Word: fictionalizes
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...Lola Run” or Wolfgang Becker’s “Good Bye, Lenin!” After graduating from the Academy of Television & Film in Munich in 1992, Schmid began his career with several short documentaries and TV movies before gravitating towards narrative filmmaking. His first fiction feature, “It’s A Jungle Out There,” (“Nach fünf im Urwald,” screening Tuesday, Nov. 21, at 9 p.m.) casts “Run Lola Run” star Franka Potente as a rebellious teenager...
...evil corporate junk food, “Fast Food Nation” is its object-lesson counterpart, tediously preaching to the proverbial choir. Director Richard Linklater’s much-anticipated feature film “Fast Food Nation” is not a documentary. Rather, it is a fictional account that dramatizes the nonfiction book by the same name, written by Eric Schlosser, the film’s co-author. “Fast Food Nation” imbeds facts about the American fast food industry in specious “real people” vignettes, hoping to make...
...Fiction? No. Non-fiction? Not really. College information guide? Not exactly...
...surprised how many film lovers my age tell exactly the same story, like a mass-hallucination tale from some '50s science-fiction epic. And with the same film cuing the conversion. The Seventh Seal sparked a generation of young people to make foreign-language films their urgent research project, their obsession, their religion. Our interest spread to other Bergman films, to other European and Japanese directors and the actors who graced their works. Soon enough, we noticed that many of these hallowed pictures were distributed by one company: Janus Films...
...movie / I just wanna get some popcorn and make it salty.” “Lift Ya Skirt” and “ODB, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” recall glory-days ODB, and these two trips through his stranger-than-fiction Brooklyn soundscape reward the listener for slogging through the muddy slop that fills the rest of the album. But really, were we expecting anything else? The unpredictable, hit-or-miss nature of “A Son Unique” makes it a fitting elegy for a man whose crazed...