What exactly is cinema vérité and what kind of movie does this style tell? The term gets thrown around a lot and oftentimes, in the completely wrong way. This video will talk about the history of vérité documentaries, the theory behind them, and what it takes to shoot one.
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🔗 VÉRITÉ DOCUMENTARY RECOMMENDATIONS 🔗
Primary (1960) - Robert Drew
Don’t Look Back (1967) - D.A. Pennebaker
Titicut Follies (1967) - Frederick Wiseman
Salesman (1969) - Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Gimme Shelter (1970) - Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Grey Gardens (1975) - Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer
Welfare (1975) - Frederick Wiseman
Harlan County, U.S.A (1976) - Barbara Kopple
Paris is Burning (1990) - Jennie Livingston
The War Room (1993) - D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus
Hoop Dreams (1994) - Steve James
Born into Brothels (2004) - Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004) - Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
Boys of Baraka (2005) - Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Murderball (2005) - Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
Street Fight (2005) - Marshall Curry
Iraq in Fragments (2006) - James Longley
Jesus Camp (2006) - Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Hell and Back Again (2011) - Danfung Dennis
The Queen of Versailles (2014) - Lauren Greenfield
Cartel Land (2015) - Matthew Heineman
Western (2015) - Bill Ross, Turner Ross
Weiner (2016) - Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg
City of Ghosts (2017) - Matthew Heineman
The Trade (2018) - Matthew Heineman
Flint Town (2018) - Zackary Canepari, Drea Cooper, Jessica Dimmock
All That Breathes (2022) - Shaunak Sen
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📖 CHAPTERS 📖
0:00 Intro
1:08 History
5:14 Theory & Methodology
7:24 Verite in Practice
10:39 Verite as an Entry Point
11:56 Conclusion
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