'Fast Break' and 'Good Hair' embody the past and present of the documentary film
Say what you will about Michael Moore, but this you cannot deny: He has changed permanently our concept of a documentary film.Before Moore, feature documentaries generally presented themselves as fly-on-the-wall, you-are-there productions made by impartial chroniclers unobtrusively observing, say, a mental hospital (Frederick Wiseman’s “Titicut Follies”), a rock star (D. ...





