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Mockumentary

A relatively new type of film made in a documentary style (i.e. interviews, handheld camera, use of non-actors) in which the events are totally fictional. Almost always comedies, these films often get the biggest laughs by playing it straight. The best examples of the subgenre like This is Spinal Tap and Zelig never wink at the audience or let them in on the fictitious joke. Also a style of filmmaking, mockumentaries can be used within satire to skewer institutions or personalities. Tanner ‘88 and Bob Roberts are political satires that behaved as mockumentaries, while Waiting for Guffman and Albert Brooks's Real Life used the form to mock small-town life and suburbia, respectively. Internationally, examples can be seen in Fellini's Intervista, a showbiz spoof, and in the black comedy Man Bites Dog.

Major Works
Rating
Year
 Title
 
 Director
  9 Stars 1984 This Is Spinal Tap   Rob Reiner
    7 Stars 1967 A Man Vanishes   Shohei Imamura
  7 Stars 1996 Waiting for Guffman   Christopher Guest
  7 Stars 1996 Forgotten Silver   Peter Jackson
    7 Stars 1980 The Falls   Peter Greenaway
  7 Stars 1983 Zelig   Woody Allen
  7 Stars 1979 Real Life   Albert Brooks
  7 Stars 1978 The Rutles   Eric Idle
    5 Stars 1999 Jackie's Back   Robert Townsend
    5 Stars 1997 The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson   Francis Megahy
    5 Stars 1984 The Last Polka   John Blanchard
  5 Stars 1969 Take the Money and Run   Woody Allen
    4 Stars 1999 Bigger Than Tina   Neil Foley
    4 Stars 1999 Le Dernier Plan: Sur les pas de Constantin Dolinescu   Benoit Peeters
  4 Stars 1999 The Big Tease   Kevin Allen
    4 Stars 1999 Who's The Caboose?   Sam Seder
  4 Stars 1999 The Love Machine   Gordon Erickson
    4 Stars 1999 Les 4 Saisons d'Espigoule   Christian Philibert
    4 Stars 1997 Il Figlio Di Bakunin   Gianfranco Cabiddu
    4 Stars 1998 20 Dates   Myles Berkowitz
  4 Stars 1994 ... And God Spoke   Arthur Borman
 
 
 
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