Good Documentaries?
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- utopian0
- I was there when I was 5. I remember feeling rather majesticsureshot
- *add to watch latersureshot
- < looks like the foundations for starbuks are underwaymugwart
- I haven't watched anything about Stonehenge since I was a kid. There has never been a breakthrugh. Nobody knows and never will. No point watching ANOTHER doco.Hayzilla
- ^ like the bible...nobody knows what really happened. Like a fairytale.sureshot
- sofas1
"Surveillance Camera Man" moved his videos to Live Leak because YouTube removed his videos once again.
- fadein110
Great Picasso doc with loads of great stuff on his personal life and the evolution of his work
- fadein114
Another excellent art doc. Must have been the coolest time in New York - a melting pot of creativity going on
- sofas1
http://thoughtmaybe.com/the-illu…
The Illusionists
Elena Rossini 2015 53:50
"The Illusionists examines how global advertising firms, mass media, and the beauty, fashion, and cosmetic-surgery industries have together colonised the way people all around the world define beauty and see themselves. Taking us from Harvard to the halls of the Louvre, from a cosmetic surgeon’s office in Beirut to the heart of Tokyo’s Electric Town, The Illusionists shows how these industries saturate our lives with narrow, Westernised, consumer-driven images of so-called beauty that show little to no respect for biological realities or cultural differences. Featuring voices from prominent sociologists, magazine editors, scientists, artists, and activists, The Illusionists documents a truly global phenomenon, with hegemonic results."
- sofas0
Fascinating..
Bomb Doctors: The Men With Nine Lives (Bomb Disposal Documentary)
"Imagine the long lonely walk towards a suspect device...
The film-makers behind this gripping documentary were granted unprecedented access to the British Army’s Bomb Disposal Course, the most demanding training available. It has to be. This knowledge can be the difference between life and death. Focusing on Northern Ireland, The Men With Nine Lives gives the inside story on the personalities and technologies involved – a cat and mouse game of psychological one-upmanship where the terrorist and disposal expert must continually second-guess the other. Mistakes are nearly always fatal. Using interviews with ex-terrorists and veteran bomb-disposal men, Equinox investigates the history and changing techniques of stopping a bomb going off."
- PhanLo2
Really liked this. It covers how graffiti and hiphop made it to Europe and has interviews with some of the major players involved. Features Lee, Futura, Bando, Skeme, Mode 2, Shoe and loads more.
- sofas2
Fascinating!
Wiki link contains spoilers-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re…- yeah they still are on Park Avenue, seem fresh as ever...robotron3k
- that's cool robo, the tiles have gained popularity and they are being placed by a number of people. also different styles have emergedsofas
- is there a Klu Klux Klan store on Park Avenue?GuyFawkes
- Well there is most of the banking industry... Does that count?robotron3k
- Watched this a while back. Very interesting.dopepope
- i liked everything about this. and seeing them.MrAbominable
- sofas1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am…
"American Movie is a 1999 documentary film directed by Chris Smith. The film chronicles the real 1996–97 making of Coven, an independent horror film directed by filmmaker Mark Borchardt. Produced for the purpose of raising capital for another film that Borchardt intends to make, the epic Northwestern, Coven suffers from numerous setbacks, including poor financing, a lack of planning, Borchardt's burgeoning alcoholism, and the ineptitude of the friends and family Borchardt hires as his production team.[2] The documentary follows Borchardt's filmmaking process from script to screen, and is interspersed with footage from both developing projects."
- PhanLo0
We're doomed!
- notype0
Anyone see this?
Any good?
- sofas1
Salesmen (1969)
direct cinema documentary film about door-to-door Bible salesmen
The documentary follows four salesmen as they travel across New England and southeast Florida trying to sell expensive Bibles door-to-door in low-income neighborhoods, and attend a sales meeting in Chicago. The film focuses in particular on salesman Paul Brennan, a middle-aged Irish-American Catholic from Jamaica Plain, Boston, who struggles to maintain his sales.
- sofas1
"Psychiatry in Russia" "Albert Maysles" 1955
- sofas0
Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter 1970
Gimme Shelter is a 1970 documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin chronicling the last weeks of The Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert.
- sofas1
Best Worst Movie is a 2009 American documentary film about the making of the infamously received 1990 horror film Troll 2 and its subsequent resurgence as a cult film.
- fourth3
This might have been posted in this thread, but I watched this one a few nights ago. It resonated with me after starting the year as a freelancer, cutting down costs, making less and having more time to enjoy life.
- its on netflixfourth
- hipster minimalism = I'm brokerobotron3k
- sofas0
http://www.ubu.com/film/goldsmit…
Kenneth Goldsmith: Sucking on Words (2007)
"The lively conversations featured in the film are an ideal introduction to Goldsmith's witty and provocative works, already regarded as hallmarks of 21st century literature. In addition to debate and commentary, the film showcases readings from some of his most notorious books: No.111 (found phrases ending in an 'r' rhyme and filtered alphabetically by syllable count); Soliloquy (a transcription of every word Goldsmith spoke for a week); Day (a retyping of one day's New York Times); Traffic (a day's worth of hourly traffic bulletins); and The Weather (a year's worth of of radio weather bulletins)."
- syst_m0
Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
- sofas0
"Cameraperson is a 2016 autobiographical collage documentary film. The film is an account by director Kirsten Johnson about her life and career as a cinematographer. It relies on footage shot by Johnson across the years in numerous different countries."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca…
Trailer http://www.camerapersonfilm.com