"Yiddishkeit," heavily illustrated in graphic documentary format, is definitely more fun.
In it Burton is shown mixing Hollywood-style shots of Howard Carter uncovering Tut's mummy for the illustrated newspapers with documentary pictures made solely for the archives, which have an unintended modern beauty.
Digitally restored by the BFI National Archive and Academy Award-winning film historian Kevin Brownlow, this multi-disc set features a complete 2K restoration of a five-and-a-half-hour version of the film, Carl Davis' electrifying, monumental score, a feature-length commentary, documentaries, an illustrated 60-page book, and more.
Wood is a noted documentary filmmaker; this illustrated history of Shakespeare and his times was a companion volume to the 2003 television series "In Search of Shakespeare" and explores the religious and political conflicts in Shakespeare's boyhood England.
But the highly entertaining result is neither a biopic nor a normal documentary, but an illustrated autobiography using as spoken commentary only Evans's own text as recorded by him a few years ago as an audio cassette (his speech is currently impaired after a stroke).
Rather than his customary foray into the abyss, this film is a quaint throwback to the illustrated chronicles of television nature documentaries or, for that matter, "Nanook of the North".
Mrs. Wyeth oversaw the publication of illustrated books, started a reproduction business, produced a film documentary about Mr. Wyeth and created a Wyeth archive.
Rather than Mr. Herzog's customary foray into the abyss, this film, culled from a Russian television documentary and given a philosophizing voice-over, is a quaint throwback to the illustrated chronicles of television nature documentaries.
In the DVD era, this meant a tepid list of "You Might Like" next to your queue; now it involves a bespoke Netflix interface, an illustrated version of your entertainment psyche in all its vainglory: Black-and-White Black-and-White Black-and-White Thrillerss, DocumentActionabout Pot.
