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Against the grain

By June 19, 2009January 12th, 2026One Comment

Sonny Bunch of The Washington Times, who inter­viewed me a while back on the sub­ject of film grain and its place in video rep­res­ent­a­tions of cinema, has been blog­ging from the SIlverdocs doc­u­ment­ary film fest­iv­al. Where he met up with one of the giants of American doc­u­ment­ar­ies, and put the grain ques­tion to him. The answer Bunch got might sur­prise you, and it just goes to show you can nev­er really tell with these things. Find out here. 

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One Comment

  • Tony Dayoub says:
    June 19, 2009 at 8:01 am

    I’m not sur­prised by Maysles’ response. It’s what I would expect from a doc­u­ment­ari­an, accus­tomed to work­ing in the low-budget arena, seek­ing to enhance the “qual­ity” and approx­im­a­tion to real­ity any way he can.
    Narrative film­makers who usu­ally work in main­stream, big-budget pro­duc­tions, on the oth­er hand, would def­in­itely be more con­scious about pur­su­ing the delib­er­ate aes­thet­ic asso­ci­ated with grain.