Sentences with phrase «documentary style as»

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In her memo, Huffington said that the company would focus on both long - form documentaries and series - style shows, as well as «snackable» video content for Facebook (FB) and other social platforms.

With Blue Ant, MacMillan appears to be tacking against the torrents of broadcast television dreck at the bottom of the dial by targeting two coveted demographics, the first of which is thinking, affluent baby boomers: its portfolio includes content about the cottage lifestyle, travel, and PBS - style documentary programming through the Canadian version of the Smithsonian Channel, as well as a nature channel called Oasis.

The documentary - style short films are being offered to churches as an alternative to the traditional Alpha talks.

Greenspan's style can seem quaint in contrast to edgier sports documentaries such as Hoop Dreams or those in ESPN's 30 for 30 series.

On the other hand, as I also noted in my JO post, I do tend to overlook some of Oliver's shtick — and questionable tactics — when I consider how much valuable attention he's drawn to critically important issues like childhood obesity and diabetes, our nation's over-processed diet and the abysmal state of school food in many places in the U.S. I'm just not sure he would have achieved the same high ratings with a measured, PBS - style documentary on the topic.

Today, successful documentary - style popular science shows, such as «Welt der Wunder» or «Planetopia» (German TV shows) offer good opportunities for scientists to make it into the world of science TV.

And have lived a similar life as you, I was vegetarian for years, then vegan, and after The China Study, Forks over Knives, and the plethora of other wonderful vegan books, documentaries, and losing much of my family to heart disease and many friends to life style diseases I have become obsessed with nutrition and too want a soap box or apple crate:)

We both like documentary style wedding photography where the photographer captures both small intimate moments of the wedding as well as the big important ones.

But Roversi decamped to fashion in the mid-seventies after an invitation to Paris from Elle magazine art director Peter Knapp and soon after developed a hazy, surreal style that's as far from documentary as it gets.

Hey I work as a video editor at a documentary company but my passion lies in anime as i learn to draw in that style and watch it every night!

As the glossy, voluptuous look of Oskar's sequences gives way to a stark documentary - style account of the Jews» experience, «Schindler's List» witnesses a pivotal transformation.

In 1996, Valletta succeeded Crawford again — this time as the co-host (alongside Shalom Harlow) of MTV's hit documentary series House of Style.

Very engaging, fun, you can see this as the blue print for many modern documentaries that use a similar style of «free» narrative / performance mode.

The pace is quick, the violence is rough, and the visual style is documentary as Padilha hammers home his point: Someone is forever in the pocket of someone else as The System constantly adapts to protect itself.

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.

Apparently taking real World War II documentary footage as its model, Spielberg's invasion of Omaha Beach was shot documentary - style.

It is largely filmed in the form of Billie's video diary and as a result has a documentary - style feel.

Getting his start working on TV commercials, Mann took his rapid - paced, flash - cut approach into documentary filmmaking, producing an award - winning short on the 1968 French student riots, Janpuri.Mann's fragmented - image technique further manifested itself on such TV detective series of the»70s such as Starsky and Hutch and Vegas, both of which utilized his scripts (though they were directed by others in the standard conventional style of the period).

These sequences almost seem ridiculous; not only does Angelina Jolie completely overact as the boy's mother, but Stone's style is reminiscent of countless History Channel documentaries on the same subject.

As Farhadi casts his roving, distracted eye over this unhappy community, sharing his story in a choppy, documentary style, it ends up feeling like a curiously detached exercise, more academic than wholly satisfying.

It begins in a mock - documentary style with the characters — Margot Robbie as Harding, Sebastian Stan as Gillooly — giving present - day interviews recalling «the incident.»

Director Craig Gillespie («Lars and the Real Girl»), writer Steven Rogers and a breakout Margot Robbie in the title role do a phenomenally entertaining job bringing all this to vibrant life, mixing biopic and documentary - style tropes, direct address, and split screen for a movie that sometimes seems as if it can't believe it's telling a true story, either.

The disc comes with a feature commentary by the screenwriter Ernest Lehman, a new 2009 documentary The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style as well as more features that will make you want to wish you were old enough to have seen this one in the theatre.

As I say in my video review above, you might think you already know this story, but in fact Berg along with his co-screenplay writers Matt Cook and Joshua Zetumer have much more in mind, taking us behind the scenes after the bombing to reveal with almost documentary - style detail how the city went into action and caught the two brothers who committed these heinous crimes.

«Filmmaker Robert Drew, a pioneer of the modern documentary who in Primary and other movies mastered the intimate, spontaneous style known as cinema verite and schooled a generation of influential directors that included D.A. Pennebaker and Albert Maysles, has died at age 90.

This documentary about the life of the famous Evil Knievel was a perfectly - made film that was as a flashy in its style as Knievel was in his stunts.

Scenes of government violence, such as the Soweto massacre, are shot with documentary realism, lending them a TV news - style feeling of actuality.

Those documentary - styled scenes of that iconic 1999 hit have not been copied much, as self - documentation has moved from the domain of film students to anyone with a smart phone.

Documentary - style authenticity gives this understated drama a real kick as it explores the fallout of child abuse from an angle we'd never expect.

This film takes the instructional as its starting point; it comprises 32 distinct instructional lessons (including classes for expectant parents and educational role plays) filmed by Farocki in the style of a fly - on - the - wall documentary.

As I say in my video review above, Gillespie and Rogers bracket their film with documentary - style interviews with the principal subjects, who all seem to be telling a completely different story of what happened.

As long as Murphy shoots the actors documentary - style, letting us just watch their faces, there's a dreadful gravity therAs long as Murphy shoots the actors documentary - style, letting us just watch their faces, there's a dreadful gravity theras Murphy shoots the actors documentary - style, letting us just watch their faces, there's a dreadful gravity there.

Australian director Craig Gillespie, who made the cricket - cum - baseball drama Million Dollar Arm in 2014, sets out his provocative stall from the start, adopting a faux - documentary style that allows principal characters such as Harding (Margot Robbie), her terrifyingly aggressive mother (Allison Janney) and her good - looking but idiotic and abusive future husband Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan) to address the camera directly while an amusing set of captions tell us that what follows has been inspired by an often «wildly contradictory» set of interviews.

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.

While the framing device wasn't exactly revolutionary — documentary - style footage of the conflict between mankind and alien life — the Johannesburgian director's blend of visual panache with hard - hitting themes such as apartheid and political corruption reestablished a healthy pulse for the genre.

Vivid scenes shot in a semi documentary style leave a strong impression as well.

Fukasaku and his team broke with the longstanding studio tradition of casting marquee idols as honorable, kimono - clad heroes, defending their gang bosses against unscrupulous villains, and instead adapted true accounts torn from the headlines, shot in a documentary - like style, and with few clear - cut heroes or villains.

Indeed, I would define Criss Cross as a classic noir reeking of metaphysical doom and murky spiritual disorientation, and the original Kiss of Death as a relatively crisp and prosaic documentary - style thriller shot in natural locations like Hathaway's The House on 92nd St. (1945) and Call Northside 777 (1948), Elia Kazan's Boomerang!

The camera follows them documentary - style, dodging the paws of the lecherous giants all around, showing that alertness to traumatic dangers has been acclimatised as part of their days.

At times, Riggen uses a documentary style of cinematography to detail the impact of the situation on those in other parts of Chile as well as around the world.

The Yes Men Fix the World (Unrated) Guerilla - style documentary about a couple of investigative reporters (Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno) who infiltrate corporate America by masquerading as businessmen in order to expose politicians, lobbyists and other people profiting from Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters.

«Behind the Battle» (6:44) describes and defends the movie's design as «a war film with aliens» and documentary style.

But Wormwood expands that divisive aspect of the documentary legend's methodology into uncharted territory, as Morris combines his famously hard - hitting interview style with scripted scenes starring Peter Sarsgaard as a man determined, for several decades, to find out what happened to his father, a scientist who died during the Cold War while working on a top - secret program.

The movie worked much better as a documentary (as it was advertised) and the blending of the two styles simply doesn't work.

As played by Robbie, who alongside the other actors narrates the entire movie through documentary - style interviews, Tonya Harding is a woman who craves the love she never gets at home and who pursues the thrill of performing for an audience accordingly.

J.J. Abrams, Adam Scott, and Kevin Smith appear as documentary - style talking heads attesting to the movie's significance.

He debuted in a Pepsi Max ad that was presented as documentary - style «chapters» — which later came together as a 20 - minute short film.

But such relatively commercial ventures were interspersed with the more personal work which increasingly occupied Akerman's attention, as in D'Est (From The East, 1993), an impressionist documentary of life in the former Soviet Union after the collapse of the Communist regime, composed in a series of static tableaux in Akerman's signature, contemplative style.

Written and created by Christopher Guest and Jim Piddock, the new comedy series FAMILY TREE is a single - camera, documentary - style show in the manner of Guest's acclaimed feature films (such as «Best in Show,» «Waiting for Guffman» and «A Mighty Wind»).

Though billed as a documentary, the movie has a photographic and editing style much more in line with that of modern mock - doc sitcoms.