BLU-RAY REVIEW: Criterion; Documentary; $39.95 Blu-ray; Not rated. A fascinating standout of the cinéma vérité movement, Salesman is a fly on the wall documentary following four desperate salesmen as they travel across middle America, from frigid Boston to balmy Florida, peddling $50 bibles to the elderly, the working class and the bored suburban housewives of the late 1960s. "Salesman" is a very effective cinema verite documentary from the Maysles Brothers about bible salesmen operating in Massachusetts and Florida on the surface. [David Maysles; Albert Maysles; Charlotte Zwerin; Paul Brennan; Charles McDevitt; James Baker, (Salesman); Raymond Martos; Maysles Films. Salesman also has the distinction of breaking down barriers of directorial “authorship” in documentary film, particularly for women. Paul drives through Miami, talking about his fellow salesmen, while the scene cuts to each of the men he describes. [David Maysles; Albert Maysles; Charlotte Zwerin; Paul Brennan; Charles McDevitt; James Baker, (Salesman); Raymond Martos; Maysles Films. Documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles discusses his film 'Salesman' The filmmaker says humanizing the experience of people in a documentary is … From the Maysles brothers [The Rolling Stones’ Gimme Shelter (1970), Grey Gardens (1975)], comes this landmark American documentary – a fascinating, non-narrated account of four Boston bible hawkers as they struggle to stay afloat in the cutthroat world of door-to-door sales. This radically influential portrait of American dreams and disillusionment from Direct Cinema pioneers David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin captures, with indelible humanity, the worlds of four dogged door-to-door Bible salesmen as they travel from Boston to Florida on a seemingly futile quest to sell luxury editions of the Good Book to working-class Catholics. Abstract: A documentary feature film in cinéma vérité style which closely follows the activities of four door-to-door Bible salesmen on their routes. But the Maysles brothers’ fascination with the way subjects seem to want to lay themselves bare for their cameras provides us with a thoughtful path into that world. The 1969 groundbreaking documentary and “direct cinema” masterpiece, “Salesman,” by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, is screening on the Criterion Channel. Gimme Shelter and Salesman. The Maysles Brothers' Salesman. Shot in ’68 by the Maysles brothers and Charlotte Zwerin, it was intended to be the first “nonfiction feature film.” I can’t say exactly what they thought that meant, but surely it had something very much to do with telling a … While laboring to sell a gold-embossed version of the Good Book, Paul Brennan and his colleagues target the beleaguered masses — then face the demands of quotas and the frustrations of life on the road. The Maysles Brothers' Salesman.

This radically influential portrait of American dreams and disillusionment from Direct Cinema pioneers David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin captures, with indelible humanity, the worlds of four dogged door-to-door Bible salesmen as they travel from Boston to Florida on a seemingly futile quest to sell luxury editions of the Good Book to working-class Catholics. From the Maysles brothers [The Rolling Stones’ Gimme Shelter (1970), Grey Gardens (1975)], comes this landmark American documentary – a fascinating, non-narrated account of four Boston bible hawkers as they struggle to stay afloat in the cutthroat world of door-to-door sales. ** A landmark American documentary, Salesman captures in vivid detail the bygone era of the door-to-door salesman. The Maysles Brothers’ Salesman is a documentary in the style of direct cinema. The film contains no omniscient narrator, but contains a scene in which Paul’s monologue is used as narration.
Salesman was the documentary feature debut that put the Maysles Brothers (David and Albert) on the map along with Charlotte Zwerin, whose subtle editing choices here are, with good reason, the kind often termed as “invisible,” though we subliminally sense that they’re there.
Christo in Paris. Film Synopsis. While laboring to sell a gold-embossed version of the Good Book, Paul Brennan and his colleagues target the beleaguered masses — then face the demands of quotas and the frustrations of life on the road. Captures in vivid detail the bygone era of the door-to-door salesman. Before Grey Gardens, There Was Salesman “Globesman” takes its inspiration from Salesman , the 1969 Maysles Brothers documentary that follows a group of traveling Bible salesmen. Get this from a library!

** New digital restoration! Enjoy the new restoration at Metrograph 1/26. a Maysles Films, Inc. production ; a film by the Maysles Brothers and Charlotte Zwerin.