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...There was the inspired idea of having Errol Morris, probably America's best documentarian, shoot the "what do the movies mean to you?" clips that opened the ceremony; if it was yet another example of the ritual tongue-bathing Hollywood administers itself every year, it was at least dry-witted and unsentimental in Morris' typical style. There was the multi-screen device the producers used before the Film Editing Oscar, which actually gave us an idea what film editors do. And there was the inspired idea of having people like David Mamet and Buck Henry write introductions to some...
DIED. JACK HALEY JR., 67, Emmy Award-winning director as well as producer and prolific documentarian who directed the 1974 star-studded That's Entertainment; in Santa Monica, Calif. Haley, whose father played the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, was married five years to Liza Minnelli...
Some Sundance directors have heftier credentials, like two-time Oscar-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple. Others may have hotter properties, like Mary Harron with American Psycho. But only one made her film debut in the most famous scene of Hollywood's most famous gangster movie. Sofia Coppola was the baby baptized during the killer climax to The Godfather, directed by her father Francis. Now 28, and having rummaged through the other arts, she has made her first feature. Like Michael Corleone, Sofia is joining the family business...
...known as the Coffeyville Distribution Center, and Bezos (pronounced Bay-zos), who's never been here before, is giggling with excitement. He tells the driver to stop so he can snap a picture of a workman pounding a HELP WANTED sign into the turf. Bezos, 35, a meticulous documentarian, is worried that his life is scrolling by too fast to remember, a life that is so fantastic as to verge on the unbelievable. So he takes plenty of pictures and awful, jittery amateur videos. At the very least, they'll help tell his story to the Bezoses' first child...
America was built by people who came here to believe in something. America was built by people who came here for the right to believe in nothing. And two upcoming PBS documentaries are aptly paired not simply because each comes from one of the documentarian brothers Ken and Ric Burns (The Civil War), but also because both illustrate this paradox. Ken Burns' Not for Ourselves Alone (Nov. 7-8, 8 p.m. E.T.), the story of women suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, shows we would not be what we are without people fervently, sometimes blindly proselytizing--religiously...