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Feb 11, 2000 · Cinema Verite: Defining the Moment. From "Lonely Boy" to "The Blair Witch Project," Peter Wintonick's historical look at cinéma vérité honors seminal filmmaking. Wintonick surveys the origins ...
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Rich in excerpts from vérité classics, Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment is the first film to capture all the excitement of a revolution that changed movie-making forever.
Covering the period between 1958 and 1968, when documentary film was throwing off its heavy technical ballast and discovering its subjective freedom, Wintonick’s film follows the geographic development of the genre, from the Cinéma Direct movement in Quebec and Cinéma Vérité in France to Candid Eye in Canada and Free Cinema in the United ...
Jun 9, 2000 · A documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the important direct-cinema filmmakers are portrayed and/or interviewed: Leacock, Wiseman, Maysles, Pennebaker, Reisz and others.
Summary: "The cinéma vérité (or direct cinema) movement of the '50s and '60s was driven by a group of rebel filmmakers tired of stilted documentaries. They wanted to show life as it really is: raw, gritty, dramatic.
Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment (1999) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Cinéma vérité ( UK: / ˌsɪnɪməˈvɛrɪteɪ /, US: /- ˌvɛrɪˈteɪ /, French: [sinema veʁite] lit. truth cinema; "truthful cinema") is a style of documentary filmmaking developed by Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch, inspired by Dziga Vertov 's theory about Kino-Pravda. It combines improvisation with use of the camera to unveil truth or ...
