We’ve now come to the end of our journey through Mark Cousins’ The Story of Film, following cinema’s early beginnings to the advent of the digital age. But before we ring down the curtain, we have a few more stops on our tour of cinema history.
As digital effects began to strip the “realness” from mainstream filmmaking, the use of digital cameras gave a new freedom to documentary filmmakers. Perhaps the most successful of these is director Michael Moore, whose documentaries took a different approach by placing Moore himself at their center. Moore’s films Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 especially feature his distinctly liberal point of view. In contrast are the films of French documentarian Nicolas Philibert, who strove to remain as unobtrusive as possible, chronicling events without commentary. Philibert’s documentaries bring unseen worlds to life, with Louvre City showing the behind the scenes life of a museum, while La Maison De La Radio chronicles 24 hours in the life of Radio France. Continue reading “The Story of Film Part 15: Cinema Today an Tomorrow”