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| | Metallica nearly unravels in new documentary - Movies - MSNBC.com |
 | | But on the first day of shooting, the band began therapy after losing its bass player, and the filmmakers said they realized they were onto something more than just a “making of the album” documentary. | | | Opening on Friday in New York is “Metallica: Some Kind of Monster,” a behind-the-scenes film that shows the musicians undergoing group therapy while they record a hit album. | | | The movie, which began filming in 2001 and took two years to complete, was originally meant to boost sales of Metallica’s first album of new material in six years. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5396949
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| | Truth about Bowling for Columbine |
| | If anything, a documentary film purports to be less symbolic and more real: the viewer is shown things, and assumes he is himself seeing reality, rather than hearing a speaker's description, possibly unfair or deceptive, of it. | | | They are protected by Academy rules limiting the documentary competition to nonfiction. | | | Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" won the Oscar for best documentary. |
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http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html
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| | Digital History |
| | Film and Reform: John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement. | | | Jacobs, Del. Revisioning Film Traditions: The Pseudo-documentary and the Neo-Western. | | | Innovations in Ethnographic Film: From Innocence to Self-Consciousness. |
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http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_genre.cfm
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| | Documentary film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Documentary film is a broad category of cinematic expression united by the intent to remain factual or non-fictional. | | | The newsreel tradition is an important tradition in documentary film; newsreels were also sometimes staged but were usually reenactments of events that had already happened, not attempts to steer events as they were in the process of happening. | | | In the 1960s and 1970s documentary film was often conceived as a political weapon against neocolonialism and capitalism in general, especially in Latin America, but also in the then turbulent Quebec society. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film
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| | The Man From The Press |
| | Even if the film's creators HAD seen the American documentary (which they claim they didn't) it had little impact on a film that was just 3 weeks away from shooting - and which had already been tightly scripted. | | | By the time the TV documentary aired in mid-February - the entire film script and schedule had already been set. | | | A new press release touting the reissue of the documentary "The Beatles First US Visit" has several factual errors and intentionally-misleading statements unworthy of the Beatles. |
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http://www.riprense.com/beatlespublicist.htm
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| | Student documentary filmmakers from all over the planet submit their works to be judged in a number of categories. | | | An advanced production course in which students develop and produce a more substantial documentary film which is a strong expression of their personal themes and approach to the form. | | | This is a screening, discussion and analysis course that explores the development of the documentary genre over time by examining landmark films, filmmakers, genres and techniques. |
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http://www.filmatcolumbia.com/documentary.html
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| | Hype! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | is a documentary directed by Doug Pray about the popularity of grunge music in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. | | | Other than the DVD that comes with Nirvana's With the Lights Out, it is one of the few films to contain video footage of Nirvana's first performance of their breakthrough hit song " Smells Like Teen Spirit ". | | | The title of this film, minus the exclaimation point, was swiped from a fanzine that circulated in the Northwest at the time called " Hype Magazine ". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype!_(documentary)
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| | Salon "Hype": Harboring Grunge |
| | "Hype" wants you to think that a few interviews with some less popular bands and some poorly shot concert footage lend the film an insider legitimacy and credibility that excuse it from the same accountability it demands from other media. | | | Many of the comments made in the film could apply to any music scene, whether it's Seattle in the '90s or London in the '60s; yet they don't offer any new wisdom on music trends as a whole. | | | While it tries to be a time-capsule-ready take on the birth and death — or rather, alleged murder — of the Seattle music scene, because of its myopic vision, "Hype" falls for all the same clichés as the fad-hungry media it attempts to mock. |
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http://www.salon.com/nov96/hype961125.html
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| | Documentary |
| | unit excelled in documentary craft, featuring artfully rendered film, poetic language, and thoughtful music tracks. | | | The editing of audiotape on the 1949 CBS record, I Can Hear It Now, facilitated the origin of the radio documentary. | | | The documentary's decline in the Reagan years is one indicator of the ebbing of the New Deal influence on American culture. |
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http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/D/htmlD/documentary/documentary.htm
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| | Modulations |
| | Modulations major difference from a film like Hype however is that the pace of electronic music is much more rampant than that of rock, and thus so became the tempo for the documentary. | | | The film was a mixture of short interview clips with people in the Industrial music scene (producers, mixers, artists), sampled performances in different venues (festivals, clubs, raves) and various nearly unrelated glimpses of nature and shapes (connected only to the overlaying beat of the Industrial music). | | | The documentary's visuals begin quickly as does the accompanying music. |
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http://www.fetishproductions.net/Modulations.html
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| | George Harrison - definition of George Harrison in Encyclopedia |
| | The tension between Harrison and McCartney can be clearly seen in several scenes in the Let It Be documentary film and relations became so strained during the making of the film that Harrison briefly quit the band. | | | George Harrison MBE (February 25, 1943 - November 29, 2001) was a popular British songwriter, musician and film producer best known as a member of the Beatles. | | | He provided financial backing for the Python film The Life of Brian after the original backers (EMI Films) withdrew, fearing the subject matter of the film was too controversial. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/George_Harrison
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| | Amazon.com: Video: Hype! (1996) |
| | Packed with witty interviews with band members, record execs, and Seattle music aficionados, much of the film places a welcome spotlight on the bands that didn't become part of the national "grunge" phenomenon and scores of live clips and rare recordings show that "the Seattle Sound" didn't begin with Nirvana or end with Soundgarden. | | | It came as a shock to me that this film was largely unheard of, and very upsetting when I tried to get my hands on a copy for myself but could not find one. | | | My band had the good fortune of being in the right place at the right time and were included in this great flick so, obviously, I'm a little biased in my praise. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782008119?v=glance
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| | The Advocate - Doug Pray Q&A |
| | Pray, a documentary film director, will be at the Maryland Film Festival for a screening of his new movie, "Sundance20" on May 4 at 3:30 p.m. | | | The documentary chronicles the devlopment of Robert Redford's Sundance Labs, which helps filmmakers develop their own projects without studio pressure. | | | The experience was wonderful, but it's really challenging to make a documentary that had to fit a pre-existing format. |
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http://stamfordadvocate.com/features/bal-artslifechat-pray,0,345209.htmlstory
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| | Dance Craze (1982) |
| | Sadly the film sticks to concert footage and there are no backstage interviews with the bands, this was a real opportunity missed as a documentary style film would have been a wonderful document of the 2-Tone movement. | | | The film was released on home video by Chrysalis in 1988 and, if not as good as it should have been, is still an invaluable document of the bands live performances, which is where most of the Ska-2-Tone bands excelled. | | | Originally he was going to make a film about the band but when his son informed him of the wonderful world of 2-Tone, Massot expanded his original plans to include the whole movement. |
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| | Documentary Films .Net - - Documentary Film News, Documentary Videos, |
| | For those viewers who love the documentary form, Carl Bromley's piece for The Nation is a sad reminder of how the Academy has not only overlooked, but intentionally thwarted the Oscar attempts of many of the best films ever made. | | | The documentary participants, however, solely supply the fiction with each interviewee contributing to the ongoing story, thereby dictating the content and direction of the film. | | | Purists may hesitate to label it a documentary as the film melds documentary footage and interviews with fictional footage interspersed throughout. |
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| | Bacon, Buscemi at Woodstock Film Festival |
| | Festival co-founder Meira Blaustein said documentary entries are particularly eclectic this year, with films shot from around the planet. | | | Organizers also are exhuming "The Concert for Bangladesh," a 1972 film of the benefit concert featuring George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton. | | | WOODSTOCK, N.Y. (AP) -- Kevin Bacon will be talking music and Steve Buscemi will be honored as a maverick at the Woodstock Film Festival starting Wednesday. |
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| | New York Doll: Documentary about the late Arthur "Killer" Kane, a recovering alcoholic who has became a devout Latter-day Saint and then reunited with members of the legendary punk rock band he belonged to in the 1970s: the "New York Dolls." Competed in the Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, January 2005. | | | The Tabernacle Choir, the Orchestra at Temple Square, and Church composers Merrill Jenson and Arlen Card combined their talents for the film's soundtrack. | | | Singles 2nd Ward: sequel to the hit comedy "The Singles Ward," expected to be made largely by the same people, with significant changes in the cast (as most of the lead players in the first film were married by the end of the closing credits); April 2006 release. |
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| | Film reflects on the ‘black Woodstock’ - Public TV/Documentary - MSNBC.com |
| | And the film — considered too racy, too political and too black — failed to get the wide theatrical release that the documentary “Woodstock” received three years earlier, despite a notable showing at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Globe nomination. | | | The film intersperses Pryor’s trenchant musings on the realities of life for blacks in the 1970s with man-on-the-street interviews and footage of the concert and audience. | | | In a recent interview, Bell said he wanted “Wattstax” to be more than just another concert film. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5888344
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| | John BRION Magnolia : Film Music CD Reviews-June 2000 |
| | The film is bracketed by documentary-like vignettes that offer a disclaimer on the fragmentation and randomness of life. | | | John BRION Magnolia : Film Music CD Reviews-June 2000 | | | A disappointing surprise in fact, because this reviewer found the film to possess one of the most intriguing sound designs heard in a long time. |
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| | chronogram community notebook 9-02 |
| | Awards were also handed out for outstanding short documentary, student film, cinematography, musical score, and animation. | | | Of the 80 films screened that year, standouts included the American premiere of My Generation by pioneering documentarian Barbara Kopple, and The Voice from Heaven, about the late master of Sufi Qawwali music, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. | | | Woodstock’s Tinker Street was filled with the fans of film, indie directors, and a few legends. |
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| | Documentary - Definitions |
| | The Participatory Mode (the encounter between film-maker and subject is recorded, as the film-maker actively engages with the situation they are documenting, asking questions of their subjects, sharing experiences with them. | | | The Performative Mode (acknowledges the emotional and subjective aspects of documentary, and presents ideas as part of a context, having different meanings for different people, often autobiographical in nature) | | | Documentary texts are supposedly those which aim to document reality, attempting veracity in their depiction of people, places and events. |
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http://www.mediaknowall.com/Documentary/definitions.html
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| | Hollywood Documentary Film Festival™ |
| | Therefore, the Hollywood Film Festival is totally committed to the documentary genre by showcasing both feature length and short documentaries at the HOLLYWOOD DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL," festival founder Carlos de Abreu said. | | | Publishing our magazine, International Documentary, hosting our many events, presenting our annual IDA Awards, offering services and educational opportunities of numerous kinds, we seek to raise public consciousness of the documentary's importance to a free society, and to encourage international understanding and cooperation thorough documentary film, video and interactive media. | | | Since our founding in 1982, we have worked to promote non-fiction film and video, and to increase public awareness and demand for the art of the documentary. |
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| | Also being shown are "Milwaukee, Minnesota," with Troy Garity, Bruce Dern and Randy Quaid; "Song for a Raggy Boy," starring Aidan Quinn; "Nosey Parker," the latest Vermont-based film written and directed by John O'Brien; and "This So Called Disaster," Michael Almereyda's documentary about a production of Sam Shepard's "Late Henry Moss." | | | Among the films being shown as part of "Focus on Music" are "Godfathers and Sons," part of the "Blues Series" overseen by Martin Scorsese; "My Dinner With Jimi"; "Bluegrass Journey"; and "Tom Dowd and the Language of Music." | | | It also explores the role of music in film. |
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| | Film Festivals . com - People |
| | The World Cinema Audience Awards are given to both an international dramatic and documentary film in World Cinema Competition as voted by Film Festival audiences. | | | The Audience Awards are sponsored by Volkswagen of America, and are given to a documentary and a dramatic film in Competition or American Spectrum, as voted by Film Festival audiences. | | | The World Cinema Documentary Audience Award was presented to SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL: THE JOURNEY OF ROMÉO DALLAIRE (Canada), directed by Peter Raymont. |
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| | The last two decades have seen a resurgence of interest in documentary and viewers are rediscovering the excitement and pleasures of the non-fiction film. | | | Michael Moore may currently be the world's most high profile documentary film maker, but he isn't the only one making independent political documentaries, nor the only one who is reaching beyond arthouse audiences. | | | The acclaimed documentary Brass On Fire which tells the story of "the fastest romany gypsie brass band in the world" who have showcased their sound from their tiny village in a remote part of Romania throughout the world is showing at Cinetwin from September 4th (see them play live at Club Quattro Aug 24). |
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| | 1171 - eleven seventyone production group |
| | This cult-hit documentary also premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (1999) and was released in 2000 to theaters and home video (MGM). | | | Doug Pray has directed a wide variety of documentary films, but he is best known for his two 35mm feature films that explored musical subcultures. | | | He served on the documentary jury of the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, has appeared on numerous panels on independent filmmaking, was a guest on Elvis Mitchells The Treatment (NPR), and has taught filmmaking classes at several colleges. |
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| | Gary Westfahl's Bio-Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film: The Beatles |
| | The only Lennon film that occasionally surfaces, his documentary about the making of the album Imagine, had a few visually striking touches, like the sequence of John singing Imagine while Yoko opens all the windows in a vast room, gradually brightening the environment. | | | Films based on their works: The Beatles (animated tv series) (1964-66); The Rutles (and Harrison appeared in) (tv movie) (Gary Weiss and Eric Idle 1978); Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Michael Schultz 1978); Beatlemania (Joe Manduke 1981). | | | For the next decade, Harrison served the guiding force behind a well-regarded and idiosyncratic production company, Handmade Films (also appearing along with Starr in its film Water [1985]), before he basically retired from both film and music in the 1990s while he struggled with cancer, finally succumbing to the disease in 2001. |
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| | The Thresher Online: HYPE! -- MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK (January 17, 1997) |
| | The soundtrack to the film presents an eclectic and interesting variety of tracks that allow one to see the development of the music form we currently consider "alternative." | | | is a documentary about the "grunge" rock explosion that has taken place this decade in the northwestern states. | | | The folks at Sub Pop who put together this compilation probably put these tracks on here because they wanted to emphasize that grunge developed from punk rock, and also to prevent a storm of youngsters from buying the indie release simply because it contained the music buzzword of today. |
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| | After Friends World |
| | The 22-year-old documentary filmmaker and soon to be graduate of the Friends World program at Southampton College is the creative force behind Global Griot Productions, an internationally-minded film group dedicated to the promotion of perspective. | | | WE ARE REFUGEES was met with great praise when it was released in 1999 and has been circulating among college campuses and film festivals ever since. | | | Martin and Quist were so unexpecting that they showed up late to the awards ceremony, which took place Sunday morning at the Columbus Theatre in downtown Providence. |
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| | Make Me A Match |
| | The Filmmakers - Allen Mondell and Cynthia Salzman Mondell are available to present the film. | | | That’s the question filmmakers Allen and Cynthia Mondell address in their latest film Make Me A Match. | | | From the filmmakers, Allen Mondell and Cynthia Salzman Mondell, who brought you West Of Hester Street, a new and exciting film… |
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