Film producer R.J. Cutler talks about why a cinema verite documentary about a presidential campaign would be so difficult to pull off today. “I don’t really think they can be done,” he says, noting that “now campaigns have their own films, their own documentarians… They are stage managed to an inch of their lives.”
Friday, July 31, 2015
Political campaign documentaries and defeatism.
Film producer R.J. Cutler talks about why a cinema verite documentary about a presidential campaign would be so difficult to pull off today. “I don’t really think they can be done,” he says, noting that “now campaigns have their own films, their own documentarians… They are stage managed to an inch of their lives.”
