It was a variety of elements, some of it realistic — documentary material in some ice floes near Greenland.
I'm telling you, Bonekickers is brutally realistic documentary, not drama: just don't try ringing any archaeologist on Tuesday evenings to discuss it.
The wonder of Bergman's film is that on his fancy-dress setting he imposes a conviction which is much more disturbing than that provided by realistic "documentary" pictures, even in good films, of life as we know it.
Whedon did reveal that Mark Ruffalo's hugely popular Hulk gets a bigger part in the sequel, and said he hoped to add a realistic documentary-style veneer this time around.
There are musical documentaries and romantic ones, war documentaries and Western documentaries and documentary comedies, experimental documentaries and realistic documentaries and hallucinatory documentaries.
Nair then created a series of gritty and realistic documentaries that examined India's traditions and culture, including Children of a Desired Sex (1987), which examines the country's patriarchal society and its effects on unborn female children, and India Cabaret (1985), a portrait of two aging striptease dancers.
New York Magazine critic David Edelstein called the film "One of the most realistic documentaries I've ever seen and, dry as it is, one of the most devastating in its implications".
Julien Roumette felt Romain's depiction of the racial tensions in America at the time was "meticulously reconstituted, with a realistic, even documentary, rather exceptional dimension".
Durst was rehearsing the interview, the way one might rehearse one's testimony — but does that make him seem more guilty or just more realistic about documentaries?
Durst was rehearsing the interview, the way one might rehearse one's testimony but does that make him seem more guilty or just more realistic about documentaries?
The color and mood of the film, shot in high-definition video, make the movie feel paradoxically hallucinatory and realistic in a documentary sense.
