Sentences with phrase «way than a documentary»

«The virtual reality experience was one of those communication events that would connect with audiences in a different way than a documentary.»

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All of this raises the possibility that those cafeteria ladies, with their hairnets and their soup ladles, may be doing more to change the way America eats than all the independent documentaries and Michael Pollan books and Whole Foods markets combined.

Ultimately, Handler's documentary functions more as a way to justify her brand of humor than to offer a fresh take on how we talk about race.

A Ciambra is intimate and documentary - like, approaching and then backing away from larger issues of marginalized and immigrant communities, showing rather than preaching, and most importantly, prioritizing Pio's adolescent face and the way his eyes scrutinize his surroundings as they constantly look for opportunity, weak spots to break through.

Well, in June we're having our first child, and what better way to get ready than to watch a documentary called «Babies.»

The site also has added more than 100 titles for viewing in June, including Lars von Trier's «Dogville,» the surfing documentary, «Step Into Liquid,» «Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion,» the Oscar - winning «Crash,» «Carnal Knowledge,» the cult favorite «Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai,» «Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man» and «Amelie.»

But even Avalos had never met anyone like Danny Houck, the violin - obsessed subject of his irresistible, way - stranger - than - fiction documentary «Strad Style,» which screened this week at Sundance's crosstown rival, Slamdance.

Though it's got enough reflection to qualify it as a documentary (and therefore less rewatchable than gems like Christmas Eve on Sesame Street and A Muppet Family Christmas), this is perhaps the best way to revisit the first two decades of the positively wonderful «Sesame Street» in less than 50 minutes.

Based on the novel of the same name by author Miriam Horn, Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman directed by Susan Froemke and John Hoffman and co-directed by Beth Aala, explores the environmental impact of the ranching, farming, and fishing communities in a way that feels more like an educational piece than an impactful, theatrical documentary.

directed by Susan Froemke and John Hoffman and co-directed by Beth Aala, explores the environmental impact of the ranching, farming, and fishing communities in a way that feels more like an educational piece than an impactful, theatrical documentary.

In a way, the most prescient thing about the sequel to Al Gore's 2006 zeitgeist - hitting documentary An Inconvenient Truth, is that 11 years after the first one came out, the issues at its core are more prominent than ever before.

But the sense I get here is that Crowe is less concerned with how his film plays to the industry than with how it rekindles his enthusiasm for the medium after taking such a beating for his last effort — that approach can go either way, but having also recently wrapped a pair of music documentaries (one of which, «Pearl Jam Twenty» will play Toronto next month), he's clearly in a productive frame of mind.

A remarkable snapshot of underclass life, love, humor and despair, Position Among the Stars, which picked up the Special World Cinema Documentary Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and recently played at the Los Angeles Film Festival, is an utterly absorbing and strikingly humane nonfiction film that, in non-judgmental nor holier - than - thou fashion, locates the universality of human struggle in charting the tumultuous ups and downs of an extended Indonesian family trying to work their way out of the slums.

The footage and the way it's presented makes this seem like it will have a great impact; more than an engaging documentary, a vital profile of a key moment in US history.

For more than 30 years, Hershman Leeson has employed innovative technology to probe issues of identity, embodiment and expression in newly engaging ways, producing complex works of computer engineering as well as powerful documentaries and feature films.

Kickstarter began in 2009, and since then the site has raised more than $ 500 million for 40,000 projects — from Iraq war documentaries to Brooklyn restaurants — revolutionizing the way creative ideas are financed in the digital age.

In part because, it offers the quickest, most cost - effective way to reduce emissions today rather than tomorrow, but also because it gives people in developing countries an opportunity to develop sustainable lievlihoods by acting as guardians of the ecosystem, as this 26 - minute film from documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Barbee makes clear.

Though playing off a similar idea - that some type of catastrophic showdown is coming our way at the end of the current Mayan calendar in December 2012 - this new movie «2012: Time for Change» is actually an animated documentary that takes a positive spin on our joint ecological predicament - positing that an evolution of human consciousness could get us back in tune with nature and make humans more able to be positive stewards rather than wanton destroyers of our world.

Well yes, sort of, but it's so much more than that, and this forthcoming documentary aspires to introduce permaculture in an accessible and compelling way.

When people have asked about the ways my career as an actor became associated with Lincoln — theater, TV, documentaries, readings and such — I'd say, «If you're going to get stuck in a role, you could do worse than be typecast as Abraham Lincoln.»