Sentences with phrase «film documentary american»

Not exact matches

Roberto Romano, co-director of documentary film, «The Dark Side of Chocolate,» discusses his findings of forced child labor in many of the foods Americans eat.

Tomorrow's films (free, but first come, first served) are Paris Noir, a documentary on black American poets, writers, artists and others living in Paris in the 1920s and»30s, and When Voice Rise, a documentary on desegregation in 1950s Bermuda.

Flaherty was featured in a recent article in The New York Times and in a documentary film on depression among medical professionals produced by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), and she openly discussed a major depressive episode that eventually hospitalized her in her 2004 best - selling book, The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain.

Two African American producers based in Atlanta have been filming the SpelBots to make a documentary about the team and their experiences at the RoboCup events.

That journey — filled with personal milestones for Joe, and eye - opening experiences with average Americans — was captured on film, and has become the award - winning documentary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead.

A documentary made about Okinawa showed a 100 year old villager with better fitness levels than an entire film crew less than half her age, a 96 year old martial artist who beat a 36 year old boxing champion (on national American television live) and even a 105 year old woman who easily killed poisonous snakes.

This 2010 American film can be viewed as a documentary film on the matter.

Obviously, the film leans in the direction of peace, but it's as subjective as a documentary could possibly be on this subject, and it definitely makes one think of the true consequences of war, the nature of American imperialism, and how it all relates to our current situation in Iraq and the rest of the world.

The whole film is a lively lesson in music history that should stimulate renewed interest in Native American artists and convince other documentary filmmakers that there is still much more to explore.

Sundance will premiere 16 American narrative feature films, and 26 films in the world cinema dramatic and documentary competitions.

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Kurt Loder named this film «American Cannibal» the best Documentary of the year.

The prominent American film critic spent almost 40 years at Time Magazine, as well as a library of books and created many documentaries about film.

The Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary was presented to: Sandi Tan, for her film Shirkers (Director & Screenwriter: Sandi Tan, Producers: Sandi Tan, Jessica Levin, Maya Rudolph)-- In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie with her enigmatic American mentor Georges — who then vanished with all the footage.

He dropped out of film school in the early»90s to make a documentary about the notorious punk rocker GG Allin, and by the end of the decade he was making his first mainstream comedy, the American Pie - lite college romp, Road Trip.

His 2015 documentary, Cartel Land, about American and Mexican vigilante groups fighting drug cartels along the US - Mexican border, features stomach - churning examples of Heineman putting himself in danger to film extreme close - ups of shootouts and other menacing encounters.

ANDY WARHOL — a four - hour documentary film for broadcast on PBS as part of the American Masters 20th Anniversary season premieres September 20th and 21st, 2006.

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.

Home Video Notes: The Breakfast Club Release Date: 2 January 2018 Criterion releases The Breakfast Club on home video (Blu - ray) with the following extras: - Audio commentary from 2015 featuring actors Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson - New interviews with actors Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy - New video essay featuring director John Hughes's production notes, read by Nelson - Documentary from 2015 featuring interviews with cast and crew - 50 minutes of never - before - seen deleted and extended scenes - Rare promotional and archival interviews and footage - Excerpts from a 1985 American Film Institute seminar with Hughes 1999 radio interview with Hughes - Segment from a 1985 episode of NBC's Today show featuring the film's cast - Audio interview with Molly Ringwald from a 2014 episode of This American Life - Trailer - PLUS: An essay by critic David Kamp

In 2004 I worked as the field producer for Boston film critic Gerald Peary's documentary about American film criticism «For The Love of Movies,» which had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in 2009.

Cutler's other work includes the documentary films The War Room, A Perfect Candidate, Thin, The September Issue, The World According to Dick Cheney and Listen To Me Marlon; the documentary television series American High, Freshman Diaries, The Residents and 30 Days; and the prime time drama series Nashville.

THIS FILM FESTIVAL WINNING DOCUMENTARY directed by Julie Cohen (American Veteran, The Sturgeon Queens) and Betsy West (Constantine's Sword, The Lavender Scare) was a joy to watch.

Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994) Seldom has a film, narrative or documentary, so probingly explored the American Dream.

But it's also a time when the various foreign films, documentaries, smaller American independent movies and a few genuinely unclassifiable flicks that also hit theaters don't seem like counterprogramming so much as complimentary.

American Spectrum is a non-competitive program spotlighting independent dramatic and documentary films.

Thanks to «Olympia,» filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl's two - part documentary fantasia on the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the eternal film image of Jesse Owens is that of a calm, then fiercely competitive, then jubilant American dominating the Germans and everyone...

Anatomy of a Killer Theme Song» new interview with the original members of the American punk band, The Dickies; «The Chiodos Walk Among Us: Adventures in Super 8 Filmmaking» new documentary highlighting the making of the Chiodo Brothers childhood films, from the giant monster epics made in their basement to their experiments in college; new HD transfers of the complete collection of the Chiodo Brothers 8 mm and Super 8 films, including «Land of Terror,» «Free Inside,» «Beast from the Egg», and more; «Tales of Tobacco» interview with star Grant Cramer; «Debbie's Big Night» interview with star Suzanne Snyder; «Bringing Life to These Things» tour of Chiodo Bros..

Hoop Dreams Year: 1994 Director: Steve James Seldom has a film, narrative or documentary, so probingly explored the American Dream.

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Documentary winner TJ Martin, of the film Undefeated, took a rather more blunt approach, letting slip the phrase «fucking amazing» — though it was unclear whether Melissa Leo, last year's deliverer of the F - bomb and back this year as presenter, was responsible for the ultimate American television no - no via a sort of expletive - prone osmosis.

To its great credit, «Motley's Law,» a new documentary film making its North American premiere at the 51st Chicago International Film Festival, exudes much of those four essential qualities of a good documentary.

Terry Zwigoff's landmark 1995 film is an intimate documentary portrait of the underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art.

«Life Itself,» the acclaimed documentary directed by Steve James about iconic film critic Roger Ebert, will receive the award for Best Documentary at the African American Film Critics Association's awards gala on Wednesday, February 4th, at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood, documentary directed by Steve James about iconic film critic Roger Ebert, will receive the award for Best Documentary at the African American Film Critics Association's awards gala on Wednesday, February 4th, at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood, Documentary at the African American Film Critics Association's awards gala on Wednesday, February 4th, at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood, California.

The Philadelphia Film Festival's «PFF On Us» program continues in 2014 with free tickets available for all the films featured in the «American Independents» and «Documentary Showcase» film categories.

(Solondz goes so far as to enlist that film's Mike Schank as a documentary filmmaker's cameraman; the doc in question is called «American Scooby.»)

After breaking out in 2012 with «Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare» — a film he co-directed with Susan Froemke, and which was nominated for a Grand Jury prize at Sundance — the 34 - year - old filmmaker followed up with a one - two punch: the Oscar - nominated drug documentary «Cartel Land» in 2015, and his latest film, «City of Ghosts,» which is already garnering buzz in advance of next year's nominations.

The experiences of five American film directors at war are examined in this stunning documentary series.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS American Swing (Unrated) Wife - swapping documentary revisits the rise and fall of Plato's Retreat, the New York City sex club which opened in 1977 and catered to its orgy - loving clientele until the specter of AIDS began to take the luster off the hedonistic lifestyle by the early Eighties.

Rescue Dawn — Werner Herzog's remake of his own documentary about the true story of an American pilot shot down on his first mission in Vietnam who escapes from a Laotian POW camp and has to fight his way through the jungle has terrific performances from Christian Bale (with a wild accent), Steve Zahn (not being funny) and Jeremy Davies (who played my most reviled character in Saving Private Ryan, a war film much inferior to this one).

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.

Emmy - nominated composer, Miriam Cutler is passionate about scoring documentaries, among them Emmy winning, Sundance, and Oscar nominated films: ETHEL, LOST IN LA MANCHA, THIN, POSTER GIRL, KINGS POINT, GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB, AMERICAN PROMISE, VITO, DESERT OF FORBIDDEN ART, SCOUTS HONOR, LICENSE TO KILL, ONE LAST HUG.

Notably, the top films in both the narrative and documentary categories differ from the ones that took home the grand jury prizes, which singled out «I don't feel at home in this world anymore» and «Dina» in the American categories.

Finally, the Audience Award went to I Declare War (a film I found quite charming), the well - directed and funny Flicker won the «New Wave» Spotlight competition, The American Scream won Best Documentary, and New Kids Nitro won Best Comedy.

I chased The Other Side Of Hope with a film whose existential metaphors and appreciation for the drudgery and social habits of working stiffs couldn't be more different from Kaurismäki's droll, Capra-esque humanism: Good Luck (Grade: B), a striking documentary mood - piece by the American experimental director Ben Russell (Let Each One Go Where He May, A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness).

Masterfully addressing the American racial divide, past and present, director Raoul Peck's six - years - in - the - making documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, is a galvanizing, ominous film, thrumming with a sense of history repeating itself.

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Special Features Conversation between director Robert Altman and actor Tim Robbins from 2004 Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country, a feature - length 1993 documentary on the making of Short Cuts To Write and Keep Kind, a 1992 PBS documentary on the life of author Raymond Carver One - hour 1983 audio interview with Carver, conducted for the American Audio Prose Library Original demo recordings of the film's Doc Pomus Mac Rebennack songs, performed by Rebennack (Dr. John) Deleted scenes A look inside the marketing of Short Cuts PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Wilmington

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy is a 2010 American four - hour direct - to - DVD documentary film that chronicles the entire Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and the rise of New Line Cinema.

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