The Great FortuneNot many festivals grant you the privilege of being personally welcomed by its director with a bottle of home-brewed liquor, not very many set that as their standard of hospitality: Beldocs, the Belgrade International Documentary Film Festival, is one of them. The composite beauty and disinterested generosity of the city and its people are the ideal environment for a festival genuinely close to its etymological roots, that of festivity, of an uplifting moment of reciprocal discovery and exchange. Big enough to explore, small enough to elaborate, Beldocs is what a festival is meant to be: a place where films are not only consumed but also convivially dissected. The size and schedule of the festival, but most crucially its comradery dimension, allow for the kind of space cinema needs in order to be cultivated, not only watched. The constitutive elements of the seventh art in Beldocs coexist organically side by side,...
- 7/14/2016
- MUBI
Robert J. Flaherty was a pioneering documentary filmmaker who wasn’t above fabricating scenarios in his films. The director actively pursued such things believing, in a philosophical sort of way, that he’d find the true spirit of his subject matter. He wasn’t above being a showman, either.
The most famous film he ever made is probably Nanook of the North but his 1934 effort, Man of Aran, is an exceptional, if problematic, look at life on the edge of 20th century modernity and society.
Man of Aran won a major prize for Best Foreign Film at the Venice film festival in 1934 and almost eighty years on it is an impressive feature. Flaherty set off for the barren rocky crops most famous for a type of sweater with the intention of documenting the lives of those living in extreme conditions. The Aran islands, of which there are three, sit close...
The most famous film he ever made is probably Nanook of the North but his 1934 effort, Man of Aran, is an exceptional, if problematic, look at life on the edge of 20th century modernity and society.
Man of Aran won a major prize for Best Foreign Film at the Venice film festival in 1934 and almost eighty years on it is an impressive feature. Flaherty set off for the barren rocky crops most famous for a type of sweater with the intention of documenting the lives of those living in extreme conditions. The Aran islands, of which there are three, sit close...
- 3/13/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
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