Alexander McQueen discovered himself". In this, the designer, and the documentary, bear a resemblance to Kevin Macdonald's "Whitney," another illustration of the reality that great ability does not ensure happiness; both feature individuals everyone knew were in trouble but no one was finally able to help.
It's exactly this topic that co-creators Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison are examining in their new interactive web-based documentary Bear 71, from the innovative National Film Board of Canada (NFB), that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this week.
Soon after the floor was opened for questions, Nikki Stephanopoulos, the communications director for the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, whose son is the ABC News correspondent George Stephanopoulos, complained that the voluptuous, ravenous images of Mary Magdalene on display in the documentary bore little resemblance to Eastern representations of the Magdalene.
The documentary bears similarities to Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth": Chai, like Gore, uses a multimedia PowerPoint presentation to explain the science, economics and politics of China's pollution crisis.
Their voices, which Porterfield expertly elicits with a method derived from documentary filmmaking, bear the scars of experience, the remains of desire, the steadfast will to endure.
If you want to wave all this a final goodbye, it may be worth having a quick look at the looming Glastonbury performance by the hoary heavy metal band Metallica: such an embodiment of testosterone-driven absurdity that their lead singer, 50-year-old James Hetfield, is an avid gun enthusiast who has just narrated a TV documentary about bear hunting.
"Celebrity trumps ideology," Al Franken says in the new documentary that bears both his name and God's.
She wrote and produced documentaries, including Arafat: Behind the Myth for the BBC in 1990, and she featured in the 2005 documentary film Bearing Witness with four other female war reporters.
Annoy your friends and family by reciting lines from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" as it plays in Central Park's Sheep Meadow at 8 p.m. [Free] A 30th anniversary screening of "Wild Style", a classic documentary that bore witness to the early days of hip-hop in New York, is at East River Park in Manhattan at 6 p.m. Fab 5 Freddy, Grand Wizard Theodore and others will attend.
The network actually pulled the same stunt in a 1997 documentary with bears at a Belgian zoo.
We are not proud of The Ivory Tower -- both the implications of the phrase and the points made in the documentary that bears its name.
