Sure, there were plenty of historical romances, damsels in distress, and pie fights -- but there were also the glories of German Expressionism, moving dramas of everyday life (think King Vidor's The Crowd), exciting crime stories, riveting documentaries, and epic war films (including Wings, the first movie to win the Academy Award for best picture).
That fight, the subject of Mr. Gast's riveting documentary and the less riveting final act of "Ali," may be the most mythologized sporting event of the last half-century.
3. 'THE FOG OF WAR' -- Errol Morris's riveting documentary about the former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara is all the more impressive for its utter simplicity.
During the rare, extended interview that forms the spine of Vikram Jayanti's creepily riveting documentary portrait, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector," he compares himself to Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bach and Galileo.
This riveting documentary revisits the genesis of the status – the 1950s and 60s, when Britain, determined to remain a force in the world, scrambled to secure its seat at the top table of global powers.
Over the last three years I have spent many hours in this house, observing the making of Daniel Gordon's riveting documentary, while also working on a different kind of book with Pendleton.
(Stephen Holden) 'BOOGIE MAN: THE LEE ATWATER STORY' (No rating, 1 26) Generous in spirit and nimble in technique, this riveting documentary about the Republican operative (who died of a brain tumor in 1991) reveals a scrappy genius rife with contradictions.
(Catsoulis) 'THE COVE' (PG-13, 1 30) Louie Psihoyos's riveting documentary unfolds like a spy thriller, as he and his team mount a clandestine expos?f the dolphin capture and slaughter in the Japanese fishing town of Taiji.
Whether you're familiar with the story or not (and I confess I wasn't), this riveting documentary will have you on the edge of your ringside seat as a civil-rights battle is played out on court.
Generous in spirit and nimble in technique, this riveting documentary about the Republican operative (who died of a brain tumor in 1991) reveals a scrappy genius rife with contradictions: a blues player and friend of B. B. King who is said to have engineered the infamous 1988 Willie Horton ad; a proud Southerner who cynically manipulated his region's distrust of Eastern elites.
In case your Arctic heart first fluttered with the riveting documentary "Nanook of the North" (as mine did), you'll be chagrined (as I was) to find out that when Allakariallak, who played Nanook, died two years after the film was released, the commercially minded filmmaker Robert Flaherty hinted that Nanook had perished while hunting caribou; in fact, he probably died of TB (a southern import).
