Some Background: Marc Silver's
first documentary feature, WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL?
Josh and Benny Safdie, the brothers behind the absurdest character studies, The Please Of Being Robbed and Daddy Longlegs, bring
us their first documentary feature, the story of one Lenny Cooke.
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by George Wolf and Hope Madden Now that Adam Kontras's
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Hutton's
first documentary feature was Crude Independence, a portrait of small - town life during the present - day oil boom in North Dakota.
Not exact matches
While the creators
first set out to make a
feature film - length
documentary, things changed when 16 - year - old Dassey was arrested for helping his uncle.
The
first two chapters,
documentary Beyond the Gates of Splendor and
feature film End of the Spear, were effective accounts of the story, but this third film adds little to the saga.
Jonai Farms
features in Australia's
first food politics
documentary Fair Food, and Tammi also has a chapter in the anthology Fair Food, published by UQ Press.
From September — October 2013, AFSA worked with the Field Institute to crowd - fund $ 32,675 to make Australia's
first feature - length food politics
documentary, «Fair Food».
First featured in the Institute's long - running PBS
documentary, The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer, the Six Pillars ® program, is designed to reduce the risk of concussions and long - term injury from repetitive head impacts while minimizing the effects of concussion in young female and male athletes.
Chocolate Milk: The
Documentary counters this habitually negative narrative as award - winning director and producer Elizabeth Bayne, MPH, MFA explores the racial inequities of breastfeeding in her
first feature - length film.
She is currently in production on her
first feature - length
documentary, «Why Not Home?»
June to October at the Wiener Library Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry This
documentary is the
first feature - length film to give a detailed insight into the life of internationally renowned Chinese activist Ai Weiwei.
These findings
feature for the
first time in a Channel 4
documentary on Sunday 17th August at 9 pm.
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featuring celebrated journalist and writer Robert MacNeil in his
first public television
documentary try again.
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featuring celebrated journalist and writer Robert MacNeil in his
first public television
documentary
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featuring celebrated journalist and writer Robert MacNeil in his
first public television
documentary The old «round pound» has ceased to be legal tender - here's what to do if you have any left
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featuring celebrated journalist and writer Robert MacNeil in his
first public television
documentary Representing contemporary artists.
Sarah Polley's third
feature (following Take this Waltz and Away from Her) and
first documentary so impressed critics when it premiered on the festival circuit last fall that it landed on several best of 2012 critic lists despite not yet reaching theaters outside of Canada.
Mr. Weinstein made
documentaries before this, his
first fiction
feature, and it shows.
The real value of the
documentary from Douglas McGrath lies in charting Nichols» creative trajectory from the staging and improvisation lessons learned with comedy partner Elaine May, through collaborations with playwright Neil Simon on «Barefoot in the Park» and «The Odd Couple,» and the director's
first two
feature films, both legendary — «Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?»
Between his narrative and
documentary features, director Kevin Macdonald is well on his way to banging out six films in the span of three years, and we now have our
first look at the Last King of Scotland helmer's 2014...
To spotlight a few of those 7 percenters, BFF included in its five - day run an all - female From the Director's Chair panel
featuring Oscar - nominated director Jennifer Yuh Nelson («Kung Fu Panda»), actor - filmmaker Maggie Kiley («Caught,» «We Own the Night»),
documentary director Elisa Paloschi («Driving Selvi»), and Meera Menon, director of the fest's opening film «Equity,» the
first female - centered Wall Street story (Anna Gunn stars opposite Alysia Reiner, Sarah Megan Thomas, and James Purefoy.)
In Cannes and Venice it is about discovering emerging talent through
first and second
features, and, at Locarno,
documentaries.
Elsewhere on the blog I review Black Orpheus (Criterion) and Orlando (Sony), and also released this week is L'enfance Nue (Criterion), the debut
feature from French director Maurice Pialat, and this DVD debut includes Pialat's
first film, the 1960 short L'amour existe, and the 1968
documentary Autor de L'enfance nue, among its supplements.
Josh premiered two projects at Sundance 2018: Monsters and Men (Special Jury Prize for Outstanding
First Feature) and the live
documentary A Thousand Thoughts.
The studio, which is a distant
first in
feature film output, has released a 3D IMAX
documentary between the months of February and April for the past four years.
(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.
This tribute to Schepisi's important contribution as an Australian and international filmmaker, a distinctive auteur and jobbing filmmaker, covers his early work in
documentary (his fascinating short on The Age newspaper, People Make Papers), the mercurial critical reception of his groundbreaking opus The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, the representation of landscape across his
first three Australian
features (specifically in the partisan and compassionate Evil Angels, 1988), his initial project in the United States (the elemental and mythic Western, Barbarosa), the now iconic Six Degrees of Separation, and the importance of adaptation and collaboration across his cinema.
Best Film: «Of Gods and Men» Best Director: Roman Polanski, «The Ghost Writer» Best Actor: Eric Elmosnino, «Gainsbourg» Best Actress: Sara Forestier, «The Names of Love» Best Supporting Actor: Michael Lonsdale, «Of Gods and Men» Best Supporting Actress: Anne Alvaro, «The Clink of Ice» Most Promising Actor: Edgar Ramirez, «Carlos» Most Promising Actress: Leïla Bekhti, «Tout ce qui brille» Best Original Screenplay: Baya Kasmi and Michel Leclerc, «The Names of Love» Best Adapted Screenplay: Robert Harris and Roman Polanski, «The Ghost Writer» Best Foreign Film: «The Social Network» Best Animated
Feature: «The Illusionist» Best
Documentary: «Oceans» Best
First Film: «Gainsbourg» Best Cinematography: Caroline Champetier, «Of Gods and Men» Best Art Direction: Hugues Tissandier, «The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc - Sec» Best Costume Design: Caroline de Vivaise, «The Princess of Montpensier» Best Film Editing: Hervé de Luze, «The Ghost Writer» Best Sound: «Gainsbourg» Best Short Film: «Logorama»
His
first feature documentary DMT: The Spirit Molecule was released in 2011 (Gravitas Ventures & Warner Bros Digital).
On the strength of his
documentaries, Antonioni secured financing from Vallani Film to make his
first fictional
feature in Milan.
Best Actor — Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant Best Actress — Brie Larson, Room Best Animated Film - Inside Out Best Body of Work — Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina, The Danish Girl, Testament of Youth Best Director — George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road Best
Documentary - Amy Best
First Feature — Alex Garland, Ex Machina Best Foreign Language Film - Son of Saul Best Original Screenplay - Spotlight Best Adapted Screenplay — Charles Randolph and Adam McKay, The Big Short Best Supporting Actor — Michael Keaton, Spotlight and Sylvester Stallone, Creed (tie) Best Supporting Actress — Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina Most Disappointing Film - Tomorrowland
Best Actor — Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea Best Actress — Amy Adams, Arrival Best Animated Film - Zootopia Best Body of Work — Amy Adams, Arrival, Nocturnal Animals Best Director — Damien Chazelle, La La Land Best
Documentary - OJ: Made in America Best Ensemble Cast - Manchester by the Sea Best
First Feature — Robert Eggers, The Witch Best Foreign Language Film - The Handmaiden Best Original Screenplay - Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea Best Adapted Screenplay — Eric Heisserer, Arrival Best Supporting Actor — Mahershala Ali, Moonlight Best Supporting Actress — Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea Most Disappointing Film - Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
Best Actor - George Clooney - The Descendants Best Actress - Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn Best Animated Film - The Adventures of Tintin Best Director - Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist Best
Documentary - Page One: Inside the New York Times Best
First Feature - Martha Marcy May Marlene - Sean Durkin Best Foreign Language Film - The Skin I Live In The Not - So - Obviously Worst Film - Hangover Part II The Obviously Worst Film - Transformers: Dark of the Moon Best Screenplay (Original)- The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius Best Screenplay (Adaptation)- Moneyball - Aaron Sorkin Best Supporting Actor - Albert Brooks - Drive Best Supporting Actress - Octavia Spencer - The Help
Feature Film: Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
First - Time
Feature Film: Jordan Peele, Get Out
Documentary: Matthew Heineman, City of Ghosts Dramatic Series: Reed Morano, The Handmaid's Tale Comedy Series: Beth McCarthy - Miller, «Chicklet,» Veep Movies for Television and Mini-Series: Jean - Marc Vallee, Big Little Lies Variety / Talk / News / Sports: Regularly Scheduled Programming: Don Roy King, «Host: Jimmy Fallon,» Saturday Night Live Variety / Talk / News / Sports: Specials: Glenn Weiss, The 89th Annual Academy Awards Reality Programs: Brian Smith, «Vegas Deluze & Oyster Shucks,» MasterChef Children's Programs: Niki Caro, «Your Will Shall Decide Your Destiny,» Anne with an E Commercials: Martin de Thurah, «Festival,» StubHub, «Machines,» StubHub, and «Mad World,» Wealth Simple
Features: generally excellent Audio Commentaries [various configurations of producers, writers, directors and cast comment on all eight episodes]; Take a Look at the Lawman — a one hour making of
documentary split between discs one and two; Interview Clip with Bharat Nalluri [director for the
first two episodes]; The Music of Life On Mars — composer Ed Butt takes us through the surprisingly complex task of composing and arranging the series» theme music; Get Sykes — featurette with production designer Brian Sykes, and a [sadly] pretty average Outtakes Reel.
BEST SPORTS
DOCUMENTARY AlphaGo — Director: Greg Kohs (Submarine Entertainment / Moxie Pictures, Reel As Dirt) Disgraced — Director: Pat Kondelis (Showtime Networks / Bat Bridge Entertainment) Icarus — Director: Bryan Fogel (Netflix / Alex Productions, Diamond Docs, Impact Partners) Speed Sisters — Director: Amber Fares (
First Run
Features / SocDoc Studios) Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton — Director: Rory Kennedy (Sundance Selects / Moxie Firecracker Films) Trophy — Directors: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz (CNN Films, The Orchard / Candescent Films, Pulse Films, Reel Peak Films)
Their
first feature, 45365, won the Best
Documentary Prize at SXSW and was followed by...
«A Private War» is BAFTA, DGA and Academy Award - nominated filmmaker Matthew Heineman's
first narrative project after helming
feature documentaries including «Cartel Land» and «City of Ghosts.»
Writer - director George Ratliff has helmed
feature - length
documentaries in the past, but Joshua is his
first real stab at narrative filmmaking.
Of the other films I saw, the only real enthusiasm I felt was for the Inarritu's «Biutiful,» Bertrand Tavernier «The Princess of Montpensier,» the
first Chad
feature «A Screaming Man,» the South Korean «Poetry» and the out - of competition
documentary «Inside Job.»
Check it out below... From acclaimed director Brett Morgen, this
first ever, fully authorised
documentary feature blends Cobain's personal archive of art, written word, music (both -LSB-...]
The
first disc includes the theatrical release of the film, along with an interesting
feature commentary track by director Marshall and screenwriter Bill Condon, as well as the deleted musical number «Class,» and a 27 - minute
documentary on bringing the musical to the big screen («From Stage to Screen: The History of Chicago»).
A pal of mine Boston - based director Alan Chebot is showing his
first independently produced
feature - length
documentary OUTERMOST RADIO / The Film.
Ezra Edelman, Ava DuVernay, Raoul Peck, Roger Ross Williams —
First time four Blacks received Best
Documentary Feature nominations in same year.
It would have been nice to have the making - of
documentary in HD possibly, or maybe something on that incredible score by Thomas Newman, but at least the special
features from the DVD the
first time around were pretty decent.
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First runner - up: A Separation · Second runner - up: Starbuck Cadillac People's Choice Award for Best
Documentary: The Island President Cadillac People's Choice for Midnight Madness: The Raid Int» l Critics Special Presentations Prize: The
First Man Int» l Critics Discovery Programme Prize: Avalon Best Canadian
Feature: Monsieur Lazhar SKYY Vodka Award for Best First Canadian feature: Edwin Boyd Best CDN short film goes to: Ian Harnarine's Doubles With Slight
Feature: Monsieur Lazhar SKYY Vodka Award for Best
First Canadian
feature: Edwin Boyd Best CDN short film goes to: Ian Harnarine's Doubles With Slight
feature: Edwin Boyd Best CDN short film goes to: Ian Harnarine's Doubles With Slight Pepper
Bonus
Features: • Secrets of The Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey — For the
first time, discover the complete story behind the making of The Force Awakens, revealed through in - depth footage and exclusive interviews with the actors and filmmakers in this
feature documentary.
The
feature documentary will be called 21 Years: Quentin Tarantino, and will be a retrospective of the
first 21 years of the filmmaker's career.