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All About Trout posted:I don't know if it's been mentioned in this thread already, but the most depressing documentary I've ever seen is Body Without Soul: Yeah this is absolutely crushing. I forget how I first saw this but I never forgot it.
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Groovelord Neato posted:finally got around to watching zoo (the mr hands documentary) and i have no idea how it got so many plaudits at the festivals it was boring as poo poo. It's almost entirely due to the way it's presented, the story itself is so slight. Compare with Abducted In Plain Sight, which has so much incident it's hard to believe it's less than 2 hrs long.
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sexpig by night posted:Anyone check out The Amazing Johnathan Documentary on hulu? I get why a lot of folks are upset by the direction it goes but I find it absolutely fascinating. It's apparently playing here at a theater, should I go?
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Zesty Mordant posted:This isn't really a singular 'documentary' per se but if you like that sort of thing, Seth from the UYD podcast compiled a bunch of clips from 80s/90s/2000s tv into short "episodes" called Seth Clips in 25 volumes. They each kinda loosely have a 'theme' but it's mostly a kinda anxious jumble of images that, removed from all context, are just indescribably strange: Snoop dogg morphs into an actual dog. a guy in venice walks up to a police car and speaks with a false echo voice. a terribly acted livelinks ad. a woman cries on a hair restoration infomercial. another, more explicit phone sex ad, even more laughably acted. heat-vision helicopter footage from early afghanistan war; soliders chuckle as they blow little person shaped blobs into glowing smithereens. a cereal ad featuring a forgotten z-lister. a clip from COPS where they arrest crossdressers in 90s hollywood. on and on. This is the original meaning of "found footage" btw! Earth Table posted:Went to a screening last night of Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project at the Metrograph in NYC. In summary, a left-wing activist from Philadelphia recorded recorded 24/7 television, mostly news, from 1979 till her death in 2012. Her tapes ended up with the internet archived and are being uploaded and made both viewable and searchable. Oh poo poo, I need to get on this. I've been obsessed with this story for a minute now.
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precision posted:Wrinkles the Clown on Hulu, uh, sure is something I love that the premise is that that's some of the best work clowns can get. It makes sense. Like the saying goes, kids are scared of clowns and adults think they're stupid so what's the point?
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The Golden Gael posted:I hope this is fine - my minidoc on the infamous Sylvia Browne has sparked some great discussion in a PYF thread, and I think it might be of some value to the folks on this thread. So I present Sylvia Browne - How a Psychic Scams America. This owns, thank you for this!
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Jim Can't Swim is nobody's amateur.
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Hooplah posted:That's what i figured. Yep, it pops up on YouTube every so often.
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BiggerBoat posted:Stumbled upon a pretty good Jack Kirby documentary. Apologies if it's been posted already. This was great, somehow I'd never seen this one before.
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It's 100% option B.
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Kull the Conqueror posted:Yeah, that looks terrible. Watch all-time classic Cannibal Tours instead. Cannibal Tours is incredible.
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Yeah, it fuckin rules. I'm all in.
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Where'd you see this?
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Documentaries are the ultimate answer to "why don't they just stop filming".
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MeinPanzer posted:Just watched Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God, another 3-part HBO doc, and this one I liked a lot. In a nutshell, it dives into the new age cult that shot to notoriety a few years back when the police raided the home its members were living in and discovered the corpse of the founder, a 45-year-old woman known as Mother God, lovingly positioned in a shrine-like bed. Definitely gotta get on this one, I followed this as it was happening and could hardly believe any of it.
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Snowy posted:Goddamn The Act of Killing is so crazy. Glad I finally got around to that. Now I want to see the companion documentary that focuses more on the family of a victim of the mass murders in Indonesia in the 70s rather than the killers. But I think I need a little breather first. You're in luck because there is a follow up film called THE LOOK OF SILENCE (2014) that was exactly this. One thing I like about THE ACT OF KILLING is that it directly indicts not just America's government but American culture (John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Rambo) specifically in its encouragement and empowerment of an anticommunist genocide. It stands out even more now.
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That sounds like a treat, will watch as soon as I can.
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Tubi is amazing. I feel like it should remain as small as possible for as long as possible.
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