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Pure Cinema Podcast

Episode 29 - Documentaries!

Pure Cinema Podcast

Brian Saur & Elric Kane

Movies, Elric, Critics, Arts, Rupertpupkinspeaks, Horror, Cinema, Saur, Visual Arts, Film, Brian, Tv & Film

4.8737 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2018

⏱️ 171 minutes

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Summary

After their epic Carpenter two-parter, the boys are back to talk documentaries in a similarly epic way (in a single episode this time). For this round, Elric and Brian offer up 5 Documentaries because and an additional 5 recommendations each that are currently available streaming! 20 plus documentaries!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not going to listen to this.

0:02.3

Ray, you're chanting.

0:03.0

I'm not going to hear this now. I think documentary, I mean, the very first films were, in a sense, documentary, quote-unquote, right?

0:31.7

I mean, Lumier brothers in France photographed the Daily Life in a way.

0:35.5

They photographed the train coming into the station.

0:37.3

They photographed workers leaving a factory. Godard the train coming into the station. They photographed

0:37.8

workers leaving a factory. Godar said, Jalouin Goddard said they were the last impressionists in a way.

0:43.4

But you look at that footage now and you really, a whole hundred years comes to life, you know.

0:48.6

And so that's just a camera in one position, just photographing a daily activity. So imagine now,

0:53.6

add the story

0:54.1

to that or add an event or whatever. I just think that I come from a time where the documentary

1:00.8

and the narrative film really people were accepting the documentaries, particularly in late

1:05.2

50s, early 60s to late 60s, as feature films to be shown in theaters, alongside the latest film by was Hitchcock at the time

1:13.4

was sort of in the end of his career and there were other people coming out of Hollywood.

1:17.3

But around the corner you had Alan David Maisel's film Salesman playing at Cinema One and

1:22.0

Fredwick Wiseman's Titicot Follies.

1:24.6

There were feature films.

1:25.6

You go and see on a Friday or Saturday or Sunday afternoon.

1:28.1

And so for me, I think to relegate documentaries to a small screen or as a subdivision, I think,

1:34.0

is doing a disservice. I mean, don't forget, Filarity did, you know, went up to the North

1:37.4

did, went up wherever to do Nanaka of the North and created the first quote unquote documentary in a way, which all he,

1:44.4

of course he had to restage because all the film burned. Yeah, there's a, but that's an interesting

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