McSweeney's and Broadway Video present the official nearly-600-page comprehensive companion book to IFC's Documentary Now!, including new writing by Seth Meyers, a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-finalist Matt Zoller Seitz, the complete sheet music for Co-Op: The Musical, and much more.
Hitchcock/Truffaut, Cahiers du Cinéma, Documentary Now! The best film texts touch our lives and leave an indelible imprint on our shared cultural experience, deepening and enriching our relationships with this most universal of modern artistic mediums.
In this new fully revised and expanded edition of Documentary Now!'s seminal 1975 text, the curators behind the beloved long-running Documentary Now! program invite us to celebrate the craft, legacy, and minutiae of some of the most brilliant works of nonfiction ever put to celluloid. This remarkable book presents unique access to stills, posters, scores, archival materials from some of the most celebrated documentaries in film history; alongside essays from some of the greatest cultural luminaries of the last fifty years, including a new foreword by critic Matt Zoller Seitz, and the classic introduction by original host Burt Lancaster.
From the medium's beginnings in Kunuk the Hunter to its all time masterpieces Sandy Passage and Original Cast Album: Co-op, this book seeks to shine a spotlight onto documentary's past, revel in its present, and look for signposts guiding toward its future.
Review :
"I don't think I would be the filmmaker I am without this book. I found my first copy in a used bookstore in college, and it opened the window to what was possible in nonfiction film. It's the documentary Bible. "
--Morgan Neville, academy award-winning director of 20 feet from Stardom
"When I started directing documentaries, one of my dreams was that I would one day have a film featured on Documentary Now! While I wait, I'll think about how great the series is, and how great everything associated with it is, including this new edition of its excellent literary companion."
--Questlove
