Absolutely. I watched them over and over when I was young, especially the Renoir and Lang ones [from the Cinéastes de notre temps series]. The way that series was edited, the way they built a portrait around a filmmaker's thoughts and images, the fact that they really let them talk... it was revelatory. I realized how much you could learn from letting a filmmaker explain their process in detail. That's certainly something I carried into my own work, whether it was the Kazan doc or the Scorsese d
The way that series was edited, the way they built a portrait around a filmmaker's thoughts and images, the fact that they really let them talk... it was revelatory. I realized how much you could learn from letting a filmmaker explain their process in detail.
— Unknown (discussing influence of Cinéastes de notre temps series on their documentary work) · Film Comment interview with Dennis Lim