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English. Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment is 1999 Canadian documentary film directed by Peter Wintonick about cinéma vérité filmmaking. The film looks at the work of such notable documentary filmmakers as Jean Rouch, Frederick Wiseman, and Barbara Kopple and Robert Drew, as well as the contributions of the National Film Board of Canada ...
Dec 28, 2000 · Cinema Vérité: Defining the Moment is a comment on such historical documentary debates over time, including the more recent revolutionary development of new technologies and the wider changes in film language.
- Katherine Speller
Jun 9, 2000 · Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment: Directed by Peter Wintonick. With Jean-Pierre Beauviala, Michel Brault, Gillian Caldwell, Robin Cowie. 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.
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- Documentary
- Peter Wintonick
- 2000-06-09
They wanted to show life as it really is: raw, gritty, dramatic. Rich in excerpts from vérité classics, Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment is the first film to capture all the excitement of a revolution that changed movie-making forever. Director Peter Wintonick's Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and …
Feb 11, 2000 · Cinema Verite: Defining the Moment. From "Lonely Boy" to "The Blair Witch Project," Peter Wintonick's historical look at cinéma vérité honors seminal filmmaking. Wintonick surveys the...
- Peter Wintonick
- Documentary
The history of 'cinema verite' or 'cinema direct,' as it was known in France, is explored through interviews with many of the documentary genre's pioneers. Largely inspired by the invention of new lightweight cameras in the 1950's and 60s, cinema verite's trademark hand-held style went on to...
A feature documentary about documentary, Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment is a major retrospective of some of the century’s finest non-fiction films, and a celebration of the contemporary legacy of the Cinéma Vérité revolution of the 1950s and early 1960s.
