Sentences with phrase «documentary profile of»

In recognition of MoMA's recent acquisition of the Robert Frank film collection, The Contenders presents this wonderful and revealing new documentary profile of an artist who always preferred to express himself through his pictures and films.

These are key subjects under considerstion as Charlotte Rampling, sublimely wise at age 55, comments on her approach to performance, career arc and personal evolution, while looking into filmmaker Angelina Maccarone's camera for The Look, an insightful and intimate documentary profile of the revered actress.

José Luis López - Linares and Javier Rioyo's 90 - minute documentary profile of the legendary Luis Buñuel, comprising over 70 hours of interviews with key collaborators, is everything a fan of the Spanish director could want.

A documentary profile of former Secretary of Defense and Iraq war architect Donald Rumsfeld, who discusses his career in Washington from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Also too good to pass up: Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable, a striking documentary profile of one of the strongest practitioners of urban street photography, directed by Sasha Waters Freyer, Apr. 15; Godard Mon Amour, director Michel Hazanavicius» cool, dramatized portrait of iconic French auteur Jean - Luc Godard (Louis Garrel), as told by Godard's one - time wife, Anne Wiazemsky, Apr. 15; and, from Japanese master Koreeda Hirokazu, The Third Murder, a chambered nautilus of a murder mystery, starring Fukuyama Masaharu and Yakusho Kôji, Apr. 6.

• «Jane,» Brett Morgen's incisive documentary profile of primatologist Jane Goodall, using astonishing long - lost footage of her early days observing chimps in Kenya.

This engrossing documentary profile of Los Angeles artist Chris Burden, who died in 2015, focuses mainly on his notorious performance pieces.

Single Cell then delivered two of the following year's most acclaimed releases: American Movie, a documentary profile of a would - be horror filmmaker from Milwaukee; and the darkly comic fantasy Being John Malkovich.

Synopsis: Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait directs this riveting documentary profile of the little - known but powerful comedy club owner, Barry Crimmins.

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CNBC's upcoming documentary on the subject, «A Billionaire's Bet: The Best & Brightest,» which airs Sunday, June 25 at 10 p.m. ET, profiles a small group of the chosen scholars as they embarked on the one - year program at a fascinating and precarious time in U.S. - China relations.

This CNBC original documentary takes viewers inside the story of Warren Buffett's extraordinary success and profiles some of the many people whose lives have been influenced, and even changed, by Buffett's investment advice and life lessons.

He has also edited cool stuff, like photo essays from the Canadian tar sands to the streets of Cairo, a profile of Vine's hottest star, and documentaries on the binge - watching world record and hacking the grid.

What's more, Durst's high - profile arrest just before the airing of the series» final episode sparked even greater interest in the documentary's narrative and the outcome for its subject.

There Will Be No Stay, a documentary film released last year, profiles two former majors in South Carolina's department of corrections Swat team who sued the state for allegedly pressuring them into assisting in multiple executions with minimal training and no counselling (the case was eventually dismissed by a judge).

«I think right now Stormy has to be the most famous... over the years it was Ron and Jenna,» Fishbein said, adding that Rocco Siffredi, whose 2016 documentary Rocco was a hit in Europe, is also one of the most high - profile adult performers alive.

I'd directed a documentary short profiling her for Vice largely based on her courage overcoming nearly being murdered by Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s uncle Roger, along with a slew of horrific abuses, both sexual and physical, she'd endured growing up in her family home.

In 2008, Christy began working on a documentary film profiling the status of maternal health worldwide.

This week on the Campbell Conversations host Grant Reeher continues his conversation with Dean Strang, one of the defense attorneys for Steven Avery profiled in the Netflix documentary series «Making a Murderer.»

If your profile has a Shaadi SEAL, it means that Shaadi has screened your profile and also obtained documentary proof of: Name, Photo, Age, Residential Address, Telephone Number, Email Address, Marital Status if Divorced / Annulled.

This verité documentary series profiles the personal and professional lives of Canada's best surgeons.

In profiling Chinese adoptees in contemporary America, this documentary illustrates that even the most specific of experiences can be universally relatable.

The company broke into the Oscar picture for the first time with seven nominations, including a best picture nomination for Room and a best documentary nomination for Amy Winehouse profile Amy, one of critics» favorite docs of 2015.

The participants profiled in Lysa Heslov's documentary are the epitome of resilience, but they're also disarmingly honest and funny as hell.

Even as a profile of a singular artist, though, this soft - focus documentary is missing an essential dimension — a critical look at the intramural conflict and public controversy that flowed from its hero's reformist role.

For his first documentary, director Bobcat Goldthwait chose to profile the a man whom he met as an «angry teenager» and who is still one of his dearest friends.

TIFF will also feature a number of documentaries created by some high - profile filmmakers, including Jonathan Demme, Werner Herzog, Jia Zhang - ke, Julian Schnabel, Scott Hicks, and even one from film critic Todd McCarthy.

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 Last Exorcism is presented in the style of a documentary in which a slick - talking evangelist (Reverend Cotton Marcus, played by Patrick Fabian) is being profiled.

Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow's juicy profile of suspense expert Brian De Palma is one of the most revealing documentaries ever made about a filmmaker.

Unlike Thomas Quick, this was another literal - minded, straightforward documentary — many of the high - profile features this year were, almost as though progression of and experimentation with the medium took a momentary pause so filmmakers could in this turbulent time focus on making calls for change.

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.

These films range from independent films, documentaries, short films to high profile Hollywood picks, foreign films and many other unique pieces of cinema.

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt, Israeli filmmaker Ada Ushpiz's probing documentary profile, is as provocative and controversial as Arendt's own relentlessly challenging observations and theories.

The single - disc release includes a multi-part documentary on the making - of the film, a short sound featurette («The Sound of Terror»), cast and crew profiles, and a paltry two deleted scenes.

Among family profiles in the documentary genre, THE WOLFPACK is surely one of the most bizarre.

«He Named Me Malala», the portrait of Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai and Asif Kapadia's profile of Amy Winehouse, «Amy» have been shortlisted for the best documentary award in Oscars 2016.

A profile of war profiteer, entrepreneur, aviation tycoon, arms dealer and documentary filmmaker Viktor Bout.

It opens up to reveal the two discs overlapping on one side and a description of the four video documentaries profiled on the left side.

Women, not surprisingly, improvised most desperately to retain their places in inhospitable worlds, all the way from the college - age single mom scraping by as a prostitute in Anahí Berneri's Alanis, a bracing Argentine exercise in heightened vérité, to the ongoing travails of Kholoud Al - Faqih, the first female to preside over a Shari'a court, profiled in Erika Cohn's indelible documentary The Judge.

Other high - profile documentary nominees include the inspiring «Life, Animated», about an autistic young man whose life was changed because of Disney movies, and «Weiner», the look at controversial poilitician Anthony Weiner.

This was my original downtown bohemian pal Rose's reaction when she found out I'd just spent twenty minutes at the offices of Magnolia Pictures doing a beat - the - clock interview with Philippe Petit, the only person to ever dance across a high - wire between the Twin Towers, and filmmaker James Marsh, who profiled the legendary Frenchman and his «artistic crime of the century» in his appropriately uplifting documentary Man On Wire.

Both a documentary about the production of an issue of Vogue magazine and a profile of its editor Anna Wintour, this film struggles a bit to find some focus.

Our City Dreams (Unrated) Female empowerment documentary profiles five flourishing New York artists between the ages of 30 and 80 who migrated to the Big Apple from Germany, Belgrade, Cairo, Cleveland and Florida.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS American Teacher (Unrated) Matt Damon narrates this reverential documentary which pays tribute to the country's 3.2 million teachers by profiling the careers of a quartet of dedicated educators.

(Don Argott courtesy Sundance Institute) Dan Reynolds, frontman for the band Imagine Dragons, is profiled in Don Argott's «Believer,» which will screen in the Documentary Premieres section of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

Besides «Marshall» director Hudlin, stars Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad and Sterling K. Brown and producer Paula Wagner, high - profile guests expected at various screenings and events during the festival include Patrick Stewart (subject of an Oct. 25 career retrospective tribute and a conversation with yours truly); Vanessa Redgrave (Oct. 16, presenting her documentary «Sea Sorrow» and represented elsewhere in the festival by a revival screening of «Blow - Up»); Alfre Woodard (subject of an Oct. 21 career retrospective tribute); Michael Shannon (Chicago's own, as the locals like to call him, representing «The Shape of Water» on Oct. 26); Tracy Letts (Chicago's own, as the locals also like to call him, participating Oct. 18 on behalf of Greta Gerwig's acclaimed directorial debut «Lady Bird»); Michael Stuhlbarg (arriving Oct. 25; he gives a beautiful supporting turn in the coming - of - age drama «Call Me by Your Name»); Jon Lovitz (part of the Chicago - sprung comedy «Chasing the Blues,» appearing Oct. 14); and, in an Oct. 23 addition announced after the program went to press, Bill Pullman (getting good notices for the western «The Ballad of Lefty Brown»).

Orlowski's documentary profiles famed environmental photographer James Balog who, together with a small and dedicated team, has sought to capture on film the retreat of Earth's glaciers using an army of time - lapse cameras positioned across the globe — from Alaska and Glacier National Park in Montana to Iceland and Greenland.

Participant recently made several high - profile announcements during the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, including the co-acquisition of documentary feature RBG with Magnolia Pictures, as well as a distribution deal with Starz for director Steve James» 10 - part docuseries America to Me, and the unveiling of a new four - part virtual reality series titled, This is Climate Change, to be distributed by WITHIN.

The bulk of the extras are on disc two: extensive making - of documentaries covering everything from story conception and design to various technical minutiae; concept and promotional art galleries; trailers and forced, would - be comic junket «interviews» with gushy TV entertainment reporters; profiles on the Incredibles and many other supers; a droll video «essay» by the voice of Violet, Sarah Vowell; a faux blooper reel (an exercise that has long exhausted its novelty); and a large assortment of deleted scenes.

One of the most revealing documentaries ever made about a filmmaker, Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow's juicy profile of suspense expert Brian De Palma doubles down on its subject's famous obsessions with Hitchcock, gorgeous women in peril and coke - snorting gangsters.