Sentences with phrase «making documentary portrait»

Griffin Dunne, USA, 2017, 92m World Premiere Griffin Dunne's years - in - the - making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simultaneously expands and zeroes in, covering a vast stretch of turbulent cultural history with elegance and candor, and grounded in the illuminating presence and words of Didion herself.

I've had the privilege of knowing Bernardo and making a documentary portrait of him [Bertolucci on Bertolucci].

Not exact matches

The big difference in Swedish filmmaker Sara Jordeno's vibrant documentary portrait is that it surveys the lives of LGBTQ youth - of - color at a time when Black Lives Matter has become a national movement and trans rights is making a long - overdue entry into the political conversation.

THR's David Rooney believes Whitney is a «haunting, richly contextualized documentary portrait,» and Owen Gleiberman of Variety writes, «The film captures the quality that made Whitney Houston magical, but more than that it puts together the warring sides of her soul.»

Joining Opening Night selection The Walk and Closing Night selection Miles Ahead in making their World Premieres at the 2015 festival are Steven Spielberg «s Cold War drama Bridge of Spies (starring Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance) and Laura Israel «s documentary portrait Don't Blink: Robert Frank.

Charlotte Rampling: The Look DVD Review by Kam Williams Documentary Offers Intimate Self - Portrait of Legendary Actress The legendary Charlotte Rampling has been making movies since the mid-Sixties when she first stole scenes as the late Lynn Redgrave's sidekick in Georgy Girl.

The first full day of Sheffield Doc / Fest included world premieres of Magali Pettier's portrait of farming in North Yorkshire Addicted To Sheep, Brian Hill's noir - thriller documentary about a man who confessed to over 30 murders in Sweden The Confessions of Thomas Quick and an EU premiere of Landfill Harmonic following the fortunes of a Paraguayan orchestra with instruments made from rubbish dump materials.

The festival's Grand Jury Prize for Documentary went to this portrait of a couple, both on the autistic spectrum, from the directors Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles (who made the excellent Mala Mala, which looked at Puerto Rico's trans community).

Terry Zwigoff's landmark 1995 film is an intimate documentary portrait of the underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art.

This Is Not a Film (directed with Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 11), shot while Panahi was under house arrest in his Tehran apartment, is a tantalizing hybrid of documentary self - portrait and contemplative fiction, at once an act of rebellion and a singular example of film as legal loophole: Panahi was effectively telling his persecutors, «You never specified that I couldn't make a film like this, because you never could have anticipated me making it.»

Any of these films would be worthy of an Oscar win, but I'm personally rooting for the race documentary «13th» (a must - see for anyone, the kind of film they should show in schools) and «O.J.: Made in America,» which is a marathon at nearly eight hours in length (it was shown in parts on ESPN earlier this year), but a completely fascinating look at race, media and society as it was in the 1990s and today, and just happens to be a tragic portrait of the worst fall from grace for a sports star in the history of our country.

Criterion's «Director Approved» release includes the French - language documentaries Making of by Raphael Duroy (a 26 - minute portrait with Olivier Assayas, Charles Berling and Juliette Binoche) and Inventory (a 50 - minute doc about the film's unique and personal approach to art) and an original 28 - minute, English - language interview with Assayas discussing his inspirations and aspirations for the film.

Often described as «the godmother of the French New Wave,» though she is more properly thought of as a member of the Left Bank movement, she made her feature directing debut with «La Pointe Courte» (1955), a portrait of a crumbling marriage set in a Mediterranean fishing village, steeped in documentary and neorealist techniques.

Jane Gets Left in the Jungle Regarding Best Documentary Brett Morgen's documentary culled from over 100 hours of raw footage of Jane Goodall and made a portrait of a strong, steadfast, iconic woman that felt like Oscar voter manna — it felt like a frontrunner to win, much less get nominatedDocumentary Brett Morgen's documentary culled from over 100 hours of raw footage of Jane Goodall and made a portrait of a strong, steadfast, iconic woman that felt like Oscar voter manna — it felt like a frontrunner to win, much less get nominateddocumentary culled from over 100 hours of raw footage of Jane Goodall and made a portrait of a strong, steadfast, iconic woman that felt like Oscar voter manna — it felt like a frontrunner to win, much less get nominated this year.

The pair (whose difference in age is 55 years) met after years of admiring each other's work and decided to create a documentary portrait of France — by making a number of actual portraits.

The day - to - day workings of hospital dwellers — doctors, nurses, patients and family members — who have to make incredibly difficult end - of - life decisions might seem like a parody of documentary short nominations, but it is an incredibly powerful and sensitive portrait of people in incredibly tough circumstances.

A portrait of a man whom we all think we know, this documentary is an emotional and moving film that takes you beyond zip - up cardigans and the land of make - believe, and into the heart of a creative genius, who inspired generations of children with compassion and limitless imagination.

Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields Directors: Kerthy Fix and Gail O'Hara Ten years in the making, Strange Powers is an intimate documentary portrait of songwriter Stephin Merritt and his band The Magnetic Fields.

Our release of Albert and David Maysles's 1976 documentary Grey Gardens — an intimate portrait of reclusive mother and daughter Edith and Edie Bouvier — has finally made its way to the United Kingdom.

What her documentary shows is a beautiful portrait of the human condition, of people continually fighting against the current to make the future a better place.

This moving, penetrating documentary, made by his granddaughter Cosima Spender, is both a brilliant portrait of the artist — a man who told myriad lies about his true identity — and the haunted tale of a family still grappling with his turbulent ghost.

His artist portrait entitled Ghosts and Stories will open the Cinema of artists program on October 27th, while the second part of the documentary entitled Just do not make stupid mistakes will close it on October 30th.

Miami Says ART December 3 - 9, 2012 martinkreloff.com Visionary artist Martin Kreloff's retrospective, presented by the JW Marriott Hotel Miami, is an exhibition 35 years in the making — with a time capsule full of portraits and a multimedia documentary with photos and videos from 1976.

The documentaries created by Art21 were a new form of dynamic portraits capturing the Lives of the Artists of today, which made Susan, in the words of ICI Board Chair Patterson Sims, «the Vasari of our own times.»

2008 «Character Project» — USA Network Commission Honored Educator, The Society for Photographic Education, Cleveland, OH Oxbow School, Napa, CA — Visiting Artist Residency 2007 Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA - Edward E. Elson Artist - in - Residence 2006 Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY - Artist in Residence, «Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History, and Community» 2005 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA - Edward E. Elson Artist - in - Residence San Francisco Arts Education, San Francisco, CA - Artist - in - Residence 2003 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI - Artist - in - Residence California State University, Monterey Bay, CA - Artist - in - Residence, The Reclamation Project 2002 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship - Fellow in Photography David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago - Artist - in - Residence 2000 Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago, IL - Commission 1999 International Artist's Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), Stockholm, Sweden - Artist - in - Residence Percent for Art Commission, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs - Midway Airport Center for Documentary Sudies at Duke University - «Idivisible» / A National Documentary Project Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY - Artist - in - Residence Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT - Artist - in - Residence 1998 National Portrait Gallery, London - Artist - in - Residence 1997 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA - Edward E. Elson Artist - in - Residence Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH - Artist - in Residence 1996 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, «Picturing the South: The Commission Project» Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, Residency Project Committee for Public Art Commission, Cleveland Public Library Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, VA / Colonial Boys and Girls Club, Norfolk, VA - Residency Workshop 1995 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN - Artist - in - Residence Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH - Artist - in - Residence 1994 Percent for Art Commission, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs - Mabel Manning Near West Side Branch Library 1993 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, MoMA Life Trustees Portrait Commission The George Gund Foundation, Cleveland, OH, Commissioned Project The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College and Providence - St.

Photographs make up 30 % of the collection, with many of these works made in the late 1980s and early 90s, a period in which some artists used the documentary form of photography and related mediums to develop powerful portraits of themselves and their communities, while others highlighted the violence done to such communities.

This short documentary shows Rashid Johnson's decades - long aesthetic and professional development, from his early portrait photographs to his later conceptual sculptures made out of glass, wood, and tile.

«See Naples and Die» In the new Italian film Gomorrah — an arresting, documentary - like portrait of Italy's most powerful mafia element, the Camorra — mobsters wreak havoc on Naples, leaving behind a trail of bodies in their quest to protect a 15 billion Euro shadow economy built on drugs, sweatshop - made designer clothes and garbage.