Documentaries

black · September 09, 2011, 06:20:05 PM

Pretty good list.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/the-one-must-see-documentary/

Who likes what?

The Shocker · September 09, 2011, 08:25:07 PM

On that list my top 3 would be:
1. Crumb
2. Capturing the Friedmans
3. Touching The Void

Not on that list:
1. American Holler
2. American Movie
3. Just Melvin, Just Evil
Honorable mention: Stevie

Lumpy · September 10, 2011, 03:27:55 AM

Could be on the list:

Triumph of the Will
Night and Fog (double feature w/Triumph of the Will?)
Sicko
Sherman's March
Harlan County USA
Pumping Iron
Bigger Stronger Faster
The Decline of Western Civilization 1 (maybe?)

Shouldn't be on the list:

The Kid Stays in the Picture (huge, huge meh)
Murderball (decent enough, but not a Top anything IMO)
Dark Days (great topic, but goes nowhere)

An Inconvenient Truth literally put me to sleep after 30 minutes (I tried twice) and seems unwatchable, but I could be wrong. And Madonna's Truth or Dare is on there??

There's a lot on the list I didn't see... about half.

The Shocker · September 10, 2011, 10:56:30 AM

And multiple Michael More movies? I guess if you are going by influence and earnings, but his movies kind of suck.

neighbor664 · September 10, 2011, 11:58:53 AM

Meh list. Null and void to me because it doesn't include Tom Dowd the language of music or You're Gonna miss me when I'm gone.

Danny G · January 02, 2012, 10:53:45 PM

Good call on Man On Wire. Part inspiring art flick, part bank heist movie. Awesome

Just saw Dark Days today. It was OK.

I was much more into "Cave Of Forgotten Dreams", surprised it didn't make the list. About a cave sealed by a landslide for 30k years containing the oldest intact cave paintings ever found. Just totally fucking mindblowing, in subject matter at least.

Widget · January 02, 2012, 11:29:35 PM

Loved "Touching The Void".

Lumpy · January 02, 2012, 11:37:42 PM

Quote from: Danny G on January 02, 2012, 10:53:45 PM
Good call on Man On Wire. Part inspiring art flick, part bank heist movie. Awesome

Just saw Dark Days today. It was OK.

I was much more into "Cave Of Forgotten Dreams", surprised it didn't make the list. About a cave sealed by a landslide for 30k years containing the oldest intact cave paintings ever found. Just totally fucking mindblowing, in subject matter at least.

"Cave of Forgotten Dreams" might be too recent for that list (?)

BTW, I thought "Dark Days" could have been something great (amazing first-hand footage and interesting subject) but just never went anywhere IMO.

DustinAR · January 08, 2012, 08:08:42 PM

Here's a few of my favorite documentaries:

Pumping Iron
God Grew Tired of Us
You See Me Laughin': The Last of the Hills Country Bluesman
Heartworn Highways
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Grizzly Man
Encounters at the End of the World
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco
LOUDquietLOUD: A Film About the Pixies
Beyond the Mat
The Decline of Western Civilization (Parts 1 and 2)
American: The Bill Hicks Story
Paradise Lost: Child Murders at Robin Hood
Supersize Me
American Movie

Lumpy · January 09, 2012, 01:48:12 AM

You guys should check out "Harlan County USA" -- classic documentary about coal miners.

cat shepard · January 09, 2012, 10:42:28 AM

american hardcore

RAGER · January 09, 2012, 11:55:08 AM

Just saw Good Hair. Doc. with Chris Rock about Black folks' hair. pretty funny.

mortlock · January 11, 2012, 02:03:36 AM

loose change
the legend of boggie creek
man on a wire

GodShifter · January 11, 2012, 11:44:31 AM

The Legend of Boggy Creek isn't really a documentary. It's more of a "docudrama" actually.

That movie scared the living shit of me when I was kid. I had nightmares from it for years afterward. I watched it fairly recently (within the last ten years or so) and it was ridiculous. Young minds and all that

The Shocker · January 11, 2012, 01:52:38 PM

Quote from: GodShifter on January 11, 2012, 11:44:31 AM
The Legend of Boggy Creek isn't really a documentary. It's more of a "docudrama" actually.

That movie scared the living shit of me when I was kid. I had nightmares from it for years afterward. I watched it fairly recently (within the last ten years or so) and it was ridiculous. Young minds and all that

Town That Dreaded Sundown was the same way.

GodShifter · January 11, 2012, 02:13:56 PM

I just looked up on wikipedia The Town That Dreaded Sundown, because I had never heard of it, but it sounded vaguely familiar.

It seems like as a young kid, I saw the promo for that movie, and, it too, scared the shit out of me. But, for some reason after all these years, I confused that promo with the The Legend of Boggy Creek, because that's what I always thought the tag line of Boggy Creek was ... "The Town That Dreaded Sundown". But, nope, it's a different movie entirely (and one that I've not seen).

Deaner, do you remember the promos for TTTDS? Did it have a wicked scream at the end? Damn, I'm old and can't remember stuff very well anymore

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(Not so) interesting side bar: Dawn Wells (Mary Anne from "Gilligan's Island") was in The Town That Dread Sundown as well as the stinker Return To Boggy Creek, which was the sequel to the original The Legend of Boggy Creek. She was in some ace movies in the 70's!

The Shocker · January 11, 2012, 02:21:07 PM

I don't remember the trailers for either of those (or much of the movies either). I think both are on my Netflix queue, I may need to bump them up.

Sam Hain · January 11, 2012, 03:00:26 PM

Some of my favorites...

Dogtown & Z-Boys
Riding Giants
Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'

The Wild & Wonderful Whites of WV is pretty good too.

The Shocker · January 11, 2012, 03:17:57 PM

Really liked Dogtown.

DustinAR · January 11, 2012, 11:01:17 PM

One I forgot: You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erikson

Made me have even more respect for the genius and insanity of Roky Erikson. Heartbreaking story as well. When he started playing "Goodybye Sweet Dreams" for his therapist towards the end of the movie, it was one of the most powerful things I'd seen in a long time.