At the moment when the audience expects to see a reenactment of the incineration of the Hindenburg the director instead shows-intercut with fictional footage-newsreel footage of the actual incineration.
Mr. LaMartina, 28, is the director of the newly released and entirely fictional found-footage horror movie "WNUF Halloween Special," a recording of a "live" news broadcast — with bantering anchors and public service announcements — from a haunted-house intervention on Halloween 1987.
(Scott)20100128 ★ 'A ROOM AND A HALF' (No rating, 2 10, in Russian) This rich, heady fictionalized biography of the exiled Russian poet Joseph Brodsky swirls documentary footage, fictional re-enactments and brilliant, witty animated drawings into a phantasmagoric, playful secondhand memoir that locates the essence of a poet's sensibility in childhood memories.
Fascinating compilation of fictional and news footage of the Suffragettes.
"A Room and a Half" swirls documentary footage, fictional re-enactments and brilliant, witty animated drawings into a phantasmagoric, playful secondhand memoir.
There is a video diary being made by one soldier who hopes to get into film school, also an earnest professional documentary made by imaginary French film-makers, complete with French subtitles; there is CCTV footage, fictional Arab TV, blogs, and gruesome footage of soldiers being killed and uploaded to al-Qaida-style websites.
For the true power of this material lies not so much in what it shows -- we've seen film footage, fictional and real, of airplane crashes and imploding buildings before -- than in what we do not actually see: the death, despair and suffering that took place beyond our sight in those planes and buildings.
In one outrageous moment in "No More Excuses," a blend of fictional and documentary footage that examines the singles scene, Downey jumped onto the field at Yankee Stadium dressed as a Civil War soldier during a baseball game and was duly escorted off by police.
The movie is shot with vintage video equipment that turns the historical action into a fictional variety of archival footage.
The only difference was that, in the fictional version, the war footage was faked by a Hollywood director.
