Word: docudrama
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Party goes about celebrating itself, few people around here can muster much interest. A few blocks away, the Daguanlou cinema presents the film CEO, a docudrama about refrigerator-maker Haier's aggressive move into the U.S. market. The Party forced movie houses to carry it as part of a nationalistic film festival pegged to the congress. In one showing the evening before the congress opened, a saintly Haier manager breaks off negotiations with a rapacious American who sneers that he'll "buy flowers for the graves" of his Chinese competitors. As the scene ends halfway through the screening, the entire...
...three events have inspired feature films: the 1999 Tim Robbins film "The Cradle Will Rock," the 1975 ABC TV movie "The Night That Panicked America" and the 1999 HBO docudrama "RKO 281." From his first flush as a prodigy to his long maturity, when he ballooned or diminished into the butt of fat jokes, Welles spurred countless anecdotes, gossip, myths, not all of his own making. His life and films have been the subject of more than 100 books. But none of them is primarily about Welles? radio career...
...everywhere audible to today?s listeners. The narrative tone varied from show to show, as in a well- chosen theater repertory. A stentorian "Abraham Lincoln" was followed by Schnitzler?s sad-gay "The Affairs of Anatol"; a jaunty Holmes-Moriarty saga gave way to "Hell on Ice," a docudrama of a disastrous North Pole expedition, and one of the most adroitly harrowing hours you could shiver through. Houseman, Welles and Howard Koch, who was hired as the main writer with "Hell on Ice," took full advantage of the mind-theater medium. Houseman: "We invented all sorts of ingenious and dramatic...
...LARAMIE PROJECT The murder of gay student Matthew Shepard in Wyoming was the impetus for Moises Kaufman's unique stage docudrama, constructed entirely from interviews with the witnesses and participants. A pioneering work of theatrical reportage and a powerful stage event...
...cool, or what? A hotter approach to filmmaking comes from John Herzfeld, writer-director of 15 Minutes, which takes its title from Andy Warhol's famous formulation about fame in the age of television. Like Minahan, Herzfeld has worked at TV's scuzzier levels (he once made a docudrama about Joey Buttafuoco), and his project was passed around even longer (eight years) before getting a green light. But unlike Minahan, who finds celebrity and greed "not very interesting," he's "fascinated by our culture's most volatile obsessions--celebrity, violence and wealth." His brutal but very well-made film manages...