Word: 16mm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...filmmakers are producing a documentary investigating the ghost stories of a small town. The movie begins by explaining that their footage has been recovered since their disappearance a year ago. The rest of the movie shows the filmmakers at work. The movie is entirely shot in grainy video and 16mm film, often in bad light or with bad sound, through jerky, rushed shots. There's no score and no opening credits. On the one hand, this makes it plausible that the movie is no illusion. It seems to be a student documentary made on the cheap. But because the movie...
...making a documentary investigating the ghost stories of a small town. The first screen tells us that we are about to see their footage, recovered a year after their disappearance. The rest of the movie shows the filmmakers at work. The movie is entirely shot in grainy video and 16mm film, often in bad light or with bad sound, through jerky, rushed shots. There's no score and no opening credits. On the one hand, this makes it plausible that the movie is no illusion. It seems to be a student documentary made on the cheap that fully demonstrates...
...last night, so it's playing again. Wim Wenders's "Alice in the Cities" tracks the budding friendship of a German photojournalist (Rudgier Vogler) and an abandoned 9-year-old girl (Yella Rottlander) as they search for her mother (Lisa Kreuzer). German with English subtitles, black-and-white, 16mm. The Harvard Film Archive, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Main Auditorium. 495-4700. 9:45 p.m. FREE...