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Recent Examples of docudrama
Which makes his latest foray into docudrama, American Sports Story, whose two-episode premiere airs Sept. 17 on FX, sound like a departure.
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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
Director Pablo Larrain’s terrific Chilean docudrama stars Gael Garcia Bernal, and comes hot off some tantalizing recent history.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2024
Under the deal, Netflix agreed to move a dramatization disclaimer from the credits to the beginning of each episode — a first for the streaming giant that could signal a more cautious approach to docudramas and biopics.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024
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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
Director Pablo Larrain’s terrific Chilean docudrama stars Gael Garcia Bernal, and comes hot off some tantalizing recent history.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2024
Under the deal, Netflix agreed to move a dramatization disclaimer from the credits to the beginning of each episode — a first for the streaming giant that could signal a more cautious approach to docudramas and biopics.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for docudrama
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Ver appeared in an HBO documentary about the origins of Bitcoin.Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Post-Credit Scenes • My scene of the week comes early in the episode, when Pat is recording different versions of a line to be spliced into the making-of documentary that will end up on the Tecto Blu-ray.Jack King, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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She was recently set to star in and executive produce comedy pilot Phony at Hulu and she’ll also be seen in Prime Video’s Overcompensating.Denise Petski, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
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At the International Emmys, Daily Dose of Sunshine competes in the comedy category with the Australian series Deadloch, the Argentinian series Division Palermo and the French series HPI Season 3.Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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Medina’s early memories of the Northside feature mostly Latino faces.Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
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The apps Bumble for Friends: Initially launched in 2016 as a feature on Bumble known as BFF, the typical user is a young woman who has just graduated from high school or college or moved to a new city, a Bumble spokesperson told me.Allie Volpe, Vox, 14 Nov. 2024
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The show is over-the-top melodrama, but writer and co-creator Taylor Sheridan obviously chose real-life conflicts in Montana and other western states to base the plot on.Ryleigh Nucilli, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
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Schmaltz refers to excessive sentimentality or melodrama and is often used for art, movies, music or storytelling purposes.Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2024
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Mercifully, Lo left the kitchen and bathrooms intact, as well as the front of the loft where the film shoots take place.Suzanne Seggerman, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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Since many of the men in the study haven’t been extensively interviewed, the National Geographic series does say something new, a feat, given there have been a number of films — some good, some bad — focused on the subject.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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The Off-Broadway tragicomedy stars Driver as Strings McCrane, a country music icon who finds himself at a crossroads following the death of his mother.Jessica Wang, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
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But in this first-rate production – featuring superb performances from Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati – the play nevertheless emerges as a gripping drama of great wit, absurdity and tragicomedy.The Week UK, theweek, 26 Sep. 2024
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The hotel is situated halfway up the historic Via Veneto in the shade of its giant sycamore trees—they’re practically saplings in La Dolce Vita, the Fellini movie that put this Roman street on the global map in the 1960s.Liam Hess, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2024
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The Buckeye location will feature a movie theater in the same building as the entertainment venue, unlike the Harkins BackLot in Happy Valley, which is separate from the movie theater.Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 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 30 Nov. 2024.
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