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...cinema verite, the social documentary, propaganda, and the use of documentary footage in television. Each topic will be accompanied by the screening of a film ("Salesman" by the Maysles Brothers, "High School" by Wiseman and "Triumph of the Will" by Riefenstahl are all tentatively booked), or guest lecturers (Rickie Leacock and Mrs. Robert Flaherty are scheduled...
RECENT AMERICAN documentarians such as Leacock, Pennebaker, and the brothers Maysles have identified themselves with the the cinemaverite movement. According to their work, cinemaverite's "truthfulness" requires a chance meeting between subject and camera, where there is no time to bother with meaningful composition or cogent verbal statements. They assume that neither occurs in "real" life and thus has no place in "truth cinema". For them the presence of the camera (cinema) is only another aspect of truth, one which is expressed either by incessant zooms or reflections of the camera in the nearest mirror. Their films never appear...
...direct cinema, is a one-short film. Now while we have no right, given the style and the technical different relationships, there is no excuse for spending half of our viewing time in close-medium one0short, mainly contemplating Paul Brennan's dejected visage. The best documentary camera work (Ricky Leacock, sometimes) is distinguished by its description of the whole in the detail, the capturing on hands in Leacock's Mothers day, for instance). Salsman, despite almost mythic possibilities (an existence trapped in motels with their cleaning women; ion rented cars, with their clean ashtrays, in strange locals; living rooms never...
...filming began that "it will all be very improvised and we'll use all the film we need. The whole thing will be rather crazy and we'll get all of Sweden into the film." That's precisely the trouble. Sjöman is like Stephen Leacock's young nobleman, riding madly off in all directions. He tries to reproduce the substance of Swedish politics, render a portrait of contemporary youth, satyrize the mechanics of film making, and dramatize his own hang-ups, all the while telling a rather conventional and sometimes funny story about...
...Picture Association of America and Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the festival last month showed entries from 37 colleges, which were judged by a panel that included Directors Norman Jewison (In the Heat of the Night), Irving Kershner (The Flim Flam Man), and Producer Philip Leacock (Gun-smoke). The prizewinners in the contest's four major categories...