{"id":4055,"date":"2020-10-19T17:37:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2020-10-19T17:37:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:37:33","slug":"sixty-two-films-that-shaped-the-art-of-documentary-filmmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/10\/19\/sixty-two-films-that-shaped-the-art-of-documentary-filmmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixty-two Films That Shaped the Art of Documentary Filmmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The  idea of what a documentary is has shifted according to what has\u2014and  hasn\u2019t\u2014been possible during the past hundred years. But the artistic  preoccupations of their creators have not changed radically in that  time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" Richard Brody  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/#inbox\/FMfcgxwKhqqBvGbJrmWshzBwqvxSTklZ\" target=\"_blank\"> Richard Brody <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/media.newyorker.com\/photos\/5f7f58d466c1aaadba6ad632\/master\/w_2560%2Cc_limit\/Brody-BestDocumentaries.jpg\" alt=\"A collage of various documentaries being filmed including Agnas Varda Jafar Panahi and Frederick Wiseman.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Since the pandemic hit and social life became severely constrained, I\u2019ve  been obsessing even more than usual about documentaries. Their very  essence is to provide virtual connections to people in far-off times and  places\u2014and to experiences that would otherwise remain unshared, even  among people close by. Craving such virtual connections, I\u2019ve been  watching far more documentaries than I usually do\u2014especially given the  dearth of new releases\u2014and more of them than I can squeeze into the  regular round of reviews.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of what a documentary is has shifted according to what has\u2014and hasn\u2019t\u2014been possible during the past hundred years. But the artistic preoccupations of their creators have not changed radically in that time. By Richard Brody &#8220;Since the pandemic hit and social life became severely constrained, I\u2019ve been obsessing even more than usual about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}