"I haven't necessarily thought of this project as a documentary one," says Shain, "but I wouldn't exclude it from that genre either.
As a documentary — one in which uncertainty about its veracity or at least discomfort about its supposed honesty was meant to supply most of the energy and seemed to be, in fact, the motivating idea — the movie received generally horrible reviews.
There are no changes, as though Lennon wrote in one draft the song that became a documentary on his life.
As a documentary filmmaker – and one-time private detective – Errol Morris has spent his adult life looking for and then, very carefully, at tabloid stories.
Tells about the battle for Stalingrad, the present day Volgograd, and the German denial of guilt for the war, as well as a documentary and a movie--one Austrian, one German--about the battle.
As for Demme's fine documentary, one thing's for sure: it marks the first time that an eighty-two-year-old ex-President has been filmed by an underwater camera swimming topless and goggled a foot beneath the surface of a hotel pool.
In our documentary, one artist explained, "As a dancer, you always wonder what sound do your moves create?" Not only does Machina's jacket answer that, but it allows you to turn your motions into music.
In the 1960s Hodges worked as a documentary maker for British TV, at one stage shooting a World in Action report on the Vietnam war.
Her choreographic inventiveness fused with Pina Bausch's in the 1983 documentary "One Day Pina Asked...," as well as in the 1986 musical "Golden Eighties," set in a Brussels shopping mall where the antic and seductive comings and goings are marked by the legacy and memory of the Second World War.
As the hybrid special -- one part documentary, one part concert movie -- points out, young Russians really did resort to desperate inventions like X-ray film to fashion bootleg copies of Beatles records circa 1964, when originals cost about a month's wages in Moscow.
Jack Delano's touchstone as a documentary photographer was Paul Strand's imperative that one had to have "a real respect for the thing in front of him".
