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Capturing Reality (2008)

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Summary: From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Capturing Reality explores the complex creative process that goes into making non-fiction films. Deftly charting the documentarian's journey, it poses the question: can film capture reality? (imdb)
AKA: The Art of Documentary
Country: Canada
Directed By: Pepita Ferrari
More information at the Internet Movie Database
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na Judo Koala
75
T7
na Bandy
65
T3
na Valenzetti
77
T6
It's nice to hear so many fantastic filmmakers talking about their craft, but this also limits how deep the film can go. It would have been much improved by reducing the number of filmmakers to 3-4, adding a critic or two (talking about film is not the filmmaker's area of expertise), and focusing in on the central questions: "How do documentary films work, and to what ends?" As it is, it doesn't do much more than acknowledge the uncertainty.
na AAAutin
58
T8
na TryTranscend
60
T3
Add 10 if you actually want to become a documentary filmmaker.
na imdb
68
T7
na Obdurate
85
T8
It's nice to see what documentarians say about the medium. There are a lot of different opinions, sometimes in direct contrast with each other. The film tackles issues of documentaries like sound, re-enactments, facts, the dangers of documentaries, etc. It's never boring, usually insightful and it plays to its theme well: That there are so many ways to do it, and so many ways to view the medium, like there is truth and the pursuit of it. Plus it has Werner Herzog.
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