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...bursting with talented collaborators and tied off with a nice satiny bow. This is big-budget, Hollywood style filmmaking-a way of making movies that has become de rigeur since World War II. Kelly was not only talking about a single movie, he was anticipating a half-century of cinema...
...there room in modern cinema for individual vision and talent? Can a film ever be a wholly personal project? Not within this paradigm. Even if one looks at the films of the "auteurs" of the last century, one will find collaboration as a foundational ingredient. Fellini, Bergman, Hitchcock, Scorsese, etc.: all have been able to create collaborations between artists of singular vision (What would Fellini be without Giulietta Masina? What would Scorsese be without the great screenplays of Schrader and Pileggi?) The genius of these directors comes from their powers of orchestration and coordination. In general, films are mass conglomerations...
...weeks ago, the New England Film and Video Festival presented a window into another world of cinema. Self-described as promoting "the Spirit of Independents", this festival ran from March 27 to April 2, screening at the Coolidge Corner Cinema and the Museum of Fine Arts. Thirty three films were showcased, and each differed radically from the others: there was animation and live action; films made by 20-year-olds and films made by 50-year-olds; comedy, drama, and documentary; 3 minute films and 30 minute films. Some were technically slick and others were strikingly raw. Yet each presented...
...This is the vision of independent cinema that was presented. Festival director Devon Damonte noted, "'Independent' is a funny word, and one that is often manipulated and over-used. We see independent film as more free from commercial pressures. These filmmakers are not making films to get rich, they are making them because they have be made. They come from the heart as personal visions...
...they set out on a quest to interview Bob Dylan. Even more than Dylan, the hero at the center of the film is D.A. Pennebaker. Pennebaker made "Don't Look Back", the 1965 documentary that captured Dylan on tour and at the same time spawned the genre of cinema verit. This film, like the best cinema verit, makes the audience conscious of the filmmaking process itself through the conspicuous invisibility of standard filmmaking conventions: the camera just happens to be there, but everything that takes place wouldn't happen without its presence. It is a meditation on the nature...