Sentences with phrase «filming a documentary where»

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Those 10 years were laced with so many failures: quitting many times over, re-writing the edits of my re-write, working back in a cubicle, working back at the dream, trying to live in a retirement home to film a documentary, relationship debacles, a fire that almost burnt down my house and every other twist and turn of «God, where are you in this?»

The result is a movie that blurs the lines between fact and fiction, documentary and feature film, telling the story of childhood elation and adult struggle, in a motel where this happens every day and featuring dozens of extras who live within miles of the set.

RIP Dan Lynch, an old - school newspaperman who was also a novelist, producer of documentary films, radio and TV host, political candidate and teacher, who died at the age of 71 Sunday at a hospice in Delray Beach, Fla., where he moved after decades in the Capital Region.

When introducing his latest documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival Saturday night, director Alex Gibney joked that he was leaning towards keeping the name of his «mostly finished but not quite done» work the «Untitled Eliot Spitzer Film» because he'd never before made a film where he was «so uncertain about where [he] was going... and what the conclusions would be,» given the «divisive» nature of his subject.

Vasi, who studies collective behaviors, says the documentary worked as a catalyst for policy changes in the Marcellus Shale region (Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, and West Virginia) where Gasland was filmed.

The Serengeti Rules, a feature - length documentary film, connects these dots to reveal the invisible links that bind sea otters, whales, and kelp forests to ocean survival, and where wolves enable rivers to run clear.

About Blog Lights film school is an online learning environment where film makers come together to learn how to make great films and documentaries.

On the negative side there's Barry Braverman's pointless documentary «The Making of The Darjeeling Limited,» an unstructured 40 - minute slog of on - set footage where Anderson directs, the stars of the film wait around Indian locations, and the crew builds sets and manages local extras, all devoid of interviews or commentaries.

While filming his documentary of Dal Dong Nae, the poverty - stricken neighborhood in Seoul, Su - man witnesses a murder scene where three men in masks killing a woman.

He made a handful of talkies in Hollywood, then relocated to England in 1934, where he helmed several more films, among them the documentary Royal Cavalcade, before retiring in 1940.

While the main event of the film certainly did happen, as well as some of the scenes (some of them, excerpted from the documentary, are shown during the end credits), the film as a whole does tend to traverse familiar territory as far as feel - good sports films go, especially with the final game where all of the loose ends comfortably fall into place.

The film debuted at the SXSW Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary.

Blu - ray Highlight: In addition to an excellent six - part documentary that runs the entire gamut of production — from location shooting in Romania, to Nicolas Cage's (creepy) performance capture of the Ghost Rider, to special effects and more — the Blu - ray also includes a feature similar to Warner Bros.» Maximum Movie Mode where directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor dissect the film (sometimes pausing it to discuss certain scenes in more detail) with the help of behind - the - scenes footage.

(remix) music video by Danger Mouse and Jemini; deleted scenes and alternative takes, five in total, including an alternative ending (9 min) with a less subtle conversation between Richard and Mark, but a haunting final image of Richard with Anthony; images from Anjan Sarkars graphic novel animation matched to actual dialogue from the films soundtrack (the scene where Herbie first sees the elephant); In Shanes Shoes (24 min) documentary featuring the premiere at the 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival, interviews with Shane Meadows about run - ins with violent gangs in his youth, and on - location clowning; Northern Soul (26 min) also made by Meadows in 2004, and starring Toby Kebbell as an aspiring wrestler with no actual wrestling experience or talent - this comic short is as amateurish as its protagonist, and serves only to show how much better Dead Mans Shoes is.

BEST DOCUMENTARY: No factual film came close to Nick Broomfield's tragic profile WHITNEY CAN I BE ME for emotional impact, but Brad Abrahams» alien abductee oddity Love and Saucers, Jedd and Todd Wilder's heartbreaking mystery God Knows Where I Am and Roger Donaldson's Formula 1 biopic McLaren were standout performers in limited / festival release.

The Blu - ray exclusive documentary makes up slightly for the abysmal quality of Shrek the Third, so for the most part it's worth buying if you're kids are still of the age where they appreciate the Shrek films, because any parent knows the films have plenty of comedy the kids won't understand until they're older.

Other ties include 1931 - 32 where Frederic March and Wallace Beery shared best actor; in 1949 when two films tied for best documentary short; and in 1986 when there was a tie for best documentary.

Notable examples of people of color representation in the nominations pool come in the documentary category where the black male director of «Strong Island,» Yance Ford, is the first openly trans person to have a film nominated, and in foreign - language film where «A Fantastic Woman,» starring Chilean trans actress Daniela Vega, is a possible winner.

Arguably the most conventional of all the documentaries listed, and really we have a film similar to Amy where we come to understand an iconic figurehead in the music industry.

The one remaining elephant in the room is the 2015 Silver Screen Riot Awards where we pick and choose from the elite and populist alike to make our selection for best director, performer, cinematographer, screenplay, documentary, foreign film, action movie, horror movie and comedy.

The Toronto International Film Festival has announced its first wave of films, and they include the world premieres of The Martian, Trumbo, Demolition, and Michael Moore «s new documentary Where Do We Invade Next, as well as screenings of Tom Hooper «s The Danish Girl, Charlie Kaufman «s Anomalisa, Black Mass, Spotlight, Beasts of No Nation, Jason Bateman «s The Family Fang, and many more.

This absence takes on a more instructive shape in subsequent films where the documentary filmmaker as objective observer begins to imply more forcefully that «we» (filmmaker / audience) are not the same (ethnicity, culture, class) as «them» (homeless person / child, unemployed, marginal «other»).

The documentary feel to the film brings us deep inside the world where money and education are lacking, yet allows us to briefly walk in another's shoes to better understand a young man's life and choices.

Yet, since I travelled all the way to London, to meet with the screenwriter of Frenzy, Anthony Shaffer, and the cast members from the film, I've decided to introduce this exciting documentary from the famous Tower Bridge, where the movie begins.

The rest of the documentary covers the way the film has resonated in popular culture, and that's where it gets really interesting.

At the moment, there are nine films on Amazon's slate for 2017, though it should be noted that the studio was a major buyer at last year's Sundance Film Festival (where they acquired Manchester, Love & Friendship, and the documentary Oscar contender Gleason, among others), so that number could be beefed up by month's end.

The company's ascent up Hollywood's awards ladder began at the 2016 Academy Awards, where Brie Larson picked up the best actress Oscar for Room, Amy was named best documentary, and Ex Machina got the prize for best visual effects — all A24 films.

The set will include 13 hours of bonus features, with its centerpiece being a new documentary: The Sound of a City: Julie Andrews Returns to Salzburg — in which Ms. Andrews revisits the film's scenic locations, including Modessee Abbey, Nonnberg Abbey and the steps at Mirabell Gardens, where she and the children performed «Do - Re-Mi.»

The documentary «City of Ghosts» is a profound study in bravery; these men not only continue to risk torture and death (ISIS threats followed them to Turkey and Germany), but spend most of their waking hours watching and posting atrocities filmed by the equally courageous resistance within Raqqa, where the slightest infractions are punishable by death.

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).

The film is structured in a faux documentary style, where a group of town folks give the audience information directly to the camera.

This definitive release recycles Altman's excellent DVD commentary and adds enticing new features, such as a rare - for - Criterion retrospective documentary where the likes of actors Rene Auberjonois and Keith Carradine reflect on the film's production and its cultural moment.

The film won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award at Sundance this year, and was the opening night film last night at San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, where it made its west coast debut.

The field includes films from three directors who already have Documentary Feature Oscars on their mantels: Alex Gibney (Going Clear), who won for Taxi To The Dark Side; Davis Guggenheim (He Named Me Malala), a winner for An Inconvenient Truth; and Michael Moore (Where to Invade Next), who picked up a trophy with Bowling For Columbine.

She began filming his daily routine, which would have made for a fascinating documentary on its own; but the plot thickened when Lao Yu's 20 - year - old son, Maofu, returned from the city, where he had been studying marketing and trying to etch out a new life for himself.

Winner of the Most Popular International Documentary award at the 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival, where I first saw it and gave it a thunderous standing ovation while brushing aside delightful tears, Faces Places is the type of profoundly affecting film you just don't want to end but will happily revisit again and again.

I've never seen a year where my two favourite films (at this time) are documentaries, let alone ones that push the capabilities of documentary filmmaking and cinema itself into new directions.

The intriguing documentary marks the feature film directorial debut of Randall Wright, who does a great job of humanizing his subject to the point where you really feel as though you know this inscrutable, if charismatic public figure.

There are a number of good features, though, including a series of making of documentaries, a 24 minute long interview with Ceylan from the Cannes Film Festival, where his film won the Grand Prix for best film, and a theatrical trailer.

The DVD extras for this film feature a documentary where producer Michael Bay says he received phone calls from rival studio executives around Hollywood praising the trailer.

Along with the DVD comes an interview with Sally Potter and documentaries about filming in Uzbekistan (a stand - in for Constantinople) and Russia (where they shot the Great Frost, when the Thames froze over) and hoisting Jimmy Somerville up by crane to swing in the breeze while wearing angel's wings.

His latest documentary, Dawson City: Frozen Time, is the perfect pairing of subject and artist, giving him the chance to explore the ghostlike qualities of cinema through the story of a small town in Canada's Yukon Territory, where five hundred lost reels of nitrate film were buried in permafrost in a swimming pool.

«We expect the film to stay alive in theaters for a while because it's that rare documentary where audiences feel better leaving the theater than they do going in.»

Starring a top cast including Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci and Paul Bettany, «Margin Call» returns us to where previous films, including the Oscar - winning documentary «Inside Job» and the HBO drama «Too Big to Fail,» have gone before: the opening days of 2008's global financial crisis.

And then there's a scene where Laura finds two little blind brothers in the middle of the wasteland that seems to want to evoke a Jodorowsky mindscape (Herzog has said the film is meant to be a «daydream» that follows no cinematic rules), but because there's all that awful and redundant talking, it becomes something like a parody of Herzog's documentaries.

That's where a biography documentary can trump a creative film.

Jarvis is joining the Hybrid Vigour Documentary panel where he will discuss how British documentaries are pushing the boundaries in films about music, biographies and using archive film.

After all that it was back into the freezing cold, where we noble warriors of New York's critical army, charged once more by star power, steeled ourselves for another year of festival scheduling nightmares, summer superhero blight, sequels, prequels, inelegant issue - oriented documentaries and cheapo horror pics, knowing that it was our solemn obligation to sift through this morass, uncover and celebrate the great performances and future classic films.

This film could almost be a fictional documentary, where we try and fail to get into the head of this violent, but decent human being.

Sure, it's nice to discover little tidbits about the film (like how production design was based around the concept of a Victorian Tokyo), but where's our audio commentary with the cast and crew, not to mention a more comprehensive making - of documentary?