In the fall of 1968, I saw David Holzman's Diary (Jim McBride, L.M. Kit Carson, Michael Wadleigh) at New York University Film School. McBride's team created a world that appeared to the viewer as a documentary, but was a total fiction. David Holzman's Diary is, in many respects, the staged documentary which started a movement that embraced a style of reality filmmaking and fiction filmmaking. With the handheld camera, the fictional documentary filmmaker becomes the central character--a sometimes tragic, sometimes comic hero taking us on a journey that is sometimes very personal. That screening
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On Monday, November 16, filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña will be in conversation with Turner Classic Movies' Ben Mankiewicz to discuss her decades-long filmmaking career and highlight clips from her inspiring body of work. Tickets to the event can be purchased now! In the spring of 1989, Janet Malcolm sparked a firestorm in the journalism community with her New Yorker article "The Journalist and the Murderer." Ostensibly about the unconventional relationship between author Joe McGinness and the subject of his book, accused murderer Jeffrey MacDonald, the piece was really an essay on the ethics of
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Brazilian musician Tom Zé, subject of Décio Matos Júnior's Fabricando Tom Zé. Courtesy of Festival do Rio Brazilians are accustomed to reading rather than watching cinema, something any Brazilian planning a night at the movies would acknowledge. In 2004, foreign releases in Brazil represented 88 percent of the domestic film market, which is divvied up among companies with familiar yet foreign names like Sony, Warner and Fox. Over the past two years, nine of the ten highest grossing films in Brazil were produced and distributed by Hollywood. Despite the popular and critical success of local
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