3 / 4Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Got ta Be Me is the first
major film documentary to examine Davis» vast talent and his journey for identity through the shifting tides of civil rights and racial progress during 20th - century America.Sammy Davis, Jr. had the kind of career that was indisputably legendary, so vast and multi-faceted that it was dizzying in its scope and scale.
Not exact matches
There Will Be No Stay, a
documentary film released last year, profiles two former
majors in South Carolina's department of corrections Swat team who sued the state for allegedly pressuring them into assisting in multiple executions with minimal training and no counselling (the case was eventually dismissed by a judge).
Flaherty was featured in a recent article in The New York Times and in a
documentary film on depression among medical professionals produced by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), and she openly discussed a
major depressive episode that eventually hospitalized her in her 2004 best - selling book, The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain.
She has been featured in many widely distributed
documentaries, including Processed People and Making a Killing and appears in a new
film, Forks Over Knives, which played in
major theaters throughout North America in 2011.
As with the
documentary category, the Academy previously released a foreign
film shortlist in December, and at that time the omissions of
films such as the widely praised Two Days, One Night, Winter Sleep (which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year), and Mommy were considered
major snubs.
Similarly, the idea of a potential rebirth sees Noxon leave the almost
documentary - like reality of the rest of the
film behind for a moment, but this
major tonal shift would've felt more organic and tethered to Ellen's whole journey if it had been more clearly foreshadowed.
It is the first
major documentary film about this landmark story.
After an incredible year on the
film festival circuit and a theatrical run across fifty cities in the United States, the acclaimed
documentary will be available to rent or own from all
major retailers.
His 1940s
films included one military - produced
documentary co-directed by Ford and cinematographer Gregg Toland, December 7th (1943), which creaks badly today (especially compared with Frank Capra's Why We Fight series); a
major war
film (They Were Expendable [1945]-RRB-; the historically - based drama My Darling Clementine (1946); and the «cavalry trilogy» of Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), and Rio Grande (1950), each of which starred John Wayne.
I am a huge fan of Mr. Akbar's 2012
documentary, «Top Priority: The Terror Within,» a
film in which he took on the government after learning of a
major security breach along the border, and his approach to this story is almost the same.
There are no
major documentaries here, just an assortment of short featurettes on various aspects of the
film.
This is fitting as the latter is an «Ozploitation» fan and a
major contributor to this
documentary, bestowing praise on many of these genre
films including The Man From Hong Kong (Brian Trenchard - Smith and Yu Wang, 1975), Long Weekend (Colin Eggleston, 1978) and Next of Kin (Tony Williams, 1981).
Gary's list of credits ranges from the music
documentaries early in his career, to Pretty in Pink, Back to School, Ghostbusters II, Benny and Joon, Dolores Claiborne and a host of
major film credits through the 1980s, 1990s, 200s and on to the present day.
Then, we revisit two interviews with first - time directors who could win
major awards on Sunday: Yance Ford, whose
film Strong Island is up for Best
Documentary, and Greta Gerwig, a contender for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Lady Bird.
It's already a
documentary premiering at Sundance this weekend, but the story of Batkid just ain't quitting: Mega-movie star Julia Roberts has bought the rights to said
documentary and it's said that she's planning on making it into a
major (non-
documentary) feature
film.
The
documentary includes clips from many of their
major films and interviews with both Powell and Pressburger, separately and together, as well as rare clips with Michael Powell and director Francis Ford Coppola at Zoetrope Studios while he was making One From the Heart and Martin Scorsese, Jerry Lewis and Robert De Niro on the set of King of Comedy.
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 great video label Milestone has produced a great DVD set built around the half - hour
documentary, adding as many surviving
films (a few even restored) as possible to show just what happened, how this led to
major production in Hollywood and how the truth is disappearing as the town seems to want to forget for some odd reason (speculation would require a new
documentary) and we even see one of the final studios before it itself disappears.
As a staff writer for Sarah's Backstage Pass, Kathrine has covered
major motion pictures,
documentary films and has interviewed industry professionals.
If you're at all interested in the
film, be warned that the «
documentary» gives away every
major plot twist (admittedly, they're not that difficult to figure out in the first place) while providing no insight into the
film nor the actors (save for the disheartening shock that Cook, Phillippe, and Forlani are actually more insipid in real life).
In addition to his background in
documentary, Greene has worked as an editor for Alex Ross Perry on Listen Up Philip (2014) and Queen of Earth (2015), and this
film announces his potential to become a
major American independent filmmaker.
While something like this won't do too much damage to a
major Hollywood
film, it could be a crippling blow for a small
documentary out of New Zealand.
In addition to 34 narrative and
documentary feature - length
films in competition, and eight shorts programs, the festival will feature panel discussions and workshops including «The Finest Hours» author Casey Sherman (and my former WBZ - TV colleague) who'll tell you how he got from «From Page to Screen» and turned his book into a
major studio
film shot in Massachusetts.
As an aspiring new filmmaker, her experience ranges working in small roles to key positions in
major motion pictures,
documentaries and independent
films.
But the real draw of this two - movie set are the excellent new special features, including hour - long
documentaries on the making of each
film, which feature most of the
major players, even Keanu Reeves.
He created trailers for STAR WARS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, AMERICAN GRAFFITI, and other
major films, and produced behind - the - scenes
documentaries about
film - making.
There's been no shortage of
documentaries on the subject and dramatized accounts have been in dozens of
major feature
films.
Based on Tobias Schneebaum's book, the
film went on to play in over 37 international
film festivals winning many
major awards, including the Independent Spirit Award for Best New Director (2001), the Special Jury Award at IDFA (2000), Best
Documentary Feature at the Hamptons
Film festival (2000) and a Special Critics Award At LAFF (2000).
Two of the five Best
Documentary Feature nominees are Netflix
films: Icarus, Bryan Fogel's exploration of a
major doping conspiracy, and Strong Island, Yance Ford's account of her brother's unlawful murder.
Presented in a handheld style that gives the impression of a wartime
documentary, this unorthodox take on the traditional combat
film feels as if screenwriter Christopher Bertolini simply dusted off an old script in which Nazis invaded a
major American city and replaced Hitler's henchmen with bio-mechanical Martians.
Over the course of his 25 - year career, Mattox has: * written numerous articles for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and other
major publications; * spoken at educational conferences in Geneva, Prague, Rome, and Vatican City; * led writing workshops at Duke, Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia, and other
major universities; * served as a speechwriter for several Members of Congress in Washington, D.C.; * directed a
documentary film and a number of other media projects, including a public service ad campaign that ran in Rolling Stone; and * spearheaded a number of quantitative and qualitative research projects, working closely with polling firms, focus group organizers, and «think tank» scholars.
Over 20 years in the Bay Area
film community lighting sets for
major Hollywood
films and
documentaries.
This solo show, featuring more than 100 of his unfired clay objects and two
documentary films, is the first
major presentation of his work since his death in 1993.
The first
major retrospective of Greenfield's work, the exhibition features nearly 200 photographs, numerous first - person interviews, and
documentary film footage, forming a thematic investigation of how the pursuit of wealth, and its material trappings and elusive promises of happiness, has evolved since the late 1990s.
While he has continuously in the past 50 years been recognized and singled out with important museum shows and distinctions, in the past three years alone, he has had a
major presence in Venice Biennale (2011), Documenta 13 (2012), Punta della Dogana (2013), Pacific Standard Time (2011), combined with a critical mass of press, and a new
documentary «Llyn Foulkes: One Man Band,» that is touring
film circuits also bringing to light Foulkes's musical practice.
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Gao Yuan's animations have been selected by
major film festivals including «Vancouver International
Film Festival» (2017), «Hong Kong International
Film Festival» (2017), «International
Film Festival Rotterdam» (2017), «International Leipzig Festival for
Documentary and Animated
Film» (2016), «Beijing College Student
Film Festival» (2010) and «The 2nd China Queer
Film Festival Tour» (2009).
From what I had time to preview, the
film selections include at least two of the show's
major works: Frederick Wiseman's 2010 excursion into unnarrated
documentary, «Boxing Gym,» and Thom Andersen's three - hour «Los Angeles Plays Itself,» a meditation on the discrepancy between movies and real life in largely architectural terms that is as enthralling as it is dispiriting.
Next week, a
major retrospective of his work opens in Los Angeles at the dual locations of Lacma and the Getty Centre; next month, a new
documentary is released; and a
film adapted from rock star Patti Smith's memoir of her friendship with the artist, starring Doctor Who's Matt Smith, has recently been cast.
Jeremy Deller As the 2004 Turner Prize winner, Jeremy Deller is a
major conceptual artist whose artworks span a variety of media, from posters, processions and installations to
documentary film.
This feature - length
documentary film follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a
major retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Filmed over three years, this
documentary is an unprecedented record of a
major artist at work.
This feature - length
documentary film follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a
major retrospective of Marina Abramović's performance at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Reid is a graduate of Harvard University, where she
majored in visual arts with a concentration in
documentary film.
He has been the subject of two
major retrospective exhibitions and the National
Film Board's 1974 Academy - Award nominated
documentary film BLACKWOOD.
It is the second
film in an ongoing
documentary series on
major SA artists that I conceptualised ten years ago, starting with a
film on William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas in conversation in 2010.»
The
documentary A Fierce Green Fire, a
film synthesizing
major environmental movements of our time, was screened and the
film's director, Mark Kitchell, skyped in to discuss his vision and motivations behind the
film.
We hope that the hard work the makers of the
documentary The Cove have been putting in to pushing their
film out to audiences has played a
major role.