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Old 03-19-2007, 07:23 PM   #1 (permalink)
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DOCUMENTARY FILM

Greetings!!!

Anyone here likes to watch a documentary film?
Or can anyone here suggest a documentary film?

Let me start this unique thread.

For this month long research of documentary films, There is one
and I think it is worthy to watch because it has nominated for Grand Jury Prize categorized as World Cinema - Documentary during the Sundance Festival (2007). The film was called Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten directed by Julien Temple.

I have only few information about this movie and hopefully you can add about it and post your views and thoughts about this movie.
You can also post your suggested documentary film.
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Old 04-11-2007, 10:12 AM   #2 (permalink)
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If you're into documentaries I would check out www.mvgroup.org Lots of great documentaries from the 1970s to current from Discovery, BBC, PBS and many more.
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Old 04-11-2007, 10:30 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I really enjoyed the recent Planet Earth documentary series.
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Old 04-12-2007, 03:41 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I really enjoyed the recent Planet Earth documentary series.
Is there a way that I can possibly enjoy this series online?
I hear the shows are awesome doumentaries that cost over a million dollars to produce each episode.
It would be cool to see if the hype is well-deserved or not.
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Old 04-13-2007, 06:59 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Is there a way that I can possibly enjoy this series online?
If you can find a torrent for it I assume you can. It aired in england last year in HD so it is all out there. It was really quite amazing.
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Old 04-13-2007, 07:16 AM   #6 (permalink)
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The planet earth stuff was pretty amazing.

As far as documentaries go though, I just finished "This film is not yet rated" and "Why we fight." One is about a clandestine group of power hungry group of control freaks led by an aging wool puller from D.C. and the other is about the military industrial complex.

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Old 04-13-2007, 03:05 PM   #7 (permalink)
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James Burks Connections. Nuff said. Not a film, but damnit, it should be.
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Old 04-14-2007, 12:34 PM   #8 (permalink)
 
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no time at the moment, so i'll just list some directors whose work is well worth checking out:

jean rouch
chris marker
dziga vertov
frederick wiseman
d.a. pennebaker/chris hegedus
peter delpeut
ulrich seidl


and a very cool coupla faux-documentaries:

what iva recorded
david holzman's diary
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Old 04-14-2007, 09:16 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Notable documentaries off the top of my head:

Crumb - amazing documentary about the underground comic artist. It's understated insight into family dysfunction and psychology/pathopsychology of sexuality are unusually poignant.

Michael Moore Hates America - The story we don't hear about the documentary filmmaker whose net worth is already greater than George Bush.

The Kid Stays in the Picture - fascinating story about Robert Evans and his Hollywood days

Capturing the Friedmans - chilling portrayal of a family with secrets.

Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film - An incredible 13 part miniseries - I've been waiting for it buy it on DVD. The silent film era is full of remarkably powerful and sophisticated films we never hear of.
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Old 04-14-2007, 11:27 PM   #10 (permalink)
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I would highly reccomend, Tibet: Cry of The Snow Lion.

Excellent film about the genocide of the Tibetan people and destruction of their culture. More needs to be done to free the Tibetans from their Chinese overlords.
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Old 04-15-2007, 03:28 AM   #11 (permalink)
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James Burks Connections. Nuff said. Not a film, but damnit, it should be.
I'd suggest "The Day the Universe Changed" as being the better of his work.

Personally, I love all the historical stuff on TV today - I watch a lot more of the History Channel and National Geographic and such than I do network.
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Old 04-20-2007, 12:18 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Yesterday I watched a documentary I know I watched before, but either way that didn’t stop me from watch it again. Mr. Death directed by Errol Morris (The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line) is a cinematic portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer and holocaust denier Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. The film is in essence two parts one dealing with Leuchter’s work with designing and building equipment used in executions. Although I am not an advocate of capital punishment I still found this part both fascinating and funny, I guess unintentionally on Leuchter’s part. The second part of the movie is different, as it deals with going to Auschwitz to gather evidence for his testimony as an expert in repairing and building execution devices in the libel trial of the revisionist Ernst Zundel. Zundel was on trial for publishing a document entitled “Did Six Million Really Die?”, which the government of Canada argued was published with deliberate lies about the Nazi execution of Jews. The second half is horrible, not in the sense that it is bad, but rather how when the trial took place in the late 1980s people would still be denying something as concrete as the holocaust. It is an interesting movie, at least I think so.
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