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I found Best of Enemies pretty underwhelming. Kind of a light entertainment documentary that hones in on amusing soundbites with less real insight into either individual.
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I've started watching Patricio Guzman's three-part epic The Battle of Chile, and it's pretty goddamned great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5GeEzBKGsQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTCVGdq7BAo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWCtYMEYBI
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Nov 18, 2015 17:24
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I went ahead and watched Edward R. Murrow's Harvest of Shame from 1960. I don't know where all the mainstream rhetoric about migrant workers lost its bite but here Murrow dares to not only call them slaves of a new era but also eviscerate the government for being idle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJTVF_dya7E
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Dec 4, 2015 16:54
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Cobain: Montage of Heck is exceptional. I would have gotten to it a lot quicker if I'd known it was done by the guy who did June 17, 1994. Dude is a maestro of assembling found footage into enrapturing drama. It is must-see for doc enthusiasts.
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Dec 13, 2015 17:08
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Oppenheimer and Herzog did a really good Sundance talk about each other's work and documentary in general. Talk begins at 35:08. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWzXPQ3Qydc
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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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Apr 29, 2016 20:23
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I watched Allan King's Warrendale (1967) and it blew me away. It's a fly-on-the-wall depiction of a residential treatment center for troubled kids in Canada that uses an alternative method of therapy that involves holding the kids down when they're having fits. It's kind of disturbing to witness but from reading about it, it seems like it was actually effective in reaching them. Whenever a kid has an emotional breakthrough it's extremely moving. Reminded me of those great moments in Streetwise. Absolute must-see for fans of vérité.
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Jul 5, 2016 16:06
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Unmature posted:Any recommendations for found footage documentaries? I recently picked up the Criterion of And Everything Is Going Fine which is fantastic and now I'm watching the feature length doc Cinefamily put on YouTube of weird Star Wars clips and B-roll. The Atomic Cafe is a must. e: Really, the answers are bottomless because archival collage is such a staple "genre" of the doc world. I'll also just throw in A Grin without a Cat. Kull the Conqueror fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Jul 17, 2017 |
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Jul 17, 2017 15:01
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The Challenge is finally getting a limited release in the US and it's my favorite doc I've seen this year. The photography is absurdly good and it portrays a world that you think can't possibly be real. It also has a Morricone-esque score. It's this guy's first feature after a brilliant short called San Siro and I'm already convinced he's a world-class film artist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msiaw32R81M
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Sep 5, 2017 18:12
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SimonCat posted:I mean, if you want to watch a set of US critical Vietnam documentaries, most of John Pilger's stuff is on Youtube. Also, the best of them all, In the Year of the Pig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz8H_oi1ck0
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Oct 30, 2017 15:08
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Are there any docs on an "underground" far left group in the contemporary US? Like Antifa, Maoists, or whoever dresses up in black and breaks poo poo during protests. But here's the kicker - without being an Alex Jones scare story for racist uncles. Something like "When a Tree Falls", but...better. The Weather Underground e: Oh, contemporary nvm.
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I went and saw Brimstone and Glory last night and it's absolutely incredible. My buddy and I were shocked at how good it was. 70 minutes of brilliant, magical spectacle of slow motion explosions. See in in a theater if you can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IltiCOy1rU Kull the Conqueror fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Jan 8, 2018 |
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Jan 8, 2018 15:23
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Billy Mitchell has been officially outed as a fraud, and I have chosen to exploit this opportunity to fondly remember an all-time great documentary character, Brian Kuh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTj7NSHVwSk
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Apr 12, 2018 18:22
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Ignis posted:I just resubbed to HBO for Westworld, what's a good documentary to watch in there? Open to most topics except graphic animal cruelty, I can't really stomach watching stuff like that. Paradise Lost is the old classic. I also really enjoyed Clinica de Migrantes.
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Apr 23, 2018 15:24
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Win by Fall is on Amazon Prime. It was one of my favorite films at sxsw last year. It's about a wrestling school for girls in Germany and it has some absolutely riveting fly-on-the-wall work. If you like great sports narrative, it's a fine example.
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Jun 10, 2018 16:34
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Any of you seen this? How good or bad is it? It's not a documentary but it is def. an above average indie
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Jun 18, 2018 14:43
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Jul 26, 2018 21:04
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If you want a good conspiracy movie watch Chris Smith's Collapse. You're really drawn into the Michael Ruppert's web of derangement. It's all speckled with just enough truth about the way power operates in the world that it's easy to want him to be right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQhjqCd7Eec
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Jul 31, 2018 02:04
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Minding the Gap is finally available on Hulu. It's an autobiographical doc about a skater kid and his friends growing up and wrestling with the fact that they all have abusive parents. Far from an easy watch and I think the music is occasionally overbearing, but man it's got that intimacy I hunger for in docs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Vm_Awe3bw
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Sep 6, 2018 15:35
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Brown Moses posted:So my little investigative team, Bellingcat, has been followed around by director Hans Pool as part of "Bellingcat – Truth in a Post-Truth World", an 88 minute documentary about Bellingcat that premiered at the International Documentary FilmFestival Amsterdam (IDFA). It was screened last night at the Pathe Tuschinski in Amsterdam on their main screen to a full house, and Variety just published a review: I saw this was going to be playing at SXSW so I'm def. hitting it up. LittleFuryThings posted:What are the best documentaries that feature musicians writing their songs/working in the studio? A Poem Is a Naked Person.
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Jan 27, 2019 22:09
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nonathlon posted:What's the state of the Theranos documentary. Is it actually available? It’s on HBO.
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Mar 20, 2019 13:37
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Awful CompSloth posted:Anyone got any political history documentaries about any countries? Talking about elections, their economy, their history, anything. The Death of Yugoslavia is Norma Percy's best work and features interviews with all heads of state during the Yugoslav Wars, including all the war criminals. The Battle of Chile is about Pinochet's coup as it happened. Videograms of a Revolution lets you watch the Communist regime of Romania almost like you were there. It's incredible. Can you be more specific at all? You're talking about a pretty broad discipline within documentary.
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Mar 22, 2019 15:21
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Vincent posted:Any feel good docs you peeps recommend? This year has been a shitshow so far and most the documentaries named here are incredibly depressing. anything by Les Blank besides burden of dreams
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Mar 29, 2019 01:29
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Hey so I made a doc that aired last week. It's about how my home state of New Mexico blew up its own mental healthcare system by falsely accusing a bunch of companies of fraud and shutting them down without due process. It's part poor-man's Errol Morris procedural and part poor-man's Streetwise. It's called The Shake-Up and NMPBS is streaming it here: https://portal.knme.org/video/the-shake-up-gekpbo/
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Hey, thanks! Let me know what you think and feel free to ask questions about whatever.
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Jun 26, 2019 22:48
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Kangra posted:This was really great. The opening really drew me in and it had a good balance of being informative and inducing both anger and hope. Thanks for watching! Kangra posted:When did you get the idea to make the doc? Back in 2015 it was this perfect storm of wanting to make a film with a social purpose, learning about what happened in NM, and having a couple of colleagues simultaneously say "gently caress it" with me and borrow some equipment to go get started. We all felt like it had legs because of how easy it was to explain to people; it didn't take more than a few sentences for them to be shocked. Kangra posted:What is the general public opinion on what happened? Do they see it as 'the old providers were maybe doing things the wrong way, so they tried to fix it and failed' or are they more inclined to view at as governmental incompetence? Most folks we've talked to, across the political spectrum, are appalled by what happened. Many believe the actions were criminal in nature. Even the less extreme take is that it's the worst thing that happened in Governor Martinez's era. There's also still a big void in awareness of the issue in the state, which is why we made the movie.
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SXSW got all their shorts for 2020 posted here If you're in the mood for some good quick docs, I strongly recommend these ones: Affurmative Action (4 min) Broken Orchestra (11 min) Dieorama (10 min)
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Apr 1, 2020 15:02
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One of my recent faves The Challenge is on Hulu. If you like weird poo poo with amazing photography, this is it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_hts5A_fWc
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May 29, 2020 15:17
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Fleetwood posted:Nostalgia for the Light is a fantastic documentary exploring the intersections between history, science, and memory. I only read part of the description, thinking it was just going to be about the telescopes in Chile and was happy to find out that it spent a lot of time talking about the aftermath of the dictatorship under Pinochet I've found that from talking to docmakers and attending lots of screenings, Nostalgia for the Light is one of the major recent touchstones for nonfiction artists looking to push the medium forward. As much as it has this sort-of heady premise on paper, where we're comparing and contrasting astronomy with dictatorship, it remains eminently watchable and accessible. It's an essential watch.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:06
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battlepigeon posted:Thanks for the recommendation! Are there any other documentaries in the same vein as this? The Act of Killing comes to mind atleast. The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
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Aug 17, 2020 16:40
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ruddiger posted:I’ve been watching a poo poo load of Comicbook Kayfabe which led me down a comic book documentary kick. I just watched this last weekend! The interviews are indeed incredible. Not just that but the creative choices to blend the subject with the style were so solid. Modern "topic" docs could learn a lot from it. PS this is on Criterion Channel as well in case folks wanted to check it out in crisp resolution.
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Sep 10, 2020 14:23
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Finally got around to watching Time last night. I'm comfortable calling it an essential doc viewing. It's got incredible archival material, atypical cinematography, and some killer emotional moments. It's exactly what social documentaries should aspire to: don't give me statistics and policy explanations, show me how the problem affects peoples' spirits.
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Feb 12, 2021 15:34
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Brett Morgen, the crown prince of archival collage, has his David Bowie movie coming out this year (in IMAX no less!) and it will probably be a classic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L61SJbLhTqE
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May 29, 2022 19:07
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Waltzing Along posted:I tried watching The Last Tourist on Hulu. It's terrible. Very biased and not really a documentary at all. Stay away. Yeah, that looks terrible. Watch all-time classic Cannibal Tours instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUQ_8wl93HM
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Jul 12, 2022 16:09
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Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is his best film imo but Moonage Daydream looks like a contender. He's been making it for like eight years.
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Jul 28, 2022 16:41
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abelwingnut posted:you should running to your local theater to watch ‘fire of love’. excellent, excellent work. Agreed, it’s a really good doc for the big screen. The volcano imagery they captured is consistently astonishing
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Aug 4, 2022 12:25
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I finally caught Moonage Daydream last night. I don't know if I have ever heard a more impressive sound mix in my life. It was loud but not piercing, and the panning work was insanely immersive. It took every fiber of my being to resist belting out the lyrics along with the movie. Absolutely a must-see in theaters.
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Oct 12, 2022 16:18
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Rest in peace Mike Schank, one of the great characters of documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAbno9zroXo
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Minotaurus Rex posted:Anyone got any recs for docs about the events surrounding the Euromaiden protests in Ukraine in 2013 and the resultant change in government? Thanking you kindly Sergei Loznitsa’s Maidan is very experimental, almost entirely static wides of the protests and violence by the state. Ymmv but I found it very moving. Feels like you’re there
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