1. As usual, each of them is treated to a short film biography and some onstage tributes, which range from electric to puzzling. 2. Award-winning books and three film biographies have come out of her work. 3. But anyone who demands cut-and-dried literalism of a film biography will be terminally disgruntled. 4. But the film biography succeeds in only small moments, generally creating a nasty, depressing portrait of nasty, depressing people. 5. He will talk about his film biography of baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson. 6. His documentaries also include film biographies of Duke Ellington and Hubert H. Humphrey. 7. His next job, however, will be a film biography of the father of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk. 8. Its script conveys a complete, warts-and-all sense of the man in a way few film biographies can. 9. On one level, this could be the most authentic film biography ever made of a famous writer. 10. Perhaps an even greater problem with this film biography was just how little biography it offered, Grove said. |