Robert Greene is a documentary filmmaker, film editor and writer. His films include Bisbee ’17, Kate Plays Christine, Actress, Fake It So Real and Kati with an I. He writes the online Unfiction column for Sight & Sound and has written on nonfiction film for Filmmaker Magazine, the site Hammer to Nail and the Indiewire blog Press Play.
Follow him on twitter @prewarcinema.
Articles by Robert Greene
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American Movie at 20: why this portrait of a working-class Wisconsin auteur endures
Chris Smith’s 1999 film followed low-budget filmmaker Mark Borchardt for a year of travails that somehow emerged as comedic. But did the laughs came from sympathy, exploitation or a complex collaboration between director and subject, asks Robert Greene.
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
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The greatest documentary performances, from Nanook to Ocasio-Cortez
AOC’s star turn in Knock Down the House puts Robert Greene in mind of the all-time great nonfiction cinema protagonists.
Thursday, June 6, 2019
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The Cruise at 20: looking back at the movie that broke the DV revolution
Twenty years ago, a tiny documentary by a future Hollywood A-Lister made waves at the Toronto International Film Festival – and changed movies forever. By Robert Greene.
Thursday, September 13, 2018
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A cinema-in-the-moment: Sam Green on A Thousand Thoughts and the ‘live documentary’
Sam Green grew tired of making “fixed and permanent” documentaries, so now he performs them – his latest, A Thousand Thoughts, alongside its subjects the legendary Kronos Quartet. He talks to Robert Greene about the history, economics and politics of standup cinema.
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
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The best documentaries of 2016: cinematic nonfiction in the year of nonfact
As the world entered the post-truth era, documentary film artists embraced ever more levels of formal awareness and complexity. Obfuscation, or the only way through the media maze, asks Robert Greene? Plus: the 25 best documentaries of the year.
Friday, January 13, 2017
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Two of this year’s most original movies emphasise the made, mediated nature of nonfiction cinema – and thereby lead us to deeper truths, argues Robert Greene.
Monday, September 12, 2016
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Portrait(s) of the exiled artist: the how and why of Peter Watkins’ Edvard Munch
The filmmaker’s friend and scholar Joseph Gomez divulges the background to the making of Watkins’ masterpiece – a film “about Munch and about Peter Watkins and, ultimately, about all of us.”
Monday, September 5, 2016
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In the land of Reagan, right-thinking types are shocked – shocked – at the rise of a prime-time blowhard and professional bully. Yet isn’t it our media naivety that’s on show here, asks Robert Greene?
Thursday, May 26, 2016
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The best of 2015 in cinematic nonfiction
Robert Greene tenders his canon of the year’s top documentaries – 25 films that spoke deeper amidst the modern media clamour.
Monday, January 18, 2016
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Chantal Akerman, guiding light
Robert Greene reflects on the formative influence of the late, fearless visionary and perennial hero.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
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