Jokes aside, he is concerned that the line between hard-hitting point-of-view documentaries and paid agitprop could become a fuzzy one.
In his overview of the festival, the critic Stephen Holden called the film "a high point" of the documentary competition.
The main point of this documentary is to give the context in which drama lives, and to be able to follow the physicist's arguments to the extent of understanding who supports which theory.
We never would have gotten into a situation like HBO did with Assault in the Ring, when the lead character [Luis Resto] was clearly paid by the filmmaker, and miraculously, Resto remembered key information at a crucial point of the documentary that helped the storyline … I mean, that's why ESPN passed on buying that doc when it was up for sale.
That's the whole point of this documentary.
So the whole point of the documentary was to investigate whether or not the vault exists, and what is in the vault.
While Goodknife and the sweat lodge are the characters, the focal point of the documentary, the Joshua Tree desert is also very prominent and expansive throughout.
Lopez, formerly an executive vice president of PBS' award-winning "POV" (Point of View) documentary series, replaces Katherine Oliver, who served under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and was praised for reviving the city's film and TV business.
It is the very point of such documentaries to be beautiful, of course, and not merely to honor, record and convey the awesome majesty of the natural world but also to look good on that big, expensive television set you bought yourself for Christmas.
At one point during a day-in-life-of documentary, Thru The Lens, posted on YouTube, Young pulls a "huh?" face when his mother calls him a clown.
