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The American Cinematheque’s This Is Not a Fiction festival, which kicks disconnected this week successful Los Angeles, has emerged arsenic thing genuinely typical successful nan documentary accumulation space. The 3rd version of nan event, moving April 16-24, will invited immoderate of nan biggest names successful nonfiction filmmaking, among them Barbara Kopple, Gianfranco Rosi, Ross McElwee, Caveh Zahedi, Liz Garbus and more.
The show is offering a complete retrospective of Rosi’s work, which includes nan Oscar-nominated Fire astatine Sea (2016), and his latest film, Pompei: Below nan Clouds. Kopple, a two-time Oscar winner, will look for a screening of Harlan County, USA, marking that film’s 50th anniversary, arsenic good arsenic a 4K restoration of her documentary American Dream.
On nan caller version of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, we’re joined by American Cinematheque movie programmer Cindy Flores to talk nan show lineup. She tells america astir honoring the precocious Frederick Wiseman pinch a screening of his very first documentary, 1967’s Titicut Follies, and nan tribute to Zahedi, an Iranian American filmmaker known for pioneering useful successful which he interrogates himself.
This Is Not a Fiction balances a lineup of premieres and caller films pinch retrospectives and restorations of classical documentaries. It’s besides distinguished by a bold attack to programming – successful summation to docs, This Is Not a Fiction attracts audiences pinch a robust slate of mockumentaries. This twelvemonth it will showcase Popstar: Never Stop Stopping on its 10th anniversary (with co-star and co-director Akiva Schaffer group to appear), and nan 20th anniversary of Jackass Number Two (with filmmakers Jeff Tremaine and Johnny Knoxville booked to appear). In what promises to beryllium a singular night, This Is Not a Fiction will screen Best successful Show, nan hilarious mockumentary directed by Christopher Guest that stars nan precocious Catherine O’Hara. Guest and O’Hara’s co-star and friend Eugene Levy will return portion successful a speech aft nan screening.
We talk pinch Flores astir nan festival’s innovative attack to programming that has seen nan likes of Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, Jeff Probst and Conan O’Brien subordinate luminaries of nonfiction filmmaking.
Doc Talk cohosts John Ridley and Matt Carey statesman pinch a chat of President Donald Trump’s caller comments threatening to destruct Iranian civilization, arsenic good arsenic nan caller sojourn of Vice President JD Vance to Hungary, an ill-fated effort to boost nan reelection prospects of strongman Viktor Orbán (trust me, we necktie it successful pinch documentaries).
That’s connected nan caller section of Doc Talk, hosted by Oscar victor Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Shirley) and Carey, Deadline’s elder documentary editor. The pod is simply a accumulation of Deadline and Ridley’s Nō Studios.
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