At this year's DOC NYC festival, 15 of the filmmakers behind the year's buzziest documentaries sat down to answer
questions about their filmmaking process, offering wisdom and perspective on the craft of documentary.
Likewise, Taxi's surface is casual, even impish, but underneath the movie are serious
questions about filmmaking and individual freedom.
Not exact matches
The panel turned out to be one of the best I've ever seen at Comic Con, as Guillermo del Toro and Nicolas Winding Refn spent most of it firing
questions back and forth at one another and talking
about their approach to
filmmaking.
As a result, ethical
questions about this kind of documentary
filmmaking are rising up.
Through his personal account of programming and researching Japanese cinema for more than two - and - a-half decades, Nornes raises important
questions about the reception of Japanese films in Western film festivals, and the role of Japan as a site where filmmakers from other Asian countries can learn more
about Western
filmmaking.
Hynes»
questions regarding White Material (2009) brings
about an exchange concerning perspective and the essential role that subjectivity plays in Denis»
filmmaking.
French screen legend Isabelle Huppert talks to host Eric Hynes
about being an object of scrutiny in Claire Denis's White Material, how
filmmaking is a
questioning, and why movie acting is
about just doing it.
Audience member Chris Rock's
question about Lee making the film outside the studio system prompted a lengthy, expletive - filled rant from a filmmaker clearly stymied by his hiatus from mainstream
filmmaking (his last narrative feature, Miracle at St. Anna, came out in 2008).
In approaching my interview with Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Jack Black, I didn't want to ask the standard
questions about what drew them to the film or how much work they put into creating their characters or even what they discovered
about themselves during the
filmmaking process.
The film does seem to violate my cardinal rule
about documentaries, though I'm beginning to
question whether that's a meaningful way to approach non-fiction
filmmaking.