It brings a younger generation of musicians to the often stodgy world of PBS and transforms a documentary into a creative force rather than a nostalgic look back.
In The Private Life of the Kingfisher, for example, it was colour that turned an interesting documentary into a work of art.
We hope Incident in New Baghdad will be shown in the UK and that funds can be raised to expand the short documentary into a longer film project.
"Sly, in essence, is much more compelling than any of the characters he's played," said Mr. Herzfeld, a lifelong friend of Mr. Stallone's, who turned the documentary into a story of professional survival.
In a supplement to "The Rules of the Game," Jean Renoir — speaking at length on camera with Jacques Rivette — revels in the spotlight and turns the documentary into a spectacle in itself.
The project didn't pan out, but Ms. Peirce and Mr. Richard hit it off, and she called him when she had finally made the decision to turn her documentary into a feature.
Like another filmmaker of "doing" and of the mysteries of performance, John Cassavetes, Renoir pushed the extremes of theatre and documentary into a paradoxical unity and relied on voices for multiple duty.
By Richard Brody February 3, 2017 In his film "Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan," from 2004, the director Manfred Kirchheimer turns the familiar and often dull genre of the informational documentary into a celebration.
Perhaps the cleverest stroke of the book is a sudden moment of prolepsis about a quarter of the way through, when we are catapulted forward to Dara and Xavier – bedfellows now, with the aid of a herb called Horny Goat Weed – editing the roughs of Djibouti, debating whether it can be morphed from a documentary into a feature film.
Omar and Rafiullah long for home, despite the indifference, cruelty, even violence that they experienced there, and Asad's efforts to bring them back to the compound — braving Taliban territory to do so — turn the documentary into a tense action-drama.
