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Author:  dolcevita [ Fri Dec 24, 2004 1:03 am ]
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I remember a line in Adaptation when Nick Cage (the brother) comes back from the screenwriters seminar and starts rambling on about how the first mockumentary ever was Intervista. Is that true? anyone know or can tell me how to go about finding out? It not that early, 1987, so that doesn't seem right at all. :?:

Author:  kypade [ Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:45 pm ]
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um...This Is Spinal Tap (1984) is a mockumentary, is it not? :?

edit:
imdb doesnt have a "plot keyword" for mockumentary, but it lists 174 "fake-documentaries," including Spinal Tap (84), Zelig (1983), and a bunch others l dont recognize...so, l'd say no...

Author:  rusty [ Fri Dec 24, 2004 1:25 pm ]
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All I know is that FubaR is one hell of a funny mockumentary. You people should really check it out. Amazing canadian trailer trash humor.

Author:  andaroo1 [ Fri Dec 24, 2004 11:49 pm ]
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It may not really be the first but This is Spinal Tap is probably the first that was emulated.

Author:  Ripper [ Sat Dec 25, 2004 12:54 am ]
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dolcevita wrote:
I remember a line in Adaptation when Nick Cage (the brother) comes back from the screenwriters seminar and starts rambling on about how the first mockumentary ever was Intervista. Is that true? anyone know or can tell me how to go about finding out? It not that early, 1987, so that doesn't seem right at all. :?:


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=video

Author:  MovieDude [ Sun Dec 26, 2004 7:57 am ]
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Hmm, well if it's by Fellini and was mentioned in Adaptation, then I guess I'm going to have to seek it out.

Author:  dolcevita [ Wed Dec 29, 2004 1:41 am ]
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I knew it sounded fishy. I'm going to have to drop Kaufman a note. :P

Intervista could not have been the first, but then again, whenever else will we ever be blessed with the sight of Federico, Marcello, and Anita, staring and waltzing in front of a projection of themselves in the Trevi from 30 years earlier?

Heh. So Reiner gets first with Spinal Tap? Anyone can think of an even earlier one? When was Man Bites Dog? That was sort of mockumentarish wasn't it?

Author:  Ripper [ Wed Jan 05, 2005 3:51 pm ]
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dolcevita wrote:
I knew it sounded fishy. I'm going to have to drop Kaufman a note. :P

Intervista could not have been the first, but then again, whenever else will we ever be blessed with the sight of Federico, Marcello, and Anita, staring and waltzing in front of a projection of themselves in the Trevi from 30 years earlier?

Heh. So Reiner gets first with Spinal Tap? Anyone can think of an even earlier one? When was Man Bites Dog? That was sort of mockumentarish wasn't it?


Man Bites Dog was 92

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103905/

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