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The New York Times reported Friday that the already partially - filmed documentary hit a roadblock when the former president insisted on having approval over interview questions and other aspects of the film.

Not exact matches

It's for reasons like this that a German documentarian named Ulli Wendelmann, known for hard - hitting exposés on the German prison system and Russia's oligarchy, recently filmed a documentary examining the oddball marriage between the New York startup and the former East German factory.

Description: Host Elle Russ sits down with CJ Hunt, the writer, producer and host of the break out film hit (and first Paleo documentary), The Perfect Human Diet, and author of the how - to companion guide of the same title.

From the creators of the best - selling documentary FOOD MATTERS comes another hard - hitting film certain to rock your world.

Even though he's put out hits and misses, German director Wim Wenders has had an extraordinary career, balancing innovative narrative films like Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire with memorable documentaries The Buena Vista Social Club and Pina.

While 2013 may have seen foreign language films take a back seat to the large number of truly great English - language features and documentaries, Romanian cinema and its current king, Cristian Mungiu, hit 2013 with one of its truly great pictures.

He's done a few shorts, and two documentaries, but his three feature films so far — the comedy «The Ape,» the Sal Mineo biopic «Sal,» and Hart Crane tale «The Broken Tower» — haven't exactly become big hits or critical favorites.

The film is framed as a documentary — think The Office or Best in Show — and follows Harding from the trailer park with her foulmouthed mother (played by Allison Janney, who is already generating Oscar buzz) to the skating arena to the infamous Nancy Kerrigan hit that would define her life from there on out.

«Amy» (July 3) This documentary film from director Asif Kapadia chronicles the life and career of late singer - songwriter Amy Winehouse, famous for her hits «Rehab,» «Tears Dry On Their Own,» and «Back To Black,» among others.

That's when Paramount Pictures, Participant Media and Walden Media announced that 50,000 people pledged to see the award - winning documentary film «Waiting for «Superman»» when it opens in the fall, meaning they hit their third goal -LSB-...]

Thorpe's documentary, which hit theaters in July and landed on Netflix this week, is an interesting film in that it is part memoir, part social study.

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.

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.

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.

Like the engaging hit documentary Spellbound, this dance competition film gets under the skin and holds us in its grip like a well - crafted thriller.

Before then, there were hit music documentaries like «Woodstock» but most other nonfiction films could expect short runs in few theaters before dutiful audiences.

It would have been easy to poke fun at the crass kitsch of the Bollywood hit parade that opens the film, but James Ivory's socio - artistic commentary (narrated by director Anthony Korner) sets a detached, almost disinterested tone, lending the documentary a gloss of seriousness.

When The Blair Witch Project hit multiplexes in 1999, it not only became a summer blockbuster and box - office phenomenon, it rewrote the grammar of horror films — a lot of viewers thought it was a documentary.

Other highlights from 2016 (and also must see films) have included the very informative and poignant documentary, «Maya Angelou and Still I Rise,» by Rita Coburn Whack and Bob Hercules; Mick Jackson's «Denial,» the gripping Holocaust denial tale with compelling performances from Rachel Weisz and Timothy Spall; Paul Verhoeven's «Elle,» with its great Isabelle Huppert performance; the remarkably thoughtful sci - fi film, «Arrival,» by Denis Villeneuve; Tom Ford's «Nocturnal Animals,» with its outstanding performances from Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon; David Mackenzie's «Hell or High Water,» this summer's sleeper hit; Cristian Mungiu's «Graduation,» winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes; and Cristi Puiu's «Sieranevada,» winner of the top prize at this year's Chicago International Film Festival.

The two Mother's Day documentaries are sandwiched by a pair of foreign films Carlos Marques - Marcet's SXSW hit «10,000 KM» and Michel Gondry's «Mood Indigo.»

Starring filmmaker Alex Ross Perry (The Color Wheel) and Gabino Rodríguez (Greatest Hits), the film blends documentary and fiction, allusion and deconstruction, and questions on the future of film confronted through a cornucopia of filming formats.

Eva Longoria will judge the documentary and student short film competitions when the New York film festival, Tribeca, hits the U.K. Abigail Breslin,...

B - The Invisible War Not Rated Available on DVD This years Sundance winner for documentary is a hard - hitting film about the massive cover - up and mishandling of rape in the military.

From documentary films about the issue hitting the mainstream, to celebrities talking about their experiences being tormented, to the endless media coverage, the message is loud but not necessarily clear: Do something!

Many new films have their Central American debut at this event, and you will come across blockbuster hits as well as indie documentaries made by Belize residents.

The film also tends to follow the career of a specific programmer at times, Howard Scott Warshaw, who created hits like «Yars» Revenge», but was also the one responsible for the infamously bad «E.T.» As of right now, the documentary (titled «Atari: Game Over «-RRB-, is scheduled for a virtual release next month, and will be an exclusive to Xbox Live subscribers.

The documentary film is scheduled to hit theaters May 11.

Prejudice, superstition, and resentment inspire the work of Slovakian self - styled «art activist» and documentary filmmaker, Tomas Rafa, who, since 2009, through his ongoing project New Nationalism, has produced a hard - hitting dossier of film and still images representing the resurgence of extreme right - wing, xenophobic, and neo-fascist groups in Central Europe.

Fox and crew, reportedly filming a follow - up to their hit documentary on hydraulic fracturing, were ejected from the public hearing.