The Blue Valentine director this time round is going down the quasi-documentary route with the story of a heavy metal drummer who blows his eardrums out and must learn to adapt to a world of silence.
Channel 4's Britain's Forgotten Children season was an exemplary and, post-Baby P, timely piece of public service broadcasting – an emotive subject dealt with in such a way that it was neither overworthy nor wildly depressing, producing some fine documentaries en route.
The television documentaries Acoustic Routes (1992) and Dreamweaver (2000), as well as Harper's biography, Dazzling Stranger (2000), helped cement his renewed reputation.
Shuyun, a Chinese-born BBC documentary producer, retraces the route and interviews the few remaining survivors, in an account that shows the human cost of Mao's revisionism; along the way are huge memorials to spurious victories and countless unmarked graves of those who died in defeats that Mao later denied.
Independent filmmaker Randy Olson, who is affiliated with the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, did not go the route of making documentaries.
Braunsberg decided to make the documentary after Polanski was arrested en route to the Zurich Film Festival in September 2009.
Longue Route, from the 2008 documentary soundtrack Tabarly, is a rudimentary major-key melody that's all Coldplay-style anthemic yearning and fist-punching positivity.
First, there is Zissou himself, who for years has captained a series of adventures, both oceanographic and landlocked (how readily one can picture him lost in space), funding them from the documentary films that he shoots en route.
En route, the Machines discussed the documentary and its themes of passion, motivation and fame.
But PBS stations (by virtue of their being beamed over the public airwaves) are among the preferred ways for documentaries to reach audiences, and the best route to the stations — through ITVS — appears blocked.
10 30 P.M. (13) EN ROUTE TO BAGHDAD -- This "Independent Lens" documentary traces the career of Sergio Vieira de Mello, once the United Nations high commissioner on human rights.
