Sentence examples for lyrical documentary from inspiring English sources

The movies tell stories but they're also a kind of lyrical documentary of American stasis and inarticulateness.

(Holden) 'OUR CITY DREAMS' (No rating, 1 27) Chiara Clemente's lyrical documentary profiles five female artists who have found inspiration and haven in New York City.

New York City offers inspiration and haven to five female artists in "Our City Dreams," a lyrical documentary about the intersection of location and imagination.

In one building, a small crowd is watching a lyrical documentary film about three old Moroccan men who continue, despite their age, to work the jobs they started as children.

The most highly praised young artist was the Albanian Anri Sala, represented by a lyrical documentary film on the mayor of Tirana, who, to raise public morale amidst economic devastation, had arranged for the city's buildings to be painted in brilliant primary colors.

Les Blank, whose sly, sensuous and lyrical documentaries about regional music and a host of other idiosyncratic subjects, including Mardi Gras, gaptoothed women, garlic and the filmmaker Werner Herzog, were widely admired by critics and other filmmakers if not widely known by moviegoers, died on Sunday at his home in Berkeley, Calif.

In it, the highway links sweeping literary ambition and local interest, lyrical and documentary photography, portraiture and the urban landscape.

So does Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb and James Agee's lyrical New York documentary "In the Street" and Ms. Deren's second film, "At Land," in which she further develops the psychodrama of "Meshes of the Afternoon" as well as her radically disjunctive use of space.

Lark Rise (1939) is a part-lyrical, part-documentary portrait of the tiny hamlet, Juniper Hill, where she was born.

City symphonies are a distinct cinematic subgenre, more lyrical than a documentary, and rooted in one urban location.

Because the words are those of adults looking back ("He amused us with his little figures"), they sound phony in squeaky voices, not to mention in accentless English, an unlikely tongue for the children of Mexico City, where Orozco's family moved when he was 5. Orozco wrote a lyrical autobiography, and the documentary hews closely to its version of events.