Word: filming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TRADITIONS are evident in current documentary film work-conventional documentary and direct cinema (sometimes loosely termed cinema verite). Both styles work to transform an ambiguous, undifferentiated reality into sets of contradictions; their stance toward reality is ironic. But the means and indeed than creating (or reconstructing) events, attempts to situate himself in the midst of them. Though he does not relinquish his personal reference point, his personal reference point, his subject is an object trouve, a "real-life drama," and the structure of his film is determined by the nature of that subject in action. From this aesthetic of minimum...
Conventional documentary style, largely derived from English and French films of the thirties, exposes contradictions through reconstruction's. In the spring issue of Film Quarterly, Judith Gollub says that what attracted Alain Robbe-Grillet to the cinema was its ability to act on two sense simultaneously in a dialectical movement of statement and negation; in other words, soundtrack and image allow for greater possibilities of contradiction. Conventional documentary reconstructs reality through editing and asynchronous sound (voiceovers, etc.) and techniques borrowed form fictional narrative-music, establishing shots, distant shots, etc. Often, conventional documentaries contain footage shot in direct cinema style; however...
SALESMAN, by Alvert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, is in the direct cinema style. Its structure. Characteristically, is determined by following the subject-in this case a door-to-door Bible salesman (Paul Brennan) -with sound recorder and camera. The film opens with Brennan and his three selling teammates in Chicago, and the rest of the film takes place in Florida, where Brennan and his buddies are opening new territory. Under direct hortatory pressure from is sales manager and psychological pressure form his less than sympathetic competitors, the elderly Brennan finds himself unable from his increasingly pathetic reactions...
...indifferently lighted Death of a Salesman are missing the point. (Besides, if it's a death, it's a movie death. A central duplicity is being practiced here-a duplicity which violently, perhaps fatally, transgresses principles of minimum interference. How likely is it that a man whose drag a film crew wit him from house to house, despite tapering sales?) This isn't any salesman; it is a Bible salesman. The choice is not that arbitrary. The world of commerce has sucked up religious life; Christ's passion is another pitch in American's long sales talk. The contradictions...
...Brubaker has already paid for everything--with huge chunks of his soul and his precious time. So when Catherine (her name is Gunther instead of Deneuve, she is Brubaker's boss's wife--a fact which eludes him through most of the film, and her life is similarly desolate and sterile) comes to his attention at Gunther's party (yes, this film begins with one too) and he says, "Name's Brubaker. Buy you a drink?" It's a masterstroke of justice that she replies, "I'll get my things...