Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film

“Swimming to Cambodia,” the 1987 film directed by Jonathan Demme, had a rippling influence. It laid the path for a kind of first person storytelling that today is widespread from “This American Life” to “The Moth.” The film is deceptively simple: monologuist Spalding Gray sits behind a desk and tells a stream of consciousness story […] The post PN 47: Jonathan Demme & Renée Shafransky on Spalding Gray appeared first on Pure Nonfiction.