She often appropriates
raw documentary materials and blends these with fictional elements.
Not exact matches
The
raw material of this story is so powerful that even a mediocre dramatization would command our interest, but director James Marsh (who won an Oscar for his unconventional
documentary Man on Wire), screenwriter McCarten, and the actors go above and beyond the norm.
Minecraft: The Story of Mojang is charming fluff, a sweet tribute to a popular game, and its piecemeal «best of» style makes for a pleasant enough affirmation for fans who want nothing more than a brief glimpse behind the scenes, but for a
documentary about a game in which players are compelled to dig ever deeper in search of
raw material, it's disappointingly ironic how many blocks of narrative ore the film fails to unearth.
Taking the movie poster as a model, Asher eliminated the image and expanded the production information to focus on the film's structure and on the people whose work shaped the
raw material of the
documentary subject matter.
But far from a means of
documentary, these images simply served as
raw material that he would manipulate in the dark room.