Sentences with phrase «documentary movie star»

Another connection item is how this lawsuit mentions book author / documentary movie star Naomi Oreskes, and does so in mildly ironic fashion by noting her «survey of Exxon documents» (others dispute it heavily).

Imagine what might happen if objective reporters or congressional investigators confronted specific «Greenpeace USA née Ozone Action» people or Desmogblog people, or «Merchants of Doubt» documentary movie star Naomi Oreskes, or Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, or former Vice President Al Gore, or the main man himself, Ross Gelbspan?

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Gervais will write, direct, and star in the movie, which will follow a documentary crew as they catch up with Brent years after his tenure as the world's worst boss at Wernham Hogg Paper.

PYONGYANGST - My Review of THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT (3 Stars) Evoking more questions than answers, THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT, a documentary by filmmakers Ross Adam and Robert Cannan details the stranger than fiction account of a prominent South Korean film director and his actress ex-wife who were kidnapped by North Korea during Kim Jong Il's reign and were forced to make over 17 movies for him.

5 star is an entertainment channel for people who like their drama sexier, their documentaries harder, their movies bigger and their soaps soapier.

The Real James Dean: From Indiana Farmboy to Hollywood Legend is a documentary which explores both the public and private lives of this great star, including readings from his journals, rare footage from screen tests and wardrobe tests for his pictures, behind - the - scenes home movies from the making of East of Eden, and interviews with fans, friends, and co-workers.

Get ready for groundbreaking original series, star - studded movies, hard - hitting sports, daring documentaries and outrageous comedy - only on SHOWTIME!

Devon Terrell and Anya Taylor - Joy, the star of the hit horror movie The Witch, will star in Barry, an indie drama being directed by Vikram Gandhi, a Vice correspondent who made the documentary Kumare.

Her directorial work includes Paper Chase, a teen comedy in pre-production with Gunpowder and Sky; All Styles, a dance movie in post production starring Fik - Shun (So You Think You Can Dance) and Heather Morris (Glee); Black Folk Don't, a documentary web series in its fourth season featured in Time Magazine's «10 Ideas That Are Changing Your Life» and (A) sexua, l a feature - length documentary about people who experience no sexual attraction that streamed on Netflix and Hulu for four years.

Amid all its grim revelations of melting ice caps and depleted permafrost, the Oscar - winning documentary «An Inconvenient Truth» provided at least one genuinely thrilling revelation: Al Gore was a movie star.

All you'll need is a high - speed internet connection to watch our award - winning series like «Homeland», «Shameless» and «Ray Donovan», star - studded hit movies, groundbreaking documentaries, hilarious comedy specials and action packed sports including live championship boxing events.

True stories: Frank Serpico (2017, not rated) profiles the real - life New York cop who inspired the 1973 movie starring Al Pacino and foodie documentary Soul of a Banquet (2014) spotlights Cecilia Chiang, who introduced authentic Chinese food to America in the 1960s.

The D Films release slate include the polarising, oddball Sundance buddy movie Swiss Army Man starring Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano, as well as Natalie Portman's directorial debut A Tale Of Love And Darkness, and Oasis documentary Supersonic.

Award - winning documentary on the life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

«Get Out» directed by Jordan Peele: For white viewers, this debut feature from «Key & Peele» star Jordan Peele offers a glimpse at how the other half lives; for everyone else, it's more of a documentary in body horror movie drag.

Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action movie Henry Cavill — «Man of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»

Slightly similar to The Longest Day in one respect, like that film it told the story of an infamous day from the perspectives of the different sides — the build - up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour is seen from both their perspective and the Americans», with an almost documentary - like approach aided by a lack of genuine movie stars producing a very fine, compelling picture.

According to Deadline, details have been finalized for indie distributor Open Road Films and production and financing company Endgame Entertainment to partner on the U.S. release of Oliver Stone «s Edward Snowden movie, which will star Joseph Gordon - Levitt as the NSA whistleblower, also the subject of Laura Poitras «Oscar documentary frontrunner Citizenfour.

Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act of Killing» debuted at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel of the Stars» (1981), an hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely - shot «The Night of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967), filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.

And seven or eight documentaries that play in the Backlot, TFF's smallest venue, devoted to movies about movies and biographies of artists, including one I feel somewhat responsible for, Volker Schlondorff's 1977 «Portrait of Valeska Gert,» the Weimar era dancer and cabaret star, which I saw in Bologna at Il Cinema Ritrovato in 2016 and raved about.

Bill Hader stars as the title character while also making his directorial debut on this half - hour comedy, which promises to give the former SNL star a showcase for all that dramatic range he's previously uncovered in movies like The Skeleton Twins and episodes of Documentary Now!.

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.

Academy - award winning director William Friedkin discusses his early career — including making documentaries for David L. Wolper, working for Alfred Hitchcock and what he learned from studying his films, and directing his first movie Good Times (1967), starring Sonny and Cher; how his career path led to making The Exorcist, his initial reaction to reading the source material, the story's theme of Good versus Evil, and the role his own faith played in his approach to making the movie; the techniques he used to generate suspense and fear in the audience, his use of subliminal imagery, and his reasons for recently restoring deleted footage to the film.

; the World Premiere of Chanya Button's debut feature BURN BURN BURN starring Downton Abbey's Laura Carmichael, which takes the road trip buddy movie on its own smart, female - centric spin; Ali F. Mostafa's FROM A TO B, a «dramedy» following three estranged childhood companions who embark on a road trip to commemorate the fifth anniversary of a friend's death and offers a new perspective on life in the Gulf and Middle East; Paul Weitz's GRANDMA, a supremely enjoyable «road movie» starring Lily Tomlin as the gloriously profane septuagenarian whose curt words and emotional armour can't quite mask her broken heart; Bao Nguyen's Saturday Night Live documentary LIVE FROM NEW YORK!

Craig S Zahler, director of acclaimed western horror Bone Tomahawk, steps into action movie territory with Brawl in Cell Block 99, starring Vince Vaughn; while Exorcist director William Friedkin turns his attention to the story of a real - life exorcism with his documentary The Devil and the Father Amorth.

Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystical.

Arriving in theaters today is a new movie produced by Eli Roth, directed by A Necessary Death's Daniel Stamm, starring Patrick Fabian as Reverend Cotton Marcus, called The Last Exorcism, a horror «documentary» about Marcus» final exorcism.

[5 stars] Get Out (03.07 / 02.24 / 03.17) Downsizing (10.13 / 12.22 / 01.19.18) The Florida Project (10.12 / 10.06 / 11.10) Colossal (04.18 / 04.07 / 05.19) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (10.15 / 11.10 / 01.12.18) The Girl with All the Gifts (07.26.16 / 02.24 / 09.23.16) A Ghost Story (08.08 / 07.07 / 08.11) Brigsby Bear (09.22 / 07.28 / 12.08) It Comes at Night (07.07 / 06.09 / 07.07) City of Ghosts (07.17 / 07.07 / 07.21) Paddington 2 (10.29 / 01.12.18 / 11.10) Human Flow (11.27 / 10.13 / 12.08) Kedi (01.03.18 / 02.10 / 06.30) The Shape of Water (10.10 / 12.08 / 02.16.18) First They Killed My Father (09.23 / 09.15 / 09.15) The Lego Batman Movie (02.04 / 02.10 / 02.10) Logan (02.17 / 03.03 / 03.01) War for the Planet of the Apes (06.21 / 07.14 / 07.11) Their Finest (10.13.16 / 04.07 / 04.21) Lady Macbeth (10.13.16 / 07.14 / 04.28) Dunkirk (07.17 / 07.21 / 07.21) Lost in Paris (Paris pieds nus)(06.16 / 06.16 / 11.24) Ingrid Goes West (08.28 / 08.11 / 11.17) The Death of Stalin (10.02 / 03.09.18 / 10.20) Call Me by Your Name (10.09 / 11.24 / 10.27) A United Kingdom (10.05.16 / 02.10 / 11.25.16) The Red Turtle (09.22.16 / 01.20 / TBA) Prevenge (10.12.16 / 03.24 / 02.10) La Soledad (08.16 / direct to VOD / 08.18) Last Flag Flying (10.07 / 11.03 / TBA) All This Panic (09.28.16 / 03.31 / 03.24) Letters from Baghdad (04.20 / 06.02 / 04.21) Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts (89th Academy Awards)(02.06 / 02.08 / direct to VOD)

Toby Jones stars as a British sound effects man who'd been working on nature documentaries and kiddie shows before getting invited to Italy to work on a movie called The Equestrian Vortex, about fetching young riding academy students who encounter the vengeful spirits of tortured medieval witches.

Best Film: A Most Violent Year Best Director: Clint Eastwood — American Sniper Best Actor (TIE): Oscar Isaac — A Most Violent Year; Michael Keaton — Birdman Best Actress: Julianne Moore — Still Alice Best Supporting Actor: Edward Norton — Birdman Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain — A Most Violent Year Best Original Screenplay: Phil Lord & Christopher Miller — The Lego Movie Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson — Inherent Vice Best Animated Feature: How to Train Your Dragon 2 Breakthrough Performance: Jack O'Connell — Starred Up & Unbroken Best Directorial Debut: Gillian Robespierre — Obvious Child Best Foreign Language Film: Wild Tales Best Documentary: Life Itself William K. Everson Film History Award: Scott Eyman Best Ensemble: Fury Spotlight Award: Chris Rock for writing, directing, and starring in — Top Five NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Rosewater NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Selma

Directed by Danish - born Janus Metz, it's one of a few movies this year that suggest the Toronto International Film Festival might as well temporarily change its name to the Tennis International Film Festival; the others include «Battle of the Sexes,» starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell as Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, respectively, and «Love Means Zero,» Jason Kohn's documentary about the legacy of star tennis coach Nick Bollettieri.

BURN - E on its own is probably worth the purchase of the DVD on its own, but there is still more: some deleted scenes (actually uncompleted, never used, scenes is a more accurate description) and an interesting documentary on the movie's sound by Ben Burtt, who also did the groundbreaking sound designs on the first Star Wars movie all those years ago.

Don't miss: Among the extras a documentary on the making of the movie; a featurette on star Bridgette Andersen headlined by her mother, Teresa; a featurette on the movie's songs and music; and a mini-poster.

Done in the style of a sports documentary, the movie recounted the seven - day saga between two tennis stars.

Once Upon A Time star Sarah Bolger holds down the «scream queen» slot, but has little else to work with, since her character - documentary filmmaker Eva - is an enigma the movie only hints at, but never commits to exploring.

Elsetree 1976 (Unrated) Nostalgic documentary featuring fond reminiscences by extras and actors who played supporting roles in the original Star Wars movie.

While Noé and his stars have owned up to most of the sex being real, the film makes us wonder which famous movie sex scenes from years past have been as authentic as documentaries and which have simply created the illusion of that.

BAFTA nominations list Best film Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game The Theory of Everything Leading Actor Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler Michael Keaton - Birdman Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel Leading Actress Amy Adams - Big Eyes Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything Julianne Moore - Still Alice Reese Witherspoon - Wild Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl Supporting Actor Edward Norton - Birdman Ethan Hawke - Boyhood J.K. Simmons - Whiplash Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher Steve Carell - Foxcatcher Supporting Actress Emma Stone - Birdman Imelda Staunton - Pride Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game Patricia Arquette - Boyhood Rene Russo - Nightcrawler Outstanding British Film»71 The Imitation Game Paddington Pride The Theory of Everything Under the Skin Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Elaine Constantine (writer / director)- Northern Soul Gregory Burke (writer), Yann Demange (director)-»71 Hong Khaou (writer / director)- Lilting Paul Katis (director / producer), Andrew de Lotbiniere (producer)- Kajaki: The True Story Stephen Beresford (writer), David Livingstone (producer)- Pride Film Not in the English Language Ida Leviathan The Lunchbox Trash Two Days, One Night Documentary 20 Feet from Stardom 20,000 Days on Earth Citizenfour Finding Vivian Maier Virunga Animated Film Big Hero 6 The Boxtrolls The Lego Movie Whiplash Adapted Screenplay American Sniper Gone Girl The Imitation Game Paddington The Theory of Everything EE Rising Star Jack O'Connell Gugu Mbatha - Raw Miles Teller Margot Robbie Shailene Woodley

Some of the World Premieres that jump out at first glance include Ondi Timoner's Mapplethorpe starring Matt Smith as the famed photographer; actor Alex Pettyfer's directorial debut Backroads; Beatriz at Dinner director Miguel Arteta's new film Duck Butter; Noomi Rapace and Ethan Hawke in Stockholm; Black Panther's Martin Freeman in the midnight movie Cargo; and the Netflix documentary Bleeding Edge from Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick (The Hunting Ground) about the medical biz.

From documentaries about Silk Road and GamerGate to star - studded world premieres featuring Will Ferrell, Melissa McCarthy and more, don't miss these movies at the Austin festival

Highlights include an Exclusive Preview Screening of Room including a Q&A with Director Lenny Abrahamson; a screening of A Christmas Star — the first ever children's Christmas movie from Ireland voiced by Liam Neeson with cameos from Pierce Brosnan and Kylie Minogue; an opening event celebrating the unknown life of W.B. Yeats W.B. Yeats, No Country for Old Men and Older than Ireland, Alex Fegan's documentary telling the stories of 30 centenarians from Ireland.

The Grand Budapest Hotel won big, too, but it was a night that also saw Obvious Child star Jenny Slate taking home the award for Best Actress in a Comedy, The Lego Movie winning Best Animated Feature and Life Itself won for Best Documentary Feature.

Popping up everywhere are movies about people buckling under their own artistic weight — the kind that comes with being a certain type of jazz musician («Whiplash»), actor («Birdman»), novelist («Listen Up Philip»), painter (Mike Leigh's «Mr. Turner»), actor again (Chris Rock's upcoming «Top Five,») concert pianist (the Ethan Hawke - directed fall - festival documentary smash «Seymour»), actor once more (Olivier Assayas» «Clouds of Sils Maria»), rock singer (the Michael Fassbender - starring «Frank»), documentary filmmaker (Noah Baumbach's upcoming «While We're Young») and actor again (Al Pacino's «The Humbling»).

Feature Film: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Birdman Documentary: Laura Poitras, Citizenfour Dramatic Series: Leslie Linka Glatter, Homeland Comedy Series: Jill Solloway, Transparent Movies for Television and Miniseries: Lisa Cholodenko, Olive Kitteridge Variety / Talk / News / Sports — Regularly Scheduled Programming: David Diomedi, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Variety / Talk / News / Sports — Specials: Glenn Weiss, The 68th Annual Tony Awards Reality Programs: Anthony B. Sacco, The Chair Children's Programs: Jonathan Judge, 100 Things to Do Before High School Commercials: Nicolai Fuglsig, Sapeurs, Guinness and Waiting, FEMA

Stig Björkman's documentary is more about the woman than the movie star, however.

The movie, directed and co-written by Robert Zemeckis, stars Joseph Gordon - Levitt as Philippe Petit, who was the subject of the 2008 Academy Award - winning documentary «Man on Wire.»

Same as it ever was but more so is a fair description of the Sundance Film Festival in 2003: more movies (thanks to the new World Cinema Documentary section), more subscribers, more stars and starstruck gawkers, more patrons, more parties, more corporate sponsors and hangers - on, more swag, more press, more pr companies, more traffic, more drunken frat boys clogging up the highways and by - ways.

Having explored the criminal justice system in high - profile feature documentaries for more than two decades, Joe Berlinger is set to direct his first scripted true crime movie entitled «Facing the Wind,» which will star Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Evan Rachel Wood, Rita Wilson and Jennifer Beals, TheWrap has learned.

She would have been uninterested in a movie about an actor married to a pop star, but a documentary about an actor constructing himself as a messiah?

Special Features New Interviews with Critics Molly Haskell and Robert Polito Except from a 1970 Episode of The David Frost Show featuring Actor Joan Crawford «Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star,» A 2002 Feature - Length Documentary Q&A with Actor Ann Blyth from 2002, Conducted by Film Historian Eddie Muller Segment From a 1969 Episode of the Today Show Featuring Mildred Pierce Novelist James M. Cain Trailer Plus: An Essay by Entire Imogen Sara Smith