It's a love letter to the Stooges; an unconventional documentary.
But distributors started to nibble over the weekend, particularly on films like "Catfish," an unconventional documentary about a photographer who is drawn into a mystery through Facebook.
"The Cove," in other words, is an unconventional documentary, one that looks very much like a feature film, with the dramatic arcs and suspense one would expect in a James Bond or Hollywood action movie.
Ms. Fiennes is known for unconventional documentaries on disparate subjects like a Pentecostal church in Los Angeles ("Hoover Street Revival," 2002) and the philosopher Slavoj Zizek ("The Pervert's Guide to Cinema," 2006).
She's made unconventional narrative, documentary, and fiction films and incorporates various devices — archival footage and interviews, along with traditional roles for actors — to tell the story.
Blissfully unconventional as a documentary and as an intellectual endeavor, "Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?" won't tell you everything you've always wanted to know about Mr. Chomsky, but its modesty is one of its strengths, along with Mr. Gondry's entrancing, vibrant illustrations.
However timely, "Patria o Muerte" is an unconventional choice for HBO Documentary Films, since it brought American documentaries to Cuba just last December.
The museum has permanently devoted seven small spaces to this endeavor, thus providing the public with a somewhat unconventional way of accessing documentary sources.
And as yoga documentaries go, this unconventional biopic is gripping, inspiring -- dare I say, epic, even.
How, for that matter, can a filmmaker decant the intoxicating essence of an unconventional life while employing a staid documentary style?
Filmed with an intimate looseness, the documentary unfolds as an unconventional, though ultimately transcendent, two-week road trip, with Mr. Everett — lanky and wry — visiting many of the people and places pivotal in his father's life.
