There has been too much reliance on poking fun at shows which are already aware of their own ridiculousness, such as Come Dine With Me, or underlining the patently obvious banality of documentaries about trucking firms.
Woosley, now in her 70s, appears in the documentary in obvious distress to allege that Freud took away her childhood.
An obvious question surrounding the documentary club is whether it can produce an Oprah effect, the term used to describe the windfall Ms. Winfrey's book club offered authors.
Its popularity — within a couple of months, it was the most-downloaded free app in the App Store — is as inevitable as its potential for elevation to something beyond the obvious impulse of self-documentary.
Its popularity within a couple of months, it was the most-downloaded free app in the App Store is as inevitable as its potential for elevation to something beyond the obvious impulse of self-documentary.
Although it owed an obvious debt to the documentary 7 Up and its subsequent septennial instalments (there's a free tongue twister for you), Child of Our Time had a different brief – developmental rather than sociological.
Most of this two-hour documentary is obvious as it traces the history of the Hollywood-Washington connection, back to the days when studio moguls sought respectability by cozying up to Herbert Hoover.
For instance, a scene of slave-owners and their Northern guests amiably passing by cotton fields while slaves toil in the background presents, as if in a documentary, the obvious connection between the white Southerners' gracious ways and the hard, enforced work of slaves that makes it possible.
(It would make an obvious double bill with the documentary "Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037").
It's unfair to set "Up to Speed" next to "The Cruise," an artful and authentically poetic documentary made in obvious homage to Bruce Weber's great "Let's Get Lost".
