The French cinema offers several splendid examples of documentary self-portraiture.
And while they are all, to different degrees, examples of documentary theater, their style is hardly confined to representational realism.
The French cinema offers several other splendid examples of documentary self-portraiture, including several by Agnès Varda — notably, "Daguerréotypes" (Fandor, on Amazon), from 1976, and "The Beaches of Agnès" (iTunes, YouTube, and Google Play), from 2008.
By Richard Brody June 10 ,2017 The French cinema offers several splendid examples of documentary self-portraiture, including several by Agnès Varda, notably, "The Beaches of Agnès," which is available to stream on iTunes.
"Hoop Dreams," "The Thin Blue Line" and Mr. Moore's "Roger and Me" are just a few examples of documentaries that won not only wide acclaim but also wide distribution.
In more recent years though, as all forms of media have tended increasingly towards the democratic, more examples of documentaries that focus on rock music's consumers rather than producers have sprung up.
"There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane" is the most unforgettable and hauntingly rendered documentary to come from HBO so far this year; at the same time, it is an example of the documentary format at its most fraught and incomplete.
The film is often called an early example of the documentary mode known as cinéma vérité.
Brief, vulgar and poignant, it's not much of a poem, but it is a perfect example of the documentary's idiosyncratic heart.
