Art & Copy (Pray, 2009)
Doug Pray’s documentary about the rise of the advertising age, replete with interviews from industry giants and snippets from the greatest television ads of all time, was a real festival crowd pleaser.
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Wounded Knee (Nelson, 2009)
Director Stanley Nelson (perhaps best known for Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple ) delivers another great documentary. Equal parts history lesson and civics lesson, Wounded Knee skillfully… Continue reading "Wounded Knee (Nelson, 2009)"
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Salonica (Poloni, 2009)
Those accustomed to documentaries of place trying to capture a geographical location through a cross section of its people may be slightly saddened to find that Paolo Poloni’s meditation on… Continue reading "Salonica (Poloni, 2009)"
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Mechanical Love
Phie Ambo’s Mechanical Love kicked off this year’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The two main story lines follow a Kyoto engineer working on making a “geminoid” of himself (and… Continue reading "Mechanical Love"
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Bella (Monteverde, 2006)
When you judge a movie as cultural artifact or sociopolitical argument, I guess, you often come away with the impression that it is better or worse than its record indicates.
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The Servant (Losey, 1963)
If you enter the terms "servant," "losey," and "creepy" into the Google search engine, you get approximately nine hundred hits. Not all of them, of course, are using the "c" word in connection to Joseph Losey's 1963 film starring Dirk Bogarde and "introducing" James Fox, but enough of them are to make it clear that "creepy" is the adjective of choice for talking vaguely about Losey's film without having to get too specific.
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Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol, who is still alive and still working, has seventy-one directorial film credits listed at IMDB.com. By means of comparison, Michelangelo Antonioni has thirty-six, Robert Bresson seventeen, and Peter Brook a mere baker's dozen.
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Camp Diaries (Noland, 2009)
I asked Noland about the title of his film and specifically why he chose the word "diaries" since the photographs in the film were overlaid not with words from the occupants of the internment camps but words from news and film reels which mediated the images (and the experience) for the public.
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Documentary Film and the Power of Empathy
A look at some of the best films of the 2008 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
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The Bitter Tea of Mister Capra
People in Capra films--and I'm including the Why We Fight series in this assertion--have high ideals, and if we know anything in a Capra film, it is that if you talk the talk you better be ready to walk the plank, because as Job is my witness, the world will put you to the test.