The phrase
"than a documentary" is an idiomatic expression that means something is more interesting, engaging or entertaining
than a documentary film.
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Done «after» specific paintings, they serve
more than a documentary function; they show Still using drawing to study his own work as he studied the world.
This is a fictional film
rather than a documentary on several of the movie theater shootings that occurred over the past few years.
Almost entirely built around full length music - video style performances, it's more a variety
show than a documentary.
The late critic Gene Siskel once devised a simple method of measuring a film's worth: «Is this film more interesting
than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?»
In this respect the possibilities offered by combining visuality and ideological mood strike her as more
interesting than documentary or anti-representative strategies — as for instance in projects such as «Masculinities» or «Displaced.
Following a thread that has developed throughout Gursky's career, a number of recent pictures share more aesthetically with abstract painting
than documentary photography.
Keep in mind, the video was produced by the company that built the wind farm - it's more a promo
video than a documentary piece - so you won't find anyone saying anything negative in it, which is unrealistic... You could be building a hospital for sick children and some people will still complain.
«The virtual reality experience was one of those communication events that would connect with audiences in a different
way than a documentary.»
With footage of frolicking polar bear cubs, mesmerizing time - lapse video of a frozen waterfall thawing in spring, and an up - close look at how rising temperatures are ravaging those environments, Frozen Planet has something for everyone — even those whose tastes run more to
sitcoms than documentary.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services first approached S&T about a solution more
reliable than documentary evidence and interviews to help verify kinship in refugee camps and were joined by the Departments of Defense and Justice to develop and test the technology.
That's the surface message of «A Lego Brickumentary,» a new film that feels more like a promotional piece for the celebrated building
blocks than a documentary.
Danish filmmakers Bonke and Koefoed keep their cameras so intimate that this movie feels more like an intensely emotional
drama than a documentary.
More an experimental art
installation than a documentary, this film is mesmerising visually but so abstract that we often aren't sure what we're looking at.
Wormwood opens more like a
feature than a documentary series, with Peter Sarsgaard assuming the role of Frank Olson in an understated and nuanced performance.
Shot and structured more like an indie rom -
com than a documentary, this funny, fully drawn love story concerns an autistic couple navigating emotional and sexual minefields on the eve of their wedding.
Not told in a linear fashion, and more conjecture about the behavior of
Jackie than documentary storytelling, the film meditatively moves back and forth between her days in the White House, often lingering on a TV special in which her lavish spending on decorating the White House was the focus, that fateful Dallas car ride and the ensuing plane ride home, the planning of her husband's funeral and burial and the sit down interview.
It's a way to get a wider audience to learn and think about drone warfare, but do so within the framework of a movie starring Ethan Hawke and January Jones, which will probably get more
viewers than a documentary.
This remarkable movie, about a Jewish family's exploration of a friendship between their grandparents and a Nazi officer and his wife, feels more like a
thriller than a documentary.
Robert Smithson dancing on Spiral Jetty or Chris Burden rolling on broken glass end up as more
than documentary footage.
His innovation was to apply the abstract style to photography, creating metaphoric rather
than documentary content, establishing a cross-disciplinary correlation between painting and photography.
Those who attend, in turn, make the presentation to their own countrymen, spreading the word far more
broadly than the documentary ever did.
The film leaves room for doubt, and I don't know if it's because the production values are those of an experimental film
rather than a documentary - which means we are at fault for depending on a certain set of conventions for truth - or if we simply don't have enough confidence in Emmy's p.o.v.
Other than documentaries, the sight of a breastfeeding mom on a screen is solely a set - up for broad, slapstick humor or to somehow shame the mother choosing to breastfeed.
The fact that someone likes jazz more than rock, or comedies
more than documentaries, doesn't really tell you whether they're going to like you - or whether you're going to like them.
Random Access Memories is prolific and wholesome at its foundation however Daft Punk's attempts have fallen horribly short of their intentions, resulting in nothing more
than a failed attempt at a musical documentary rather than a
Given what this film is about and the dangers hindering its fullest accounting, a dramatic rendition, rather
than a documentary, might have been more emotionally satisfying.
His epic documentary, Cartel Land is more
than a documentary — it's a visionary masterpiece that could rival any Hollywood feature film.
Secondly, it amounts to nothing more
than a documentary that detects continuity errors in The Shining.
As previously stated, I am already fascinated by the subject matter but seeing an actual film about this story rather
than a documentary should be interesting especially because I am seeing both films and can compare the story to each film.
I did find it a bit slow and laboured in parts but can't think how that could be altered and keep it fictional account rather
than a documentary.
The film plays more like an action film
than a documentary.
Filmmaker Albert Nerenberg tells it using a huge symphonic score with more b - roll footage (mostly irrelevant)
than any documentary should need, making boredom seem, well, quite exciting and entertaining.
It is, apparently, a «pompous, empty feature film» that is «more like a high - class piece of perverse nostalgia porn'
than a documentary.
Whilst this subject matter parallels that of the photojournalist, the artist's approach is allusive rather
than documentary; he uses the camera to isolate and draw attention to detail rather than depicting easy narratives.
Challenging a common function of the conventional exhibition catalog, the images are speculative rather
than documentary: a set of 10 drawings by artist Matthew Rana illustrates his interpretation of the works in the show prior to the manifestation of the exhibition.