• Direct cinema is a documentary genre that originated between 1958 and 1962 in North America—principally in the Canadian province of Quebec and in the...
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  • behind reality. It is sometimes called observational cinema, if understood as pure direct cinema: mainly without a narrator's voice-over. There are subtle...
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  • and V-Cinema has resulted in less stigma regarding direct-to-video releases in Japan than in western markets. While there are still OVA and V-Cinema releases...
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    Salesman (1969 film) (category Films directed by Albert and David Maysles)
    Salesman is a 1969 direct cinema documentary film, directed by brothers Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, about door-to-door Bible salesmen...
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    century, he began to use non-actors in scripted works, which he calls "Direct Cinema". His output ranges from studies of entertainers to political works...
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  • wartime propaganda. In documentary film the sixties saw the blossoming of Direct Cinema, an observational style of film making as well as the advent of more...
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    important differences between cinéma vérité (Jean Rouch) and the North American "direct cinema" (or more accurately "cinéma direct"), pioneered by, among others...
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  • particularly interested in documentaries. He established his own company, Direct Cinema, in 1974, of which he was president. It produces and distributes films...
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  • Titicut Follies (category Films directed by Frederick Wiseman)
    Titicut Follies is a 1967 American direct cinema documentary film produced, written, and directed by Frederick Wiseman and filmed by John Marshall. It...
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  • Primary (film) (category Films directed by Robert Drew)
    Primary is a 1960 American direct cinema documentary film about the 1960 Democratic Party primary election in Wisconsin between John F. Kennedy and Hubert...
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  • Gimme Shelter (1970 film) (category Films directed by Albert and David Maysles)
    counterculture era documentary is associated with the Direct Cinema movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It was directed by the Maysles Brothers who are strong figures...
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  • Albert and David Maysles (category American cinema pioneers)
    an American documentary filmmaking team known for their work in the Direct Cinema style. Their best-known films include Salesman (1969), Gimme Shelter...
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    Grey Gardens (category Films directed by Albert and David Maysles)
    the women, which was released in 1976 to wide critical acclaim. Their direct cinema technique left the women to tell their own stories. Albert and David...
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    British-born documentary film director and one of the pioneers of direct cinema and cinéma vérité. Leacock was born in London on 18 July 1921, the younger...
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    Malayalam cinema is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Malayalam language, which is widely spoken in the...
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  • [The 2024 Cinéma du Réel Festival competition]. Polyester (in French). WordPress. Retrieved 24 February 2024. "Direct Action (film)". Cinéma du Réel. 24...
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  • missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai...
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  • Brother's Keeper (1992 film) (category Films directed by Joe Berlinger)
    murder in the village of Munnsville, New York. The film is in the "Direct Cinema" style of the Maysles brothers, who had formerly employed Berlinger...
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  • Cinema Cinema is a 1979 quasi-documentary of the Indian film world (Bollywood), written and directed by Krishna Shah. The movie was Shah's fourth as feature...
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  • director Jean Vigo (1905–34). Free Cinema bears some similarities to the cinéma vérité and Direct Cinema movements. Free Cinema was a major influence on the...
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    2019) was an American documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of direct cinema. Performing arts and politics were his primary subjects. In 2013, the...
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    worked in Hindi cinema. He is considered one of the greatest and most influential actors and filmmakers in the history of Indian cinema, and has been referred...
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  • Filamchi Bhojpuri (category Bhojpuri cinema)
    specializing in Bhojpuri cinema. Currently, the channel is available on DD Free Dish at LCN 46 and Airtel Digital TV and also on Sun Direct LCN 716. This channel...
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  • Cinema Veeran (transl. Cinema's braveheart) is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language documentary film written and directed by Aishwarya Rajinikanth on her documentary...
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  • Chronicle of a Summer (category Films directed by Jean Rouch)
    regarded as structurally innovative and an example of cinéma vérité and direct cinema. The term "cinéma vérité" was suggested by the film's publicist and...
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    Tamil cinema is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Tamil language, the main spoken language in the state...
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  • Political cinema, in the narrow sense, refers to cinema products that portray events or social conditions, either current or historical, through a partisan...
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    is regarded as the 'Father of Telugu cinema'. The first Telugu talkie film, Bhakta Prahlada (1932) was directed by H. M. Reddy. The 1950s and 1960s are...
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    The Cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the...
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  • On Cinema (also called On Cinema at the Cinema) is an American comedy web series and podcast starring Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington. The duo appear...
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