This is a documentary that offers a degree of insight into addiction, but a curiosity is its failure to mention, until the final 10 minutes, the numerous self-inflicted cuts on her arm.
Influenced by German Expressionist cinema and by Soviet directors' pioneering use of montage, Oliveira produced Douro, faina fluvial (1931; "Douro, Working River"), a short silent documentary that offered a sober portrait of working life in Porto.
The Mosher family had long been a subject of Donal Mosher's evocative photography and writing when he met director Michael Palmieri; together, they co-wrote and directed this documentary that offers the viewer a very personal glimpse of the struggles the Moshers face every day.
As Mock notes, Seliger's portraiture recalls the indelible images associated with Jennie Livingston's Paris Is Burning (1990), the seminal documentary that offered viewers a window onto New York's ball culture and its captivating players notable for their tenacity and tenderness.
Those are the words spoken by one of the three young people at the center of "The Homestretch," a documentary that offers an unprecedented look into the day-to-day lives of three of the estimated 1.6 million homeless youth living in the United States.
A documentary film that offers a scathing portrait of Silvio Berlusconi's tenure as Italy's prime minister has had its premiere in Italy postponed at the request of the government there.
Showing with "Hey Is Dee Dee Home" is "Camera Gun," a short video documentary by Mr. Kowalski that offers an elliptical profile of Aukai Collins, a young Baltimore resident who appears to be an Irish Muslim with fascist leanings and a past as a guerrilla fighter in Chechnya.
B1 Neediest Cases B6 ARTS E1-12 First dominatesonAbraham and Marying dominAtes "AbraHouse Divided a House Divided," a six-hour documentary starting tonight on PBS that offers a brooding, emotional vision of President Lincoln and his wife.
Last year, a documentary filmmaker followed a group that offered drug testing services at popular festivals and found that 100percentt of the people who came to them thinking they had MDMA, also called "molly" or "ecstasy," actually had bath salts, a term that has come to refer to any of a number of popular synthetic drugs.
