Documentary

= Contemporary Documentary Film =



**Entrance Card: //Traffic// and //Solaris:// According to the book, list at least three ways (each) these films are both mainstream and "Indy"**

**Discuss the amateur film, //Everybody's Dying Here// from last week.**

**Discuss entrance cards.**



**[|Interview]**

[|solaris interview]

In Groups, complete "quiz" about chapter 10 in Bordwell and Thompson.





//Bus 174// (Brazil, Jose Padiha, 2002)

 Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.

 //Grizzly Man// (U.S.Werner Herzog, 2005)



A devastating and heartrending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzlies in Alaska.

//Anvil! The Story of Anvil// (Canada, Sacha Gervasi, 2008)



Since 1978, Anvil has become one of heavy metal's most influential yet commercially unsuccessful acts. In 2006, after a fledging European tour Anvil sets out to record their thirteenth album and continue to follow their dreams.

 //Waste Land// (Brazil, Lucy Walker, 2010)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores”—self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker (DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND, BLINDSIGHT and COUNTDOWN TO ZERO) and co-directors João Jardim and Karen Harley have great access to the entire process and, in the end, offer stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 20px;">//A Force of Nature// (U.S. Barbara Kopple, 2011)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Ellen Ratner, the award-winning journalist and philanthropist, defies easy description but never shies away from lending a strong opinion as a fierce advocate of free speech and social justice.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 20px;">Film Screening: //My Winnepeg// (Canada, Guy Maddin, 2007)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 20px;">Read chapter 3, //Indiewood, USA// and chapter 9, //Film Art// for next week and Prepare for EC.