In full degradation of documentaries, which seek a truth on demand, the golden cinema does an exercise in honesty and lowers its myths from the pedestal
John Huston and Marilyn Monroe on the set of ‘Rebel Lives’
In an exercise in counterculture, swimming against the current, classic cinema is exorcising its legends, lowering them from the pedestal and, incidentally, recovering the lost vocation of the documentary, perverted by its democratization and contaminated with the frivolous spectacle of reality television. A …
