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Re: DISCUSS WORTHWHILE DOCUMENTARIES
Mon, February 6, 2006 - 11:53 AMGrizzly Man
I've only seen half of it so far. I find it really interesting. It's also interesting how people blame him for his death, saying he was "asking for it". -
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Re: DISCUSS WORTHWHILE DOCUMENTARIES
Sat, February 18, 2006 - 10:00 AMwho else here besides me loves the work of Les Blank? i love turning people on to him, especially his documentary Gap Toothed Women. his son Harrod is an interesting documentarian in his own right as well.
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Sun, February 19, 2006 - 7:17 PMI second Grizzly Man, and I've seen the whole thing!!!
It's really great, you watch as Timothy Treadwell kind of goes crazy, and Werner Herzog narrates and pretty much creates the whole thing (from the footage Timothy had taken prior to his death).
So, def. check it out.
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Aretha Franklin
Sat, February 18, 2006 - 2:35 PMOkay, I've looked big time and I don't think I've found it yet.
There's an old B&W documentary of Aretha's start in the recording bz.
Archival footage from recording studio and interviews.
I had the impression the footage etc was property of the label.
I saw it on pbs years ago; should've recorded it.
Might be:
Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul
us.imdb.com/title/tt0210537/
Fame, riches and life in general take their effects.
But, if you watch this doumentary, you will find a new admiration for the Queen of Soul. Aretha - the early years.
Turn on your speakers and go here:
"This is Aretha, Minister C.L. Franklin's beautiful daughter, singing it all, from standards to show tunes to bebop to blues. Underneath the polish is a gritty soul about to take flight." (60'-65')
www.legacyrecordings.com/arethafranklin/
See more tribe doc topic here:
moviewhores.tribe.net/thread/...e4c99600
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Re: DISCUSS WORTHWHILE DOCUMENTARIES
Sun, February 19, 2006 - 7:18 PMSpellbound
It's a documentary about the kids competing in a spelling bee. It was really great to try and guess who was going to win by what kind of character they were, the smart one, the mean one that we don't like, the snotty one.. etc. etc. Very cute. -
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Re: DISCUSS WORTHWHILE DOCUMENTARIES
Mon, February 20, 2006 - 10:03 AMI LOVE Documentaries! Here are some of my favorites:
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
The Corporation
Control Room
Rididng Giants
Dogtown and Z-boys
Shelter Dogs
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Mon, February 20, 2006 - 12:31 PMSpellbound was great, I couldn't believe how compelling that was.
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Mon, February 20, 2006 - 2:44 PMThe last doc I saw was Promises-- which was about a bunch of Palestinian and Jewish kids filmed over a 3(?)-year period. I think I found the DVD extras (esp. the follow-up, when the kids were a much older) to be more interesting than the doc itself. -
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Mon, February 20, 2006 - 3:40 PM"Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control" may be my favorite by Errol Morris ... an amazing film.
"Microcosmos" is a movie I can keep watching and never grow tired of.
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Killers in Eden
Mon, February 20, 2006 - 4:07 PMPBS Nature - "Killers in Eden"
"Locals such as Elsie Severs and Alice Otten who witnessed the hunts say the orcas took the lead in the hunt, herding larger migrating whales into the bay. Once the whales were confined in the bay, the orcas would then attack their quarry to the point of exhaustion. Human whalers moved in for the final kill -- then shared the spoils with the orcas."
This documentary explores an amazing legend of interspecies cooperation between killer whales and humans.
Interviews with Eden residents in their 80s, 90s and older, who were children at the time.
Live footage (some disturbing) and some not very clever special effects/re-enactments (but allowable).
This was something that supposedly happened about 100 years ago.
It may have sprang/evolved from a relationship established by aborigines.
Lots and lots of anecdotal details; what do you believe?
Did a killer whale come into the bay; signal the humans; the humans follow the KW out in the dark of night (in small boats); assist the KWs in the kill and share the booty??
It was a different time. I think I believe there was a time when humans and killer whales worked together in "the hunt".
www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/killers/
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Re: Killers in Eden
Mon, February 20, 2006 - 5:37 PMThat's really cool, Will - thanks for sharing.
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Re: DISCUSS WORTHWHILE DOCUMENTARIES
Fri, February 24, 2006 - 11:02 AMI recently downloaded this documentary about 9/11 called Loose Change. It really opened my eyes, and by the end of the movie i was red with FURY!!!! ahaha, no, but seriously, watch it. www.loosechange911.com/
If anyone is interested i can try and send it, just message me.
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Re: DISCUSS WORTHWHILE DOCUMENTARIES
Fri, February 24, 2006 - 11:25 AMMy short list:
The Thin Blue Line (gotta love Errol Morris)
Crumb
Hoop Dreams
Roger & Me
Hearts of Darkness
While I really enjoyed the facts put forward in the Enron documentary, I really thought it wasn't particularly well put together. Some of the stock footage they used was really distracting. -
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Fri, February 24, 2006 - 12:26 PMMurderball is the best documentary I've seen in years. People tend to confuse importance of subject matter with quality of filmmaking in documentaries. This is "just" a unique sports doc (no starving third world residents, holocaust victims or huge political statements), but it's exceptional. Hollywood is missing the boat if they aren't working on the fiction version. Forget the dumb penguins and rent this.
My not so short list of favorites:
The Times of Harvey Milk
When We Were Kings (Ali in Africa, ten times better than the bio flick)
American Dream
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
Mr. Death: The Fred A. Leucheter, Jr. Story (another Erroll Morris classic)
definitely Crumb (I'm a huge fan of his comics)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
And of course - The Aristocrats!
And some more obscure ones (sorry, I went to film school):
Who Killed Vincent Chin? - racially motivated murder inflames Detroit Asian community
Atomic Cafe - history of government propaganda re: nuclear war
Red Squad - 60s CIA groups are exposed and skewerd
Cannibal Tours - dissection of Western tourism in Africa
Cane Toads - invasion of foriegn toad species in Austrailia wreaks havoc - hilarious
Chicken Ranch - cinema verite' look inside a Nevada whorehouse
Titicut Follies - horrifying, once-banned look inside a hellish American insane asylum
Primary - Kennedy vs. Hubert Humphrey
California Reich - Neo Nazi party exposed. Oy, the poison they fill their children's head with!
Soldier Girls - Early doc on the subject
Ethnic Notions - brilliant examination of black stereotyping in early films and cartoons
Just putting them in because if you can hunt any of them down, you're in for a treat.
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