Sentences with phrase «nonfiction films such»

Not exact matches

There's a palpable fit between progressive festivals and their progressive cinema, and, inversely, it's also noticeable when a festival that separates fiction and nonfiction selects a film that's an in - betweener: at LAFF, Kevin Jerome Everson's The Island of St. Matthews only serves to underline the retrograde nature of such a programming structure.

As in his previous films «Dogtown and Z - Boys» and «Riding Giants,» Peralta, a former skateboarder, uses the nonfiction genre to encourage interest in sports, such as surfing and skating, that many dismiss as trivial.

Starting in the late 1980s, Herzog began to focus much more on documentary storytelling (though he had always made documentaries previously, and would continue to make fiction films, going forwards), and now has a body of work that includes such nonfiction masterpieces as Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Grizzly Man, the Oscar - nominated Encounters at the End of the World and Cave of Forgotten Dreams.