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...unique. “From Brazil to Japan” follows several families of Brazilian migrants over the course of three years, May 2006 to May 2009, as they move from São Paulo to a new life in Japan. Aaron Litvin explains their reason for choosing this format, saying, “There were many journalistic accounts as well as academic sociological articles about this Brazil-Japan trend, but there was no comprehensive work that followed the same people over time to show the actual developments, changes and experiences...
...director Ana Paula Hirano Litvin says, “At the beginning, the documentary consists more of formal interviews in question and answer format. Then as we got to know the families, and became friends, they became comfortable with us and the camera, and they would talk about their experiences without us even asking. Sometimes we would just stay over at their apartments, cook together, and sleep on their floors. Some of our best scenes were filmed spontaneously at one or two in the morning.” Because of this special relationship between the filmmakers and subjects, the documentary...
Lost, for instance, began as an attempt to create a drama version of Survivor. Several of TV's best comedies - the American and British versions of The Office, Parks and Recreation, Arrested Development and Modern Family - have borrowed directly from reality TV's format of vérité filmmaking and "confessional" interviews with the characters...
...enough? Not to everyone. "For Tiger the brand, the apology is an epic fail," says Coombs. "It is too little too late. Many sports writers have mocked today's media event, saying no self-respecting journalist would attend because you can't ask questions. When the media mocks the format of your apology, then it's a failure regardless of the content." Paul Furiga, president of WordWrite Communications, agrees, saying, "What is the takeaway? The headline? The moral of the story? Tiger failed to deliver one that is clear and compelling." There is still no alternative label for Woods than...
...Spanish chef Ferran Adrià. After two decades spent revolutionizing modern cuisine, he and his business partner Juli Soler astonished the culinary world in January by announcing that they would close their restaurant El Bulli for a two-year period of reflection in 2012 and reopen in a new format. Now Adrià has detailed to TIME his plans to reinvent what many consider the most influential restaurant in the world. "In the 25-year history of El Bulli, there have been five moments of rupture, and now it's time for another," says Adrià. "The one thing...