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Despite an overture from Grierson, 8 and though he did make the occasional documentary, Asquith remained a mainstream film-maker working in the popular cinema of stars and genres that constituted the subject matter of his first feature – Shooting Stars.
At the beginning of his directorial career, Asquith's films clearly made a substantial impression on influential critics and filmmakers including John Grierson, Robert Flaherty and Paul Rotha. He was regarded as a director to watch, an emergent major talent in a film culture dominated by American films and somewhat in awe of continental ...
This chapter looks into the problems faced by Anthony Asquith during the 1930s. He joined Gainsborough Pictures, merged with the Gaumont-British, which, during the decade recruited an impressive array of stars, directors and technicians. However, things did not quite work out for the director, and Asquith effectively got lost in the array.
John Grierson was the founder of the British documentary-film movement and its leader for almost 40 years. He was one of the first to see the potential of motion pictures to shape people’s attitudes toward life and to urge the use of films for educational purposes.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
This chapter discusses documentary cinema and film journalism, taking a look at the films produced by John Grierson, such as Night Mail and Coal Face. It studies the idea of an intermodern sense of the complexity of ‘actuality’ and also presents the possible interdisciplinary future for intermodernism studies. Keywords: documentary cinema ...
THE LAST INTERVIEW. John Grierson, son of a Scottish minister, was an idea which was breath-taking in a day when no anything except entertainment: he proposed that it and that it should address itself to the actual social possibilities of modern industrial society.
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Flaherty’s manipulation of reality to achieve “authenticity” in “Nanook” was indeed “a creative treatment of actuality” as Grierson put it.
