Sentences with phrase «with documentary portraits»
His project Sansaram from 2005, meaning «people of the mountain», combines landscape views with documentary portraits of native visitors to the Sobaek mountains, encountered on hiking trails.
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Opening night features a live concert with David Bromberg following the screening of a documentary portrait of him, and Thursday's world premiere of Stone Ridge resident Jon Bowermaster's anti-fracking concert documentary Dear Governor Cuomo, to be followed by a performance by Natalie Merchant, is long sold out.
«Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,» an inspiring and important documentary portrait of the Chinese artist and political dissident, begins calmly, with its subject talking of dogs and cats, then cuts to a shot of a cat opening a door by leaping up to pull the handle.
As Allen's execution date closes in, the documentary gives an especially poignant portrait of her friendship with the never flagging legal investigator David Presson.
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar is a documentary on Federico Fellini's life and work by filmmaker Damian Pettigrew, who combines vintage interview footage of Fellini, new conversations with those who worked with him (including actors Donald Sutherland and Terence Stamp), and excerpts from Fellini's films (some of them previously unseen outtakes) to create an insightful portrait of a remarkable creative mind.
Capturing this story with unprecedented access, Academy Award ® winning director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle in a documentary portrait of power, betrayal, truth and sacrifice.
This documentary series from Emmy ® Award - winning SHOWTIME Sports provides viewers with an intimate portrait of some of the most compelling personalities in sports.
Mami Sunada's documentary, while quite the insider's and fan's film, is also a deeply elegiac portrait of the labour and laboriousness, flecked with uncertainty and doubt, behind some of the finest art - and imagination - fuelled films of the past 30 years.
Not merely a documentary portrait, but an engrossing drama with more twists and turns than your average thriller.
That detail is emblematic of the problem with «E-Team,» a documentary that purports to chronicle the sober and urgent work of those who ferret out human - rights abuses, but instead plays like a portrait of a rather glamorous marriage.
With his thrilling new documentary portrait of his hometown — or rather, his new «docu - fantasia» — Guy Maddin proves that you can go home again.
Corsicato compiles footage taken from around Schnabel's home, recent interviews conducted with family and friends, and an assortment of photographs and film clips spanning the artist / director's life in an effort to, if one trusts this documentary's title, provide an intimate portrait of Schnabel's psychology as it was generated from the unusual circumstances of his youth.
Director Ken Wardrop bounded on to the feature documentary scene in 2009 with His & Hers, a nicely captured and charm - heavy portrait of the...
I also admired Stephen Frears» «The Queen,» with Helen Mirren's haunting portrait of Queen Elizabeth; Paul Greengrass» uncanny realism in «United 93 (which deserved the comparisons with a documentary), and Clint Eastwood's visionary, incredibly ambitious war drama, «Letters from Iwo Jima,» which considered the bloody struggle from the Japanese point of view.
In addition, the excellent selection of documentaries continued with the moving and mesmerising Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, damaging drug war dissection The House I Live In and enthralling cultural portrait This Ain't California.
by Bryant Frazer Before Krzysztof Kieslowski became the standard - bearer for the latter - day European art film with ravishing portraits of unspeakably beautiful women living their lives under unutterably mysterious circumstances, he was a gruff but adventurous chronicler, in both documentary and narrative films, of lives lived in the rather more drab surroundings of communist Poland.
Contrasted with «Her's» generally cheerful portrait of technology's potential as a world - class connector, Alex Gibney's dark documentary «We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks» (along with Bill Condon's feature, «The Fifth Estate») chronicles the disruptive impact of hacker Julian Assange's pioneering Web repository for classified government information.
«No natural resource is more precious than water,» said Phil Lind, Vice Chairman, Rogers Communications Inc. «With their stunning documentary Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky have created a vital portrait of a planet in crisis.
The first full day of Sheffield Doc / Fest included world premieres of Magali Pettier's portrait of farming in North Yorkshire Addicted To Sheep, Brian Hill's noir - thriller documentary about a man who confessed to over 30 murders in Sweden The Confessions of Thomas Quick and an EU premiere of Landfill Harmonic following the fortunes of a Paraguayan orchestra with instruments made from rubbish dump materials.
Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.
This Is Not a Film (directed with Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 11), shot while Panahi was under house arrest in his Tehran apartment, is a tantalizing hybrid of documentary self - portrait and contemplative fiction, at once an act of rebellion and a singular example of film as legal loophole: Panahi was effectively telling his persecutors, «You never specified that I couldn't make a film like this, because you never could have anticipated me making it.»
Griffin Dunne, USA, 2017, 92m World Premiere Griffin Dunne's years - in - the - making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simultaneously expands and zeroes in, covering a vast stretch of turbulent cultural history with elegance and candor, and grounded in the illuminating presence and words of Didion herself.
Criterion's «Director Approved» release includes the French - language documentaries Making of by Raphael Duroy (a 26 - minute portrait with Olivier Assayas, Charles Berling and Juliette Binoche) and Inventory (a 50 - minute doc about the film's unique and personal approach to art) and an original 28 - minute, English - language interview with Assayas discussing his inspirations and aspirations for the film.
Often described as «the godmother of the French New Wave,» though she is more properly thought of as a member of the Left Bank movement, she made her feature directing debut with «La Pointe Courte» (1955), a portrait of a crumbling marriage set in a Mediterranean fishing village, steeped in documentary and neorealist techniques.
Release Date: Since her excellent 2010 debut I Will Follow, DuVernay has become an impressive force to be reckoned with, challenging herself across a dizzying number of projects and platforms (including the short film The Door, which went to Venice 2013, television projects such as a compelling portrait of Venus Williams with Venus Vs. for ESPN's «Nine for IX» series, and «Scandal,» plus she unveiled a surprise documentary project this year with The 13th, an excellent portrait of the troubling history of racial injustice within the criminal justice system — and also the first documentary to open the New York Film Festival).
It is an intimate portrait of the director as he reflects on his life and career and blends documentary with fictional elements.
Extras on The Immortal Story include audio commentary by film scholar Adrian Martin; an interview with co-star Norman Eshley; and the 1968 documentary Portrait: Orson Welles.
«The Departure» is a documentary portrait of Ittetsu Nemoto, right, seen here with a participant in one of his counseling retreats.
The cult of Stanley Kubrick is taken to a new extreme with Filmworker, director Tony Zierra's fascinating documentary portrait of Leon Vitali, a classically trained British actor who gave up a promising career in front of the camera to serve at the feet of the master.
- New, restored 4K digital transfer of the English - language version of the film, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu - ray - Alternate French - language version of the film - Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film scholar Adrian Martin - Portrait: Orson Welles, a 1968 documentary directed by François Reichenbach and Frédéric Rossif - New interview with actor Norman Eshley - Interview from 2004 with cinematographer Willy Kurant - New interview with Welles scholar François Thomas - An essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
This documentary presents a portrait of Wolfgang Fasser, a blind musical therapist working with disabled children in the Swiss mountains.
«Fruitvale Station,» though it begins with real - life footage, is not a documentary; instead, it's a fact - based portrait of Grant's last day, and a moving reminder that he wasn't a statistic but somebody's father, somebody's friend, somebody's son.
A portrait of a man whom we all think we know, this documentary is an emotional and moving film that takes you beyond zip - up cardigans and the land of make - believe, and into the heart of a creative genius, who inspired generations of children with compassion and limitless imagination.
The documentary Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (out April 21 on DVD) reveals a surprisingly unpretentious family man, fun and funny, with a touch of the romantic.
Only Ginsburg superfans need apply to this thin, hagiographic documentary portrait, which glosses over whole chapters of its subject's career and rarely engages with her judicial philosophy.
In her new documentary Faces Places, Varda teams up with the enigmatic photographer and visual artist JR to follow and participate in his Inside Out project, in which he takes portraits of regular people and pastes the pictures, in gigantic - poster format, onto walls and buildings.
The film Although Sweden has produced more than its fair share of internationally exportable smut, this intimate documentary portrait of two long - haired, free - spirited teens, Stoffe and Kenta, mostly intercuts revealing interview material with footage of their frequently dull existence.
The upshot of that effort is Queen Mimi, a revealing documentary offering an intimate portrait of a feisty, yet very likable lady with a strong survival instinct intact.
INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 45365 (Unrated) Droll, slice - of - life documentary, co-directed by siblings Bill and Turner Ross who paint a matter - of - fact portrait of their humble hometown of Sidney, Ohio, the nondescript city with the zip code 45365.
Described by Byrne as being like «60 Minutes on acid,» True Stories presents itself as a documentary portrait of the (fictional) town of Virgil, Texas, with Byrne himself as the nameless investigative journalist dispatched there — quite possibly from Mars.
After winning Best Canadian Documentary, this insightful, involving portrait of breathtaking Haida Gwaii and the people who call it home also won Best British Columbia Film, which came with a $ 500 cash prize sponsored by the Canadian Media Production Association - BC Producers» Branch.
Audio Commentary # 1: Composer David Raksin & Historian Jeanine Basinger / Audio Commentary # 2: Historian Rudy Behlmer / Documentary: «Biography Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait» (44:20), with 4 indexed chapters / Documentary: «Biography Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain» (44:13), with 4 indexed chapters / 1 Deleted Scene (1:37) with optional commentary by Historian Rudy Behlmer / Theatrical trailer
Myers surprised Wurtzel with the portrait, and luckily the moment was captured in Please Touch the Art, a short documentary by Cantor Fine Art.
The presentation includes the premiere of «David Adjaye: Collaborations,» a documentary film by Oliver Hardt that presents a portrait of the architect through the eyes of people with whom he has worked.
Documentary - style photographs of the demolition of Braddock Hospital, the only hospital in the area, are juxtaposed with intimate portraits of Frazier's mother and grandmother, both of whom learned they had cancer in 2008.
The presentation included the premiere of «David Adjaye: Collaborations,» the documentary film by Oliver Hardt presents a portrait of the architect through the eyes of people with whom he has worked.
This moving, penetrating documentary, made by his granddaughter Cosima Spender, is both a brilliant portrait of the artist — a man who told myriad lies about his true identity — and the haunted tale of a family still grappling with his turbulent ghost.
You would initially associate Schwitters with Dadaism, however just looking through this major exhibition in the Tate Britain you will find scraps of the surrealists and the cubists; despite this it does feel that he didn't belong in any of these movements, always trying something new or something very bland and documentary, for example his portraits or his landscapes in which he had friends commission him for.
It will be presented with a rare screening of «Portrait of Jean Paul Riopelle,» a 1965 episode of the Canadian documentary series, Telescope.
As in his famous film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (a documentary similar to German filmmaker Hellmuth Costard's 1970 experimental film Fussball wie noch nie about Manchester United footballer George Best) that he realized together with Douglas Gordon, the two new films are portraits that revolve around a specific space.