Documentary film

(Harris). “Even though he barely knows them, Ross can easily be touched by the stories of servicemen and women (Harris). “Ross released a documentary DVD in 2005 detailing his trips with the USO called “Patriot Act” (Harris). “The film has appeared at numerous festivals and won an honorable mention during the Hampton’s International Film Festival’s prestigious Films of Conflict and Resolution program (Thruline). Jeff Ross said they only got four hours a night when they weren't interviewing…

Ulrich Seidl’s new documentary, “In the Basement”, is mordantly funny, creepily outrageous, and boldly raw. The film gathers a set of suburban Austrian people, who expose themselves by allowing us to peak on what’s going on in their basements. Clearly, the whole is weaker than the sum of the parts, however, my voyeuristic side was awaken by the intimate little secrets it keeps unveiling, even if a couple of unnecessary scenes are there only with the purpose of shocking the viewers. The idea and…

to such an extent that violating them does not come naturally. This is what makes Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, aired November 3, 2006, such an almost seemingly difficult film to watch. However, the satire used in this film is remarkably enlightening on Americans as Borat addresses the existence and enforcement of cultural norms. Borat Sagdiyev is a TV reporter of a popular show in Kazakhstan as “Kazakhstan's sixth most famous man and a…

humanitarian issues of our time, all in less than 15 minutes. Unlike the movies we discussed in class they were typical documentary boring movies with sad music as a background with basic information and enriched with interviews with people discussing their own experience about a specific matter or an issue. Two major human rights violations seems to appear in this short documentary first…

easy to follow. Without the great use of visualization in the movie, it would not have been nearly as successful. It really helps the movie reach a much broader audience than it would have without these animations. Throughout the movie, there are many contrasts, especially between the bankers and the ordinary people. A central argument is how the banking industry has been making money since the crisis while the rest of the world is failing financially. To illustrate this, the movie shows graphs…

Genre theory is the study of films so that they may be put into the correct categories or genres. This helps allow the audience understand the type of film they will be watching before they watch it. Any film made will fall under one or more genre with some being broken down into sub-genres. There are several major genres such as, romantic comedy, mysteries, documentaries, fantasy, musicals, gangster films, and my favorite horror. The horror genre can be broken into many subgenres which can…

Movies can range to everyone, either it’s fiction to sci-fi or documentaries to historic events. almost everyone has at least one favorite movie or more just to watch with your: friends, family, and etc. They can also range from just beautiful to excruciatingly bad. I’m going to tell what my favorite movie is and why does it reflect around my cultural identity. Sonic Ova, one of my favorite movies, reveals my cultural identity. In this movie, the main character Sonic, wants to stop Dr.Robotnik,…

has such a great opportunities in order to open people’s eyes on important questions of our existence, life and its different aspects, and many directors and people who work in film industry have already trying to do it. Of course, there are a lot of senseless movies, but I see such tendency as every year appear new films that have at least some philosophical background that enforce people to think about some issues after watching. Despite these positive factors, movie has a great influence…

fast paced, in color and it seems for some reason more like comic/action movie. The movie would have fast zooms on a characters faces and we could see the camera physically move and shake which you normally don't in movies now, it was more like a documentary than a all in all fake movie. We see how Rocket grows up and he tells us the story of how he got to where he is now, which was in between two gangs. We can see how the movie goes from a small situation to an even bigger one. Then the cycle…

appearances strictly focusing on this subculture in dominant society. The Ballroom culture was first displayed in 1991 in the documentary Paris Is Burning by Jennie Livingston. The documentary focused on the lives of those who have been involved with Ballroom culture for many decades. The documentary explored a variety of things that the members had to deal with. At the same time, the film provided…