30/05/2025
“It’s usually like an exaggeration (and a cliché) to say that after watching a documentary, you’ll never look at something the same way. But that old saw is probably true when it comes to’“The Cinema Within,’ a documentary from Chad Freidrichs.”
Drawing on the insights of editor Walter Murch, scholar David Bordwell, and a varied group of perceptual scientists, THE CINEMA WITHIN explores the idea that in film’s earliest years, the most common edits were instinctively shaped to fit the contours of human perception – and that this might explain why, more than a century later, most modern-day filmmakers still rely on these exact same techniques.
Thank you to the incredible and to the and film critic Ben Kenigsberg for the wonderful, thoughtful review.
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