The best Julianne Moore’s documentary movies
Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith; December 3, 1960) is an American actress and author. Prolific in film since the early 1990s, she is particularly known for her portrayals of emotionally troubled women in both independent and blockbuster films, and has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award and two Golden Globes. Time magazine named Moore one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2015.
After studying theatre at Boston University, Moore began her career with a series of television roles. From 1985 to 1988, she was a regular in the soap opera As the World Turns, earning a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance. Her film debut was in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990), and she continued to play small roles for the next four years, including in the thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992). Moore first received critical attention with Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993), and successive performances in Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) and Safe (1995) continued this acclaim. Starring roles in the blockbusters Nine Months (1995) and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) established her as a leading lady in Hollywood.
Moore received considerable recognition in the late 1990s and early 2000s, earning Oscar nominations for Boogie Nights (1997), The End of the Affair (1999), Far from Heaven (2002) and The Hours (2002). In the first of these, she played a 1970s pornographic actress, while the other three starred her as an unhappy, mid-20th century housewife. She also had success with the films The Big Lebowski (1998), Magnolia (1999), Hannibal (2001), Children of Men (2006), A Single Man (2009), The Kids Are All Right (2010), and Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), and won an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Sarah Palin in the television film Game Change (2012). Moore won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her playing an Alzheimer's patient in Still Alice (2014) and was named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for Maps to the Stars (2014). Her highest-grossing releases include the final two films of The Hunger Games series and the spy film Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017).
In addition to acting, Moore has written a series of children's books about a character named "Freckleface Strawberry".
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Return to Jurassic Park
7.2/10
A multi-part documentary about the making of the Jurassic Park trilogy. Each part walks through the making of part of one of the films, including the hurricane during the shooting of the first film, and how advances in CGI for Jurassic Park helped change the world of special effects forever. All interviews for these retrospective documentaries come with comments from Spielberg, Johnston, Neill, Dern, Goldblum, the effects crews, the child actors, and Peter Stormare. This documentary is broken into five parts: Dawn of a New Era (25 min) Making Prehistory (20 min), the Next Step in Evolution (15 min), and the Third Adventure (25 min), Finding the Lost World (28 min), and Something Survived (16 min).
Killers Kill, Dead Men Die
4.9/10
The most ambitious portfolio in the 13-year history of Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue, this year's homage to noir had its own dramatic imperatives.
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
6.8/10
Documentary film about the making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.
An impressively in depth assortment of seven featurettes that look at a variety of subjects, from casting to visual effects.
- Hope and Rebellion: Continuing the Saga
- Designing Dystopia: Visual Aesthetic
- Rebels and Warriors: The Cast
- Fusing Form and Function: Costume, Make-Up and Hair
- Fighting the System: Shooting on Location
- D13: Rebellion Tactics: Stunts and Special Effects
- Perfecting Panem: The Post-Production Process
Altman
6.8/10
Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema left an indelible mark, not merely on the evolution of his art form, but also on the western zeitgeist. With its use of rare interviews, representative film clips, archival images, and musings from his family and most recognizable collaborators, Altman is a dynamic and heartfelt mediation on an artist whose expression, passion and appetite knew few bounds.
Alec Baldwin: One Night Only
4.8/10
Alec Baldwin, one of entertainment's most iconic actors, is honored in an exclusive black tie evening full of comedic tributes, candid personal stories and a few surprises.
The Making of Far From Heaven
Behind the scenes of 2002's Far From Heaven.
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
7.2/10
This making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 is presented in 8 parts. Each part gives an in depth view of one aspect of creating the movie. You can see how special effects were used; costumes and make-up was done; all about the casting and location of the movie; and much more. This is done by interviews with the cast and crew as well as with fragments from the movie and images from behind the scenes.
- Walking through Fire: Concluding the Saga (13:07)
- Real or Not Real: Visual Design (9:57)
- High Value Targets: The Acting Ensemble (16:33)
- From Head to Toe: Costumes, Make-up and Hair (13:38)
- Navigation the Minefield: Production in Atlanta, Paris and Berlin (13:06)
- Collateral Damage: Stunts, Special Effects and Weapons (18:04)
- Tightening the Noose: The Post-production Process (28:43)
- A Different World: Reflection (22:33).
Making the 'Lost World'
6.3/10
Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of director Steven Spielberg's 1997 film "The Lost World."
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
7.6/10
A very in-depth documentary that follows the very over-worked director Paul Thomas Anderson through a gruelling 80+ days of shooting for the film Magnolia (1999), containing behind-the-scenes footage and interviews.
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
7/10
A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts.
