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- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first documentary I saw that tried to show the actual experience of being a soldier in combat was 'The Anderson Platoon,' by French director Pierre Schoendoerffer, which won the Oscar for best documentary in 1967.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although 'The Anderson Platoon' was what we would now call an 'embedded film' - with all the ambiguities that term implies - somehow Schoendoerffer got away with showing things as they really were from a grunt's perspective.
- Fresh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite the limitations of the bulky 16mm camera and 10-minute film magazines, 'The Anderson Platoon' feels as spontaneous and fresh as any films that have come out of the Afghan or Iraq wars.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In war films, even more than in other kinds of documentary, we've come to think that shaky, poor-quality footage is somehow more authentic than something classically 'well shot.'
- Early Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is a tendency in modern television I hate, it is the unstoppable march of the dramatic reconstruction to tell the stories of anything from an ancient Egyptian battle to the early life of Paul Gascoigne.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about making a film on a submarine is that it's kind of like making a play. You've got this limited environment.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it really difficult when you make a movie where it is set in Russia and everyone speaks in English. It drives me crazy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It feels like we're all so familiar now with the traditional three-act structure that, actually, stories that are more complex, more naughty, that allow for disagreement and discussion, are more interesting to us.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't know.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man, no woman is without their flaws.
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You can relate to someone with a flaw.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love submarine movies.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A publisher friend of mine suggested that I write a book about my grandfather, who had just died. I had nothing else to fill my empty days with, so I started work on this book. While researching it - watching lots of movies, talking to moviemakers - I became interested in movies and started making documentaries.
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- Nov 07, 2020