Born Christian-François Bouche-Villeneuve in an upper-class suburb of Paris, Mr. Marker, who will turn 82 this year, has been credited with inventing the "essay film," a form pitched between documentary and personal reflection.
The documentary allows for reflection, as the Stax stalwart Sam Moore talks about being consumed by a drug problem that had him selling heroin on the streets of Manhattan to support his habit after he and his partner Dave Prater broke up in the early 70's.
For a start, how about giving us a [movie] that isn't derivative and self-indulgent?" Colin Jacobson from the DVD Movie Guide website opined that I'm Going to Tell You a Secret would find a divided audience and how one reacted to the documentary was a reflection of how one viewed Madonna.
The many interviews, statements, documentary extracts, anecdotes and reflections that make up the book are often fascinating in themselves, but do they hang together?
"Eco-documentaries are a reflection of that"."The End of the Line" uses the same lyrical underwater footage as nature documentaries, such as "The Blue Planet".
MR: Stevie, any more reflections on the documentary?
The documentary was also an important reflection of the work of WikiLeaks, without whom there would have been no Incident in New Baghdad.
After much reflection, the Spanish documentary photographer shifted her gaze once more from what she calls "the uncomfortable aspects (of eating disorders) which nobody wanted to talk about" to "the collateral victims" of the illness.
"Filmed for more than a year, this fair and balanced observational documentary series is a fair reflection of the reality of life on a street where the majority of households receive benefits - and in an area of Birmingham that has had the highest rate of unemployment in the country for the last eight years," she said.
