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...fundamentally the same as that of any Hollywood thriller: to tell a suspenseful story. Although “The Cove” is technically an exposé, focusing on the inhumane capture and slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan, it uses the methods of fiction storytelling to narrate the filmmakers?? investigation into these abuses. It’s when nonfiction films forget that they owe the audience a narrative that they encounter trouble, a fact that seems lost on many critics and is responsible for the fact that Quick Flix’s documentary shelf remains disproportionately full...
...section on the policy found on the Massachusetts Film Office website reads: “Studios, producers and filmmakers??who either shoot at least half of their movie or spend at least half of their production budget in the Commonwealth–are eligible for a tax credit equal to 25 cents for every new dollar of spending they bring to Massachusetts...
...Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire), as she marches toward her inevitable death. In preparation for the film, Varda became a vagabond herself, wandering and meeting people who would not only inspire characters in the film, but would also play themselves, speaking lines written by Varda. This is an unusual method for filmmakers??so unusual that it merited Varda’s development of her own term—‘cinécriture’ (film writing, or film essay)—to describe her way of approaching and piecing together a film. “It?...
...Secrecy”—which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January—he eschewed his usual individual focus for a more political one: “Working autobiographically as I had, given the political climate, seemed inappropriate.”Instead, the filmmakers?? subjects talk to us about “intelligence failures,” “latitude of action,” “secretocrats,” and other jargony neologisms that you won’t find in Moss’ previous film...
...said Galison. But he stopped short of condemning the keeping of secrets, altogether. “Secrecy seems to be the promise of our survival,” he said. Nasser Zakariya, a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and a veteran of the filmmakers?? course, attended the screening and praised both the men and their class. “You don’t necessarily have to shout a thesis at someone,” he said. “That’s a huge advantage of film...