Sugar Rush Cutting, from The Confidence Man to Wormwood
Turn on your television these days and you will find a strong uniformity to the editing on many of the shows that fall into the “non-scripted” category. Explanatory voiceover drawn […]
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Looking for Transcendence at Sundance 2016
Does the Internet dream of itself? This tag line for Werner Herzog’s new documentary could hardly have been more alluring, and as it stared up at me from my program while waiting in […]
Big Sky Film Festival Wrap-Up: Two Docs You Need To See
In the book Introduction To Documentary, author Bill Nichols makes a bold statement: all movies are documentaries. From here he cleaves the mass into two big categories: documentaries of wish […]
Cinema Verité and the Reality Infection
It pains me to admit it, but I enjoy watching reality television. The Bachelor has long been a source of fascination for me, and when I have an extra hour […]