http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2006/02/02/emphatically-empathetic/ Real Talk About Making Real Sex Erotic Documentaries Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:26:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2006/02/02/emphatically-empathetic/#comment-2217 TC’s Blog on Comstock Films » Blog Archive » Winterbottom’s “9 Songs” Sun, 07 May 2006 16:31:01 +0000 http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/?p=166#comment-2217 [...] By contrast, 9 Songs and our own work invite the viewer to appraise the films not only but what ends up on the screen (still the most important aspect), and also as musings on filmmaking and for our (ernest) intentions. The hope is that by capturing the audience’ssympathy, the rough patches in the production might get the benefit of the doubt. It’s not an uncommon gambit for the low-budget filmmaker, and sometimes works. [...] [...] By contrast, 9 Songs and our own work invite the viewer to appraise the films not only but what ends up on the screen (still the most important aspect), and also as musings on filmmaking and for our (ernest) intentions. The hope is that by capturing the audience’ssympathy, the rough patches in the production might get the benefit of the doubt. It’s not an uncommon gambit for the low-budget filmmaker, and sometimes works. [...]

]]>