Sentences with phrase «what documentary film»
It's the best of what documentary film should be.
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Loaded with resources and a documentary film, Mike and I took over Mars Hill for what Bell called «Porn Sunday.»
Baroness Kidron's 2013 documentary film InRealLife, in which she interviews several teenage porn users, offers a chilling insight into the entrenched depth of their engagement with porn and what it's doing to their views of relationships, women and the world.
Marisa Miller Wolfson, creator of the award winning documentary film Vegucated, took some time out to talk with me at the New York Green Festival about her film, her next projects, what inspires her, and easy first steps for people to take to transition to a healthier way of eating for personal health, the planet and the animals.
What's this, a feature - length documentary film about wine?
For those of you that don't know what Catfish is, it's a documentary that was made in 2010 about a young kid who falls in love with a girl over Facebook while his brother and friend film it.
Helmed by Chapman Way and MacLain Way and featuring multiple appearances by their uncle and former Maverick himself Kurt Russell, the docu launched in the Documentary Premiere section of this year's Sundance Film Festival on January 20... In play right now with several buyers at Sundance, according to sources close to the film, Battered Bastards chronicles how in 1973 Bonanza actor Bing Russell formed what at the time was America's sole independent baseball team.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, MBA talks about what inspired her to make the documentary film, «Miss Representation»
When introducing his latest documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival Saturday night, director Alex Gibney joked that he was leaning towards keeping the name of his «mostly finished but not quite done» work the «Untitled Eliot Spitzer Film» because he'd never before made a film where he was «so uncertain about where [he] was going... and what the conclusions would be,» given the «divisive» nature of his subject.
What I've been doing the past few years is producing documentary films for science - based nonprofit organizations who are interested in promoting their science programs and things like that.
whatthehealthfilm.com What the Health is a 2017 documentary film which explores the health impact of meat and dairy products consumption, and questions the practices of the leading health and pharmaceutical organizations
I could make a film about any person or organization and only interview the people that hate you or it with no inclusion of the good things a person or organization does and present it as a documentary and you know what people would believe you're entirely evil and you know why?
District 9 is partly presented as a faux documentary (rather than a mockumentary, which is what Roger Ebert wrongly labels the film... there is nothing funny about this movie), detailing how 20 years earlier, a huge alien spaceship (think Independence Day) parked itself over Johannesburg and... sat there.
It won two jury awards at Sundance, and arguably an appreciation for Nick Cave the artist would influence any viewer's perception of 20,000 Days On Earth, but what really affects ones viewing of this film is entering into it and viewing it as a documentary disguised as a fictional film, or a fictional film disguised as a documentary.
With revolutionary films, documentaries, music events, and comedy specials for the next generation of film connoisseurs, SHO NEXT ® HD serves up the unexpected, the extraordinary, and the best of what's «next» — all in jaw - dropping High Definition and crisp Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.
A trip through his wild and hugely influential filmography is mandatory for any film fan, and that's just what directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow offer in their new documentary.
In 1997, Tickell set out on the road with a biodiesel powered «Veggie Van» and a video camera and began filming what would eventually become known as FUEL, the 2008 Sundance Audience Award winning documentary film that investigates the possible replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy.
What Turturro, who appears in the film as a combination tour guide and impresario, has come up with is closer to a fantasia than a traditional documentary.
Jon Amiel's film is beautifully constructed and flawlessly integrates other techniques (documentary footage, time lapse photography, CGI effects) into what feels like a traditional period piece.
Everyone knows about different acting methods and a lot of people knew about what Carrey did on the set of Man on the Moon but obviously we never saw it, but that's what this documentary is and although it's not spectacular or anything, it gives another look at the work of the actor and it becomes an excellent companion to the film and especially serves as a testament of one of Jim Carrey's best acting jobs.
Framed with documentary film — like interviews with the key players in what remains the most infamous story to come out of Olympic figure skating, his Tonya Harding script straddles a tricky tone of pitch - black humor, affecting pathos, and winking self - awareness.
If you don't recognize the name of Seth Gordon, he also directed one of my favourite documentaries of the last decade — The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters — and I can't wait to see what he ends up doing with a full narrative film.
10) On Her Shoulders Sundance has been known to include many films about what's happening in the middle east throughout its yearly Documentary competition and premieres sections.
Launch of «The Room», a documentary arts and health film commissioned by the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT).
Like their previous film Lenny Cooke, sibling directors Benny and Joshua Safdie focus on a true story in Heaven Knows What, only this time they shoot it as a feature narrative instead of a documentary.
The performances from the cast are what really save this film from being a total dud and the story is quite interesting of course, but if you want to know the full facts, read books on the subject and watch a few documentaries as well.
All we can do is go with what we've got, and while acknowledging and saluting and admiring these men and what they did on that train, the story as told here feels more suited for a hourlong documentary than a feature film.
Morrison's latest films, DOPE for director Rick Famuyiwa, and the Nina Simone documentary WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE?
What made Poitras» documentary so compelling was the contrast between the quiet of Snowden's Hong Kong hotel room — the film's sole location — and the dramatic implications of his actions for the outside world.
After Sophie is a proof - of - concept film about what happens when a documentary filmmaker investigating the story discovers that the details surrounding Sophie's suicide are both disturbing and supernatural.
To bring it back to the last point I was making, the writer admits there have been 3D documentaries in the past so what about those films?
Described by MK2 as an «unpredictable documentary» from a «fascinating storyteller,» Varda's next film will shed light on her own experience as a director, bringing a very personal insight on what she calls «cine - writing,» traveling from rue Daguerre in Paris to Los Angeles and Beijing.
His other notable credits (not counting his extensive résumé as a documentary cameraman) include the Safdies» Heaven Knows What, Nathan Silver's recent Thirst Street, and the films of Alex Ross Perry (Queen Of Earth, Listen Up Philip).
This film isn't the work of a director who has an idea for a documentary and decides to gather new footage or mine soundbites to make what they want.
The Emmy award - winning filmmaker talks about why she filmed the documentary, challenges with the film and what she wants people to take away from it.
To celebrate this anniversary, Anchor Bay Entertainment has packaged the three best films in the series along with a documentary on the Halloween phenomenon in a gorgeous display package featuring what they describe as «an exclusive display replica of the Michael Myers mask, which has become THE face of horror for the last three decades [sorry, head not included]!
One such film is the 2008 documentary «Man on Wire,» James Marsh's account of what happened the morning of Aug. 7, 1974, when French aerialist Philippe Petit wire - walked between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
In his one - of - a-kind fiction / documentary hybrid Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One, director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York's Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they're making.
Director and screenwriter Peter Berg sets a high standard for his own film to meet by beginning with a lengthy sequence of what appears to be documentary footage of Navy SEALs undergoing rigorous training.
At a party for documentary films, Pearce wanted to know what I thought of the film and then offered up his own extended review.
What You Need to Know: Director Alex Gibney («Taxi to the Dark Side») originally set out to direct a documentary about Armstrong's comeback in 2009, but for various reasons abandoned the film to tell this story of Armstrong's battle over cheating allegations and eventual admittance to using performance - enhancing substances.
Alongside our documentary portrait of this bustling venue, Costa has been programming an ongoing selection of films that capture «what it feels like to live in Alaska.»
As I say in my video review above, Gillespie and Rogers bracket their film with documentary - style interviews with the principal subjects, who all seem to be telling a completely different story of what happened.
What's especially interesting here is that, due to the extremely tight schedule, Yates decided to use even the scenes with Mitchum's less - than - perfect deliveries, which ultimately gave the film an obvious rawness and imperfection that accentuated the desired feel of authenticity and gritty, unpolished documentary - style filmmaking that Yates and the crew were going for.
Academy - award winning director William Friedkin discusses his early career — including making documentaries for David L. Wolper, working for Alfred Hitchcock and what he learned from studying his films, and directing his first movie Good Times (1967), starring Sonny and Cher; how his career path led to making The Exorcist, his initial reaction to reading the source material, the story's theme of Good versus Evil, and the role his own faith played in his approach to making the movie; the techniques he used to generate suspense and fear in the audience, his use of subliminal imagery, and his reasons for recently restoring deleted footage to the film.
«What if a filmmaker made a few films no one really wanted to see then made a documentary about those films no one wanted to see?»
He will also conduct what the university's website is calling a «workshop / master class on documentary film» on April 28, free to the public.
I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.
In 2004 and 2005, the makers of Hoop Dreams, in collaboration with Criterion, revisited the documentary's principle figures, Arthur Agee and William Gates, along with their families, to see what had been happening in their lives since the film's...
This insightful documentary examines the oft - misunderstood world of film criticism and explores what the future holds for it in the Internet era.