Word: documentarian
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...compelling, but because they have catch phrases to back them up. The scientific community, on the other hand, struggles to be comprehensible putting themselves at risk of following the dodo into extinction.The most obvious comparison for Olson’s work is to that of another laid-back Midwestern documentarian, Michael Moore. Olson says he welcomes the overlap—to a certain extent.“I have admiration for [Moore], but there’s no persuasion,” Olson said. “I don’t want to beat people over the head...
...didn’t wake up one morning and say, ‘Ah, I’m going to be a documentary filmmaker,” said Nicolas Philibert. Largely lauded as the most famous documentarian in France, if not all of Europe, five of Philibert’s nonfiction films form the simply-titled series “Nicolas Philibert: Five Films,” which screened at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last week. Presented through the combined efforts of the HFA, French Cultural Services, and Cahiers du Cinema—the legendary film magazine born...
...maturing as a documentarian...
...with his characters, Piven has, in addition to the barrage of energy, a surprising calm sweetness. Sure, he does yoga like every other actor, but he's really, really good at it. And to help a struggling documentarian pal, he got the Travel Channel to bankroll a two-part series they made together in India, Jeremy Piven's Journey of a Lifetime. Although the title made him sound like a dork, he came off as sensitive, curious and awed by the culture. And after our interview, he stayed at the restaurant to talk to people who work there about their...
...master documentarian as well as a prime picturemaker, Scorsese uses interviews with dozens of important figures from the New York City folk, poetry and blues scene--Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Dave Van Ronk, Allen Ginsberg, Al Kooper--to recreate the impact when Bobby Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minn., hit town in January 1961 on a pilgrimage to visit the ailing Guthrie. Dylan went right to work, sponging up all manner of folk influences, spending days in the library reading U.S. history, ingesting every book of poetry he found in the apartments of friends who let him sleep over...