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Damon Smith is a New York-based film journalist. He has written features, profiles, and reviews for The Boston Globe, Time Out New York, Filmmaker magazine, Senses of Cinema ...

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The Problem with Reality, Part One: Nick Broomfield and Battle for Haditha

By Damon Smith 

Smart people have long debated the relation between cinema and reality, but for documentary filmmakers, the question has always been a particularly vexing one.

From Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North to Michael Moore’s Sicko, the genre has always been controversial, at times drawing fire for ... read more

Posted on 04/30/2008 by DGSmith 05:03:PM

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French Kisses: Christophe Honoré Updates the New Wave Musical with "Love Songs"

by Damon Smith 

Critics who were irritated by the manic-depressive ethos of Christophe Honoré’s last film, Dans Paris, are not likely to be won over to his latest, a modern-day musical in the mold of Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Godard’s Une femme est une femme. For ... read more

Posted on 04/04/2008 by DGSmith 04:54:PM

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