Called "Side by Side," the limited-released documentary -- which debuts in Los Angeles on Aug. 17 before a nationwide VOD release on Aug. 22 and further theatrical expansion to come -- explains via interviews with directors like James Cameron and Christopher Nolan the pros and cons of both photochemical and digital film techniques.
Slow TV mines the pleasures of ambiguity, which are affirmed, as it happens, by one of the best movies I've recently seen, "Room 237," a documentary in limited theatrical release and on cable TV.
That move toward a more stylized approach was also driven by a frustration with the limited reach of independent documentaries in China.
Its profitability has been maintained, however marginally, by its documentary hits and limited investments in the studio films.
A documentary now in limited release, "Twisted: A Balloonamentary" examines the world of professional balloon twisters, who make everything from life-size racing cars to their own wedding dresses.
"Braddock, America" is a feature length documentary now in limited release set in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a former steel town now left to literally rust away to hell.
This 90-minute documentary achieved a limited theatrical release back in 2011, and charts the fight for survival for one of America's most respected and beloved newspapers, The New York Times.
Documentary Special Mention.
In "Margaret," Lonergan wants to see the very nature of society, to observe the doings in one place as in a documentary, evoking, through local, limited, and intimate views, the very vastness of human existence.
