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We particularly weep for the omissions of Cameraperson, Tower, Zero Days and Weiner, but personal grouching aside about a couple of the nominees, this year's batch is quite something.

Last week, Hammer to Nail published three more articles of mine: another review from the recent AFI DOCS festival, this time of ACORN and the Firestorm; an interview (also from AFI DOCS) with Stefan Avalos, director of Strad Style; and a review of Criterion's new Blu - ray release of Cameraperson.

The paradox of Cameraperson is that almost all of its countless terrific scenes were deliberately excised from other movies.

Not exact matches

Cameraperson» is a thoughtful examination of the role of the documentary - maker, showing us how it feels to be that person behind the camera.

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Cameraperson Kirsten Johnson's formally adventurous documentary earned heaps of praise for its cine - journal style and personal take on going once more unto the breach of political hotspots — but its commendably unclassifiable quality may have worked against it come awards time.

Shortlisted for an Oscar nomination, «Cameraperson» has already earned unanimous praise and a flurry of awards and nominations for Johnson and her editor Nels Bangerter since premiering at Sundance.

Best Film: Manchester by the Sea Best Director: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight Best Actor: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea Best Actress: Amy Adams, Arrival Best Supporting Actor: Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water Best Supporting Actress: Naomie Harris, Moonlight Best Original Screenplay: Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea Best Adapted Screenplay: Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese, Silence Best Animated Feature: Kubo and the Two Strings Breakthrough Performance (Male): Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea Breakthrough Performance (Female): Royalty Hightower, The Fits Best Directorial Debut: Trey Edward Shults, Krisha Best Foreign Language Film: The Salesman Best Documentary: O.J.: Made in America Best Ensemble: Hidden Figures Spotlight Award: Creative Collaboration of Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Cameraperson

The key to Cameraperson's triumph is that nothing in the film was created with the knowledge of being used for this purpose, which leaves the footage itself — shot for movies directed by the likes of Laura Poitras, Kirby Dick, Amir Bar - Lev, Gini Reticker, Moore, and many others — uncompromised by manipulation or intentionality.

Sophie and Lee look back at some of the key films released in January, including Pablo Lorrain's Jackie Bouvier Kennedy biopic Jackie, Martin Scorsese's meditative Catholic drama Silence, and Kirsten Johnson's unique memoir Cameraperson.

Cameraperson (Unrated) Reverential documentary chronicling the career of Kirsten Johnson, cinematographer of the Oscar - winning, documentary Citizenfour and other groundbreaking exposes.

,» «Shepard & Dark» Kirsten Johnson * — «Cameraperson,» «CitizenFour» Asif Kapadia — «Amy,» «Senna» Aviva Kempner — «Rosenwald,» «The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg» Pedro Kos * — «The Square,» «Waste Land» Victor Kossakovsky — «Vivan las Antipodas!

«Cameraperson «The recently deceased Jacques Rivette famously said that all films are documentaries of their own making, but Kirsten Johnson, a long standing filmmaker and non-fiction cinematographer, has taken that concept to its logical extreme and has made a documentary that is both about her own life and about the very nature of documentary filmmaking.

It's a dizzyingly reflexive concept that could be too self - involved to really connect, but as our reviewer discovered, the fragmentary, impressionistic «Cameraperson» (often employing off - cuts of films she worked on) actually builds to «a surprisingly emotional and heartfelt film... Humanity permeates [the film], so as experimental as it is, it's also stirring and poignant, with a tangible sense of empathy intact in every frame...» [A]

Cameraperson is without a doubt the best documentary of 2016, and just maybe the best film of the year, period.

Cameraperson is the most extraordinary of documentaries.

, Syd Garon (CEH15, Outstanding Graphic Design, Jodorowsky's Dune), Eugene Hernandez (Deputy Director, Film Society at Lincoln Center), Eric Hynes (Associate Curator of Film, Museum of the Moving Image), Jason Ishikawa (Head of International Sales, Cinetic Media), Steve James (CEH12 Winner, Outstanding Feature & Direction, The Interrupters), Kirsten Johnson (CEH17 Winner, Outstanding Feature & Cinematography, Cameraperson), John Kusiak (CEH12 Winner, Outstanding Score, Tabloid), Loira Limbal (Vice President, Firelight Media), Elizabeth Lo (CEH16 Winner, Outstanding Nonfiction Short Film, Hotel 22), Michal Marczak (CEH17 Winner, Heterodox Award, All These Sleepless Nights), Marilyn Ness (CEH17 Winner, Outstanding Feature, Cameraperson), Dan Nuxoll (Artistic Director, Rooftop Films), Bill Ross (CEH13 Nominee, Outstanding Direction, Tchoupitoulas; CEH16 Nominee, Cinematography, Western), Kelli Scarr (CEH09 Nominee, Outstanding Score, In a Dream), Mo Scarpelli (CEH16 Nominee, Spotlight Award, Frame by Frame), Jess Search (Chief Executive, The Doc Society), Signe, Byrge Sorensen (CEH16 Winner, Outstanding Feature Film & Production, The Look of Silence), Jean Tsien (Editor of CEH17 Audience Nominee Miss Sharon Jones!)

Other documentary highlights include Cameraperson, taking viewers inside the global career of cinematographer, Kirsten Johnson; and The Eagle Huntress set in the mountains of Mongolia where a teenage heroine learns the ancient - and previously male - only - art of falconry.

«Cameraperson» — This documentary feels very little like a fully composed film at all, and yet that's really the beauty of it.

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I've never read Brooks» book and don't have any immediate plans to, but the notion of telling this tale in a roundabout way, by having survivors of the conflagration sit there and talk to an unseen cameraperson — perhaps against a plain black background, with or without cutaways to still photographs or «news video» — is electrifying to consider.

Arrival, Cameraperson, The Conjuring 2, Embrace of the Serpent, Fences, The Invitation, La La Land, Land and Shade, Little Men, Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, Louder Than Bombs, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, Silence, Southside with You, Weiner, Zootopia

More openings: Cameraperson, a personal documentary from filmmaker Kirsten Johnson and A Man Called Ove (winner of the Golden Space Needle for Best Actor) at SIFF Cinema Uptown

Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016) O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman, 2016) Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene, 2016) If there was one genre of film that felt truly innovative this year, it was documentary, and these three films stood out as revolutionary in their own way; even more importantly, all are intensely passionate and emotional.

Kirsten Johnson's film Cameraperson was named one of the Top Ten Films of 2016 by The Washington Post and The New York Times.

Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016) Plenty of high - quality documentaries from the States to choose from, still Cameraperson easily won over, probably as it had the strongest effect on me — as someone who is engaged in the politics of images and as a working mother.

L'avenir (Things To Come, Mia Hansen - Love, 2016) Bei xi mo shou (Behemoth, Liang Zhao, 2015) Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016) Ouija — Origin of Evil (Mike Flanagan, 2016) Under The Shadow (Babak Anvari, 2016)

Cameraperson is both a moving glimpse into one filmmaker's personal journey and a thoughtful examination of what it means to train a camera on the world.

, The Mermaid, Cameraperson, The Age of Shadows, Murmur of the Hearts.

Additional celebrities at SIFF this year included Academy Award - winning director Morgan Neville with his documentary The Music of Strangers: Yo - Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble; award - winning writer and director James Schamus of Indignation; award - winning cinematographer Kirsten Johnson with her directorial debut Cameraperson; acclaimed actor Clea DuVall with her directorial debut The Intervention; directors Miles B. Miller and Joshua H. Miller, producer Kathryn Tucker, and actor Paul Sparks of All the Birds Have Flown South; actor Craig Robinson in Morris From America; director Jonathan Parker, producers Catherine di Napoli and Deborah Parker, and actor Eric McCormack with The Architect; Mike Birbiglia, director of Don't Think Twice; YouTube sensation and documentary subject of Presenting Princess Shaw Samantha Montgomery, who performed at the Opening Night Gala; Irish drag queen and marriage equality advocate Panti Bliss, subject of the documentary The Queen of Ireland, as well as director Conor Horgan; director Martin Spirit and subject Spencer Haywood of Full Court: The Spencer Haywood Story; irector Ned Crowley and actor Jim O'Heir of Middle Man; director James Redford with his new documentary Resilience; Pearl Jam founding member and Gleason composer Mike McCready; actor Laura Carmichael and director Chanya Button with the US premiere of Burn Burn Burn; director Iwai Shunji of A Bride for Rip Van Winkle; Joshua Marston, director of Complete Unknown; actor Corentin Fila of Being 17; Andreas Öhman, director of Eternal Summer; Ti West, director of In A Valley of Violence; director Roger Ross Williams and subject Ron Suskind of Life, Animated; director Nathan Adloff, actor Tim Boardman and producers Stephen Israel and Ash Christian of Miles; director Linas Phillips and producer Ian Bugno of Rainbow Time; Richard Tanne, director of Southside With You; Jocelyn Moorhouse, director of The Dressmaker; Brent Hodge, director of The Pistol Shrimps.

Sundance doc Cameraperson lead a fairly crowded group of Specialty newcomers this weekend, opening in a single location in New York.

2016 Doc Edit & Story Labs (June 24 - July 2 and July 8 - 16): Creative advisors include Kate Amend (The Case Against 8), Ido Haar (Presenting Princess Shaw), Per K Kirkegaard (Shadow World), Mary Lampson (The Islands and the Whales), Robb Moss (Containment), Joelle Alexis (Twilight of a Life), Nels Bangerter (Cameraperson), Robert Greene (Kate Plays Christine), Jonathan Oppenheim (The Oath) and Laura Poitras (Risk).

Special section on 54th New York Film Festival, including Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann, Ava DuVernay's The 13th, Barry Jenkins's Moonlight, Bertrand Tavernier's My Journey Through French Cinema, Pedro Almodóvar's Julieta; American movie acting, film criticism in the age of social media, Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson, Charles Burnett's To Sleep with Anger, Kleber Mendonça Filho's Aquarius