Sentences with phrase «talking heads documentary»

This isn't a run of the mill, talking heads documentary.

For a talking heads documentary, «That Guy Dick Miller» is extremely enjoyable, well - paced and informative.

Don't be put off thinking this is gonna be just another boring talking heads documentary; featuring some of the most ingenious photographic manipulation I have ever seen, it's considerably more cinematic than you might expect.

There is a behind - the - scenes documentary for The Wave that talks about all aspects of the feature, but only at a surface level, it is more of a bird's eye view featurette than a talking head documentary.

The talking head documentary will look at J.D. Salinger's life after he went into seclusion following the publication of «The Catcher in the Rye,» the seminal novel that young people everywhere have looked to for a (sometimes grim) philosophy on life.

Twilight Time, generally devoid of extras, has strangely pulled out all the stops for this release with an interview from 60s siren Uta Levka and a talking head documentary about director Gordon Hessler who helmed several British based AIP releases including The Oblong Box, Murders in the Rue Morgue, and was later a prolific TV workhorse.

After that Dave covers EAT THAT QUESTION: FRANK ZAPPA IN HIS OWN WORDS (at 36:22), a talking head documentary that only contains one talking head — Frank Zappa himself.

Watching her slowly transform herself through these trinkets is surprisingly engaging, but what elevates Kate Plays Christine beyond the standard talking head documentary fare is its mutability.

Not exact matches

The documentary has its flaws: the flashiness of the editing, an overly insistent score, the sheer annoyingness of many of the talking heads.

Since talking heads are arguably the chief reason that documentaries are generally shunned by movie audiences, less time could have been spent listening to the array of interviews, and more celluloid on the damage done in Oklahoma City.

In the 2008 documentary about his walk, Man on Wire, the talking heads and archival footage unveiled his feat, in all its danger and its daring, as an act of human transcendence of the kind we call art.

The documentary variously consists of archival performance footage, home movies, photographs, pointlessly flashy graphics, and many, many talking heads.

I mean, it says so in the faux - documentary at the start of the film, but a lot of the talking heads in that are spouting viewpoints that are bigoted and factually inaccurate.

Michael Roberts's documentary is an unabashed exercise in deifying its subject matter with superlatives and hyperbole from the mouths of talking heads, which ultimately results in the cheapening of the artist.

«Pay the respect that is due,» says music writer David Fricke, one of the documentary's talking heads.

Less cohesive documentary than feature - length red flag, The Bleeding Edge assembles a range of talking heads and upsetting case studies to target several key villains.

[/ font][font = Century Gothic][/ font][font = Century Gothic] «Hearts and Minds» is a very informative documentary, even though I was very familiar with most of the talking heads.

This in - depth piece is composed primarily of behind - the - scenes footage and talking - head interviews with many participants: * Robert Zemeckis (Director) * Frank Marshall (Producer) * Steven Spielberg (Executive Producer) * Steve Starkey (Associate Producer) * Don Hahn (Associate Producer) * Peter Seaman (Screenwriter) * Dean Cundey (Director of Photography) * Arthur Schmidt (Editor) * Richard Williams (Director of Animation) * Dale Baer (Chief Executive and Supervising Animator) * Simon Wells (Supervising Animator) * Andreas Deja (Supervising Animator) * Phil Nibbelink (Supervising Animator) * Dave Spafford (Animator) * Nik Ranieri (Animator) * Ken Ralston (Visual Effects Supervisor) * Michael Lantieri (Special Effects Supervisor) * David Alan Barclay (Chief Puppeteer) * Jon Alexander (Optical Camera Operator, ILM) * Ed Jones (Optical Photography Supervisor) * Alan Silvestri (Composer) * Bob Hoskins (Eddie Valiant) * Charles Fleischer (Voice of Roger Rabbit) * Lou Hirsch (Voice of Baby Herman) You can imagine, therefore, how thorough this documentary is about touching every aspect of the production.

This documentary really does not provide any new information and simply relies on talking heads and archival material.

Refraining from applying a didactic form and eschewing the traditional trappings of a more conventional documentary such as talking heads interviews, instead Wiseman allows At Berkeley's 4 hour running time to speak for itself: static shots of a lone groundskeeper cutting the campus grass give way to glimpses of a budget cut meeting where it's revealed that said groundskeeper is Berkeley's sole grass cutter.

I feel like the documentary Amy deserves to be on our «best of» list partly because of what it isn't: a bunch of talking heads going on about the short, tragic life of Amy Winehouse.

Director Nadav Schirman distills the war between Palestinians and Israelis down to a pair of dueling talking heads in The Green Prince, a documentary carved explicitly from the Errol Morris mode à la The Fog of War.

This transfer is solid if unremarkable, perfectly adequate for presenting a primarily talking - head documentary.

John Scheinfeld's documentary doesn't get many points for originality — it follows the standard talking - head spliced with archival footage format that all docs seem slavishly devoted to.

A documentary about the high - stakes mind games that go into gathering human intelligence, The Green Prince is a taut piece of work that features just two talking heads: a prized Palestinian informant and his ever - cautious Israeli handler.

Reconstructing events through talking heads never makes for exciting documentaries.

To celebrate the lavish legacy of Bergdorf Goodman, the world's toniest department store, writer - director Matthew Miele has made a department store of a documentary, stocked to the hilt with an obscene inventory of storylines, talking heads, and utterly tasteless choices.

Found - footage works best when you feel like you're an active witness in the events unfolding on - screen, but playing up the «documentary» aspect removes audience involvement because it naturally creates a disconnect (Europa Report handled this effectively by having talking - head interviews in the first act, only to end up using them as sparingly as possible throughout the rest of the movie).

Through reenactments, archival footage and talking heads interviews, Wardle treats his thrilling documentary as an intricate detective story.

One of my least favorite things about the current season of American Horror Story is that it's essentially sidelined Lily Rabe in the thankless role of a talking head in a documentary frame story.

With so many documentaries relying on the same old bag of tricks to tell their stories (talking heads, animations or re-enactments or cutesy ways of presenting statistics just to name

Some art documentaries trot out talking heads to reassure us of the central importance of their subjects.

A short making - of documentary eschews talking heads in favor of stitched - together footage of the production's evolution from location scouting and rehearsals to the actual shoot.

As such, it is a refreshing departure from the (present - day) usual documentary conventions of talking heads and soaring scores.

Typical for a documentary consisting of more than talking heads and old photos, the visuals aren't carefully framed or well - lit.

Since this is a narrative film and (thankfully) not a documentary with talking heads interviews, we get some romance, with pretty schoolteacher Alice (Rosemarie DeWitt) flirting with both Steve Butler (who insists that he is «not a bad man») and with Dustin Noble who believes that Steve is the devil.

In our regular features, we take a look at TOBE HOOPER's THE FUNHOUSE, heading to HORROR CHANNEL, and Independents Day talks to the man behind some of the most intriguing UFO documentaries.

Released: February 3 Director: Barak Goodman (Scottsboro: An American Tragedy) Why it's great: A perfect example of how a documentary can be conventional without being trite, Oklahoma City is as by - the - book as they come, talking heads and archival footage serving a riveting historical work.

Weiner isn't a retrospective documentary: There are no talking - head interviews with people recounting what happened back then.

Movie review of «Tower»: Using newsreel footage, rotoscoped animation and talking - head interviews, this documentary re-creates the events surrounding the 1966 Texas Tower massacre with a remarkable you - are - there immediacy.

J.J. Abrams, Adam Scott, and Kevin Smith appear as documentary - style talking heads attesting to the movie's significance.

The reason why it hasn't is simple: Emmet is a completely fictional character, and the documentary - style talking head introductions to the film's individual vignettes (by jazz historians and enthusiasts, including Allen himself) go a long way in convincing the audience of the film's truth.

On the surface — especially at the beginning — it looks and feels like hundreds of other celebrity documentaries: There's footage of very young Garry goofing around with his mom, here's a talking - head recollection from one of his many, many comedian friends, here's a clip from his act, etc..

Unusual for a biographical documentary, there are no traditional talking - head interviews.

Morris» unorthodox approach to documentary — filming reenactments and talking heads but leaving identifications unclear and dramatizing narration absent — delves into the case of a man accused of murdering a Dallas police officer.

The documentary avoids being just a collection of talking heads by supplying a wealth of outtakes, interviews from production, and plenty of relevant footage, from locations to premieres to the Oscar ceremony.

While in no way reinventing the documentary wheel, Pavich's debut, even with a relatively staid talking head format, proves giddily inspirational for a story about a failure.

They successfully avoid the monotony of a conventional talking - head documentary by shooting their interviews outdoors in a dark alley or at a cemetery with a constantly - moving camera.

However, even with Demme's stellar track record with musical documentaries (Talking Heads, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen), it's difficult to understand why so much time is devoted to the musical performances after the extensive family drama set - up.

The behind - the - scenes documentary is, as with all making - of specials on theatrical releases that air on HBO, a 20 - minute exercise in promotional hype, but the talking head interview segments make this this one is more amusing than most.