A Second Look: Allan King’s ‘actuality dramas’ get a new audience
Criterion’s five-film DVD set delves into the Canadian filmmaker’s technique, which blurred the boundaries between narrative and documentary. The cinéma vérité movement emerged some 50 years ago bearing the promise of lifelike immediacy and unvarnished reality. Enabled by the invention of lightweight sync-sound cameras and reflective of the larger truth-seeking and confessional trends of 1960s …
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