Farrah Fawcett’s estate is suing the documentary filmmaker who produced Farrah’s Story, a documentary about her final years that aired last June on NBC. Her estate’s lawyers say Craig Nevius, who also produced her TV Land reality series Chasing Farrah, had “access to private and personal information, film footage” and created a documentary that was “amateurish and sensationalized, and looked like tabloid journalism, which was not at all what Ms.
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Farrah Fawcett’s estate sues producer over "sensationalized" documentary, but he didn’t like it, either
PBS’ Independent Lens broadcasts some of the most intriguing documentaries on the most random subjects. Tonight, that subject is origami, and filmmaker Vanessa Gould examines the people who fold paper for art and, interestingly, science in her documentary Between the Folds. As PBS’ description says, “around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders.
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Artists, scientists who "forge lives as modern- day paper folders" profiled in PBS origami doc
PBS’ Independent Lens broadcasts some of the most intriguing documentaries on the most random subjects. Tonight, that subject is origami, and filmmaker Vanessa Gould examines the people who fold paper for art and, interestingly, science in her documentary …
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Artists, scientists who ”forge lives as modern- day paper folders” profiled in PBS origami doc (source: Realityblurred.com)
One year ago on Thanksgiving, Nov. 26, 173 people were killed and hundreds were wounded in Mumbai as a result of 10 simultaneous terrorist attacks
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HBO’s Terror in Mumbai and PBS’ Mumbai Massacre docs use audio, interviews from terrorists, victims
Good documentaries tell us–and, even better, show us–something we don’t already know.
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By the People: The Election of Barack Obama doesn’t use its behind-the-scenes access well
Spike Jonze film adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are is in theatres Friday, and Wednesday night at 7 p.m. ET, HBO debuts a documentary about the author that’s produced in part by the filmmaker who adapted his work. Spike Jonze and Lance Bangs’ Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak “offers a deeply personal look at an otherwise private and somewhat isolated man,” according to HBO.
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HBO’s Maurice Sendak doc: why he "hated" his parents, doesn’t "believe in childhood"
Spike Jonze film adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are is in theatres Friday (watch the trailer–it’s great), and a few days earlier, Wednesday night at 7 p.m. ET, HBO debuts a documentary about the author that’s produced in part by the … (source: Realityblurred.com) – RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
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HBO’s Maurice Sendak doc: why he ”hated” his parents, doesn’t ”believe in childhood” (source: Realityblurred.com)
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, ESPN is debuting 30 sports-themed documentaries about significant but perhaps forgotten events in sports from the past 30 years, and they are directed by 30 filmmakers, including Barry Levinson, Frank Marshall, Albert Maysels, and Ice Cube.
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ESPN’s 30 documentaries start tonight with Peter Berg’s film about Wayne Gretzky
The documentaries I cover on reality blurred are those that, like the very best reality shows, tell the true, dramatic, entertaining stories of real people. So, while I had no doubt it’d be informative and interesting, I didn’t plan to cover Ken Burns’ lat…
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Ken Burns’ National Parks: America’s Best Idea is more about people than places (source: Realityblurred.com)
The documentaries I cover on reality blurred are those that, like the very best reality shows, tell the true, dramatic, entertaining stories of real people.
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Ken Burns’ National Parks: America’s Best Idea is more about people than places
