Plenty of documentaries, particularly the pervasive sad, lefty ones, aim to make their interviewees look like idiots, but rarely do they succeed at humor.
Documentaries, particularly the kind shown at festivals like Sundance, tend to reaffirm the audience's worldview, partly by appealing to its presumptive tolerance and partly by underscoring the artistry of the endeavor (the vision thing).
"Topical, politically engaged documentaries, particularly those made by American filmmakers, share in this tendency, offering implicit reassurance even as they deliver bad news about the state of the world".
Forsyth added, "If you look at a lot of music documentaries, particularly in recent years, there is the tendency to want to reveal the man behind the rock star, the person behind the myth, to peel away the layers of mask and artifice.
Spurlock -- known for his original documentaries, particularly 2004's "Super Size Me" -- and his camera crew followed McHale from his first step into E Studios until he drives off into the dusk after a long day of filming.
But documentary (particularly about the poor) has a hard time getting through to people about abstract ideas like spirit when it appears alongside difficult circumstances.
This year, she settled on her Lenten sacrifice after watching a documentary on veganism: "I've been vegetarian for seven years and have always insisted that I'd never give up dairy, arguing that life without dairy is no life at all; however, the documentary, particularly images of animals being treated brutally all for the sake of making eggs and milk, moved me".
This historical context is what makes the documentary particularly fascinating to watch, even for someone--like myself---who comes to the film ignorant about the Stooges.
It is the celebrity connection that makes Feuerzeig's documentary particularly compelling viewing.
And, though neither of them is a particularly great artist, their obsessive dedication to their craft and their ability to tolerate each other made this documentary particularly moving and inspiring.
He has been known until this moment for an intensely considered, quiet documentary realism — particularly in the 2006 movie Still Life, about communities preparing to be drowned in the service of China's Three Gorges hydro-electric Dam.
