Word: docudramas
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Like the book that engendered it, the film crosses many boundaries in terms of genre. Ultimately, it seems to lie on the documentary side of docudrama, because so much of it is based on truth...
...line between a straight factual account and a dramatization based loosely on history, it struggles to reconcile the two extremes. As a result, like the book that engendered it, the film crosses many boundaries in terms of genre. Ultimately, it seems to lie on the documentary side of docudrama, because so much of it is based on truth...
...learn safety and self-preservation. As a pediatrician in emergency service, I have seen many childhood deaths, but this one broke my heart. It was cruel to get to know Jessica through the media before her devastating accident. Her death was so palpable, so public, so preventable--a living docudrama most of us wish we had never seen. Jessica's upbringing probably desensitized her to many risks, but she is the innocent bystander in this case. PAM STONE Calgary, Alberta What parents in their right mind would let a seven-year-old drive a car across the continent, never mind...
...national docudrama that is the O.J. Simpson murder trial moved toward its climactic conclusion as both sides delivered highly charged closing arguments. Prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden told jurors to follow the trail of blood, hat, gloves, socks and other physical evidence in the case. That methodical approach, they said, would lead straight from the crime scene to Simpson's bedroom and to only one conclusion: Guilty. Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran delivered a fire-and-brimstone assault on the Los Angeles police. He accused the department of plotting a frame-up of his client, who he said was innocent...
Douglas Keeve has made the film that "Pret-a-Porter" should have been: a sexy, stylish, neurotic docudrama that splits the seams of the fashion world. At the heart of "Unzipped" is Mizrahi--primping in the camera's glow and putting on a show that should make Carol Channing hang her false lashes in shame...