…I came out to a beautiful pastel sky over Hackney and felt less alone in my love of public spaces and libraries... (2)
#fredwiseman #cinemaverite #exlibris #libraries #homertonlibrary #hackneylibraries #community #weneedlibraries
Celebrating John Cassavetes * Innovator and actor Cassavetes explored the raw power of independent filmmaking, spawning the American movement of Cinéma Vérité.
#indie #filmsky #CinemaVerite #indiefilms
🎬 Haskell Wexler’s “Medium Cool” blurred fiction & reality with raw footage from the ‘68 DNC protests. A pioneering mix of narrative & documentary — praised by critics, buried by the box office. 🎥📉 #CinemaVerite #FilmHistory #HaskellWexler #Chicago1968 #UnderratedFilms #CinemaHistory
Is Eephus a loving Wiseman homage, a sly parody, or both? Carson Lund’s quietly surreal baseball odyssey turns small-town inertia into slow-motion spectacle.
🧢⚾️🎥 #CinemaVerite #IndieFilm #FrederickWiseman #CarsonLund #Eephus #SlowCinema
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Suggested places to start:
Curtis:
Century of the Self
The Power of Nightmares
Hypernormalization
Can't Get You Out of My Head
Watkins:
The Universal Clock
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Punishment Park
Edvard Munch
#filmtheory
#sociology
#cinemaverite
#metafiction
#rhetoric
🎬 Le nid présenté à Hot Docs 2025!
ONFR explore avec la monteuse un film sur la mémoire, la maternité et la transmission.
👇 Une histoire vraie, à voir absolument
🔗 youtube.com/shorts/xtNt5...
#HotDocs2025 #docu #motherhood #cinemaverite
Pen drawing of Edith Beale holding a mirror in profile while wearing a bandana drawn on a torn weekly planner.
On April 6, 1976, Grey Gardens was screened at the USA Film Festival. Here’s some art inspired by the classic documentary!
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#GreyGardens #EdithBouvierBeale #Documentary #DirectCinema #CinemaVerite #Art #MovieArt #MovieHistory
Gene Hackman passing sent me down 70s cinema verité lane... it took me a few hours to remember this Geraldine Chaplin sleeper with Anthony Perkins. She's a tense shark in this, quite good. Saw it on TCM. #FilmSky #CinemaSky #1970sFilm #RetroFilm #CinemaVerite #GeraldinePage #AnthonyPerkins #TCM
Yesterday’s film and today’s film:
#Lilies
#QueerFilm
#bobdylan
#cinemaverite
Recommend both & would be interested in your thoughts
PUBLICITY PHOTO FROM THE NEW MOVIE “A BED TOO FAR”
🍅99% 🍿99%
(Cuppy, exhausted, enters bedroom)
“finally, there it is … just a couple ….. more .....… steps …...…. to my bed ……….…….” <noisy snoring>
#oscars #cinemaverite #blockbuster #abridgetoofar #film #dogs #doglife #dogsky #dogsofbluesky
Je suis également dilaté à 4.
#transparence #cinemaverite
It is very dark and definitely not for everyone. I honestly didn't get a few points of plot until years later. It's one of those movies that's different every time you see it because *you* are different every time you see it. #cinemaverite
"... What shouldn't be discounted though is that as shallow as this is, there's always value in watching Diane Lane, Tim Robbins and James Gandolfini work."
My ★★★½ review of #CinemaVerite on @Letterboxd.
boxd.it/68jiTr
A short film we made called BUDDIES (2013) is very special to me, and I wanted to give it a home on YouTube channel! The link is below. Please watch and let me know what you think! @simonbalcon1
youtu.be/_iToY6hMiYQ
You can also find this link in my bio!
#shortfilm #cinemaverite #movies
New review!
SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM - TAKE ONE (1986)
Link: midniteramble.blogspot.com/2024/01/symb...
#60s #film #stevensoderbergh #williamgreaves #nyc #blackcinema #documentary #cinemaverite
