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Salesman (1969)
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"This is the first film I've seen by directors Albert and David Maysles Salesman One of my girlfriend's favorite movies, and I've been told since film school that this is a seminal movie of cinéma vérité in the US. Although the Maysles brothers argue in an interview on the Criterion Collection DVD special features what they do is not cinéma vérité but rather direct cinema. I still cannot really figure out what the difference is. It's an interesting glimpse into some private situations, although for anyone who has ever been pestered by a door to door salesmen, I don't think any of the scenes would be much of a major revelation. Of course we don't normally get to see what the lives of these guys are like once they leave the house, but I feel like I sort of had an idea before watching this. Maybe because like a lot of people when they were teenagers or looking for little jobs in the first years of college, I got roped into some forms of emp ... "
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"This is the third feature length film I've seen by directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky working as team. I chose to watch this film based on previous good ratings I've given other films by this director and to better my favorite directors by algorithm listing. Brother's Keeper The two other films I've seen by Joe and Bruce are the first and second Paradise Lost films. In a way, the story of those films are the same in that they are both about an ambiguous murder trial. But in many ways they are opposites within that context. Both take place in kind of rural areas, but in one the locals band together to support the accused where as in the other most locals have turned against the accused. In one the accused is rather old, and in the other they are quite young. "
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"A man in his late 40s tells a woman ten years younger than she is about a new illustrated version of the bible that he would like to sell to her. His hands are racked with arthritis. His nickname is The Badger, perhaps because his hair looks like one or because that's what he's doing with this customer. His name is Paul Brennen, the main subject in Albert and David Masles' documentary, Salesman.Salesman isn't just a movie about Brennen, but about America in many respects. Along with three other Boston-natives The Gipper, The Rabbit and The Bull, Brennen sold bible to Catholic households with information given to them by the local churches. They handle many different types of customers in different climates up and down the continental United States. These four men travel together for camaraderie, but also to beat down the pressures that come with the job (all four are avid chain-smokers). Between the pitches, each carries onto the dream of greater wealth, a dream enc ... "
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"Well, first off the category of documentary is probably more diverse than narrative. There are so many ways of executing a documentary and, subsequently, so many arguments for what qualifies as documentary.Cinema verite (sometimes called "direct cinema") is actually an approach that attempts to address what we're talking about in the conversation about Michael Moore. Basically, cinema verite tries to bring more honesty to documentary.The Maysles brothers (Salesman) and Frederick Wiseman (Titicut Follies) are canonical examples of this approach. In essence, the filmmaker(s) roll their camera and capture what happens with as minimal intrusion as possible. Of course, the mere presence of a camera changes the way people behave. Wiseman's solution for this when he filmed Titicut Follies in a mental hospital was to show up everyday with his camera for months until the patients and the staff grew used to his presence and started to behave as they would if he weren't there. The results are ... "
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