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Just watched Finders Keepers, a documentary about that leg that was found in a storage room a few years ago. The closest thing I can compare it to is The King of Kong. Except with a severed leg and more southern accents. It's simultaneously hilarious and sad, and really engrossing.
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John Pilger made some pretty documentaries about the Vietnam war and its aftermath. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-eVbJbgUpE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_-A7w5TUOY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO_U5BmU0OA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Gj43SXxBk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olBCln4NKds
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Armyman25 posted:John Pilger made some pretty documentaries about the Vietnam war and its aftermath. Pilger also made some of the only documentary footage of Khmer Rouge-ruled Cambodia.
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Mar 18, 2016 16:20
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He did one on the Global War on Terror which was pretty decent. He's definitely biased, but it was fun watching him put some very uncomfortable questions to Bush's administration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD_k0ipRf3E
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Mar 18, 2016 16:41
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The guy is a committed socialist but that's hardly a knock as he is demonstrably critical of leftist tyranny, as well.
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Mar 18, 2016 16:58
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Likes Putin and Trump, though.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The guy is a committed socialist but that's hardly a knock as he is demonstrably critical of leftist tyranny, as well. I give him a lot of kudos for calling a spade a spade and pointing out that western governments were letting Cambodians starve to death because those governments didn't want to cooperate with the Vietnamese. It's hard not to become cynical after watching things like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rpZz5I_ylo
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Mar 19, 2016 04:39
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If you're in the mood for some lighter fare, I just watched The Barkley Marathons on Netflix. I won't ruin it but essentially there's a sort of secretive endurance/trail race (130 miles + 120,000 feet total elevation change) in Tennessee for the past 25 years. People apply from around the world and a grand total of 40 are let in each year. It's a fun documentary. Check it out. http://barkleymovie.com/ edit: Oh and in 25 years a total of TEN people have finished it. BonoMan fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Mar 19, 2016 |
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Mar 19, 2016 05:06
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cloudchamber posted:Likes Putin and Trump, though. Sometimes an old dude needs a smack upside the head. Even Chomsky made apologies for Pol Pot. Armyman25 posted:I give him a lot of kudos for calling a spade a spade and pointing out that western governments were letting Cambodians starve to death because those governments didn't want to cooperate with the Vietnamese. It's hard not to become cynical after watching things like this. Yeah, especially at a time when it was just a political black hole. Almost nobody was talking openly and publicly about this stuff.
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sithwitch13 posted:Just watched Finders Keepers, a documentary about that leg that was found in a storage room a few years ago. The closest thing I can compare it to is The King of Kong. Except with a severed leg and more southern accents. It's simultaneously hilarious and sad, and really engrossing.
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How graphic is it? How gross is it?
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Mar 19, 2016 20:36
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The foot one? Not at all, you see the foot at some point near the end but it's extremely old and dried-out, so not especially graphic.
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Mar 20, 2016 23:51
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It was loving wierd and that fat guy needs help but in the end 
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Finally saw "the look of silence," about the Indonesian genocide, the follow-up to the stunning "act of killing." I think I might like it even more than than the act of killing because the doc style is so refined and focused. It's more a perfect execution with no flab, versus the daring concept for the act of killing. but they're both really drat good. What's also so great is that you could imagine either one of them existing in a vacuum and still being noteworthy, but the fact that Joshua Oppenheimer made both of them is incredible, and they compliment each other really well. Lots of long takes where it's up to you to read the human face and try to judge a person's soul. It's deeply empathetic, I think. I also noticed about halfway through that there's no music at all. And the muted sound design is fantastic. Superb use of quiet and...silence.
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BonoMan posted:If you're in the mood for some lighter fare, I just watched The Barkley Marathons on Netflix. I just saw this and have to confirm it's an awesome time.
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Decent article with some documentary makers about their favourites/ influences. http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/27/50-best-documentaries-alex-gibney-joshua-oppenheimer-james-marsh
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EVIL Gibson posted:I just saw this and have to confirm it's an awesome time. Yeah, great flick. Inspiring and WTF at the same time. E: Apparently, the race is happening right now: https://twitter.com/hashtag/BM100?src=hash Waltzing Along fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Apr 3, 2016 |
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The first episode of CNN's new documentary series The Eighties premiered Thursday last week and is really really good. Definitely worth tracking down through whatever means you have for finding TV shows online. It's produced by Tom Hanks, just like their past docs on the 60's and 70's. The intro for it is a major nostalgia blast, here's all of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Rswf_C3WU
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mod sassinator posted:The first episode of CNN's new documentary series The Eighties premiered Thursday last week and is really really good. Definitely worth tracking down through whatever means you have for finding TV shows online. It's produced by Tom Hanks, just like their past docs on the 60's and 70's. The intro for it is a major nostalgia blast, here's all of them: I think The Sixties and The Seventies are on Netflix now too.
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mod sassinator posted:The first episode of CNN's new documentary series The Eighties premiered Thursday last week and is really really good. It's CNN though, so apparently the 1980s only took place in the USA (by the first episode at least).
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They'll get into more world events I'm sure (Berlin wall falling, end of the Cold War, etc.), but the first episode is all about television in the 80's which for the most part was driven by the US.
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Apr 4, 2016 20:53
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There's a shitload of documentaries to look through here, but I wanted to ask if anyone knew of any docs, or directors/filmmakers that would be about right wing terrorism in Europe?
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mod sassinator posted:The first episode of CNN's new documentary series The Eighties premiered Thursday last week and is really really good. Another thing about the first episode that perplexed me was the bit about MTV having an influence on Michael Mann's style. While I absolutely agree that MTV and Miami Vice fed off each other, and while Mann himself appears in the documentary saying that MTV was an influence, when you watch Mann's Thief, which was made before MTV launched, you can already see the development of the style that was carried into MTV. There is a long driving sequence with a song score, for example, which the 80s documentary credits to Miami Vice making in response to MTV -- but you see Mann doing it here long before then. There are plenty of scenes that have the quick motion that people relate to MTV as well. Tangerine Dream does the whole soundtrack too, and it's not a typical film score soundtrack (Mean Streets from Scorsese did this a bunch too if you want to think about that style and that was a decade before MTV).  Not a big deal, but being a fan of Mann's stuff, I thought it was weird to credit that style to MTV because while MTV embraced that style, I don't believe it created it. InfiniteZero fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Apr 7, 2016 |
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Call Me Lucky is powerful, emotional, captivating, devastating, heartbreaking, and so honest and personal that it feels like you're at some kind of family gathering the whole time. It's a really good documentary.
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Lurdiak posted:Call Me Lucky is powerful, emotional, captivating, devastating, heartbreaking, and so honest and personal that it feels like you're at some kind of family gathering the whole time. It's a really good documentary. Yeah, for everything Bobcat Goldwaith has done since World's Greatest Dad, Call Me Lucky is definitely worth a look. It sucks you in and then punches you hard in the gut out of nowhere.
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mod sassinator posted:The first episode of CNN's new documentary series The Eighties premiered Thursday last week and is really really good. Definitely worth tracking down through whatever means you have for finding TV shows online. It's produced by Tom Hanks, just like their past docs on the 60's and 70's. The intro for it is a major nostalgia blast, here's all of them: I watched 2 of the 80's episodes and they were really good but, my God, the long, sloppy blowjob they gave to Reagan was a bit much to take. I think he was a horrible president and to this day can never understand why he's so lauded and praised. I liked the 60's and 70's ones too. Bummer how old the old the 80's one made me feel though.
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Yeah I watched it last night and was really surprised they didn't have more about the opposition to Reagan. Also didn't get into SDI or any of the other stuff he was delusional about in the later years. Maybe that's coming in a future episode.
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Just saw a screening of Cambodian Son and it is an incredibly moving film. It's the story of poet Kosal Khiev, a guy who was born in a refugee camp during the Khmer Rouge regime, lived 16 years with his family as refugees in LA, got arrested and tried as an adult and served 14 years of prison, and because of the law is immediately deported to Cambodia. He spoke at some poetry thing for the 2012 London Olympics and that's covered, along with A LOT of other stuff. The director Masahiro Sugano was there and he was a cool, short Japanese dude and did a Q&A. Was really an experience.
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Saw Trophy Kids yesterday (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3231100/) on Netflix. Its about parents pushing their kids to the limit at sports. Hightlights include a parent telling his 15 year old son "Why the gently caress do you want a girlfriend at 15? She's going to break up with you anyway", another parent bitching about her 8-9 year old daughter "That little bitch, just wait until we get back to the car", and a christian mom who believes her sons are the next tennis double champions, "Its in God's hands, it what he wants for them" (Its Flanders and Rod and Todd, almost). Those poor, poor kids. My mom used to sign me up for pretty much anything, but at least she didnt make me keep at it if I didnt like it.
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Yesterday I caught Living With Lincoln, a doc that HBO put out last year that kind of got lost in the hype around The Jinx and Going Clear. It's pretty neat- it follows five generations of a family that got obsessed with being into Lincoln memorabilia and eventually Lincoln biographers, starting with a Union soldier that personally met the Lincoln after a battle in the American Civil War, and focusing mainly on Dorothy Kunhardt and the hosed up life she lead while trying to do both Lincoln research and also writing children's books. While there are some cool tidbits about the former President here, in the movie it serves more as a kind of a parallel to the main topic- the biographer family itself, and the joy and toll their interest took on them. Some of them are even eventually killed by it- on the other hand, their obsession also made some invaluable contributions to history. It's like 70 minutes long so it's pretty brisk, but if this topic at all sounds interesting to you I highly recommend it.
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Anybody have recommendations for anything Khan/Mongol focus? Just finished Hardcore History 5 part series on it and want some more.
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Just watched the avant-garde doc/essay film Heart of a Dog from HBO and Laurie Anderson. Still kind of processing it so I'm not sure what to make of it, though generally I think I liked it. Anyone else see it?
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Raxivace posted:Just watched the avant-garde doc/essay film Heart of a Dog from HBO and Laurie Anderson. Still kind of processing it so I'm not sure what to make of it, though generally I think I liked it. I did. Did you catch it in theaters? The soundscape was the best part. After watching that movie all I could think was "Dang, maybe I should become a Buddhist."
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Kull the Conqueror posted:I did. Did you catch it in theaters? The soundscape was the best part. After watching that movie all I could think was "Dang, maybe I should become a Buddhist." It was oddly effective how Anderson moved between topics, I thought. 9/11 starts out as just a contextualizing line about when her life with her dog is happening, but then it sort of dominates the movie for a few minutes and continually keeps getting revisited. The Buddhism thing kind of happened the same way, and formed this sort of nice contrast with "spiritual" and more internal attempts at understanding people vs. the American government's reliance on nearly omniscient capturing of data. When Laurie decided not to just euthanize her dying dog was when I knew I could never really be on board with Buddhism as a philosophy (Or at least her brand), though that's just me. I also don't quite know to describe her mix of recreated footage, home movies, and well just avant-garde imagery I guess but I found that super effective too. Even just on my headphones the sounds were cool, almost kind of unsettling at times in a David Lynch sort of way. Anyways props to HBO for helping put something like this out there, and props to Laurie Anderson for making this (Also RIP Lou Reed. I didn't expect him to be her husband... I wonder if his influence as her husband had anything to do with how the movie sounded. I only have a little bit of experience with the Velvet Underground but it still makes me wonder). EDIT: Grammar. Raxivace fucked around with this message at 08:41 on Apr 30, 2016 |
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Watched The Wolfpack last night & haven't stopped thinking about it yet
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There was a documentary mentioned here ages ago in which a guy loses his ability to sense where his body parts are without physically looking at them. Does anyone remember what it's called?
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Infotainment! posted:There was a documentary mentioned here ages ago in which a guy loses his ability to sense where his body parts are without physically looking at them. Does anyone remember what it's called? Maybe this... http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x12647t_the-man-who-lost-his-body-bbc-documentary_tech
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I just watched Welcome to Leith and highly recommend it. It frontloads the horrible beliefs of its subjects, so when they're down you almost have a moment of sympathy before remembering "oh poo poo, that guy is a Nazi monster idiot." Are there any other documentaries on US neo-nazis? I need some fascist schadenfreude.
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