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Last night I decided to watch The House I Live In which seemed to get great reviews from most. I have to say, I just wasn't that into it. I understand that the war on drugs is lovely and some of the stories were upsetting but I expected more than the message of "whitey is trying to suppress minorities". Does anyone else fell similar?
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I don't get what you're objecting to, there. The prosecution of the war on drugs is disproportionately targeted toward urban minorities, which in turn feeds the for-profit prison industry, which experienced record growth over the past 20 years.
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Jan 27, 2013 00:21
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WebDog posted:They have their global app which is a monthly fee for limited content. It's interesting as it's generally helping gauge what is popular enough to be sold overseas. This was pretty enjoyable. I understand that westerns used to be commonplace and now it's a bit of a niché genre but I wish people would stop being dramatic and call that the death of the western. Especially when something like Deadwood was around during the making of that and never mentioned.
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Jan 27, 2013 01:21
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I'm sure it's been mentioned, but Cleanflix is a pretty fascinating documentary on Netflix. It covers the (grossly lucrative) business of censoring Hollywood movies and selling them to Mormon audiences. Over the course of things a main subject emerges, and his personality and story are pretty unsavory. For me, though, the best bits were near the beginning, contrasting Brigham Young students talking about their disgust with obsenity in films and Hollywood personalitis (including Soderbergh!) discussing the merits of such content. It's pretty goddamn fascinating, especially hearing Philip Sherman Gordon get into the psychology of limiting oneself to sanitized content. Check it out.
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Jan 27, 2013 02:03
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zenintrude posted:Finally got around to watching Undefeated and goddamn, why did it take me so long to watch this thing?! If you liked Undefeated or generally enjoy High School football movies, then check out The Hopeful which is about high school QB Cody Keith. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7gz3CW-75o
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Jan 27, 2013 02:48
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I don't get what you're objecting to, there. The prosecution of the war on drugs is disproportionately targeted toward urban minorities, which in turn feeds the for-profit prison industry, which experienced record growth over the past 20 years. There is maybe a bit more to it: standard moral panic and disinformation on the part of the media, the desire of existing government agencies for self-preservation, and the arms race on both sides, etc. Caveat: I haven't actually watched it yet, so it may actually include these things, but if it doesn't they're things I'd want covered.
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:I'm sure it's been mentioned, but Cleanflix is a pretty fascinating documentary on Netflix. It covers the (grossly lucrative) business of censoring Hollywood movies and selling them to Mormon audiences. Over the course of things a main subject emerges, and his personality and story are pretty unsavory. For me, though, the best bits were near the beginning, contrasting Brigham Young students talking about their disgust with obsenity in films and Hollywood personalitis (including Soderbergh!) discussing the merits of such content. It's pretty goddamn fascinating, especially hearing Philip Sherman Gordon get into the psychology of limiting oneself to sanitized content. Check it out. I was actually at a Q&A screening for this a while ago. I second the recommendation.
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Jan 28, 2013 06:53
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I've just watched one called Kumare about Vikram Gandhi who decides to create an alter ego as a Indian guru in order to perform a social experiment about spiritualism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXUzG6YKuvo It's delightfully insane.
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Jan 28, 2013 09:41
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Im curious, does anybody know the status on the availability on the next in the UP series and what are the best versions available for purchase or service stream eg. Hulu or netflix?
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Jan 31, 2013 02:16
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Here is quite an interesting and almost two hour long documentary about Pirates.
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Jan 31, 2013 20:56
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DannyTanner posted:The Beckoning Silence This was very good. It takes a while to get interesting, but I was getting pretty emotional at the end. Rojkir fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Feb 2, 2013 |
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Feb 2, 2013 20:28
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Diodeous posted:If you liked Undefeated or generally enjoy High School football movies, then check out The Hopeful which is about high school QB Cody Keith. This is a hacky documentary about an uninteresting rich kid whom you ultimately end up despising. I also suspect there is a heavy religious bias behind the making of this movie. The only good comparison with The Undefeated is between the have and have-nots in high school football, and between good and poo poo documentaries.
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Peyote posted:The only good comparison with The Undefeated is between the have and have-nots in high school football, and between good and poo poo documentaries. ...or that it's a documentary about high school football where it seems like the film-makers have an incredibly high level of access. Let people judge for themselves
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It's been a long while since I've seen it, but Year of the Bull is a football doc that I remember as being good. About a high school phenom from the ghetto who gets huge interest from colleges. Follows him during his senior year. his career stalled when he was expelled from UF for assault, went to a poo poo college, and wasn't drafted
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Feb 4, 2013 04:30
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SeanBeansShako posted:Here is quite an interesting and almost two hour long documentary about Pirates. There's some point deep in the middle of this where the narrator apparently reads aloud a line like "Tinge of guilt here." while talking about the slave trade.
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Feb 4, 2013 20:53
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The BBC just showed a 10 year later follow up to The Staircase. Death on the Staircase: The Last Chance http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01qhl0g/Storyville_20122013_Death_on_the_Staircase_The_Last_Chance/ I didn't actually see the original, but found this really good and perfectly accessible to those who haven't heard of the case.
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Would like to see that, but its only available in the UK. Is this the one made by the same guy who made The Staircase?
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From a quick look at IMDB its the same guy, it looks like it will be shown in March on the Sundance Channel, dunno if thats easily getable in the states. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/11/28/new-episodes-of-the-staircase-premiere-january-7-on-sundance-channel/159338/
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Animal-Mother posted:There's some point deep in the middle of this where the narrator apparently reads aloud a line like "Tinge of guilt here." while talking about the slave trade. If you wanted them to go into detail about history, causes and ethics of 17th and 18th Slavery a different more serious documentary would have been better. This one seems pretty tounge in cheek in most parts but does a good job pointing out Pirates were honestly bastards in most respects.
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Pretty cool to realize that many of the films discussed in this thread are distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories, the film company owned by Adam Yauch. He also directed Gunnin' for that #1 Spot, which is quite good. Hopefully they don't suffer now that he's gone.
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A treat for you, thread: Adam Curtis's fantastic documentary "The Way of All Flesh" is on YT. I saw this on BBC2 back when it was new and I couldn't stop thinking about it for days. It's the story of Henrietta Lacks, her line of cancerous, yet immortal cells and a wider look at how modern science has attempted to fight cancer, as well as a hard look at some highly questionable medical ethics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0lMrp_ySg8 Re-watching it now, it's possibly dated a little. I think he's often quite patronising to Henrietta Lack's relatives, for example but it's still an astonishing story.
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Promethea posted:A treat for you, thread: Adam Curtis's fantastic documentary "The Way of All Flesh" is on YT. I saw this on BBC2 back when it was new and I couldn't stop thinking about it for days. It's the story of Henrietta Lacks, her line of cancerous, yet immortal cells and a wider look at how modern science has attempted to fight cancer, as well as a hard look at some highly questionable medical ethics. It's been up on his blog in higher quality for a while now.
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A documentary about the founders of the Pirate Bay and the court case in Sweden. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTOKXCEwo_8
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MRC48B posted:Has anyone seen "Central Park Five" yet?
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This is a wonderful documentary directed and narrated by the magnanimous Werner Herzog: It's not available for free, but trust me, it is worth it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWycuaWJFCM
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Grizzly Man is on Netflix Instant and you should watch if you haven't seen it.
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How is Herzog magnanimous?
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penismightier posted:How is Herzog magnanimous? Hey  This isn't about my loose interpretation of adjectives, it's about how awesome Grizzly Man is.
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escape artist posted:This is a wonderful documentary directed and narrated by the magnanimous Werner Herzog: His new documentary Happy People is really great as well.
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cloudchamber posted:His new documentary Happy People is really great as well. He's got a whole backlog of documentaries that I need to see. Grizzly Man was my first, but certainly won't be my last. Also, if you guys are fans of the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre, this is a documentary worth tracking down: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286214/
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Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die (2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slZnfC-V1SY Pretty much  The ending is pretty rough.
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Feb 10, 2013 11:50
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Louis Theroux has dozens of great documentaries, many available on Youtube.
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escape artist posted:Louis Theroux has dozens of great documentaries, many available on Youtube. Cant reccomend these enough. The Jimmy Saville documentary, made before the revelations of what we now know he was up to, is pretty chilling in retrospect.
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Spuckuk posted:Cant reccomend these enough. The Jimmy Saville documentary, made before the revelations of what we now know he was up to, is pretty chilling in retrospect. What's weird is that the Savile doc makes it seem like it was an open secret at the time, and that was twelve years ago. Or at least there's some knowing baiting going on there which Savile doesn't exactly deny.
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Irvine Welsh wrote a short story about a guy who was clearly meant to be a Saville analogue, and he made that character a child molester, as well. It was kind of an openly discussed rumour from what I've erad about it.
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Is there a good documentary on Iran out there? Like a history one. I know bits and pieces here and there, but I'd like to see if there is anything better out there.
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The documentary on the incredible band Silkworm came out today: http://buy.couldntyouwait.com/ It's $5 which I don't have currently, but it's loving Silkworm.
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After watching the Chernobyl doc posted earlier I've go a hankering for some cold war documentaries, any suggestions?
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Poison Jam posted:After watching the Chernobyl doc posted earlier I've go a hankering for some cold war documentaries, any suggestions? Atomic Cafe is one of my favorites as well as Trinity and Beyond.
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