Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...works as "The Americans" behind him, and his free handed, experimental film techniques have been much celebrated and imitated. In Candy Mountain, however, his camera work only manages to confirm all your worst fears about a documentary director making a feature film; i.e. what seems immediate and convincing in cinema verite appears only sloppy and amateurish when scripted. It's incredible that some of this footage got used at all: too much rapid panning, clumsy cuts, intrusively boring camera angles, irrelevant establishing shots, even microphone noise on some of the soundtrack. Experimental, hell; this is just sloppy production...
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