Mitt, Greg Whiteley's fly - on - the -
wall documentary about Mitt Romney's two presidential campaigns, is always interesting (how could it not be, with the remarkable degree of access the candidate gave the filmmaker?)
Not exact matches
Last week he sat down in the Los Angeles offices of his production company, IXTLAN, to talk with Global Viewpoint Network editor Nathan Gardels
about his recent
documentary, «South of the Border,» and his upcoming release, «
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.»
«Equity,» now open in four theaters, is a
Wall Street - set drama
about a financial scandal; and «Gleason» is a
documentary about NFL footballer Steve Gleason and his struggle with ALS.
Naturally such enduring friendships lead to frictions and the joy of What We Do in the Shadows, which is shot like a fly on the
wall documentary, comes from the humour of the everyday; here arguments
about the washing up are as commonplace as bloodsucking.
A bold, Rouchian
documentary about Indonesian «gangsters» blends reenactment and fly - on - the -
wall observation to reveal some grotesque truths
At the film's recent press day, McKay, Lewis, Bale, Carell, Gosling, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, producer Jeremy Kleiner, and screenwriter Charles Randolph talked
about turning the book into a movie and adapting it to the screen, why McKay was the right person to direct, what drew them to the project, how the actors met their real - life counterparts in preparation for their roles, the decision to combine a cinema verite
documentary approach with other stylized elements, breaking the fourth
wall, and using celebrities and pop culture figures as an entertaining storytelling device to explain complex financial concepts to the audience.
A breezy, entertaining
documentary about famed skateboarder Danny Way, capped by a fantastic jump over the Great
Wall of China, doesn't transcend its subject the way «Exit Through the Gift Shop» transcends graffiti art.
At a time when we've seen several lacerating
documentaries about the economic meltdown, and Michael Lewis» The Big Short is on the best - seller lists, «
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps» isn't nearly as merciless as I expected.
He teamed up with PETA, an organization that he supports, to make and narrate a powerful
documentary about factory farming titled «Glass
Walls.»
I guess the argument will be
about his proximity to his subject (this is no fly - on - the -
wall artistic docu - soap: only an insider could do what he does), and the status of his work in relation to the genre of
documentary photography.