Sentence examples for funny documentary from inspiring English sources

Writing in The Times in October, Mr. Holden called this a "facetiously funny documentary".

The result is an astonishing, intense and funny documentary, and a genuine insight into the much depicted but rarely probed world of American high school pupils.

Tonight, filmgoers can see "Benjamin Smoke," a poignant, funny documentary from the directors Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen about the lead singer for a punk-country blues band called "Smoke".

And Mary Anthony, a revered New York teacher and choreographer, will introduce "Mary Anthony: A Life in Modern Dance," a richly informative, poignant and funny documentary by Tonia Shimin, who will also be present.

Though his methods differ from Mr. Lanzmann's, and his aims are less comprehensive, the 38-year-old filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer undertakes a similar inquiry in "The Act of Killing," his dogged, inventive, profoundly upsetting and dismayingly funny documentary about the Indonesian massacres that began in 1965 and claimed, by some estimates, as many as 2.5 million lives over the next year.

Dig! isn't just a howlingly funny documentary including the immortal cry, "You broke my sitar, motherfucker!" It's a painfully perceptive film about neurosis, egomania and the clash between common sense and uncommon self-love in any would-be rock star's head.

OFF THE MENU: THE LAST DAYS OF CHASEN'S (1997), Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's poignant-funny documentary, is a look at the restaurant's glittering past and its 1995 demise.

Funny or Die has created another instant classic by pairing Ken Burns' singular documentary style with the rich, 5-year history of Twitter.

"This Moment," Richard Morris's luminous and funny 1998 documentary about them, has been reissued as a DVD, available at [email protected].

As Christopher Guest underlined in Best in Show, his very funny spoof documentary – dogumentary, if you will – for us it is more about the humans than the animals.

This warm, funny, inventive documentary is both a diary and a kind of extended essay on poverty, thrift and the curious place of scavenging in French history and culture.