Kosminsky comes from a straight documentary background.
In keeping with his documentary background, Mr. Kore-eda's fiction films are often rooted in actual events and personal experiences.
His cameraman, Raoul Coutard, had a documentary background, and Godard drew on Coutard's experience to shoot in the street without lights or crowd control.
The documentary background and the camera's unflinching attention to her every step, gesture and facial expression both create suspense and induce a kind of philosophical reverie.
Like Huston, Clément knew the value of an original shooting style and on this underrated black comedy opted for spontaneous, location-led photography that reflected his documentary background.
What brought White (an English director, with a documentary background) and Simon (the American writer of gritty police drama The Wire) together was a mixture of good fortune, and good budgeting.
Greengrass's ultra-realistic style of film making is very much based on his documentary background: he worked for 10 years on Granada's World in Action team after graduating from Cambridge.
It is partly that documentary background that gives him an eye for a story and for an issue that perhaps others might not have.' Daldry argues that Greengrass has actually reinvented the thriller by bridging the creative gap between a political documentary and a blockbuster.
He later directed a string of films and TV shows, including Kavanagh QC, but it was when he moved into docudrama, with his ultra-realistic style of film-making rooted in his TV documentary background, that the plaudits began to flow.
In 1984, while working as a factotum for Tibor Hirsch, a director who made his living (and a good one) with TV commercials but had a documentary background to which he was attempting to return, I had the pleasure and the privilege of getting to know the artistic team of Komar and Melamid, who had emigrated from the Soviet Union in the nineteen-seventies.
