Sentences with phrase «nonfiction films from»

Not exact matches

From the fly - on - the - wall, cinéma - vérité style of the»60s to a more aggressive, advocacy approach in the mid -»70s, «Mixtape» is a wide slice of nonfiction film history.

Sebastian Junger burst onto the literary scene in 1997 with «The Perfect Storm,» his riveting nonfiction account of the loss of a fishing vessel and its crew from Gloucester, Mass., which was adapted for a 2000 film starring George Clooney and Mark...

Throughout the film Kaufman experiments with varying degrees of fiction (Cage also plays Charlie's made - up twin brother, Donald) and nonfiction (actual events from «The Orchid Thief» are acted - out by Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper and other supporting actors).

Speaking to Variety's chief film critic Scott Foundas, Mann discusses growing up in Chicago, becoming interested in crime stories, the visual ideas he had for the film, the nonfiction book he discarded but still credited, the influence of real criminals and past films (particularly his eye - opening time shooting The Jericho Mile in Folsom Prison), choosing Tangerine Dream to do the score (a decision he still second guesses), the film's writing (including basing characters on real crime figures), casting, explosive stunts, changes made from the shooting script, and the modernist narrative.

It may not be Wright's best film (that honor likely goes to Atonement) nor is it his most exciting (I'm a huge Hannah stan personally) and it's very far from his lower - tier material (The Soloist, Pan) but Darkest Hour sees the English auteur flexing his muscles in new and exciting ways, turning historical nonfiction into a calculated character study, an intoxicating courtroom drama and an electrifying thriller in its own right.

Based on the nonfiction book compiled by Long Beach high school teacher Erin Gruwell from the writings of her economically - challenged and scholastically - underserved students taken from their diaries, Freedom Writers is a formula feel - good film about one teacher's near - quixotic quest to get her students to learn something about themselves, and about others, in order to not be swallowed up by the negativity surrounding them.

But for all its dreamy narrative qualities, Marczak's film is actually a lyrical, fluid - motion documentary that, in a very different way from «Kate Plays Christine» (see above) but no less profoundly, blurs the distinction between narrative and nonfiction filmmaking.

With his first film, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer — a US film - maker who has spent many years in Indonesia — broke open the documentary genre, fusing it with something much richer and more disturbing than the word «nonfiction» can summon, by stepping inside the psyches of the mass murderers who assisted President Suharto's dictatorship from 1968 to 1998.

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