Cannes even included "The Last Letter," the first dramatic film by Frederick Wiseman, the director of such documentaries as "Welfare," "Hospital" and "Domestic Violence".
The Human Rights Watch Festival, at Film Society of Lincoln Center, opens with "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry," a documentary by Alison Klayman about the persecuted Chinese artist, and also showcases such documentaries as "Salaam Dunk," about an Iraqi women's basketball team, and "Special Flight," about a Swiss detention center for immigrants.
BATTLE FOR HADITHA Nick Broomfield, best known for such documentaries as "Kurt & Courtney," co-wrote and directed this emotionally brutal dramatic reconstruction of an incident in Iraq in November, 2005, in which one U.S. Marine and twenty-four Iraqi civilians were killed.
Her television work included two performances that won her Emmy Awards—Little Moon of Alban (1959; adapted for Broadway in 1960) and Victoria Regina (1962)—a starring role (1980 87) in the series Knots Landing, and acclaimed voice-over work in such documentaries as The Civil War (1990) and Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony (1999).
Walter Reade offers a week of Scorsese's mercurial classics, including "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull," "The King of Comedy," and "Casino," as well as such documentaries as "No Direction Home," about Bob Dylan, and the rarely screened "American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince".
In "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara," opening Friday, Errol Morris, the ingenious Cambridge-based director of such documentaries as "The Thin Blue Line" and "Mr. Death," has given Mr. McNamara a big-screen chance to reflect upon a career of watching fallible human beings like himself make decisions that imperil or extinguish human lives.
As in such documentaries, Mr. Puiu's fingerprints are all over "Aurora," evident in both style and sensibility.
And the director, Frederick Wiseman — who made such withering documentaries as "Titicut Follies" and "Hospital" — certainly has a history of inspiring what you might call coöperation regret.
And the director, Frederick Wiseman who made such withering documentaries as "Titicut Follies" and "Hospital"—certainly has a history of inspiring what you might call coöperation regret.
For Burnett, early inspiration - and affirmation - came from visiting lecturer Basil Wright, the English director of such 1930s documentaries as Night Mail and Song of Ceylon.
It does this especially by swerving away from the convention of the latter-day reunion that ends such music documentaries as "The Buena Vista Social Club" and "Standing in the Shadows of Motown".
