Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment
MovieTitle | Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment |
User score | 6 |
Release date | Jun 9, 2000 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Peter Wintonick |
Production country | Canada |
Production companies | ONF | NFB |
Run time | 105 min. |
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.