#7. The Great Docu-Biopic<\/p>\n
2011 Year in Review by Landon Palmer
\nDecember 28, 2011<\/p>\n
Documentaries have often proven to be a useful means of exploring the life of an important individual. The non-fiction biopic can give us a closer connection to the real person (living or dead) than any famous actor caked in makeup and accompanied with an imitating voice (for example, see Eastwood\u2019s J. Edgar<\/em> \u2013 or better yet, don\u2019t). But 2011 gave a smorgasbord of great documentaries that dove into the lives of fascinating individuals who might not have otherwise made the history books.<\/p>\n Cindy Meehl\u2019s Buck<\/em><\/strong> captured the incredible story of a horse-training professional who spoke to horses after humans failed him at an early age. Richard Press\u2019s Bill Cunningham: New York<\/em><\/strong> examined the annals of the city\u2019s fashion history as it\u2019s been lensed by a charming and enigmatic elderly man for decades, and in the process slyly says more about the newspaper industry than Page One<\/em> and more about fashion than The September Issue<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" #7. The Great Docu-Biopic 2011 Year in Review by Landon Palmer December 28, 2011 Documentaries have often proven to be a useful means of exploring the life of an important individual. The non-fiction biopic can give us a closer connection to the real person (living or dead) than any famous actor caked in makeup and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-news","category-reviews","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}