Essay Film
Marker's Sans Soleil, Varda's Gleaners, Ophüls and Lanzmann — when the documentary stopped pretending it had no author.
Shoah tells the untellable, makes us believe the unbelievable.
New Yorker Films release poster, Shoah, 1985
Documentary film — the makers, the works and the movements, from 1922 to now.
Marker's Sans Soleil, Varda's Gleaners, Ophüls and Lanzmann — when the documentary stopped pretending it had no author.
Shoah tells the untellable, makes us believe the unbelievable.
New Yorker Films release poster, Shoah, 1985