We believe it is real, given the apparent authenticity of the images and their documentary presentation.
But the film views the raw sexuality of the real pornographers through the filter of professional documentary presentation.
She maintained that writing can encompass "fact, reportage, imagination, documentary presentation, the epistolary form", even cinematic treatment.
She plays to the camera, describing what she's wearing, where it's from, where she got it, how she modified it, and then sashaying a bit with a florid bow to make clear that she's game for the theatrical artifice of Maysles's documentary presentation of her reality.
The writers who most fully realized Champfleury's ideal of a documentary presentation of the day-to-day, Edmond and Jules Goncourt, were also the most concerned with that aesthetic perfection of style that Duranty and Champfleury rejected in practice as well as in principle.
In the magazine this week, Anthony Lane reviews "Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno" (opening tomorrow at IFC Center), a documentary presentation by Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea of footage from Clouzot's unfinished 1964 feature and an investigation, by way of interviews with crew members, of why it wasn't finished.
George Hunka disagrees: "A drama or theatre that claims to be a verbatim or documentary presentation of verifiable facts also must trust in the confidence of its audience to accept that these facts are true, because the audience does not have the ability to assess this truth itself".
We need greys, ambiguity, that art-house cinema vibe, that documentary presentation, but with blockbuster intent.
CHILDREN UNDERGROUND Produced and directed by Edet Belzberg; in Romanian, with English subtitles; director of photography, Wolfgang Held; edited by Jonathan Oppenheim; released by HBO/Cinemax Documentary Theatrical Presentations, in association with Red Horse Inc., and Childhope International.
On September 10th at the eighteenth annual black-tie News and Documentary Awards presentation, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, Cannon will preside over one of many such ceremonies that he conducts each year.
