
Variety chief film critic Peter Debruge next introduced the 10 Directors to Watch, a selection of gifted artists working in the documentary, feature and genre realms.
A «nonfiction film» that creates the poetic aura of a narrative film, David mixes most of the audiovisual genres of expressionism, documentary, fiction, avant - garde, video art, visual arts: posters, collages, drawings, to offer the most complete and multi layered vision of a popular hero ever rendered in a film.
The Festival program will screen all genres of films: action, adventure, comedy, family movies, chick flicks, science fiction, thrillers, true stories, animations, documentaries, there is something for everybody!
Inspired by blaxploitation movies while he was filming his recent acclaimed documentary Baadasssss Cinema, Julien appropriates the styles, gestures, language and iconography of the genre to create a work that defies easy categorization.
His use of color film in the early 1980s, at a time when British photography was dominated by traditional black - and - white social documentary, had a revolutionizing effect on the genre.
His poetic works stretch the boundaries of the documentary genre and the format of the film essay.
Composed of a multitude of films, documentaries, cartoons, and talk shows, authored by DIS and its artistic collaborators, and broadcast across thirty - six LED screens in Wilsey Court, Genre - Nonconforming proposes «a counter strategy to our incomprehensible moment of post-truth, a clickbait cultural landscape that has generated misinformation and overexposure as a general condition.»
Accompanying a selection of portraits, documentary images and fashion photographs, are excerpts from his films The Learning Tree and Shaft, both of which signalled the start of the popular Blaxploitation genre.
Rosa Barba's film Outwardly from Earths Center (2007) merges the filmic genres of documentary and science fiction to create an ambiguous journey to Gotska Sandön, an island off the coast of Sweden in the Baltic Sea.
A pivotal figure in contemporary art from the early 1970s until his untimely death in 2013, Sekula continuously questioned the function of the documentary genre and the consequences of global capitalism through his critical writings, photographic installations, videos, and films.
Drawing on varied genres including documentary filmmaking, music video, experimental film and theatrical performance, these artworks dispense with straightforward storytelling and unfold in a manner akin to musical compositions.
His creative practice straddles documentary and experimental genres often mixing the two, and his works have been shown at numerous film and video festivals including the Tokyo Video Festival, The London Film Festival; and the Berlin Film Festival to name a few.
Ricocheting between genres — news reportage, documentary film, video games, and internet dance videos — Factory of the Sun uses motifs of light and acceleration to explore what possibilities are still available for collective resistance when surveillance has become a mundane part of an increasingly virtual world.
Haunted Ethnography: new experimental documentary is a group exhibition and related indoor screening event showcasing several recent video and experimental film works by emerging artists exploring the rich but problematic genre of ethnographic documentary as a locus of aesthetic and conceptual innovation in the medium.
BadAsssss Cinema is a feature documentary in which Isaac Julien explores the 70s hollywoodian film genre known as blaxploitation and its trajectory in American cinema and society.
His use of color film in the late 1970s and early 1980s, at a time when British photography was dominated by traditional black - and - white social documentary, had a revolutionizing effect on the genre.
The large screens mine the horror film genre to explore fantasies of occult powers in young children, while the small screen simultaneously shows documentary material from a pilgrimage to visit children who have had authenticated religious visions.
His poetic and polyphonic films create sensual audiovisual experiences that stretch the boundaries of the documentary genre and the format of the film essay.
The Planet in Focus Environmental Film & Video Festival showcases and promotes outstanding and compelling environmental films and videos in all genres (documentaries, animation, experimental, shorts films and dramas) by Canadian and international filmmakers.
Planet in Focus, in its 19th year, is Canada's leading environmental film organization showcasing and promoting outstanding environmental films and videos in all genres (documentaries, dramatic, experimental, short films, animation, youth and educational) by Canadian and international filmmakers.
A recent eco-doc that provided this kind of narrative focus exceptionally well is The Garden, which I strongly recommend as not only one of the best documentaries I've ever seen but also one of the best films of any genre.