famous documentary filmmakers ppt
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This Week• Elements of Style
• Some original film makers
• Ken Burns
• Errol Morris
• Nick Broomfield
• Ross McElwee
• February 29 – Cinema Verite’
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But first…
• Because of a question last week
• A short further consideration of Michael Moore
• Moore’s influence
• Influential – not for his style or the accuracy or penetrating nature of his films
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Michael Moore influence• Moore’s style as well as Spurlock’s
owes much - as we shall see - to film makers like the British film maker Nick Broomfield who started making films in 1971.
• And other experimental personal film makers - ex Ross McElwee
from 1978
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McElwee• Harvard Professor• Uniquely personal style• Sherman’s March (1986) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnohMWYXeZ4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zLXr2tShGE
• Bright Leaves (1986)
http://www.bestfilmfests.com/FF-03_bright_leaves.htm
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Personal film making• Bloomfield, McElwee, Moore, Spurlock• In common – reflexive film making• The film is as much about the film
maker as it is about the film subject• Les Nouvelles Egotiste• Compare “Gonzo” journalism of Hunter S. Thompson
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The Moore Effect• Personal / political film making• But more than reflexive style• Moore impact on documentary involves• $$$ influence
• Moore’s films make money• Led documentary makers to believe
they could too
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Documentary Dollars
• Fahrenheit 9/11 $120 million
• Sicko $ 24.5 million
• Roger & Me $ 6.7 million
• Other big films
• March of the Penguins $ 77 m (#2)
• An Inconvenient Truth $24.1m• Super Size Me $ 11.5 m [65g to make?] Source: boxofficemojo.com
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Errol Morris The Thin Blue Line
(1987)
The Fog of War
(2004)
Music, reconstructions, expensive production, iconic images
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Errol Morris• Note: Hollywood techniques • use of music – Philip Glass• Re-creation• Interview style• Film Noir in “Thin Blue Line”• See http://www.errolmorris.com/
Watch excerpts …
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Ken Burns
Multi part series documentaries Bringing pre-film history alive
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Burns: Bringing history alive
• Multi-part narrated docs for TV – PBS
• See www.pbs.org/kenburns/
• The Civil War (1990)
• Brooklyn Bridge (1981)
• Baseball (1994)
• Jazz (2001)
• The War (2007)
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The Civil War• American Civil War (1861-1865)• 1990 film in nine parts• Only moving film available was some 1935
silent film of the last Civil War soldiers re-union at Gettysburg in 1935
• No O/C interviews as the• Last veteran dies in 1956• Stills• Mathew Brady• The “KEN BURNS EFFECT” [watch excerpt]
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Recommended Book:• Liz Stubbs – Documentary Filmmakers
Speak (2002)
• Ken Burns – Emotional Archaeologist
• Ross McElwee
• Nick Broomfield
• Albert Maysles, Joe Berlinger, and Barbara Kopple
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Nick Broomfield Aileen Wuornos: Selling of a Serial Killer (1992) Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)• Another personal approach to
documentary making
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Other documentaries treating “true crime”
• Thin Blue Line & Selling of a Serial Killer – documentary genre
• Andrew Jarecki, Capturing the Friedmans• Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, Brother’s
Keeper• Jean Xavier de Lestrade
Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001)
The Staircase (2005)