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Recent Examples of docudrama
His 2013 docudrama An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, which won two Silver Bears at the Berlin Film Festival, made the Oscar shortlist but was not nominated.
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2024
Monster mastermind Ryan Murphy is responding to backlash he’s received direct from one of the subjects of his Netflix docudrama.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 24 Sep. 2024
Which makes his latest foray into docudrama, American Sports Story, whose two-episode premiere airs Sept. 17 on FX, sound like a departure.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Sep. 2024
There’s a disturbing plausibility to director Asif Kapadia’s docudrama 2073, which just premiered out of competition at the Venice Film Festival.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2024
Monster mastermind Ryan Murphy is responding to backlash he’s received direct from one of the subjects of his Netflix docudrama.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 24 Sep. 2024
Which makes his latest foray into docudrama, American Sports Story, whose two-episode premiere airs Sept. 17 on FX, sound like a departure.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Sep. 2024
There’s a disturbing plausibility to director Asif Kapadia’s docudrama 2073, which just premiered out of competition at the Venice Film Festival.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
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Some of the still photos from the show appear for the first time in the documentary, says Cutler, who mined John’s archives.Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
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The documentary that emerged was free-flowing, eschewing scenes in favor of impressions, working by way of association.K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
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The writers behind some of this year’s hottest comedy series took on Variety’s A Night in the Writers Room: Awards Season Edition to discuss the landscape of laughter on TV.Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
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The singer’s 50-minute segment, A Nonsense Christmas With Sabrina Carpenter, streaming as of the evening of Friday, Dec. 6 contained several familiar faces, both musically and in the comedy and acting worlds.Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
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One feature involves the NCAA, schools and conferences paying athletes about $2.8 billion over a 10-year period as compensation for depriving athletes of NIL, video game and broadcast opportunities in recent years.Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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Newer treadmills may have additional features, such as a shock-absorbing belt or a streaming service for workout programs.10 However, treadmills do come with some drawbacks.Julie Scott, MSN, ANP-BC, AOCNP, Verywell Health, 11 Dec. 2024
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Simplistic binaries might make for powerful melodrama, where the world is divided into good and evil.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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Like Water for Chocolate is a melodrama in the best possible sense of the word—a larger-than-life historical epic of love and lust, birth and death, duty and destiny.Judy Berman, TIME, 29 Nov. 2024
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Jr on the original 1997 horror film set, the weather caused them to be stuck in a tunnel for almost an hour.Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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Trump's Case On May 30, a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the case, which involved a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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If that sounds less than promising, even for a deadpan Romanian slice-of-life tragicomedy, go ahead and make the mistake of skipping this one.Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 Dec. 2024
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The jury cited his skill in crafting a tragicomedy against the backdrop of social upheaval.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
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Think of your media feature like a blockbuster movie.Qamar Zaman, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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Although Awakenings brought Sacks public attention (and eventually a Hollywood movie), his greatest success came after the publication of 1985’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a volume of clinical tales that humanized people with serious neurological disorders.Michael S. Roth, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2024
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The psychodrama is naked — sometimes hard to read, at other moments approaching farce.New York Times, New York Times, 8 July 2024
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Gaga would be seen as a key component of what Phillips wants to do with this sequel as well, in terms of integrating old-fashioned musical numbers into the psychodrama.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Docudrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/docudrama. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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