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ULYSSES GAZE Review: Theo Angelopoulos
TO VLEMMA TOU ODYSSEA / ULYSSES’ GAZE (1995) Direction: Theo Angelopoulos Cast: Harvey Keitel, Erland Josephson, Maia Morgenstern, Thanasis Vengos, Giorgos Mihalakopoulos Screenplay: Theo Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris, Giorgio Silvagni Harvey Keitel, Ulysses’ Gaze Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos‘ 1995 effort To Vlemma tou Odyssea / Ulysses’ Gaze is the first of that director’s four films that I have seen that is not unequivocally a [...]
CAPTURING REALITY: THE ART OF DOCUMENTARY: Truth vs. Reality
CAPTURING REALITY: THE ART OF DOCUMENTARY Review Pt.1 The problem with those comments is that none of them really addresses the fact that documentaries are not really concerned with truth, but with reality vs. fiction. Many people confuse truth with reality, and given this film’s title it would have behooved Ferrari to explore the very difference between reality and truth that so many of the [...]
CAPTURING REALITY: THE ART OF DOCUMENTARY Review: Pepita Ferrari
CAPTURING REALITY: THE ART OF DOCUMENTARY (2008) Director: Pepita Ferrari Cast: Kevin Macdonald, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Jennifer Baichwal, Eduardo Coutinho, Joan Churchill, Nick Broomfield, Patricio Guzmán, Werner Herzog, Jessica Yu, Scott Hicks, Albert Maysles, Errol Morris, Hubert Sauper, Peter Wintonick Pepita Ferrari’s Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary Pepita Ferrari’s 2008 documentary on the insights of the documentarian’s craft, Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary, [...]
MUHAMMAD ALI: A.K.A. CASSIUS CLAY Jim Jacobs
MUHAMMAD ALI: A.K.A. CASSIUS CLAY (1970) Direction: Jim Jacobs Written by: Bernard Evslin Narration: Richard Kiley MUHAMMAD ALI: MADE IN MIAMI Review The best of the trio of documentaries mentioned in my Muhammad Ali: The Greatest post was Muhammad Ali a.k.a. Cassius Clay, made in 1970 by boxing promoter Jim Jacobs and narrated by Richard Kiley. Jacobs’ film is the most stylistically daring of the [...]