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MonthJanuary 2020

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By : ccagle January 19, 2020November 25, 2019

Nontheatrical Film

The essay film’s distinct relation to the archive.

By : ccagle January 17, 2020January 18, 2020

20 Festival Documentaries of the Decade (VOD edition)

My book has the (semi)arbitrary cutoff of 2010-2019, so it seems fitting to do a couple of decade-in-review lists of some of my favorite festival documentaries. It’s not a best-of exactly, but a round of up films that moved me and impressed me on first viewing and stuck with me. One challenge of my topic

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By : ccagle January 12, 2020November 19, 2019

Character and Author

Inserting the filmmaker into the character-driven film.

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By : ccagle January 5, 2020November 19, 2019

Personal-Investigative Films

A durable formula.

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