Sentences with phrase «documentary than a feature»

Less cohesive documentary than feature - length red flag, The Bleeding Edge assembles a range of talking heads and upsetting case studies to target several key villains.

All we can do is go with what we've got, and while acknowledging and saluting and admiring these men and what they did on that train, the story as told here feels more suited for a hourlong documentary than a feature film.

Not exact matches

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

Don't be put off thinking this is gonna be just another boring talking heads documentary; featuring some of the most ingenious photographic manipulation I have ever seen, it's considerably more cinematic than you might expect.

Sadly, while the film is undeniably interesting on an anecdotal level, it often feels like an interesting special feature on a Criterion Blu - ray disc (it would have fit perfectly on their upcoming release of «The Graduate») more than it does a documentary feature that stands on its own.

There is a behind - the - scenes documentary for The Wave that talks about all aspects of the feature, but only at a surface level, it is more of a bird's eye view featurette than a talking head documentary.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

With more than six minutes of never - before - seen footage woven back into the film and an additional 24 minutes of deleted scenes, alternate endings and a retrospective documentary featuring the cast of the film, Dumb and Dumber: Unrated is a must own for every comedy fan!

The 3 - D IMAX «Born to be Wild» is only 40 minutes long — that's just how 3 - D IMAX documentaries roll — but in that short time it produces more «awwww» moments than any feature - length film to hit theaters this year.

His epic documentary, Cartel Land is more than a documentary — it's a visionary masterpiece that could rival any Hollywood feature film.

This year (with the exception of «Faces Places») the nominated documentary features are easier to access than ever.

You could argue that Ezra Edelman's eight - hour documentary, using the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson to examine race in America, is more a TV miniseries than a feature film.

The official submissions for Documentary Feature don't have too much to say other than it's still between «Life Itself» and «CITIZENFOUR» at the moment.

Available in standard edition and 2 - Disc «Collector's Edition» on both DVD and Blu - ray, that latter featuring the 18 - minute «The Making of Ip Man» (more promotional featurette than making - of documentary), deleted scenes, cast and crew interviews and a shooting diary among the supplements.

I'll provide a complete inventory below, but the point is that the main attraction of this set, other than the HiDef presentation of the trilogy itself, is a 7 - part, feature - length HD documentary spread across the three films / platters called Tales from the Future.

Wormwood opens more like a feature than a documentary series, with Peter Sarsgaard assuming the role of Frank Olson in an understated and nuanced performance.

An extended version of this documentary, featuring more than ten hours of additional interview footage, is featured on the second disc of the Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) limited edition Blu - ray released in 2017 by Arrow Video.

Best Feature: «The Wrestler» Best Director: Tom McCarthy, «The Visitor» Best Male Lead: Mickey Rourke, «The Wrestler» Best Female Lead: Melissa Leo, «Frozen River» Best Supporting Male: James Franco, «Milk» Best Supporting Female: Penelope Cruz, «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» Best Screenplay: «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» Best Cinematography: «The Wrestler» Best First Feature: «Synecdoche, New York» Best First Screenplay: «Milk» Best Foreign Film: «The Class» Best Documentary: «Man on Wire» Robert Altman Award: «Synecdoche, New York» John Cassavetes Award: «In Search of a Midnight Kiss» Lacoste Truer Than Fiction Award: Margaret Brown, «The Order of Myths» Piaget Producers Award: Heather Rae, «Frozen River» Someone to Watch Award: Lynn Shelton, «My Effortless Brilliance»

Loving is Jeff Nichols «fifth feature film outing in less than a decade and while Michael Shannon makes it five for five, this item, which is based in part on the Nancy Buirski's documentary «The Loving Story» is toplined by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga.

With the voting deadline for the Oscars» documentary - feature shortlist coming in less than 10 days, those films are among the handful of favorites emerging in the 124 - film field.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Coming off the wonderful sports documentary Lenny Cooke why did you decide to make this a feature film rather than a straight up documentary?

IFI Stranger Than Fiction is accepting entries of Irish and international short documentaries and for Irish feature - length documentaries

Attenberg, her second feature, takes place in Greece, though it is more complicated than simply representing the nation, as its references to the anthropological quality of David Attenborough's documentaries indicate.

There was a variety of guerilla - style close - ups that made the film feel like a documentary rather than a feature.

With a fine feature presentation and a decent collection of extras, this Blu - ray release leaves nothing to be desired, though as with any documentary, you'll need to be really into the subject to expect to watch it more than once.

The ACE Eddie nominations for best edited feature films, documentary and animated features were announced with more than a few shocks and surprises.

Partially shot by director Spike Jonze (he and Coppola were married from 1999 - 2003), the documentary features cast / crew interactions, glimpses of Coppola's directorial methods, various scenes from the movie in the process of shooting, and plenty of entertaining footage of the always great Bill Murray — including more than a few instances of his favorite phrase to recite in Japanese: «who do you think you're talking to?»

If anything, the performances are hindered due to the wealth of footage that has been seen in no less than four documentaries featuring the real people.

(No fewer than four of this year's Best Documentary Feature nominees are Sundance babies.)

Older than Ireland won best feature length documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2015 against some formidable opposition.

Bart Layton's audacious feature debut uniquely tacks together documentary and narrative styles to tell the stranger than fiction tale of a notorious art heist gone horribly wrong.

Andy Serkis» feature directorial debut, Breathe, is a film that is emotionally exhausting to watch and it is one that would have best been served as a documentary rather than what could easily be described as an expensive home movie.

Varda has experimented with all forms of filmmaking from shorts to documentaries to narrative feature films during her more than 60 - year career, including such works as the New Wave classic Cleo from 5 to 7, and Le Bonheur.

Featuring more than two hours of content, the bonus disc will include all - new original shorts, documentaries, two episodes from the animated series and more.

James Marsh's fantastic 2008 documentary Man on Wire already told this story in epic fashion, and features the charming, larger - than - life Petit recounting the unbelievable events in an entertaining, exhilarating fashion.

Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume Three collects six features by the enormously prolific director from that era (and two documentaries) on a four - disc set, and they are something else, films strewn with wild melodrama, romantic triangles, brawny action and some of the sexiest scenes of heavy petting and passionate smooching you've seen out of old Hollywood, with more frank sexuality more suggested than shown but there is no mistaking the suggestions.

It comes with a Cronenberg commentary track, several features, including an in - depth making - of documentary that's longer than the film, plus stills, trailers and deleted / extended scenes.

His most recent feature documentary, The Kill Team, won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Truer than Fiction Independent Spirit Award, and a nomination from the Director's Guild documentary, The Kill Team, won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Truer than Fiction Independent Spirit Award, and a nomination from the Director's Guild Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Truer than Fiction Independent Spirit Award, and a nomination from the Director's Guild of America.

Though billed as a documentary, this 59 - minute doodle barely rises above homemovie status, featuring more material of Corfixen's two daughters dancing naked around hotel rooms than it does actual on - set footage — though ambient music from «Drive» composer Cliff Martinez gives her a distinct advantage over most amateur videographers.

Agnes Varda, nominated for Best Documentary Feature with her film Faces Places, is one year older than Plummer, and the current record holder for oldest nominee.

Severin Films» acclaimed documentary Lost Soul — The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr Moreau will make its US Blu - ray and DVD debut on July 14, packed with more special features than Dr Moreau's abominable animal / human hybrids.

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.

As featured in the 2008 HBO documentary Hard Times at Douglass High, the school suffered from low academic performance and graduated less than 25 percent of its students.

This solo show, featuring more than 100 of his unfired clay objects and two documentary films, is the first major presentation of his work since his death in 1993.

For more than 30 years, Hershman Leeson has employed innovative technology to probe issues of identity, embodiment and expression in newly engaging ways, producing complex works of computer engineering as well as powerful documentaries and feature films.

It is, apparently, a «pompous, empty feature film» that is «more like a high - class piece of perverse nostalgia porn'than a documentary.

More than 100 pieces of the artist's work are featured, including paintings, sculptures, installations, and documentary film footage.

Art Design Chicago features more than 25 exhibitions and hundreds of public programs, presented throughout 2018, as well as the creation of several scholarly publications and a four - part documentary.

In addition to work by more than 35 area artists, the exhibition also features documentary photography, video and other cultural ephemera.