Daniel Raim — Director (8)

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The Ozu Diaries (2025)
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other title: 오즈 야스지로의 일기 / 小津日記
Unveiling Yasujiro Ozu’s legacy through his personal diaries, letters, and interviews, the documentary delves into his life, creative process, and lasting impact on filmmaking.

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Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (2015)
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丹尼尔·瑞姆 actor: 莉莉安·迈克尔逊 / 哈罗德·迈克尔逊 …
other title: 哈罗德和莉莉安:好莱坞爱情故事
He was a wisecracking World War II vet. She was an orphan, his kid sister’s best friend. Harold and Lillian eloped to Hollywood, where they became the film industry’s secret weapons. Nobody talked about them, but everybody wanted them. Theirs is the greatest story never told—until now. Academy Award–nominated director Daniel Raim presents HAROLD AND LILLIAN: A HOLLYWOOD LOVE STORY, a fascinating and deeply moving account of the romantic and creative partnership between storyboard artist Harold Michelson (1920–2007) and his wife, film researcher Lillian Michelson (b. 1928)—a talented and generous couple once considered to be the heart of the industry. For sixty tumultuous years, Harold and Lillian weathered personal and professional setbacks while working on hundreds of films, many of them now classics, including The Ten Commandments, The Apartment, The Birds, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, Rosemary’s Baby, Fiddler On The Roof, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Scarface, Full Metal Jacket. Although the couple was responsible for some of Hollywood’s most iconic examples of visual storytelling, their contributions remain largely uncredited. Through an engaging mix of love letters, interviews (including candid conversations with Harold and Lillian, Danny DeVito, and Francis Coppola) and film clips, home movies, and rare production art, HAROLD AND LILLIAN lovingly chronicles a remarkable relationship and two extraordinary careers spanning six decades of movie-making history.

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In Search of Ozu (2018)
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丹尼尔·瑞姆 actor: Hideyuki Nagai / Kazuhiro Odashima
other title: 寻找小津安二郎
In this documentary, filmmaker Daniel Raim delves into Yasujiro Ozu's remarkable late work, in which the master made the leap from black and white to color. In his stirring tribute to the great filmmaker, Raim examines Ozu's life and work through archival treasures such as his diary and the red teakettle from the family drama "Equinox Flower" (1958); sits down with Ozu's nephew and the producer of the director's gently elegiac final film, "An Autumn Afternoon" (1962); and interweaves many scenes and images from the vibrant and humane films with which the director capped his career.

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Beautified Realism: The Making of Flowers of Shanghai (2021)
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★ 8.5 13 ratings
other title: 《海上花》的制作
Beautified Realism, a new documentary by Daniel Raim and Eugene Suen on the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Mark Lee Ping-bing, producer and editor Liao Ching-sung, production designer Hwarng Wern Ying, and sound recordist Tu Duu-chih.

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Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers (2019)
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丹尼尔·瑞姆 actor: 瑞秋·莫里森 / 约翰·贝利 …
other title: 影像制造者:美国摄影先驱们的故事
The epic tale we tell in IMAGE MAKERS-the saga of American cinematography-is the origin story of American movies. It's rooted in the fearless personalities of camera-cranking visionaries who saw possibilities for the art form that couldn't be contained in Thomas A. Edison's peepshows. Edison patented everything about movies, including the sprocket holes in the celluloid. But a hardy bunch of photographic adventurers and innovators battled their way out of his control and enlarged his limited vision. They went West to film one- and two-reelers and then epic features in locations that to the rest of the globe looked like a brave new world. Because of them, it was. Pioneer cinematographers spring to life in IMAGE MAKERS. Using every means at hand, including archival images and sound as well as new interviews with family members and great contemporary cinematographers, we bring texture and shadow to our portraits of virtuosos like Charles Rosher, Karl Struss, William Daniels, Gregg Toland, ...