''Is it a documentary?'' ''Is it like a documentary?'' I find myself hearing (and asking) these questions so often that I have started to wonder what they mean. It's not just that the definition of ''documentary'' itself is mutable: unlike other journalistic and quasi-journalistic forms, no code of ethics has ever been agreed upon by practitioners...
The photographs of Ernest C. Withers -- of the Little Rock integration battle, of the Emmett Till murder trial, of the aftermath of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- are among the most powerful records of the civil rights movement. They have lived on in dozens of books and museum collections. But would these images be seen...
SOUTH PASADENA, Calif. CASEY AFFLECK wants to come clean. His new movie, ''I'm Still Here,'' was performance. Almost every bit of it. Including Joaquin Phoenix's disturbing appearance on David Letterman's late-night show in 2009, Mr. Affleck said in a candid interview at a cafe here on Thursday morning. ''It's a terrific performance, it's the...
Joaquin Rafael Phoenix (28. oktober 1974) er en amerikansk skuespiller. I 2006 blev han nomineret til en Oscar og vandt en Golden Globe for hovedrollen som Johnny Cash i Walk the Line. Han er også kendt som Leaf Phoenix. Han er bror til den afdøde skuespiller River Phoenix.
Phoenix har dristet sig til at gå bag kameraet, hvor han har instrueret musikvideoer så vel som han har produceret film og tv-shows. Han har desuden indspillet et album, nemlig soundtracket til Walk the Line. Han er også kendt for sit arbejde som social aktivist, i særdeleshed som forkæmper for dyrerettigheder. Den 27. oktober 2008 bekendtgjorde han sin tilbagetrækning fra film til fordel for at fokusere på sin karriere inden for rapmusik. Bekendtgørelsen viste sig dog at være en del af Phoenix' skuespillerrolle i en mockumentary instrueret af Casey Affleck, I'm Still Here. Fold ud