On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Sarah L. Higley wrote: > Does anyone know a film (I don't have the director's name) called _No > Lies_? From what I can gather, it's an artfilm shot like a documentary > and all about a woman who is being stalked. Like The Blair Witch Project, > you find out at the end that the whole thing has been fabricated, and > there is a reference to it in Steve Mohn's NYReview on the BWP. I might quibble with your (or is it Mohn's?) description of the film, but this is Mitchell Block's 1972 meditation on cinema verite's "reality as convention," although vastly overshadowed, I think, by Jim McBride's earlier *David Holzman's Diary* in this regard. The title is all lower case, *no lies.* It is available from Direct Cinema in VHS and 16-mm; go to the website at directcinema.com There are quite a few reviews listed in *Flim Literature Index* from 1974 onward. ___________________________________________________________________________ William Lafferty, PhD Associate Professor Department of Theatre Arts [log in to unmask] Wright State University office: (937) 775-4581 or 3072 Dayton, Ohio 45435-0001 USA facsimile: (937) 775-3787 I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason which he is anxious to conceal. --- Augustus Fagin, Esq., PhD, in Evelyn Waugh's *Decline and Fall* Visit *Lake Michigan Maritime Marginalia* at http://www.wright.edu/~william.lafferty ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]