The HBO documentary on which the play is based hits these points, too, but keeps your attention on the two men at all times.
He believes the Rodman stunt served a wider purpose, giving his film crew "unparalleled access" to the regime for a documentary on which they are still working.
Yes, actors give dramatic readings of letters, and the camera technique is straight out of "The Civil War," the breakthrough documentary on which Mr. Burns worked with Ken Burns, his brother.
In fact, Britain and France each wanted Palestine and, as will be revealed in an al-Jazeera documentary on which I am a consultant, to avoid coming to blows Sykes and Picot agreed that it should be put under international administration.
Perhaps it doesn't go deep enough - or as deep as The Times of Harvey Milk, the brilliant documentary on which it is based - but it is my favourite among the nominees.
"GREY GARDENS," the story of creepy Kennedy outliers Edith and "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, could have contented itself to be a Hamptons Gothic campfest, merely theatricalizing the tone and structure of the 1975 documentary on which it's based.
In one exhilarating chapter Mr Wood unapologetically breaks academic form for a free-associative join-the-dots game between the lush film-star swoon of "Notorious", the postmodern appreciation of Jean-Luc Godard and "Memory of the Camps", a little-remembered Holocaust documentary on which Hitchcock advised.
Having cut his teeth on music videos (and then graduated to the cerebral Joy Division documentary, on which he collaborated with Jon Savage, Grant Geee has reinvented himself as a formidable force in the microgenre of literary travelogues, a space hitherto largely occupied by Patrick Keiller, Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair.
The festival also focused on Dutch documentaries, of which I particularly enjoyed Among Horses and Men by Marjoleine Boonstra.
Joseph was speaking to Billboard ahead of the release of the documentary Amy, on which he is credited as executive producer.
