This painstaking, thoughtful documentary unfolds like a prose poem, a melancholy and exquisite observation about the grim dullness that constituted many soldiers' days.
Just why was the subject of Gordon-Reed's 1997 tour de force, "Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy," a book that was as much a painstaking investigation of the documentary record as a devastating brief on standards of evidence in historical research.
Those prosecutions were driven by the persistence of surviving family members and the painstaking work of journalists and documentary filmmakers.
The "unrated director's cut" that Universal Home Entertainment is releasing today, along with the R-rated theatrical version, offers about 12 more minutes of exploding heads as well as a short documentary that details the painstaking process by which those effects were accomplished.
She marvels at Humphreys's approach (witnessed in a documentary) in which, with gradual and painstaking tact, she let people know their mothers had been found.
Like Rankine's last book, "Don't Let Me Be Lonely" (2004), which shares its subtitle, "Citizen" is part documentary, part lyric procedural, submitting to its painstaking frame-by-frame analysis everything from J. M.
It's this darkness and the space between white and non-white bodies that make up what book critic Dan Chiasson calls "part documentary, part lyric procedural, submitting to its painstaking frame-by-frame analysis everything from J.M.W. Turner's painting 'The Slave Ship' to Zinedine Zidane's head-butt during the 2006 World Cup final".
As Harron began the painstaking process of piecing Solanas's life together for a documentary, she realised that the story might work best as a feature film, and I Shot Andy Warhol eventually premiered at Sundance in 1996, where it was nominated for the Grand Jury prize.
Scott Teems, who directed Holbrook in the 2009 drama "That Evening Sun," helmed this intimate black-and-white documentary exploring the history of the show, Holbrook's painstaking preparation and his transformation into the man born Samuel Clemens.
Yet, like Mr. Wiseman's documentaries, the play gathers its power through simple, painstaking revelation of the most complex matters, including the real and illusory nature of hope.
