He thought that cinema had more kinship with poetry and called it the most truthful of art forms.
As reality television becomes increasingly staged, this series crosses the line in a different direction, turning the roughest of facts into the most truthful of fictions.
His statement that the £250,000 he gets from the Daily Telegraph is "chicken feed" is the darkest and most truthful of his political statements because it explicitly tells us that he doesn't know how people live – and worse, he doesn't care.
(Dargis) ★ 'HEADING SOUTH' (No rating, 105 minutes, in English and French) Sex tourism involving middle-aged white women and black beach boys at a Haitian resort in the late 1970's is the subject of Laurent Cantet's third film, one of the most truthful explorations of desire, age and youth ever filmed, with a politically charged subtext about capitalist imperialism.
It is as possible that Gibson, under her care, has delivered one of the most truthful portraits of mental illness in American film.
Almost as an aside, their garrulous sparring provides one of the richest, most truthful depictions of a relationship ever sent before a camera.
In fact, some of the funniest moments are the most truthful, reenactments of their awkward interactions through the course of Reiser's disease.
"Love Is the Devil," John Maybury's searing portrait of the English painter Francis Bacon Derek Jacobii) at the height of his fame in the 1960's, is one of the nastiest and most truthful portraits of the artist-as-monster ever filmed.
She goes on to observe that, of course, illness is not a metaphor at all and that "the most truthful way of regarding illness – and the healthiest way of being ill – is one most purified of, most resistant to, metaphoric thinking".
While perhaps not the most truthful depiction of these rollicking years, it's definitely one of the most lively and entertaining.
Instead of David Hyde Pierce, Ms. Clark's vocal playmate in the Porter anthology, her leading man was Mr. Lewis, who in the recent Broadway show "Sondheim on Sondheim" delivered the most truthful version of "Being Alive" that I can recall.
