Sentences with word «verite»

It «Äôs his ode to American Burlesque theatre and he directs the film like a true veteran, infusing hand held camera with a loose narrative to give a kind of cinema verite style to his film.

Soon she and her crew were traveling with the politician, filming him in cinema verite style for online «webisodes.»

«We recognize the restraint of filmmakers letting image and sound speak for itself,» the jury said in honoring Bill and Turner Ross with a special jury award for verite filmmaking.

While the cinema verite nature of this bonus feature is certainly compelling and the design and angles make use of DVD technology, watching all six angles all the way through would probably only interest the most technically - inclined of viewers.

«LoveTrue,» which also premiered on Friday, is a documentary that feels like a troubled but lovely fever dream, a look at three different subjects that mixes verite footage with re-enactments, and then deconstructs those sequences by having the actors talk to the real subjects.

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami Sophie Fiennes» documentary shows the legendary singer, model and actress still at it as she nears age 70, and it has lots of good concert footage, but the film is frustratingly short of any context or depth — just a no - explanations cinema verite approach.

Cinema verite shooter Joan Churchill («Last Days in Vietnam») started out by recovering from an eight - hour acid trip, she admitted, to shoot some of the most iconic images from the Rolling Stones Altamont doc, «Gim me Shelter.»

Anyone expecting cinema verite on the order of Rocky or Raging Bull, for which Robert De Niro won an Academy Award in 1981, is destined to be disappointed.

The Board of Managers added an additional special award to William Jersey for his thoughtful cinema verite statement A Time for Burning.

for those not familiar with the hbo program, hard knocks is a cinema verite series that highlights a different professional football team each season.

Veering wildly between earthy verite and near - ecstatic surrealism, this Tanzanian - set tale of a resourceful albino adolescent learning to survive in a community brutally geared against his kind is stylistically reckless in the best possible way — a quasi-horror film that evokes a world physically and spiritually out of balance.

Long lenses add verite realism to the street scenes, situating this story firmly within the thriving Borough Park community, offering insight into a world that has often been hidden.

Instead, in true verite style, the scenes must speak for themselves, even though it may take multiple viewings to make sense of the film's many intricacies.

Borrowing from documentary and independent cinema, director Doug Liman presented a kinetic and hard - hitting verite style in Identity.

Where they once spun enveloping hood verite, here they just list gangsta signifiers without building a world from them.

But though Kassovitz sticks to black - and - white in the body of the film - black - and - white still says verite to us, even though news footage is now invariably in colour - he doesn't restrict the camera's role to passively registering events.

The film starts off with a distracting flurry of sound bites and later even includes several portions of an earlier documentary, Thomas Reichman's hour - long Mingus (1968)-- a piece of cinema verite about Mingus getting evicted from his loft that also gives us long stretches of uninterrupted music.

For some odd reason, I had assumed Chernobyl Diaries to be another entry into the ever - growing found footage horror sub-genre, perhaps due to Oren «Paranormal Activity» Peli's moniker or to the trailer's Cinema verite feel.

What begins as a baffling yet amusing string of non sequitur vignettes, shot rough and strenuous in a camera - verite fashion, eventually and astonishingly is made coherent in Zach Weintraub's audacious arthouse alternative, Slackjaw.

In Magic Mike, an odd and entertaining mix of backstage melodrama, indie verite, and Showgirls kitsch, the usual gender stereotypes are upturned.

He takes every tool in the directing toolbox, giving us steady - cam shots jammed against extreme close - up next to that shaking camera cinema verite then mixed with actual news footage.

One was the idea of showing life as it is, the cinema verite side of movies — films imitating life almost to the point that they seem conjoined.

Throughout this two hour visual verite feast, you'll be hit with moments of joy and sadness, inspiration and despondency, and a cinematic romanticism so riveting that you just can't tear yourself away.

Baker has used the term «pop verite» to describe that beehive.

The camerawork and mise en scene move into a kind of cinema verite existence feelung often like do umentary rather than dramadoc.

The film is far from verite, but Field has shot the story in a natural and unobtrusive style — he lets the story tell the story.

It is classic because Hooper masterfully enlisted a low rent verite for this bizarre story to do something utterly new.

Director Farida Pacha follows one family in a cinema verite documentary.

He is very good at the cinema verite style film making.

Such a jumpcut works here only because Ashby's verite approach with actors and with the staging of key sequences, an approach employed to even greater effect in Coming Home, allows room for freedom and improvisation.

Though fiction, the story is filmed as if it were a cinema verite documentary, the camera wandering from scene to scene, character to character.

so here's the damage 4 dresses (convergent sweater dress, Rosettes and Ruffles, verite and bustling aves), iced cap blouse, chie miharie's smoked stacked heels, ganache pumps and threw in another pair of berry bush tights!!

It's a low - budget winner combining a sharp, protean visual style — one minute music video, the next cinema verite — with impudent humour, raw emotion, a thumping good rap soundtrack and some pertinent lessons in choice and responsibility.

The film is entirely within the caught - on - the - run tradition of cinema verite, which makes it all the grittier and its conclusion all the more wrenching.

As Derek Cianfrance retained the verite nature of sophomore effort Blue Valentine whilst ballooning his narrative into a generational, Kazan - style family drama, The Place Beyond the Pines found the writer - director bounding forward as an artist.

Capturing the essence of its subject more than recapping her life and career, this verite - style documentary from director Sophie Fiennes follows the venerable Jamaican singer for several years, showing that she still has the same feisty spirit and magnetic stage presence well into her 60s.

I Am Cait is, on some level, the most respectful melding of television's notion of cinema verite and Hollywood's highest form of top - notch, controlled publicity.

«Filmmaker Robert Drew, a pioneer of the modern documentary who in Primary and other movies mastered the intimate, spontaneous style known as cinema verite and schooled a generation of influential directors that included D.A. Pennebaker and Albert Maysles, has died at age 90.

But he was beloved by actors and changed the language of cinema, moving the speedy overlapping dialogue of Howard Hawks into the»70s vernacular with sinuous, moving, zooming cameras, presaging the cinema verite, Steadicam era.

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It uses a kind of cinema verite style that wouldn't be out of place in a Ken Loach film.