Sentence examples for standard documentary from inspiring English sources

I love the idea of breaking the standard documentary form.

It is all standard documentary demystifying, the backstage glimpse of people getting dressed to impress.

Ms. Abramovic is confident that this can be done, and to prove it has inserted restaged pieces from her own past into an otherwise standard documentary show.

And his films are hardly standard documentary fare, dominated by archival footage and interviews with talking heads; nor are they of the Frederick Wiseman-D.

Employing elements of self-representation, participation and collaboration, Ms. Ewald departs from standard documentary conventions in which the artist is at arm's length from the subject.

In an interview with the art historian Gabriela Rangel in the exhibition brochure, Mr. Molina-Pantin says his work is in some ways an attempt to turn the tables on a standard documentary fixation on South American violence and poverty.

Participating countries (initially, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and Sierra Leone) will receive, free of charge, a set of pharmaceutical reference standards, documentary standards and technical training to aid in assessing drug quality.

As a standard historical documentary the film has its charms, including an interview with a remarkably youthful, 96-year-old Vera Lynn in which she describes continuing to perform "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" during a German air raid.

But few filmmakers want to make standard television documentaries, spending months in archives or arguing over rights and permissions.

In 1989, he was passed over for an Oscar nomination for "The Thin Blue Line" (1988), reportedly because his use of staged re-­creations violated the Academy's standards for documentary films.

A Titanic buff — O.K., scholar — named Tim Maltin recounts the entire history of the voyage in standard historical-documentary style, which means some hokey recreated scenes and cheesy animations but also a logical, satisfying narrative rather than bluster, hype and sometimes dodgy science.