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From Variety. com: "A circus artiste tries to juggle love, desire and her dead sister's job in Dutch verite-fiction hybrid 'Calimucho'."
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I don't want to rant but I am also troubled when I watch nominally independent films about Iraq that sell the war in the guise of offering "verite" reporting by soldiers.
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It was shot in cinema verite, meaning simply that the camera was always going in Gold's Gym where these guys worked out.
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Mr. Holch wrote the script for the cinema verite film, which features candid conversations with men and women from all walks of life.
Arthur Holch, Emmy-winning documentary maker, dies at 86 Emma Brown Washington Post Staff Writer 2010
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The second commentary features Henry Hill and former FBI agent Edward McDonald, and they talk about the verite of the project, while Hill will go off on some of the more outlandish aspects of his life.
GOODFELLAS and MYSTIC RIVER Blu-ray Reviews – Collider.com 2010
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And I totally have an essay in me for eventually about the characterization of violence -- from comic-book unreality to splatterpunk to cinema verite -- in the movie version of The Watchmen, and what it means thematically.
Monkey? What are you doing? batwrangler 2009
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The whole episode is one long cinema verite tracking shot, taking place on one street.
a dalmatian could do it matociquala 2010
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At their worst, they devolve into a sort of constant New Yorker navel-gazing that is three parts cinema verite, one part melodrama (See In Treatment).
Recent Adventures in Televised Entertainment darkerblogistan 2009
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Gibney and Ellwood have transformed 100 hours of raw unseen footage into archival verite; using actual film to tell the story.
Cynthia Ellis: Ken Kesey Rides Again in Magic Trip Cynthia Ellis 2011
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Gibney and Ellwood have transformed 100 hours of raw unseen footage into archival verite; using actual film to tell the story.
Cynthia Ellis: Ken Kesey Rides Again in Magic Trip Cynthia Ellis 2011
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