I cannot wait to see Cinema Verite, the latest from Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, a fiction film about the making of the seminal 1971 PBS documentary, An American Family, from directing team Alan and Susan Raymond.
Check out the trailer for Cinema Verite:
It’s another film to examine the line between fiction and reality, like their fantastic American Splendor which broke so many molds when it came out in 2003.
But we shouldn’t forget some of their documentary gems, like The Young and the Dead, their profile of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery and its new owner who shakes up the business of death. This was one of the films at HBO when I first joined the documentary department. If you want to check out a short trailer made by the promo department for that summer when we had a weekly America Undercover slot, click here.
