The gleaners and the female gleaner
An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country’s poor and its provident, as well as by the film’s own director, Agnes Varda.
Filming while he was still working as a bookseller
Street booksellers in the U.S. need no licence, because they are protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution, which says that everyone has the right to distribute literature. However, with his “Quality of Life” campaign to clean up the city, New York’s controversial mayor Giuliani has given the NY booksellers a hard time. That’s what triggered filmmaker and then-bookseller Jason Rosette to document the lives of the street booksellers in Greenwich Village.
Direct-cinema
This is a documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the important direct-cinema filmmakers are portrayed and/or interviewed: Leacock, Wiseman, Maysles, Pennebaker, Reisz and others.
Balkan Doc Forum: A Twofold Advantage
Filmmakers from the Balkan countries have been overtaken by their foreign colleagues in documenting the Balkan reality.
Beyond Sensationalism
It is probably the weirdest home video you’ll ever see. Ricardo Lopez, a troubled youth from Florida, made an extensive video diary preceding his suicide.
Resignation of modern times
First of all, this documentary is a real pleasure to watch. The camerawork is excellent and the music and soundtrack play a magnificent role for the pace and montage.
DOCU-SOCCER
TUE STEEN MÜLLER convinced the editor-in-chief that football and documentaries have a lot in common!
DOCUMENTARY IRANIAN STYLE
Women and the variety of ethnic communities are two of the most frequent themes dealt with in Iranian documentaries where the tradition for poetry overshadows journalism.
INSISTING ON OFFBEAT FILMS
Visions du Réel deserves credit for continuing to put documentaries of a more experimental nature on the program. Yet besides its retrospectives at the latest festival in May, the more traditional works made the greatest impression. ULLA JACOBSEN reports.