But Apted's project is a sequence of documentaries; Linklater's is a single feature-length work of fiction covering crucial points from the age of seven to eighteen in the life of its protagonist, Mason (Ellar Coltrane), and his family: a sister (Lorelei Linklater, the director's now twenty-one-year-old daughter) and separated parents (Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke).
IN THE opening sequence of the documentary "Mr Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne and ELO", Mr Lynne, a British musician, saunters through his stately, panelled drawing room while plucking a ukulele.
Rainer Rother, the author of an authoritative filmography published five years ago, points out that the closing sequence of Carl Junghans's documentary on the Winter Games — a slow-motion montage of ski jumpers — was shot by the same inventive cinematographer, Hans Ertl (one of Riefenstahl's former flames), who shot the slow-motion montage of divers that ends "Olympia".
We are about to shoot the last sequence of our mini-documentary on the graphic design and multimedia collective, our new Creators and long-time partners of the Nuits sonores festival.
On that occasion he performed with a trio: his ingeniously lyrical music sounded just as engaging as it had when his gently weaving lines and coaxing chord-playing with Jimmy Giuffre's trio graced the title sequence of Bert Stern's documentary about the 1958 Newport Jazz festival, Jazz on a Summer's Day.
I think he was a jerk," says Jesse Helms of Robert Mapplethorpe in the opening sequence of HBO's new documentary Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures.
The same fate afflicted another superb video installation in the show: "Stasi City" (1997), by the British twins Jane and Louise Wilson, a devastating projection, onto four walls, of documentary and dream sequences made in the former headquarters of the East German secret police.
The BBC did not apologise until July 12, when it admitted the sequence of events in a BBC1 documentary about the Queen had been misrepresented and would not be shown that way in the final programme.
The Kardashian form of documentary.
Profile of Robert J. Flaherty, maker of documentary films.
