Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline’s weekly spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. This week, we hear from John Sloss, the veteran sales agent-turned-rookie distributor of Banksy’s directing debut Exit Through the Gift Shop. It opens Friday in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Leave it to mischievous street-art godhead Banksy to completely overturn cinema with his first foray into feature filmmaking, Exit Through the Gift Shop . More specifically, leave it to Banksy to permute the documentary genre with expert zeal, turning a film ostensibly about him into a film about its original director. It sounds both more and less complicated than it really is when you think about it — a testament to the shadowy artist’s dexterity with narrative and character. But what about his dexterity with facts?
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Moment of Truth: Banksy is Selling, But Are You Buying?
