Sentences with phrase «for verite»

«We recognize the restraint of filmmakers letting image and sound speak for itself,» the jury said in honoring Bill and Turner Ross with a special jury award for verite filmmaking.

This is borne out by the film's relative lack of interest in anything that happens after Grant dies — the compelling story of the cell phone footage, the trial, the controversial verdict, and the unrest and memorialization that followed is told mostly through curt, pre-credit-roll titles.Yet the film also tries hard for a verite style, as opposed to something more allegorical, and so we have to conclude that we're supposed to accept its less believable moments at face value.

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The Board of Managers added an additional special award to William Jersey for his thoughtful cinema verite statement A Time for Burning.

for those not familiar with the hbo program, hard knocks is a cinema verite series that highlights a different professional football team each season.

Capturing the essence of its subject more than recapping her life and career, this verite - style documentary from director Sophie Fiennes follows the venerable Jamaican singer for several years, showing that she still has the same feisty spirit and magnetic stage presence well into her 60s.

Anyone expecting cinema verite on the order of Rocky or Raging Bull, for which Robert De Niro won an Academy Award in 1981, is destined to be disappointed.

At the film's recent press day, McKay, Lewis, Bale, Carell, Gosling, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, producer Jeremy Kleiner, and screenwriter Charles Randolph talked about turning the book into a movie and adapting it to the screen, why McKay was the right person to direct, what drew them to the project, how the actors met their real - life counterparts in preparation for their roles, the decision to combine a cinema verite documentary approach with other stylized elements, breaking the fourth wall, and using celebrities and pop culture figures as an entertaining storytelling device to explain complex financial concepts to the audience.

A trio of cult classics for folks inclined to keep it real via cinema verite.

The Amityville Tapes — a cinema verite - styled sequel — had been in development for quite some time, I wonder if this will be revived?

It is classic because Hooper masterfully enlisted a low rent verite for this bizarre story to do something utterly new.