Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment (2000)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 45M
Director : Peter Wintonick
Sinopsis
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.
While shooting a documentary on the suspicious disappearances within the homeless community, a filmmaker and his crew go missing while uncovering a terrifying and vicious secret below the city's surface.
Adrian and Duru get lost in the characters they play in an apocalyptic film and embark on a secret mission to end the world for real. Second entry in Adrian Țofei's trilogy which includes Be My Cat: A Film for Anne and Pure.
Aclamado documental filmado por D.A. Pennebaker que cubre principalmente la gira británica ofrecida por Bob Dylan en la primavera de 1965, cuando el trobador folk americano, de nombre real Robert Allen Zimmerman, contaba sólo 23 años. La gira de Dylan, de apenas 3 semanas, es documentada detallada por una cámara que le sigue allí donde va, del aeropuerto al hotel, mostrando conversaciones y conciertos, además de contar con la aparición de otros artistas como Joan Baez, Donovan o Alan Price. Un documental que con el tiempo ha agrandado su importancia e influencia. (FILMAFFINITY)
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During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F. Kennedy, attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, Alabama governor George Wallace, deputy attorney general Nicholas Katzenbach and the students Vivian Malone and James Hood. As Wallace has promised to personally block the two black students from enrolling in the university, the JFK administration discusses the best way to react to it, without rousing the crowd or making Wallace a martyr for the segregationist cause.
Simon is a street retailer, his shop a corner on the lower east side in New York, his stock bootleg cassette tapes, the ambience provided via boombox. He scrounges food from restaurants, exists on vodka and peanut butter, sleeps on the floor, and cares for an unloved cat. Marty, who may be an old girlfriend, visits. Down and out in New York.
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?
Sean Dunne's observational documentary of a 2016 Donald Trump Rally.
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Tibetan Buddhist search for the meaning of death in an unforgiving Himalayan landscape and stir compassion by uncovering human truths
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Una hora en la vida de una joven que a pocos minutos de casarse se entera de que su novio tiene una amante. En traje de novia la ofendida recorre la ciudad en busca de venganza. Durante todo el recorrido, un camarógrafo registrará los hechos, sin cortar la cámara desde el inicio hasta el final de la película.
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A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.
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Abel Hradscheck, the owner of an inn in the Oderbruch country, faces financial ruin. For this state of affairs, Ursula, his wife and former actress, is by no means free of blame. She is a "newcomer" to the area and even after eleven years in the area, still a "stranger". A Cracow company announces that a money-collector is on his way to the innkeeper. Mr. Szulski arrives and the debts are settled - with money supposedly stemming from an inheritance. The next day, Szulski departs but according to the maid and the stable-boy, behaves in a very strange manner. Soon afterwards, his carriage is discovered in the Oder River, but there is no trace of the drowned man. Hradscheck's neighbor starts casting suspicion on the innkeeper. The Counselor of Justice, who heads the investigations has the spot under the pear tree dug out. A dead body is exhumed...
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Un cirujano que ha perdido a su novia en el quirófano enloquece y decide asesinar a todos los estudiantes de medicina que pretenden especializarse en cirugía. No contento con ello, amputará igualmente las manos de sus víctimas, para que así no puedan dañar a su amada, a quien, en su delirio, cree con vida.
Max, su hermana Lily, Roxane, Simon y Yan son cinco amigos inseparables, cómplices siempre. Durante un verano, Yan muere en un accidente de coche, dejando fuertemente afectado al grupo. La tragedia empuja a cada uno de los cuatro amigos a reconsiderar profundamente su vida.
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