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NAME: Michael ("Do not call me Roger") Moore OCCUPATION: cranky documentarian AGE: 45 BEST PUNCH: Angered by Goldberg's lack of respect for "the privacy rights of others," trained a camera on her apartment windows and beamed the live pictures onto the Internet...
...uneasily direct communion between filmmaker and potential audience member. The pitches: a blaxploitation parody starring a white guy! An ex-cop grandma wages war on her grandson's kidnappers! A lost relic with aphrodisiacal powers--Jesus' foreskin--turns up in Manhattan! "Pringles financed my movie," a commercial actor turned documentarian told me. The budget for one "romantic drama" came from the insurance settlement the writer-director received after he was injured in an auto accident. You had to admire the sheer nerve on display. And who knows? Maybe I was talking to the next Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse...
...world's biggest self-promoters, punk rocker COURTNEY LOVE and Brit documentarian Nick Broomfield, aren't getting along. Broomfield's new movie, Kurt and Courtney, which examines and rejects allegations that Love was complicit in her husband's death, has been cut from the Sundance Film Festival because of a legal threat over music rights. Says Broomfield: "The person I was most frightened of making a film about is Margaret Thatcher. I think Courtney Love is pretty small fry in comparison." On Saturday Broomfield said there were absolutely no plans to screen his film...
Locating the reality behind the myth is what TV documentarian Ken Burns does for a living, most famously in The Civil War, his hugely popular 1990 PBS mini-series. Yet even as he cuts through the myth, Burns doesn't shy away from the mythic. History, in his view, is full of seminal characters and emblematic stories, of great deeds that launched new eras and small discoveries that "changed everything." The Burns style has by now become as familiar, not to say formulaic, as an episode of Friends: the long, slow pans over archival photographs, the dramatically lighted talking heads...
From the western coast of this country comes a documentary which affirms the expansiveness and individualism at the heart of the U.S. of A. Documentarian Les Blank's hour-long exploration of the life of Garry Gaxiola, "The Maestro, King of the Cowboy Artists," will gladden the heart of anyone who fears for the fate of art for art's sake amidst the vastness of late twentieth century American capitalism...