Sentences with phrase «with documentary subjects»

Not exact matches

The filmmakers tackle this subject with an earnest honesty about privilege that lifts the documentary far beyond the topic of poverty.

Here's the caption @nascarcasm claims goes with this photo: Oscar winners (from left) Christian Bale (Best Actor In A Supporting Role, «The Fighter»), Natalie Portman (Actress In A Leading Role, «Black Swan»), Melissa Leo (Actress In A Supporting Role, «The Fighter»), Colin Firth (Actor In A Leading Role, «The King's Speech») and Kurt Busch (Best Directing, Cinematography, Costume Design and Short - Subject Documentary, «A Positive Step For Me»), celebrate backstage following the Academy Awards, which honor achievement in filmmaking.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

Note: Some years ago, a documentary dealt with this subject.

The main thrust here is to show with documentary evidence how the persistence of a Vice-President to disregard the 1992 Constitution by arrogating to himself the functions entrusted to the Attorney - General under Article 88 of the 1992 Constitution led to the consent judgment debts and other liabilities that became the subject of the Sole Judgment Debt Commissioner's report in Delta Foods Ltd v Attorney - General.

«In my view, unless it can be seen that the person who is the subject of such an investigation is capable of interfering with the investigation process in terms of suspected cases of concealment of documentary or other forms of information, otherwise I think those persons can still occupy their position,» he said on Eyewitness News.

The comment is typical of the sparse, deliberate language of all the subjects of The Gatekeepers — a remarkable documentary by Israeli filmmaker Dror Moreh which manages the historic achievement of securing interviews with six former bosses of the spy organisation Shin Bet.

Figure S2 (A) Neural activity (fMRI only, top panels) in subjects with autism (right) and controls (left) during audio - visual presentation of the documentary (p < 0.05, corrected).

«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.

Michael Roberts's documentary is an unabashed exercise in deifying its subject matter with superlatives and hyperbole from the mouths of talking heads, which ultimately results in the cheapening of the artist.

A tossup between oasis paradise and wasteland, or Eden and hellhole, this mecca turned ecological disaster of biblical proportions with its string of ghost towns and stubborn eccentric homesteaders, is the subject of this uniquely conceived documentary.

Nestling somewhere between a documentary and an art film, between a Crimewatch re-enactment and the work of Mike Leigh, it is extremely difficult to pigeonhole it or to compare it readily with any film on a similar subject.

Gillespie smartly uses the known and builds upon it with context and some style, using «modern day» Tonya, Jeff and LaVona among others as interview subjects for a documentary of sorts that frames the film, but also has the characters speak into the camera in non-interview segments to help give Tonya some humanity, or at least make sure you have a better idea about all of her story and life coming out and you did going in.

Everything about The Wolfpack is extraordinary, beginning with the subjects of Crystal Moselle's mesmerizing documentary.

These comprehensive juxtapositions between on - the - scene and off - the - cuff moments reveal an inherent contradiction between filmmaker and subject; while the team members claim they work from evidence first, then reach conclusions, Chevigny and Kauffman have set out to make a hagiographic observational documentary that is more interested in putting a human face on an organization than it is operating with a more rigorous, journalistic precision.

Even though Petit's walk is a matter of historical fact — and the subject of an amazing documentary — Zemeckis makes his audience feel the weight of what Petit did so well that our hearts flutter with terror and we lean forward in our seats (maybe some of us even watch from between our barely parted fingers)-- the tension heightened even more by the knowledge that the building would soon be completed and any such attempt would become impossible.

Following Sean Decades after making a controversial short documentary about a 4 - year - old son of hippies, filmmaker Ralph Arlyck returns to San Francisco to reconnect with his subject, Sean Farrell.

Stacy Peralta's (Riding Giants) 2001 documentary covering the same subject, Dogtown and Z - Boys, is about the best treatment anyone could have expected about the modest story regarding how some lower class punk street kids would revolutionize the skateboarding industry with their never before seen styles and stunts.

Michał Marczak's quasi-nonfiction experiment isn't a normal documentary; it's at least partially scripted and staged, with its three young Polish subjects essentially «playing» themselves, bounding from one late - night shindig to the next.

Filmmaker Tony Zierra worked closely with his subject on this new documentary chronicling his extraordinary time spent with the late great filmmaker, featuring a treasure trove of private photographs, footage and never - before - seen documents.

If you click on the gold, it will set up a documentary with more information about the subject.

The nominations for Abacus: Small Enough to Jail are Best Documentary and Best Political Documentary with an honor for Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary for The Sung Family.

Kedi leads the nominations this year with four nominations and one honor, including Best Documentary, Best First Documentary, Most Innovative Documentary, Ceyda Torun for Best Director and the Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary honor for The Cats of Istanbul.

Director Raoul Peck picks up the story in this inspiring, infuriating Oscar - nominated documentary, which not only depicts the lives and impacts of Baldwin's three subjects but Baldwin himself, who spoke so eloquently and with such quiet ferocity not just about white oppression, but white apathy regarding racism.

Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow's juicy documentary about expert suspense filmmaker Brian De Palma doubles down on its subject's famous obsessions with Alfred Hitchcock, curvy women in peril and coke - snorting gangsters, reclaiming a peevish Hollywood giant in the process.

And Granik's third film (and first documentary), Stray Dog, focuses on yet another indelible subject: Ron «Stray Dog» Hall, a Vietnam veteran and Missouri biker with a perpetually startling perspective on life.

Containing engaging interviews with Didion fans and friends including Calvin Trillin, David Hare and Hilton Als, «Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold» does that thing that the best documentaries about writers to: it makes you want to return to its subject's work as soon as possible.

With a subject matter that oddly feels both timely and out - of - date, this documentary is packed with telling details about WikiLeaks, Although it gets muddy as it delves into the lives of founder Julian Assange anWith a subject matter that oddly feels both timely and out - of - date, this documentary is packed with telling details about WikiLeaks, Although it gets muddy as it delves into the lives of founder Julian Assange anwith telling details about WikiLeaks, Although it gets muddy as it delves into the lives of founder Julian Assange and...

It's fitting that filmmakers Stephen Silha and Eric Slade assemble this documentary with as much colourful poetry as they can muster, because the subject matter was a remarkably life - loving man whose impact on the arts...

James previously directed the seminal Sundance documentary Hoop Dreams, and with a candid Ebert as his subject this time around, he creates a film that is at once hard to watch and deeply captivating.»

The award - winning filmmaker has a penchant for addressing her subject - matter in unusual depth, as was the case with her previous offering, Flying, an autobiographical documentary six hours in length.

The story of James Young, the British man who was outfitted with a prosthetic arm inspired by the Metal Gear series, is now the subject of a BBC3 documentary called Bodyhack: Metal Gear Man.

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.

Over the past week or so, I had the following film pieces posted at Hammer to Nail: reviews of Criterion Blu - rays of Multiple Maniacs and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; reviews of new theatrical releases Lucky and We're Still Together; and a two - part interview with director Peter Bratt and subject Dolores Huerta, of the new documentary Dolores (reviewed earlier).

Chad Gracia (right) with artist Fedor Alexandrovich, the subject of his documentary «The Russian Woodpecker,» photographed in Los Angeles.

I met with director Jeremy Workman (Magical Universe) and his documentary subject, Matt Green, on Sunday, March 13, at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, with my Fog of Truth podcast colleague Bart Weiss (of Dallas VideoFest) joining me for the conversation (in fact, we used this interview in the first episode — 201 — of our 2nd season, available -LSB-...]-LSB-...]

Through her documentaries such as The Weald (1997), Mangekyo - Kaleidoscope (1999) and Genpin (2010), she grapples with difficult realities and casts a careful gaze on the inner lives of her subjects, unveiling moments of tender humanity and stark honesty.

The world's refugee crisis looms over this year's Oscar - nominated documentary short films, with four of the five movies nominated dealing with the subject either tangentially or straight on.

(In Hindi with subtitles) Saving Marriage (PG - 13 for brief profanity) Same - sex relationships are the subject of this civil rights documentary about the landmark legal decision making gay marriage legal in Massachusetts.

With a fine feature presentation and a decent collection of extras, this Blu - ray release leaves nothing to be desired, though as with any documentary, you'll need to be really into the subject to expect to watch it more than oWith a fine feature presentation and a decent collection of extras, this Blu - ray release leaves nothing to be desired, though as with any documentary, you'll need to be really into the subject to expect to watch it more than owith any documentary, you'll need to be really into the subject to expect to watch it more than once.

He has already received the genius - asshole biopic treatment with Jobs, has been the subject of a biting Alex Gibney documentary, and was even parodied by Justin Long and Funny Or Die in iSteve.

That stunning transformation is the subject of Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation, a dizzying documentary simultaneously combining running commentaries with shocking snippets of footage culled from representative samples of the sensational genre.

One of the most lovey - dovey movies about a hotel ever made, the beautifully filmed but out - of - touch documentary «Always at the Carlyle» takes a potentially juicy subject — a swanky landmark that caters to celebrities and zillionaires — and turns it into a 90 - minute infomercial, with nary a revelation in sight.

There has been talk over the years of taking the Live Action Short Film — along with the Animated Short and Documentary Short Subject — out of the Academy Awards equation, but the outcry was too great for the Academy to even consider getting rid of those categories.

Besides «Marshall» director Hudlin, stars Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad and Sterling K. Brown and producer Paula Wagner, high - profile guests expected at various screenings and events during the festival include Patrick Stewart (subject of an Oct. 25 career retrospective tribute and a conversation with yours truly); Vanessa Redgrave (Oct. 16, presenting her documentary «Sea Sorrow» and represented elsewhere in the festival by a revival screening of «Blow - Up»); Alfre Woodard (subject of an Oct. 21 career retrospective tribute); Michael Shannon (Chicago's own, as the locals like to call him, representing «The Shape of Water» on Oct. 26); Tracy Letts (Chicago's own, as the locals also like to call him, participating Oct. 18 on behalf of Greta Gerwig's acclaimed directorial debut «Lady Bird»); Michael Stuhlbarg (arriving Oct. 25; he gives a beautiful supporting turn in the coming - of - age drama «Call Me by Your Name»); Jon Lovitz (part of the Chicago - sprung comedy «Chasing the Blues,» appearing Oct. 14); and, in an Oct. 23 addition announced after the program went to press, Bill Pullman (getting good notices for the western «The Ballad of Lefty Brown»).

It's an insightful documentary with an endearing subject and there's never a dull moment.

I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck 2017) With so many documentaries on so many worthy subjects, this stood out, not least for the imaginativeness of its approach.

The Producers Guild has announced nominees for the 2018 PGA Awards» Documentary Motion Pictures category, with subjects ranging from Jane Goodall and Ben Bradlee to the Middle East and Earth itself.

Zhao clearly has a deep affection for her subjects who have so graciously let her into their lives, and, with almost documentary rigor, expose some of the difficult truths of life with disability.

Host Eric Hynes takes an adventurous stroll through midtown Manhattan with Jón Gnarr, mayor of Reykjavik and subject of the new documentary Gnarr, who discusses his love of The Wire after watching an unidentified man devour an enchilada.