Sentences with phrase «with documentary elements»

Not all of these films are, strictly speaking, children's films, and some are documentaries; but most of them feature children, and in many respects they establish a particular kind of filmmaking that The White Balloon exemplifies: loosely scripted narratives with documentary elements that employ mainly nonprofessional actors.

It lives in this in between place, a narrative feature infused with documentary elements, and writer - director Bart Layton manages to spectacularly stick that tricky landing.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, the famed filmmaker will soon join in on the trend himself, with a new Netflix documentary series he has in the works that he says «has an element of true crime in it.»

A winner at festivals including Sundance, it's known for being filmed one day a week for 52 weeks and marries a documentary style with drama and a truly pervy thriller element that is intriguing if not always interesting.

In addition to offering the film in its original or extended cut, disc one includes a commentary track for each with director Ridley Scott and actor Russell Crowe, and a 79 - minute documentary about the historical basis of elements of the film, entitled The Scrolls of Knowledge, which can be watched in whole or by topic.

Bears (G) John C. Reilly narrates this nature documentary, set in the Alaska wilderness, chronicling a year in the life of a family of brown bears with a couple of young cubs just learning how to survive the elements, including avalanches, predators and the bitter cold.

The documentary is mainly comprised of interviews, many with the director himself in his apartment, but the highlight for most will be the scene of Tarantino and De Palma talking about the similarities in their careers of having to deal with public attention regarding the violent content in their films (this comes after an extended sequence featuring Tarantino explaining his love for De Palma, which includes a personal scrapbook of printed interviews and a description of the influence that Casualties of War had on certain elements in Reservoir Dogs).

Extras: New 4K scan from the original film elements; new audio commentary with writer - director Albert Pyun; new «A Ravaged Future — The Making of Cyborg» featuring interviews with Pyun, actors Vincent Klyn, Deborah Richter and Terrie Batson, director of photography Philip Alan Waters and editor Rozanne Zingal; new «Shoestring Fantasy - The Effects of Cyborg» featuring interviews with visual effects supervisor Gene Warren Jr., Go - Motion technician Christopher Warren and rotoscope artist Bret Mixon; extended interviews from Mark Hartley's documentary «Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films» with Pyun and Sheldon Lettich; theatrical trailer; still gallery.

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.

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.

It is an intimate portrait of the director as he reflects on his life and career and blends documentary with fictional elements.

Shorter documentary featurettes cover world news events during Bambi's premiere in 1942; the restoration process performed on the original film elements; a visit with animator Andreas Deja to the studio animation archives; and a pair of brief storyboarded deleted scenes.

Nevertheless, Universal has put together the most comprehensive package from the best available sources, although hardcore fans may continue to find some fault with several omissions: a true isolated score track, optional branching of deleted scenes or alternate takes (some of which appeared, alongside elements from both music scores, in the Turner TV cut), the raw behind - the - scenes footage glimpsed in the documentary, a gallery of marketing and merchandising tie - ins, and the inclusion of original promo footage with cast and director.

Photography is a constant and ubiquitous element in Fallen Fruit's artistic practice — utilized both as documentary process and image production — as well as an informal way of establishing trust with a range of citizens, and asking them to lend specific for inclusion in their installations.

This volume explores their combination of documentary strategies with performance - related image production, linking narrative and conceptual elements.

The resulting works are anything but documentary - like in style; he takes the facts he has gathered and develops complex tales, interweaving fictitious elements with real - life events and personal experiences.

It was in 1996 that Wall's artistic practice shifted to the production of black - and - white prints on paper with elements of documentary.

Incorporating elements of documentary filmmaking and spy genre fiction, the work creates unexpected alignments with daily activities and questions the authenticity of lived experience.

She often appropriates raw documentary materials and blends these with fictional elements.

The emotional closeness between the artist and the protagonists and the supposed authenticity of the stories told, are counteracted with stylistic means to undermine the documentary's claim to truth and the private envolvement of the autobiographical elements.»