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Digital Babylon
Hollywood, Indiewood and Dogme 95
By Roman, Shari
- ISBN
- 978-1-58065-036-6
- Publisher
- Lone Eagle Publishing Company
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Reviewed on November 1, 2001
"Filmmaking must always be linked to a certain degree of risk." This is the philosophy of Dogme 95, a collective of film directors born in 1995 in Copenhagen, when Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark) and other directors penned a semiserious manifesto demanding a cinematic "vow of chastity" aimed at countering the world's glut of slick, manipulative, overproduced films. Avoiding the "trickery" of special effects, soundtrack music compositions, shifts in narrative, and high-concept, explosive-genre films, Dogme 95 seeks truth and a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
