Sentences with phrase «head interviews»

It also benefits from remarkable editing, by cutting down a ton of home movie footage and combining it with unique animations that periodically replace talking head interviews.

The film is largely built on talking - head interviews with scientific experts.

The stories told in talking - head interviews pinball between parties, and ultimately what gets lost is empathy for whom it matters most: Harding.

The talking - head interviews laid throughout the entire film also spoil any sense of dramatic flow the story ever had.

Found - footage works best when you feel like you're an active witness in the events unfolding on - screen, but playing up the «documentary» aspect removes audience involvement because it naturally creates a disconnect (Europa Report handled this effectively by having talking - head interviews in the first act, only to end up using them as sparingly as possible throughout the rest of the movie).

Only an occasional still photo — and no actual scenes from the shows — breaks the static, talking head interview monotony, making for a featurette that is not only a bore, but one curiously devoid of crucial frames of reference.

Heineman not only knows how to film: he also knows how to make a documentary, eliminating talking heads interviews by having characters talk directly to the camera or each other.

There are three vintage television specials, the theatrical trailers, additional scenes in high definition, a tour of Nick Dudman's creature shop, a Spanish - language interview with Alfonso Cuaron, Conjuring A Scene, about creating Buckbeak the hippogriff and the Dementors, Creating The Vision, an interview with J. K. Rowling and the filmmakers, and Johnny Vaughan and the shrunken head interview with the cast.

The other is an exclusive look at Ant - Man and the Wasp that is essentially the last trailer intercut with talking head interviews from those involved.

Nearly a decade ago, I remember every critic, columnist and talking head interviewed on the 2000 Oscar race saying that, yes, Marcia Gay Harden deserved the Best Supporting Actress Oscar hands down for that barely - seen Jackson Pollock biopic, but she didn't have a prayer against starrier competition.

A charming and promising start gets derailed by the structure of the film, which continually jumps from one year to the next, always on Senna's birthday, as different characters give talking head interviews about their own birthday wishes and fulfillments.

The film was directed by Constantine Nasr and narrated by Kenneth Branagh, featuring talking head interviews with Leonard Maltin, Thomas Schatz, F.X. Feeney and Aubrey Solomon, among others.

Mixing droll animation, stock footage and a restrained number of talking head interviews, the director Penny Lane's biography has all the whimsy of a tall tale, until a late change in tone surprises with genuine emotion.

In two straightforward, French - language talking - head interviews, Audran (24 min.)

Though it could do with fewer talking - head interviews and more extended clips from these impassioned live performances, Young Rebels is essential viewing for anyone interested in rap music, free speech issues or the youth culture of contemporary Cuba.

Composed of extraordinary source footage, most entirely unseen before, that combines newsreels, U.S. and British television shows, home movies and hundreds of rare photographs blended with the requisite talking - head interviews.

There are two trailers, one for 2001 and one for 2010, and a talking head interview with Arthur C. Clarke that took place before the premiere of the film that doesn't seem to be very enlightening.

Opening with a postmodern preamble explaining that this version of events is based on «irony - free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews» with Harding and her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly (now Jeff Stone), the chatty, fourth wall — breaking black comedy — think The Big Short on ice — conveys much of its humor and humanity through fictionalized talking - head interviews with Tonya, Jeff (Sebastian Stan), and her mother LaVona (Allison Janney).

Eschewing talking head interviews, Peck's documentary ends up as Baldwin's presumptive autobiography, but it gets there via an unexpected route.

Refraining from applying a didactic form and eschewing the traditional trappings of a more conventional documentary such as talking heads interviews, instead Wiseman allows At Berkeley's 4 hour running time to speak for itself: static shots of a lone groundskeeper cutting the campus grass give way to glimpses of a budget cut meeting where it's revealed that said groundskeeper is Berkeley's sole grass cutter.

«Voodoo Doll: The Chucky Legacy» (7 mins., HD) Another Blu - ray exclusive offers more of the same talking - head interviews, plus clips.

But the footage itself is comprised of primarily talking - head interviews (making for boring cinema), interrupted by shots of the neighboring countryside.

A frenetic collage of talking - head interviews, shaky man - on - the - ground footage and fuzzy news reports establishes the alien problem — they're here, they're weird, we can't get used to it — and the South African solution: relocation of the prawns from District 9 to an internment camp away from humans.

Shot in the filmmakers» usual fly - on - the - wall style — little voice - over narration, no talking - head interviews — the doc tails Wise as he visits primatologists and then narrows down the apes he wants to use to make his case.

They are short featurettes centered on Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, and writer - director Taylor Sheridan, unfolding with a standard mix of talking head interviews, film clips, and footage from the location production.

Initially eager to prevent immigration from Mexico (in a talking - head interview, he rants about «illegals»), the gravel - voiced Foley says his goal is now to keep cartel activity from the United States.

Running around an hour, Waiting For Twilight, made during the filming of Twilight Of The Ice Nymphs (1997)-- and preceding much of the director's more mainstream successes — highlights the methods, family life and career of this great director through clips and talking - head interviews with friends and critics.

Recycled from the 2006 DVD, the only extra apart from the theatrical trailer (3 mins., SD) is Laurent Bouzereau's «Hitchcock and Dial M» (22 mins., SD), featuring talking - head interviews with the same rogue's gallery that had been gathered to spiel on all of Warner's Hitchcock titles back in the day, including, among others, directors Peter Bogdanovich, M. Night Shyamalan, and the late Richard Franklin.

I, Tonya is the newest film from director Craig Gillespie, structuring his look at Harding's life as a biographical tell - all (think VH1 Behind the Music), right down to current day talking head interviews.

As with Amy's No. 1 movie of the year, Casting JonBenet, this doc's layering of one form onto another — collage, talking - head interview, period drama, true - crime re-enactment — gets dizzyingly intricate, like one of those Joseph Cornell boxes that's part shadowbox, part miniature theater, part shrine.

Through reenactments, archival footage and talking heads interviews, Wardle treats his thrilling documentary as an intricate detective story.

The former is a standard - issue behind - the - scenes featurette with brief talking - head interviews with the majority of cast and crew members, while the latter serves as a too - short but intriguing look at the film's costume and production design.

There are no date stamps or expository narration, and the talking - head interviews — candid remarks from Cobain's parents, from his ex-girlfriend, from his widow Courtney Love, from his ex-bandmate Krist Novoselic — are sparingly dispersed throughout.

Corvey and Robinson's breezy approach is admirably different from the usual talking - head interviews, granted; but if the main talking head had been Meyers, then conventional doc - style wouldn't have been such a bad way to go.

The film is a bit too worshipful of its subject (I'm not saying anything is necessarily wrong with Crimmins but a more well - rounded approach might have helped) and relies on talking - head interviews a bit too much when I would have liked to just see more of Crimmins» material.

is your standard - issue documentary featurette full of B - roll footage, some fuzzy production stills, and talking - head interviews with actors and other filmmakers.

weaves concert footage with backstage footage plus old home movies, talking head interviews and enough fandemonium montages to burn out the filmmakers» copy of Final Cut Pro.

TOUCHING THE VOID (Grade: B +): Based on Joe Simpson's best - selling book about his disastrous experience trying to scale a 21,000 - foot peak in the Peruvian Andes in 1985, this mountaineering documentary doesn't have a scrap of real documentary footage (it's all talking - head interviews and docudrama recreations) but it still manages to be a gripping outdoor adventure and the movies» most inspiring epic survival story in years.

Since this is a narrative film and (thankfully) not a documentary with talking heads interviews, we get some romance, with pretty schoolteacher Alice (Rosemarie DeWitt) flirting with both Steve Butler (who insists that he is «not a bad man») and with Dustin Noble who believes that Steve is the devil.

Ford delivers what feels oddly like a scripted talking - head interview, but we also get insightful comments from Colin Firth, Matthew Goode, Julianne Moore, and Nicholas Hoult.

Nancy barely makes an appearance in the film, but, starting with Tonya, the movie is chockablock with narrators, most of them unreliable, looking back in confessional talking - head interviews to the events leading up to the scandal and its aftermath in full, self - justifying cry.

Weiner isn't a retrospective documentary: There are no talking - head interviews with people recounting what happened back then.

The disc also includes a rather rote EPK featurette, «Behind the Scenes of Breakfast on Pluto» (8:57), with talking - head interviews of Jordan, Murphy, producer Alan Moloney, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson, Gavin Friday, and costume designer Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh.

is a lively talking - head interview (in HD with DTS 2.0 audio) wherein the actress discusses her experience on The New York Ripper (she portrayed the live - sex - show performer who takes a broken bottle to the crotch) and her impressions of Fulci, whom she met for the first time on the set.