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BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

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djwetmouse posted:

I watched Jodorowsky's Dune this weekend and it was amazing, does anyone know of other similar documentaries about films that were never completed such as this one and Lost in La Mancha (which was also great)?
Audience of One, about a Pentecostal minister's vision to create the ultimate Sci-Fi film. American Movie, about blue-collar rednecks trying to create an independent horror film. And tangentially, Overnight about Troy Duffy's tortured attempt to create Boondock Saints.

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BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

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There's "Aim High In Creation!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JxwJTAy-Jo

I met the director, and it's interesting how stuff like Red Chapel has really soured NK's willingness to invite filmmakers onboard. Also working within the NK film industry is pretty much one of the more elite lifestyles to end up in, she got on well with the people she worked with and were surprised how relaxed and amusing they were as people.

Edit: hit post too early.

The film's mostly interesting when it's looking through the NK film industry but this completely overshadows the film's actual premise, which was to raise awareness over fracking via making propaganda films in the style of NK.

Oh and there's an interactive film school.

BogDew fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Oct 17, 2014

BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

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Goobish posted:

Agreed. I was really waiting for them to delve into some of those stories and was disappointed.
Despite the doco being utterly compelling I did get the feeling they were playing it as safe as possible. Nothing in there hadn't come out in the press before and I guess they wanted to be utterly sure what was being said was completely factual so mentioning events like Lia McPherson or Sally Miscavage without solid proof would have veered the doco into sensationalist.

BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

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outlier posted:

A lot more niche documentaries are showing up because it's getting a lot easier to find them, when previously they used to show at a few film festivals and then disappear.
I was at a talk with D. A. Pennebaker and he noted that the only places that would screen his early documentaries was a chain of on-the-out porno theaters that were looking to clean up their act.

BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

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Cannon are also responsible for The Wicked Lady" featuring a vicious whip duel between Marina Sirtis and Faye Dunaway, :stare:

BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

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Pootybutt posted:

Looking for really good food documentaries.

The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World by Weijun Chen (who did the awesome Please Vote for Me). And “Buffet: All You Can Eat Las Vegas" which looks a bit at Las Vegas Buffett culture are two that come to mind.

After reading the stories about the sights and sounds at Golden Corral there should be a nature documentary there.

BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

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"All this and world war 2" is technically a documentary in the barest sense as it's Beatles covers set to a mix of 40's/50s films and WW2 archives telling a rough account of the war.

"Decasia" is more of a mood piece, but made up out of decaying bits of lost film from the 1900's.

"Sam Klemke's time machine" is about a man who documented his life since 1977.

"Shut up little man", with found tapes. Kind of like Winnebago Man as it looks at a cult following of the tapes.

Finding Vivian Maier sort of fits with found photos.

I'm trying to recall one someone made about their parents family secrets using found archival materials .

BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

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Ken Burn's use of music is a bit more nuanced than putting in X pop song at Y. Much of the editing is actually structured around using the music as the base and then cutting to that as opposed to the reverse where the music is cut for the picture, or scored to the picture.

Also you have rights issues as these songs are not cheap, the Beatles in particular, so that is a challenge that always comes up with documentary making where you have to either clear the rights or get a sound-alike to fill in the gap.

quote:

HULLFISH: You mention the idea of a theme. Do you try to theme a specific story or character with specific piece of music?

MELLISH: Sometimes. Most likely a character. On a film like our series “The Roosevelts,” the three Roosevelts, Franklin, Eleanor and Theodore, would each have a song, in various forms that would have become a sort of theme over time. I mean we wouldn’t have something recorded as “Franklin’s Theme.” But a song might develop into something like that. To let the viewer know– now we’re back in an FDR scene. Or to use as an echo back to him after he’s left the story.

HULLFISH: Just like a dramatic film would have a theme for a character or story line.

MELLISH: Yeah. Just recently on the Vietnam series, I came into the editing late and one of the episodes that preceded mine had already had a pass or two and the team had settled on using the music of a particular artist for one of the characters that our episodes shared, a fact unbeknownst to me, so I cut the scenes using different artists and music and then I had to redo them to be consistent and have them be better connected.
The whole interview here.

BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

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Tommy getting his SAG card was amazing.
The guild states you need to have starred in a few productions of anything. Tommy cottons on that this also means commercials. So he goes and makes a few starring himself for his jeans company to get his accreditation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fqAFCb4-ec

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BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

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The Lost World of Communism might touch on that.

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