WITH "Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God", an investigation into sexual abuse in the Catholic church, and "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks", Alex Gibney's recent film-making history is dominated by crunchy analytical documentaries.
He has a distinctive, original approach to cinematic time, to the cinematic event, which connects his work, in some ways, to such European modernists as Jean Eustache, Maurice Pialat, and Philippe Garrel, as well as to the analytical documentaries of Frederick Wiseman.
Wiseman's superbly analytical documentary provides a living illustration, in images and sounds, of what Jean-Luc Godard is waving goodbye to in his new film, "Goodbye to Language".
This passionate, intimate, analytical documentary, centered on residents of Ferguson, Missouri, in the aftermath of the killing by police of Michael Brown, considers the political conditions that led to it and efforts to seek change.
The other is a one-man strand, Roberto Rossellini — his blend of analytical intellectualism and documentary-style investigation.
The story's sentimental contours — emphasized by Kiarostami's distinctive blend of analytical stylization and documentary avidity — throw character traits into sharp relief while filling in the background with a tangle of relationships and moral twists.
"Imperial Dreams" blends the analytical thoroughness of a documentary with a symbolic and furious dramatic compression; it was unjustly overlooked at the time of its brief release.
This joyfully analytical and tautly argued documentary, directed by Kent Jones, links Alfred Hitchcock's preëminent acclaim among critics and filmmakers alike to the publication of François Truffaut's 1966 book of interviews with him.
Because of its ubiquitous and unobtrusive analytical, diagnostic, supportive, information and documentary functions, pervasive computing is predicted to improve traditional health care [ 6, 7].
Presented with the air of a wildlife documentary, Beyond Clueless offers an analytical overview of the US teen as portrayed in the movies of the late 90s and early 00s.
Like many other recent documentaries about artists, it is more celebratory than analytical, a kind of slick, extended promotional video for its subject.
