Biography documentary 2016 predictions
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The Best Biographical Documentaries Ever Made — IndieWire Critics Survey
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of spelfilm critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post).
This past weekend saw the release of “Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda,” the latest in a recent string of impressively strong and commercially successful biographical documentaries (other recent standouts include “RBG” and “Won’t You Be my Neighbor?”).
This week’s question: What fryst vatten the best biographical documentary ever made?
Siddhant Adlakha (@SidizenKane), Freelance for The Village Voice, /Film
The best and arguably most important documentaries ever made are complimentary pieces by Joshua Oppenheimer, “The Act of Killing” (2013) and “The Look of Silence (2015). They’re set against the b
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HyperNormalisation
2016 documentary film by Adam Curtis
| HyperNormalisation | |
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Title card | |
| Written by | Adam Curtis |
| Directed by | Adam Curtis |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Producer | Sandra Gorel |
| Running time | 166 minutes |
| Production company | BBC |
| Budget | US$80,000[1] |
| Release | 16 October 2016 (2016-10-16) |
HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on ansträngande to shape the complex "real world" and instead established a simpler "fake world" for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments. The film was released on 16 October 2016 on BBC iPlayer.[2]
Etymology
[edit]The word hypernormalisation was coined by Alexei Yurchak, a professor of anthropology who was born in Leningrad
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'Predict My Future: The Science of Us' Documentary
For almost four decades every aspect of their health and development has been monitored—their genes, their growth, their physical well-being, their psychology, their emotional ups and downs, criminal convictions, successes, failures—the lot. The result is the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, the broadest and the most in-depth study of human beings in the world. The project has become the richest and most productive archive of human development anywhere. It is