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Reels get real: three documentaries, soon to debut, map new geographies of race and class in post-9/11 America.(Culture)
Decades from now, film critics will look back and mark 2004 as the year realness broke through. From the flag-waving nostalgia of Miracle to the alternately sashaying and bruising feminism of Against the Ropes and Monster, Hollywood this year seems bent on converting social history into moviemaking magic. The 2004 Sundance Film Festival alone screened a record-setting 46 documentaries, reflecting, one hopes, a growing popular hunger for nonfiction, complexity and subtler but sturdier truths in an age of pontificating pols and the terrorists who haunt them. "There's been such a steady diet of news," director Andrew Jarecki nudged The Washington Post, "that feels so black ...
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