We've all sat in front of our Netflix accounts, tirelessly sifting through film and television genres like "Dark Biographical 20th Century Period Pieces" and "Quirky TV Shows Featuring a Strong Female Lead," never quite finding that perfect piece of cinematography.
Meanwhile, for Montage of Heck, Morgen was given access to an archive of material that took him eight years to sift through, resulting in the film's eerily evocative animations of Cobain's drawings and doodles.
After sifting through hours of filmed interviews with women and girls who had been through FGM, she decided animation would be the best way to respect the dignity and anonymity of the survivors while still depicting the full impact of the practice.
"It makes perfect sense for bloggers to sift through the films and pluck out commonalities," he said.
Originally appointed as part of a job creation scheme, her first task was to sift through the films in the collection - rather modestly housed in a garden shed behind the Scottish Film Council headquarters in Glasgow.
Thus, buyers are increasingly careful as they sift through the films seeking to become this year's "Napoleon Dynamite" or "Open Water," the rare low-budget independents that crack the top 100 in ticket sales.
Sifting through information displayed in film, maps, tweets and models is a big ask of the viewer, but it's impossible not to be gripped by the unfolding narrative that's all the more shocking because it's real.
They're not like regular old film theory, which is about sifting through the text of a film to determine its meaning.
Denby strikes a worldly compromise, meticulously sifting through the dreck for big-budget films that also succeed as art, then aggressively, sincerely promoting them.
Instead of sifting through the toilet that is the list of films on at the Melbourne International Film Festival tonight let me make it easier for you.
The job will include sifting through ideas from the academy's more than 6,000 members — film professionals whose input is being encouraged.
