Critics framed Warhol’s Poor Little Rich Girl as the culmination of Direct Cinema

Evidence

Mekas devoted a column to it, reporting that “thirty or forty people” stayed through the movie after most of the audience, “expecting another Empire,” walked out. Invoking the new documentaries—by the Maysles brothers, D. A. Pennebaker, Jean Rouch, and others—that had been showcased the previous summer at the Gallery of Modern Art’s “Direct Cinema” series, Mekas called Warhol “the last word in the Direct Cinema.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 719

Categorization

• XREF: Links to Direct Cinema documentary movement’s relationship with avant-garde practice; connects to the reader’s broader thesis about how scenes become markets.