^ 'The 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films'.
^ 'Silent film tops documentary poll'.they're not ends in themselves.' For Varda, digital cameras and editing equipment are simply tools that enable her to film by herself and to get closer to people 'and to collapse the time lapse between wanting to film something and actually being able to do it.' See also Yet, for Varda, “the first-person, artisan film-making encouraged by digital video nothing new.” While she acknowledges video’s convenience, she downplays any larger significance: 'What's missing in all this talk of digital technologies is the understanding that. With the new digital camera, I felt I could film myself, get involved as a filmmaker.” Varda’s choice to make a camcorder a primary tool of production as well as a central element of her film, can be seen as an implicit (if not explicit) recognition of a new digital era in documentary filmmaking. As she notes in her interview with Melissa Anderson “I had the feeling that this is the camera that would bring me back to the early short films I made in 19.
For Varda, the decision was in many ways a practical one. Even Varda, herself, remarked at the film’s success, 'I've never in my entire career felt that people have loved a film of mine as much as this one.” Cinematic significance Īnother factor that makes The Gleaners and I especially noteworthy in the context of cinematic history is the fact that a filmmaker of Varda’s stature chose to abandon high-end film equipment for low-end digital video. In Paris it attracted 43,000 movie-goers during “the first nine weeks of its summer release.” Haden Guest, the director of the Harvard Film Archive, hailed The Gleaners and I as “one of Varda's most powerful and popular films” (47). In addition to its festival honors, The Gleaners and I was “declared the best French film of 2000 by the French Union of Film Critics, which broke with tradition by not choosing a dramatic film.” It also brought audiences to theaters for over eight months. The Gleaners and I went on to earn awards around the world including top honors at the Chicago International Film Festival, Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, the European Film Awards, the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, the National Society of Film Critics Awards (USA), the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Online Film Critics Society Awards and the Prague One World Film Festival ('The Gleaners & I').
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