Sentences with phrase «of nonfiction films»

Looking over the impressive crop of nonfiction films this year, it seems like the most noteworthy ones were those that collapsed the boundaries between reality and fiction, or passive documentation and active storytelling, or cinema and television.

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.

Not exact matches

If what you want is to hear people talk about Petit (including Petit), you might as well buy a copy of the memoir upon which the «The Walk» is based, or watch James Marsh's great 2008 nonfiction film «Man on Wire,» which includes so many re-enactments that it's half a drama, anyway.

The second half of «nonfiction» is impressive in the way that it brings both the film and the audience into self - referential territory.

Re-defining the nonfiction art form, Babies joyfully captures on film the earliest stages of the journey of humanity that are at once unique and universal to us all.

Terence Davies» «Of Time and the City,» which is both a documentary and a personal narrative, was chosen as best «nonfiction film.»

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...

Pegged by some as this generation's «Hoop Dreams,» this nonfiction film documents the senior year of a girls» high - school step dance team set against the background of inner - city Baltimore, as each member tries to become the first in their families to attend college.

Produced by Netflix and Synthesis films, Making A Murderer, which follows the story of convicted murderer Steven Avery, took home four trophies, including outstanding documentary series, and nonfiction program writing, directing and editing.

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).

The film, based on the nonfiction book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, showcases the parts of Zamperini's life that took place both immediately before and during WWII — with a bit of childhood flashbacks thrown in for story purposes as well.

Three programmers discuss this year's lineup of nonfiction and experimental film (and everything in between)

The doc also garnered an award at Full Frame, one of North America's most prestigious nonfiction film festivals.

The annual IDA Documentary Awards celebrates the best nonfiction films, programs and filmmakers of the year at the world's most prestigious event dedicated solely to the documentary genre.

In spotlighting the mostly sweet - natured but still slightly bruised give - and - take of this unusual codependent relationship, director Zachary Heinzerling's movie sidesteps doctrinaire concepts of nonfiction art films and expands its core audience, imparting glancing lessons about the uncertainty of love and the almost necessary dance of responsibility and care - taking involved.

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.

After teasing a number of different ambitious projects in 2017 — including an adaptation of Fernando Morais» nonfiction book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next filof different ambitious projects in 2017 — including an adaptation of Fernando Morais» nonfiction book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next filof Fernando Morais» nonfiction book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next filOf The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next filOf the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next filof Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next film.

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.

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.

She has lectured on nonfiction and experimental film at the University of California, San Diego, and currently teaches at the University of Montana.

Penny Lane (Our Nixon) talked to us about the importance of pacing in her creative nonfiction exploration of pseudoscience, why they used animated re-enactments, and how to think about documentary film.

This revelatory film continues to educate and inspire viewers, and it is widely considered one of the great works of American nonfiction cinema.

Cinema Eye presented its first Nonfiction Short Film award (it went to The Poodle Trainer by Vance Malone) and the first Heterodox Award, recognizing fiction films which imaginatively incorporate nonfiction strategies, content and / or modes of production.

Yet Bernstein, who has shepherded the film adaptations of nonfiction books including Jarhead and Black Hawk Down, kept hearing the same refrain.

If the film feels like everything and nothing in contemporary nonfiction, it seems entirely a result of its uniquely open and spontaneous evolution.

Filmmaker Peter Nicks, director of the documentary «The Force,» participates in a Sundance panel on emotional content in nonfiction films Monday, January 23, 2017.

Both films are contenders in the Oscars documentaries race, which only has one nonfiction category of Best Documentary.

One of the country's most original nonfiction filmmakers, Bogdan Dziworski, made a comeback in May 2014, when he received a retrospective at the Kraków Film Festival and announced that he was at work on a new film.

As proof positive of the trending interest in nonfiction film, the first - ever Critics Choice Documentary Awards (CCDA) were presented on November 3, 2016, at a gala event attended by leading documentary filmmakers, distributors and film critics.

Angelina Jolie's upcoming film, «Unbroken,» based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Laura Hillenbrand, is being released during peak Oscar season on Dec. 25.

She's constantly barking one - liners, insults, advice, tales about the famous men she dated, or breaking out into song or dance (she also tries to direct the film herself at times, ordering the cameraman around in what could contend to be one of the funniest nonfiction moments onscreen this year... or ever).

This landmark film, which documents the journeys of two remarkable families, continues to educate and inspire viewers, and it is widely considered one of the great works of American nonfiction cinema.

A nonfiction film about the slow bleed of American manufacturing jobs over the past five to six decades, American Made Movie is engaging enough for armchair politicos, but generally more successful as a diagnostic statement of basic socioeconomic condition than a groundbreaking work in and of itself.

The little - noticed ACID section yields a mesmerizingly beautiful nonfiction film about an Argentine jack - of - all - trades

A remarkable snapshot of underclass life, love, humor and despair, Position Among the Stars, which picked up the Special World Cinema Documentary Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and recently played at the Los Angeles Film Festival, is an utterly absorbing and strikingly humane nonfiction film that, in non-judgmental nor holier - than - thou fashion, locates the universality of human struggle in charting the tumultuous ups and downs of an extended Indonesian family trying to work their way out of the slums.

NEW JOURNALISM AND NEW NONFICTION By Eric Hynes Embedding himself in the production of hybrid film Kate Plays Christine provokes a writer to think about documentary's fresh affinities with a seminal journalistic movement

They agreed, «Fulfilling the promise of classic cinema verite, where camera serves as both observer and provocation, this film connected two artists, filmmaker and subject, pushing nonfiction intimacy to bold new places.

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.

Telluride typically presents some of the year's top nonfiction films (a year ago, it had the Oscar - nominated Israeli film «The Gatekeepers»).

A «nonfiction film» that creates the poetic aura of a narrative film, David mixes most of the audiovisual genres of expressionism, documentary, fiction, avant - garde, video art, visual arts: posters, collages, drawings, to offer the most complete and multi layered vision of a popular hero ever rendered in a film.

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.

After the success of Malkovich, Kaufman accepted the job of adapting Susan Orlean's nonfiction book The Orchid Thief into a film.

These include various types of media texts including newspapers, film and digital texts, junior and early adolescent novels, poetry, nonfiction and dramatic performances.

As the fin de siècle approaches, we have been besieged with lists: news events of the century, novels of the century, nonfiction works, films, songs, and, yes, books specific to fields of study.

Hidden Figures Recently adapted to film — with Oscar nominations for best picture and best adapted screenplay — Margot Lee Shetterly's nonfiction book depicts the lives of four black women who, as mathematicians and engineers, helped send the first American astronaut into space.

Who: Rose Byrne and Oprah Winfrey co-star What: This TV film of Rebecca Skloot's 2010 nonfiction bestseller tells the heartbreaking story of Henrietta Lacks, whose cervical cancer cells became a foundation for scientific research without her knowledge or consent.

The award - winning director of the groundbreaking documentary Roger & Me, which became the largest grossing nonfiction film of all time, Moore is the creator and host of the Emmy - winning series TV Nation and The Awful Truth.

They are professional and easy to work with and have an intuitive sense of how to bring your book (whether it is fiction or nonfiction) alive on film.

The speakers include: Barbara Schiffman, Hollywood script reader / story consultant; Leslie Budewitz, winner of two Agatha awards for her mysteries and nonfiction; Kent Davis, children's and young adult author and game designer; Monica Poole, science fiction / fantasy author; film makers David Blair and Adam Pittman; and literary agents Elizabeth Wales (Seattle) and Susanna Einstein (New York).

Phillip Lopate's nonfiction books include essay collections (Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body); film criticism... read more