He was the subject of sympathetic documentary, Tyson, directed by James Toback and released in 2008.
That pronouncement, delivered by William S. Burroughs with the granite hauteur of a smirking Grim Reaper begins "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within," Yony Leyser's sympathetic documentary portrait of the formidable proto-Beat author of "Naked Lunch".
A sympathetic documentary can be the first step in rehabbing a damaged reputation (think Mr. Tyson or Mr. Spitzer) or in the case of Vidal Sassoon or Rush, reminding viewers of an aging icon's cultural relevance.
At least that is the view of Russian political power games expressed in the German filmmaker Cyril Tuschi's sympathetic documentary portrait of the persecuted Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who ran afoul of Vladimir V. Putin.
The story of Mr. Stone's film chronicle of Fidel Castro, which began in 2002 with a three-day encounter that resulted in the sympathetic documentary "Comandante," concludes on Wednesday, when HBO broadcasts a more critical follow-up, "Looking for Fidel".
Huston's assignment was to create a sympathetic documentary on the military's rehabilitation of the "psychoneurotic soldier," to educate civilians and help ease the soldiers' re-entry into society.
Working from a screenplay by Andrea Berloff (and only the second time he hasn't written his own script), Stone has set aside the left-wing views that informed JFK, Nixon and his sympathetic documentary on Fidel Castro.
At least that is the perspective on Russian political power games expressed in "Khodorkovsky," the German filmmaker Cyril Tuschi's sympathetic documentary portrait of the persecuted Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who ran afoul of the former Russian president Vladimir V. Putin, who is now prime minister.
Sixteen years after her death, the novelist-philosopher who championed the morality of capitalism is the subject of a sympathetic documentary, as well as other film projects.
There was a theory that Polanski's backers irritated the LA District Attorney's office with a very sympathetic documentary about Polanski last year, which I haven't seen.
