Except there is something in the tone, something in the order and priorities and language of his documentary, that puts him on a particular plinth of the establishment – the old school intelligentsia, the pre-PC intellectual, too smart to be silenced by fashion, the guy who will tell the nation how it really is.
His footage heightens — perhaps even changes — the language of the war documentary.
Alaoui's website explains that her work expresses "social realities using a visual language that combines the narrative depth of documentary storytelling and the aesthetic sensibilities of fine art".
And the $80 players are perfectly capable of delivering all the other DVD goodies: alternate-language soundtracks, "making of" documentaries, a choice of screen format (letterboxed or full-screen) and so on.
I was introduced to Kaufman last June at a screening of "Language Matters," a documentary directed by David Grubin and hosted by the poet Bob Holman.
Their shorts vary between the clever visual language of advertising and a more plainspoken documentary style.
In addition to the thousands of civil parties, it involves a 700-page indictment, hundreds of witnesses, thousands of pages of documentary evidence, scores of lawyers in the courtroom and three working languages — Khmer, English and French.
And Mr. Dowd, who is profiled in Mark Moormann's admiring documentary "Tom Dowd & the Language of Music," comes across as a musically sophisticated sound technician whose respect for musicians always took precedence over his fascination with gadgetry.
Mahan tells her story in documentary fashion, in the language of bureaucracy.
A documentary, "Tom Dowd and the Language of Music," is scheduled for release early next year.
