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The motion picture world has witnessed many passings of late, as has the documentary world, which lost three individuals who quietly made a difference in making this world better. Gordon R. Hitchens, a noted international film journalist and founding editor of Film Comment magazine, passed away on Saturday, August 7, at the Carillon Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Huntington Long Island. He was 85 years old. Gordon Hitchens began his studies at Columbia University, where he received his bachelor's degree in English Literature and two graduate degrees, one in cinematography and the
'The Kids Grow Up' airs on Father's Day, June 19, on HBO.
Independent Feature Project's (IFP) 32 nd Independent Film Week took place September 19 to 23 in New York City. The annual event (formerly known as the IFP Market) focuses on celebrating, advocating and introducing new voices on the independent scene. While the landscape of independent film has radically changed over the three decades of its existence, IFP continues to evolve and respond to the shifting tides. Left to right: IFP Senior Programmer Milton Tabbot, IFP Executive Director Joana Vicente, and HBO’s Nancy Abraham at the HBO Documentary Films Reception. Photo: Ingrid Kopp. Courtesy of
'Inside Job,' an Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature, screens at DocuDay LA and DocuDays NY.
Alex Gibney's 'Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer' opens November 5 through Magnolia Pictures.
Plus: A conversation between Errol Morris and Werner Herzog.
What is the place of the documentary journalism within the relentless crush of the 24-hour news cycle? Are there differences in methodology between the filmmaker and the journalist? Does the medium matter (print versus broadcast versus the Internet versus film)? Are there clear lines of demarcation, or does one simply leave off where the other begins? The answers may lie in how the work of journalists and filmmakers, and/or journalists/filmmakers, is perceived beyond their respective communities, as well as how consumers want to receive news. With the best journalism programs in the country
F Is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing Editors: Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner University of Minnesota Press, 2006 244 pages This is Volume 17 in the Visible Evidence Series edited by Michael Renov, Faye Ginsburg and Jane Gaines. Imagine yourself living in Germany in the late 1930s. If you're hiding Jews in your house, how would you respond if the Gestapo knocked on your door and asked, "Do you have any Jews in your basement?" "Yes" will doom those you're hiding and perhaps yourself, and "No" will start you on a slippery slope of telling the truth only when it is in your best