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Published by Film at Lincoln Center

Make It Real

Make It Real: Hanging Out with Les Blank and Ricky Leacock

By Eric Hynes
August 12, 2015
Les Blank makes it look easy in his film about nonfiction pioneer Ricky Leacock, How to Smell a Rose, but theirs is a rare art

Make It Real: The Filmmaker as Adventurer

By Eric Hynes
August 5, 2015
Thrill ride: the vicarious kicks and pimped courage of the filmmaker as adventurer in Meru, Cartel Land, and We Come as Friends

Make It Real: Listen to Me Marlon

By Eric Hynes
July 30, 2015
Eric Hynes inaugurates his new column on nonfiction film with a look at the mother of all monologues