Sentences with phrase «interesting than documentary»

In this respect the possibilities offered by combining visuality and ideological mood strike her as more interesting than documentary or anti-representative strategies — as for instance in projects such as «Masculinities» or «Displaced.

Not exact matches

«In fact, in June 2010, the number of searches for «Gasland» was four times higher than the number of searches for «fracking,» indicating that the documentary created significant interest in the topic among the general public.»

We're used to documentaries having a pedagogical or activist itinerary, but Wiseman's have become fastidiously unpedantic — his simple Terence - like interest in what other human beings do and how they do it is more than enough.

Sadly, while the film is undeniably interesting on an anecdotal level, it often feels like an interesting special feature on a Criterion Blu - ray disc (it would have fit perfectly on their upcoming release of «The Graduate») more than it does a documentary feature that stands on its own.

After a recent New York Film Festival screening, the directors of the sheepherding documentary Sweetgrass claimed that lived experience was more interesting to watch than people talking about their experiences.

These comprehensive juxtapositions between on - the - scene and off - the - cuff moments reveal an inherent contradiction between filmmaker and subject; while the team members claim they work from evidence first, then reach conclusions, Chevigny and Kauffman have set out to make a hagiographic observational documentary that is more interested in putting a human face on an organization than it is operating with a more rigorous, journalistic precision.

This is a problem I've always had with Michael Moore «s documentaries as he seems only interested in preaching to the choir rather than exploring both sides of the debate.

As moving as Mosab's gradual swelling of emotion is, the scene ultimately reinforces a sense that The Green Prince is a documentary more interested in readily discernable cadences and cues than ambiguity or complicating detail.

It was an example of the «characters» in a documentary, in this case the 1984 The Times of Harvey Milk, being more interesting than his fictionalized versions.

Celebrated French writer / director François Ozon has crafted an interesting career over his 22 years in the business, graduating from shorts (with no less than 18 to his name) to documentaries (Jospin s» éclaire)

What's especially interesting here is that, due to the extremely tight schedule, Yates decided to use even the scenes with Mitchum's less - than - perfect deliveries, which ultimately gave the film an obvious rawness and imperfection that accentuated the desired feel of authenticity and gritty, unpolished documentary - style filmmaking that Yates and the crew were going for.

And indeed, there's something to be said for this mentality, which is running rampant right now in American culture (and is more carefully explained in the Oscar - winning documentary Inside Job), but I'm less interested in that stuff than I am in the overall emotional messiness of this movie.

Ultimately, the documentary raises more issues than it explores — there are some tough ethical questions that a certain Californian sperm bank needs to answer — but the human - interest story it tells is a joy.

Laura Poitras» documentary following Wikileaks founder Julian Assange suffers from a scattershot focus, unable to coalesce into anything more than an interesting collection of hard - to - get footage.

For that reason, interested parties are better off checking out some of the documentaries, such as «Gulîstan, Land of Roses,» rather than this well - intentioned yet cliché - riddled lunge at the tear ducts.

They've been bringing quality stories about a wide spectrum of subjects and people and tonight it premieres the new documentary short Tashi and the Monk, which is no less interesting than the great bulk of what they show.

As previously stated, I am already fascinated by the subject matter but seeing an actual film about this story rather than a documentary should be interesting especially because I am seeing both films and can compare the story to each film.

Thanks to leading online short - form platform ShortsTV, this year's nominees for best live action, animated and documentary short are available for download via Amazon Video — and it's a compellingly varied pick - and - choose buffet, with a number of titles of interest to more than just obsessive Oscar completists.

The documentary is lavishly illustrated with stills and archival behind the scenes colour footage, and while briskly paced, it's a bit obvious most of the controversies that dogged the production are largely avoided; the isolated sore spot is the film's hired publicist, who mounted a campaign that managed to irk and offend rather than rally interest and support for a production hyped and hounded by some negative press.

What is surprising, however, is that there are those who - despite all the news, documentaries, journalism, research and literature today openly available to anyone interested to learn more - believe that Finland is a «completely socialist country» where its children are educated by the State rather than parents, that the vast majority of children don't get enough school education their parents (if they can afford it) have to buy proper education for their children, that resources are not distributed equitably to all, and that all schools are unionized.

Secondly, these pictures were chosen from thirty - one rolls of film that were left in the bottoms of boxes in the artist's archives for decades; Facio eventually grew more interested in portraiture and photographic essays than in journalism and documentary.

Toward the latter period of his documentary work, Siskind's growing interest in the poignancy of less referential images began to reveal; the repeat of windows perforating abandoned brownstone façades in Harlem translate more as an exploration of pattern and texture than as social commentary.

Rather than choosing a documentary style exhibition catalogue, we pursued the opportunity to produce a companion reader that speaks to Bradford's artistic development and processes, and interest in social practice.