看点好的吧！BETTER CINEMA WEDNESDAY · 14

​人生可以跑题，电影亦如是。

​周三（7/29）晚 7 点，我们将继续「真实电影 / 直接电影」主题，观看一部拍着拍着拍跑题的纪录片经典。

​本片拍摄于1986年，导演最初计划拍摄一部严肃的历史题材纪录片，旨在探讨美国内战时期谢尔曼将军对南方的征战所留下的长远影响。然而，在拍摄期间，导演本人遭遇了个人感情创伤，这促使他将镜头从历史议题转向对自己内心世界以及身边女性的观察与记录。

​最终，这部电影完全偏离了最初的设想，不再是一部传统的历史纪录片，而成为一部融合个人情感、自嘲、荒诞与幽默的第一人称纪录片。导演同时担任编剧、摄影、剪辑和主演，片中出镜的人物也都以真实身份出演。

​本片获得圣丹斯电影节纪录片评审团大奖，并于 2000 年被美国国会图书馆永久收藏，被公认为纪录片史上的经典之作。

​时长：157 分钟｜语言：英语｜字幕：中文 / 英语

​Life can go off course. So can cinema.

​This Wednesday (7/29) at 7:00 PM, we'll continue our Cinéma Vérité / Direct Cinema series with a documentary classic that famously goes completely off the rails during its own making.

​Made in 1986, the film began as a serious historical documentary exploring the lasting impact of General Sherman's Civil War campaign through the American South. However, during production, the director experienced a painful breakup, prompting him to shift the camera away from history and toward his own inner life and the women he encountered along the way.

​The finished film bears little resemblance to its original concept. Instead of a conventional historical documentary, it becomes a deeply personal first-person film infused with humor, self-deprecation, and absurdity. The director also served as writer, cinematographer, editor, and protagonist, while everyone appearing in the film plays themselves.

​The film won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival and was selected for preservation by the U.S. Library of Congress in 2000. It is widely regarded as one of the landmark works in documentary cinema.

​Runtime: 157 min | Language: English | Subtitles: Chinese & English