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Notes from Art of the Real: What Critics Can Learn from Great Programming

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Christopher Campbell
Apr 22, 2017
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Let’s leave the issue film and its accompanying straw men behind. A new Cinematic Nonfiction is already here and it has brought some giant owls.

Documentary critics have a tendency to describe good films in terms of what they aren’t. “No talking heads” is a perennial compliment, along with less than friendly comparisons to Al Gore and his notorious Power…

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