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quasidocumentary

Definitions

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  • adjective Somewhat or partially documentary.

Etymologies

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quasi- +‎ documentary

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Examples

  • Yet the film, which opens today in limited release, shouldn ' t be seen as a quasidocumentary, any more than it should be mistaken for a big-screen version of Masterpiece Theater.

    ' Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • And there's so much to savor: The quicksilver tone, sometimes guarded and sometimes confessional but always perfectly controlled; a sense of danger that ebbs and flows like a toxic tide; a quasidocumentary technique that seems to capture reality or the trio's alternate realities on the fly, and three brilliant performances that revel in the shimmering weirdness of the script.

    An Ode to 'Toy' 2010

  • Two years before he'd done most of the shooting on an influential, though now obscure, quasidocumentary called "David Holzman's Diary."

    The Rise of the Concert Film 2009

  • Another new show, "Zeke & Luther" will be a comedy filmed in quasidocumentary style about two best friends trying to become world-famous skateboarders.

    Disney Focuses on Boys 2009

  • Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal wrote, "the quasidocumentary device pays off with a remarkable sense of immediacy, and validates Mr. Reitman's expansive view of comedy."

    The Daily Evergreen News Feed 2010

  • Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal wrote, "the quasidocumentary device pays off with a remarkable sense of immediacy, and validates Mr. Reitman's expansive view of comedy."

    The Daily Evergreen News Feed 2010

  • Shot in a quasidocumentary style that included interviews with local residents as well as dramatizations of their supposed encounters with the creature, the film was an acknowledged influence on "The Blair Witch Project," the hit 1999 horror film that took a similar approach.

    NYT > Home Page By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 2010

  • AGAINST A TRANS NARRATIVE (USA) Directed by Jules Rosskum, this wittily innovative essay film mixes interviews, dramatic fragments, poetry, declarative statements and quasidocumentary re-enactments as it deals with the subject of transsexuality in a way that recalls Godard's famous quip that films should have a beginning, a middle and an end but not necessarily in that order.

    LA Weekly | Complete Issue 2009

  • Don't mistake the films 'quasidocumentary approach for a documentary film.

    Simi Valley Acorn 2008

  • “The Cove” is many things at once: an eco-shocker about the slaughter of dolphins, a quasidocumentary framed as a high-tech thriller and, as if that weren’t enough, a tale of a sinner seeking redemption.

    ‘Funny People’: Sick Comic, Bleak Prognosis 2009

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