The cinema verite (or direct cinema) movement of the 50's and 60's
was driven by a group of rebel filmmakers tired of stilted
documentaries. They wanted to show life as it really is: raw, gritty,
dramatic. Rich in excerpts from verite classics with commentary by
filmmakers, this is the first film to capture all the excitement of a
revolution that changed movie-making forever, with its influences in
everything from TV news to music videos to Webcams.
Notes:
Free cinema -- Leacock's lessons -- Working history -- Engineering
art -- Camera as eye -- Active eye -- Absolute truth -- Verite direct
-- Schmeering truth -- Art vs. truth -- Dramatic conflict -- Politics
of truth -- Subjective objectivity -- Living words -- The gaze --
Cutting truth -- Legacy -- Truth and consequences -- Fiction or
faction -- Verite goes Hollywood -- Verite soap -- Re/processed
verite -- Chimera verite -- Witness to the world.
Camera, Francis Miquet; editors, Marlo Miazga, Peter Wintonick;
narration by Kirwan Cox; music, Jimmy James.
Commentary: Wolf Koenig, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Kirwan Cox, Peter
Wintonick, Francis Miquet, Karel Reisz, Richard Leacock, Albert
Maysles, Jean-Pierre Beauviala, Roman Kroitor, Robert Drew, Michel
Brault, Jean Rouch, D. A. Pennebaker, William Greaves, Hope Ryden,
James Lipscomb, Doug Leiterman, Beryl Fox, Pierre Perrault, Fred
Wiseman, Barbara Kopple, Gregg Hale, Robin Cowie, Jennifer Fox,
Floria Sigismondi, Terry Macartney-Filgate, Gillian Caldwell.
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