For the next four decades, he was rarely off British TV screens, appearing
in docus, chat - shows and quiz shows, as well as hosting a series in the U.S., «Talking With Frost.»
One is understandably quicker to compare it to great docs like American Movie or Best Worst Movie than, say, Hearts of Darkness, but really it's closer to five
star docus like Tim Burton's Ed Wood or Mario Van Peebles» Baadasssss.
The story of the Entebbe raid and hijackings has been told before on TV and in
numerous docus.
Those films beat out
docus made by veteran nonfiction helmers including Kirby Dick («The Invisible War»), Wim Wenders («Pina») and Oscar - winner Roger Ross Williams («Life Animated»).
Recycled docus include «The Making of Star Wars,» «Star Wars Tech» and «The Making of Star Wars» (all from 1977) as well as «The Empire Strikes Back: SPFX» (1980).
The Blu - ray's
docus don't address the old charges that Chaplin spiked Buster Keaton's best work in the film.
Better are
docus on Bernard Herrmann's score (facilitated by Steven C. Smith, Herrmann's biographer) and Ray Bradbury himself, who, in his grandfatherly way, relates how he came to write the novel in nine days and, serendipitously, serialize it in issues 2, 3, and 4 of a fledgling magazine called PLAYBOY.
«Jackie Gleason: The Big Man» is the least of the three
new docus, a puff piece that celebrates the TV comic.
Two
docus profile the down - home director: «Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood» from 1996 and a more recent bio from Bravo.
Both docus were preferred by critics, industry groups and nonfiction orgs who were alike in singing their praises.
Highlight for me, though (as it is in each of
these docus): getting to listen to Rose Byrne speak in her natural accent.
Most events depicted in the film are expanded upon in the interviews and
docus.
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