As part of IDA's 25th Anniversary celebration, film critic Emanuel Levy writes an essay about Errol Morris' 'The Thin Blue Line,' which came in at Number 2 in the Top 25 Poll, as voted for by the IDA Membership.
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One overlooked, but quite crucial element in a documentary, is its music. A well-crafted score can make a difference in the shape, mood, pacing, emotional texture and character of a film. And the right chemistry between filmmaker and composer can help achieve that full-bodied, visceral cinematic experience that we all yearn for as audience members. Documentary gathered some top film composers--all of whom have worked in a variety of genres including documentary--to talk about working in nonfiction, the collaborative process, the challenges of working around and against a temp score, the final
In this history-making US Presidential election, in which the politics of division and fear were laid low by a grassroots-and-Internet juggernaut of unity and hope, Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story couldn't have been more timely in reconstructing the man who brought us Bush pere, Bush fils and the notorious Karl Rove. Filmmaker Stefan Forbes' second documentary is as much informed by a fascination with the American political system and those who control it as it is by his background in music, his major at Brown University. Documentary talked to this year's Jacqueline Donnet Emerging
It read like a Hollywood script. One day, an unassuming black teenager is picked up off the streets of Winston-Salem, North Carolina by policemen searching for a suspect in the murder of a 25-year-old white woman. Though innocent, he's charged and convicted of the crime by an all-white jury. After all legal channels for appeal are exhausted, and despite exculpatory DNA evidence, the man's lawyer realizes the only way he can free his client is to find the real murderer himself. He does. After nearly two decades of incarceration, the wrongly convicted man is released from jail with nothing but
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Three decades after filmmaker Roman Polanski fled the country rather than face imprisonment for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, Marina Zenovich's 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired' tells the story behind the trial.
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