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This genre is one of the largest non-fiction genres, and consists primarily of documentaries about one or more historical events or time periods. In general, the title will not be of a contemporary nature (that is, it will be made about a subject that actually occurred in the past, rather than being made at the same ti...
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The Film Paris Hilton Doesn’t Want Y ...
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" Paris Hilton and her team have successfully pressured the Toronto International Film Festival into canceling all but one screening of Adria Petty’s Paris, Not France, a documentary about the celebrity heiress which “attempts to explore the Paris phenomenon and how it defines this moment in culture” and is also “modeled after the 1960s “it”-girl film Darling.” Though the film’s ... [More]"
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" Paris Hilton and her team have successfully pressured the Toronto International Film Festival into canceling all but one screening of Adria Petty’s Paris, Not France, a documentary about the celebrity heiress which “attempts to explore the Paris phenomenon and how it defines this moment in culture” and is also “modeled after the 1960s “it”-girl film Darling.” Though the film’s ... [More]"
Ken Burns: The Media Diet, Telluride ...
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" Veteran documentarian Ken Burns is on the Board of Governors for the Telluride Film Festival. The creator of classic PBS documentary mini-series like The War, Baseball, and Jazz, all of which have a total runtime of many hundreds of minutes, it’s a wonder this guy watches anything other that the archival material he uses to assemble his films. He mentions a film called Hunger b ... [More]"
Grizzly Man
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" This material in another film-makers hands could well have seemed crass and exploitative.. Werner Herzog manages to make something special ..whilst his opinions are voiced over the images,somehow he allows you to reach your own conclusions about Timothy Treadwell's story. As Herzog acknowledges,sound, Music in particular plays a huge part in the artistic success of a film. ... [More]"
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Weekly Theme for September 1: Work S ...
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"With this Labor Day Weekend (for those of us living in the United States - sorry for those elsewhere) coming to a close, I felt it apropos to dedicate this week's theme to all the films that celebrate those hardworking people out there ... [More] "
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"If you wanted to pair two movies (not sequels) together what movies would you watch together and why? I'd pair The Bear with Grizzly Man. The Bear is a story of how an older grizzly takes care of a young bear who las lost his mother ... [More] "
The American Nightmare
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"Has anyone seen this documentary yet? It was made in 2000 so I am probably really behind the times. It's actually really good. They had interviews with ALL the real horror masters, Romero, Carpenter, Cravens, Hooper, etc. They asked ... [More] "
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