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The long list of production credits for Matt Porterfield's docu-realist drama Putty Hill, out last year, records a certain Keith "Biscuit" Holmes, who is one of the extras in the funeral scene at the end.
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"The Other Half", directed by Ying Liang in 2000, is a witty, docu-realist portrait of modern Chinese women told jointly through interviews with 'real life' women at a law firm and the trials of Xiaofen, a law clerk who's life is as messy as her clients.
Shanghaiist 2010
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"Better then to admire The Exiles for its specific docu-realist elements, which preserve places and moments that viewers won't find in any other film."
GreenCine Daily 2009
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"Better then to admire The Exiles for its specific docu-realist elements, which preserve places and moments that viewers won't find in any other film."
GreenCine Daily 2009
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"Better then to admire The Exiles for its specific docu-realist elements, which preserve places and moments that viewers won't find in any other film."
GreenCine Daily 2009
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"Better then to admire The Exiles for its specific docu-realist elements, which preserve places and moments that viewers won't find in any other film."
GreenCine Daily 2009
vendingmachine commented on the word docu-realist
"If 1990s sitcoms were characterised by sexually liberated pals cracking wise, and the 00s by docu-realist, workplace-based cringe comedy, this decade has been dominated by the sadcom, a strain of comedy-drama shuddering under the weight of personal hardship and the idea that actual jokes are largely unnecessary."
August 17, 2023