Word: docudrama
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...politics are full of high passion (not to mention high dudgeon), Silver City suffers by comparison with reality. Michael Moore, among others, has either raised or lowered the bar on cinematic political discourse. For our sins, we now want something more gripping in tone than an earnest, wearying docudrama. This...
Some may claim that CBS pulled the Reagan mini-series because it was biased and offended conservatives [Nov. 17]. But the real reason was that the American people saw the production as a meanspirited parody rather than the docudrama that CBS touted. The Reagan program was canceled because it was an affront to a great, living President and to all Americans. BEN VECCHIO Rustburg...
...safe for influence peddlers and ego strokers. But the Capitol building is no place for GEORGE CLOONEY with a minicam, say congressional leaders who banned the crew of K Street, the docudrama about a fictitious Washington lobbying firm that Clooney is producing with director Steven Soderbergh. In a letter sent to Senate staff members last week, the body's Rules and Ethics committees said the filming of the HBO show, which mixes actors with real politicians in unscripted scenes, violates rules against using Capitol space for commercial purposes. A never-aired test episode relied on impromptu dialogue in Senate halls...
...Supposedly one film provoked the Cat III rating: the Mainland-shot ?Squadron 731,? a/k/a ?Man Behind the Sun.? In this 1988 mondo-docudrama from Taiwanese director Mou Tunfei (T.R. Mous), Japanese scientists experiment sadistically on animals and humans. What gave the picture pariah status was its four-minute sequence of a live cat being thrown to and devoured by a swarm of rats. No stunt doubles were used in the making of this feline Chinese torture-chamber story. Even for a culture whose cuisine embraces dog, monkey and ants, and whose calendar pays homage to the rat every 12 years...
...good will and mutual understanding between nations.” In 1938, Nov. 11 became a federal holiday, Armistice Day; in 1954, the holiday was renamed Veterans’ Day. Of all the federally-recognized holidays, Veterans’ Day is the most eligible for a VH1-style biographical docudrama: in the not quite 30 years since its creation, Veterans’ Day had suffered through three different incarnations, and its problems aren’t over...