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It is easy to forget that documentaries, with their various backers and sometimes dry narrative conventions, are one of the last remaining bastions of the auteurist director. Napoleon is a four-hour joint French-American venture underwritten by Canal Plus in Paris, PBS, and the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities. But in all important respects, I learned...
Napoleon, Through a Narrow Lens
By ISSER WOLOCHIt is easy to forget that documentaries, with their various backers and sometimes dry narrative conventions, are one of the last remaining bastions of the auteurist director. Napoleon is a four-hour joint French-American venture underwritten by Canal Plus in Paris, PBS, and the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities. But in all important respects, I learned...
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