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...film series on Thursday, chronicles the efforts of John F. Kennedy ’40, who was also a Crimson editor, to defeat Hubert H. Humphrey for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. It is widely seen as the first foray into the politics of cinéma v??rité (sometimes termed “direct cinema”), a subset of the documentary genre featuring factual portrayal of the subject’s activities, with minimal interference by the director...
...addition to such accolades as the blue ribbon at the American Film Festival, Primary won Kennedy’s approval, and he invited cinéma v??rité directly into the Oval Office. The result was the 1963 film, Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, which documented the federal government’s standoff with Alabama Governor George Wallace over educational integration. Few films since have chronicled presidential power with such immediacy—an immediacy too acute for the tastes of the New York Times editorial page, which lambasted Kennedy for making a mockery of the governing process...
Despite such exceptions, and despite the impossibility of again obtaining the unvarnished access to decision-makers that Crisis featured, the observational tradition of political cinéma v??rité survived. Pennebaker, the former member of Drew’s team, directed the 1992 film The War Room, a character study of slogan-toting Democratic consultants James Carville and George Stephanopoulos and an analysis of the effects of their rapid response campaign strategy. The film plays this evening...
...future president joking about margarita-loving reporters into a handheld digital camera is the essence of cinéma v??rité, Michael Moore’s decision to hire an ice cream truck to drive in circles while he broadcasts the Patriot Act would seem to be a gaudy emblem of cinéma faux...
...people who screen films seem to be joining the filmmakers in brazen partisan advocacy. The past few months have made one point unmistakably clear: America has certainly strayed far from the subgenre of political cinéma v??rit?...