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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2019 14:10:48 GMT
I watched Fabien Constant's Mademoiselle C earlier this week, chronicling Carine Roitfeld's transition from editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris to creating her own biannual magazine, the CR Fashion Book (and her coinciding move from Paris to New York). I love Mlle. Roitfeld - she's the epitome of Parisian chic - but the documentary, while entertaining, feels a bit disjointed and unfocused, and I think because Roitfeld lives and works in such drama-free environments (unlike Anna Wintour), there's not much juice to be squeezed from her life. But your admiration for her will grow exponentially when you see how respectfully and warmly she treats all of those working around her (again, unlike Anna Wintour).
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 16, 2019 14:24:03 GMT
The Two Killings Of Sam Cooke - Netflix
I started a whole thread on the amazing music doc's on Netflix in the Music section. Just for this alone they are doing God's work - this is a remarkable, empathetic, penetrating and fascinatingly diverse look at how white and black America saw stardom and their stars - it has real POV to it. The music pieces are fantastic but the social commentary angle is really a font of information that even I didn't know and I'm a fan (also fascinating in a different way is how the documentary treats America this great melting pot in strictly black and white terms - Hispanics or Asians tough luck I guess).
Recommended for everyone to watch whether you know his music or not.
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Post by JangoB on Mar 16, 2019 14:56:25 GMT
Hitchcock/Truffaut which I watched on Dec 29, 2018. Documentaries aren't really my thing tbh.
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Post by DeepArcher on Mar 16, 2019 15:20:53 GMT
I was with some friends last night and we watched the Flatearther documentary on Netflix. Fucking hilarious.
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Post by mhynson27 on Mar 16, 2019 15:47:15 GMT
Free Solo (My favourite documentary... out of like the 4 I've seen)
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Mar 16, 2019 17:38:51 GMT
I was with some friends last night and we watched the Flatearther documentary on Netflix. Fucking hilarious. I was totally gonna watch that one, but I just couldn't... the trailer had me facepalming and that was a whopping 90 seconds. I can't imagine 90 minutes of it. Also, pertaining to the topic at hand, Free Solo was really great.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 16, 2019 17:39:55 GMT
Life Itself, the Roger Ebert doc. Really love the guy but I didn't find this piece all that illuminating. The most interesting aspect was its examination of Ebert's relationship with Siskel, which I had heard was fraught but oh my god I didn't know it was THAT fraught.
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Post by quetee on Mar 16, 2019 21:00:29 GMT
Studio 54 (Netflix)
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Post by Viced on Mar 16, 2019 21:05:18 GMT
Free Solo.
One of the best of 2018... interesting subject, high stakes, solid message.
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Post by ibbi on Mar 18, 2019 12:36:20 GMT
I've been watching Ken Burns' Roosevelts Doc. Aside from the random ham they have voicing Eleanor I love everything about it.
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Post by getclutch on Apr 3, 2019 5:02:37 GMT
The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Interesting story. Very slow and repetitive at times.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Apr 3, 2019 5:09:28 GMT
All This Panic - a glimpse into the lives of several Brooklyn teenage girls transitioning from highschool to adulthood, filmed over three years by Jenny Gage. Really illuminating and intimate doc. Takes a page out of Linklater.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Apr 3, 2019 13:36:40 GMT
Free Solo
It was pretty good, but a little overhyped and I didn't care for some of the 'emotional' relationship moments, which seemed shoe-horned in and ruined any kind of natural flow to the film.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2019 14:20:50 GMT
Free Solo as well. Quality stuff.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 11, 2019 12:14:33 GMT
The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Netflix - Exhaustive, gut-wrenching, lengthy investigation of this case. Makes you feel creepy for being interested in the lurid details (and all true crime in a way) and creepy for wanting to then turn away from those lurid details because to truly contemplate them is almost overwhelmingly horrific.
A couple minor flaws - unnecessary re-enactments (some in bad taste even), redundant but overall sobering stuff and reminiscent in the early episodes of the film A Cry in the Dark and how we judge or forgive someone (ie the parents here) that we only know about through news coverage.
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Post by Sharbs on Apr 11, 2019 15:11:01 GMT
Interstellar (Nolan, 2014)
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Post by Nikan on Apr 12, 2019 18:45:58 GMT
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Apr 12, 2019 22:16:41 GMT
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
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Post by alexanderblanchett on Apr 13, 2019 8:21:28 GMT
Leaving Neverland
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2019 12:20:05 GMT
A light, fun documentary about the legendary New York hotel...
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Post by JangoB on Apr 26, 2019 12:32:31 GMT
Terrence Malick's Voyage of Time - it was quite impressive.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Apr 26, 2019 12:41:29 GMT
McQueen
I liked it a helluva lot. It was really inspiring and beautifully told. It was also a fitting tribute to a famous and revered member of the British LGBT community, unlike another 2018 film.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Apr 26, 2019 12:42:44 GMT
Watched Ken Burns's The Central Park Five last night. Harrowing subject but somehow depressingly commonplace. I could have sworn I've seen a documentary with this exact same narrative many times: aggressive detectives/prosecutors hammer innocent disenfranchised suspects (usually black) during interrogation to the point that they coerce false evidence/confessions out of them implicating them or others and subsequently getting them convincted and sent to prison where they will serve hard time that can't be taken back. All of this only to discover years after the fact that oops they were wrong and they're sorry about that, and here's a settlement check.
The documentary definitely leans on the subject matter and expects the viewer to feel indignant wrath at this miscarriage of justice, and I did, but I do feel like there was something missing from this. I loved the first hour with its rigorous detail, as it laid out the night of the crime itself; the activities of these boys in the park, the way they were brought in for questioning, their experiences in interrogation, their families' reactions to all of it, and all from firsthand accounts. Where the film loses me somewhat is in the second half with the trial and sentencing procedures, which were handled somewhat vaguely, as it peters on to the end.
It's worth seeing for the interviews of these five men alone if nothing else. It'll anger and disturb you, but unless you've been living under a rock, nothing in it will shock you. 7.5/10
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Post by stinkybritches on Apr 26, 2019 14:28:28 GMT
Terrence Malick's Voyage of Time - it was quite impressive. this needs to be released on Blu-ray or on streaming or something in the US, can't believe it hasn't gotten any disc or digital release here.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 28, 2019 1:27:50 GMT
Devil at the Crossroads - Netflix
Short, kind of introductory and mostly unfulfilling bio on Robert Johnson. Examines the crossroads story, talks about his influence and gets into the "27 club" (the worst part, who cares?). Less than a hour, there's not enough on the songs and artistry and some of it that gets into his influence (Stones, Clapton, Muddy, Zep etc) is vaguely insulting.
I read and watch everything on Johnson so it's not a bad way to spend 50 minutes and if you don't know him maybe it will serve as a good intro......
~6.5/10
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