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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2022 20:40:33 GMT
Often cited as the definitive documentary on the subject of abortion... It's an uncomfortable, explicit watch, for sure, but it absolutely strengthened my pro-choice views.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 18, 2022 17:28:36 GMT
@tyler I've been avoiding that one because I've heard conflicting things about Kaye's presentation. I've seen that "pro-life" viewers will find just as much in there to reinforce their views and pro-choice viewers. Did you find that to be the case? one great documentary about abortion I've seen is After Tiller from 2013, which follows the only four doctors in the US (at the time, who knows if they're still practicing) who performed third-trimester abortions. Most women who terminate late-term pregnancies do so after becoming aware of fetal abnormalities or health risks to themselves, but its compassionate message is universal given how many states dehumanize abortion-seeking women. The doc can be watched as a ubiquitous glimpse into the heartache of being a pregnant woman seeking a necessary abortion in an environment where abortion is largely inaccessible -- which will apply to millions of women in red states soon regardless of trimester -- AND as a reminder of the danger & violence abortion providers face from "pro-life" extremists. The title refers to the 2009 assassination of Dr. Tiller.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2022 17:32:17 GMT
Tommen_Saperstein - Honestly, no. I think there's no question that Kaye is pro-choice. I'll shoot you a PM. The Tiller case is just so sad to me... Yet again, an instance where Fox News had blood on its hands.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2022 14:59:45 GMT
Oscar winner for Best Documentary. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, with excerpts from Anne's diary read so beautifully by Glenn Close... A heartbreaking love letter to this precious girl.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 16, 2022 23:53:41 GMT
The Janes (2022) - released on HBO Max like a 6.5/10 Structurally it's a straightforward oral history of the Jane Collective told by some of the women who ran it and supplemented by photos, occasional archival footage, and a plethora of interesting anecdotes (the best of which involving a pork roast). These women were heroes and they all deserve medals. And it's crazy that one of the only things that kept them from facing potential life terms for facilitating safe & compassionate abortions to needy women was the Roe v. Wade decision, which effectively nullified their charges in the nick of time. In a Chicago rife with dangerous abortions and exploitative male practitioners, the Jane Collective created a covert almost entirely female network to illegally provide abortions to desperate women, and when the male doctors couldn't be counted on, they learned the procedures themselves. Sadly it feels backward-looking from a place of safety when everyone right now who values bodily autonomy feels anything but safe. It doesn't do enough to meet the moment. There's a distance to the filmmaking which implies a sense of comfort, that everything is better now, and that wasn't true even before the SC leak. The sense that "everything is better now" when it comes to reproductive rights while technically true completely diminishes the fact that safe & legal abortions remain largely out of reach for many poor women and women of color throughout this country, and that red states have been relentlessly and systematically chipping away at these hard-fought freedoms the second women acquired them. The potential reversal of Roe is the capstone to those efforts but they've been ongoing for decades and with much success. In the face of all that, this doc feels like receiving a pamphlet while watching your house burn down.
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Post by michael128 on Jun 17, 2022 20:31:37 GMT
Halftime. Marvelous
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2022 16:33:46 GMT
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made (1994): This film follows Jim Jarmusch and Old Hollywood writer-director Sam Fuller as they head deep into Brazil's Amazon Rain Forest... Fuller wishes to re-connect with the Karaja, a tribe of peaceful river Indians whom he met 40 years earlier while scouting locations for a film that was never made - a film he wrote with John Wayne, Ava Gardner, and Tyrone Power in mind. It's a gentle, shaggy, buddy-type documentary - it's utterly charming to watch Jarmusch and Fuller banter back and forth.
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Post by Mattsby on Aug 1, 2022 17:10:43 GMT
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made (1994): This film follows Jim Jarmusch and Old Hollywood writer-director Sam Fuller as they head deep into Brazil's Amazon Rain Forest... Fuller wishes to re-connect with the Karaja, a tribe of peaceful river Indians whom he met 40 years earlier while scouting locations for a film that was never made - a film he wrote with John Wayne, Ava Gardner, and Tyrone Power in mind. It's a gentle, shaggy, buddy-type documentary - it's utterly charming to watch Jarmusch and Fuller banter back and forth. Just watched this-- didn't know it existed tbh! Thanks for posting. I liked it a lot -- the great Sam Fuller and Jarmusch are an amusing duo. They look like C3PO and R2D2 in Tatooine lol. Pretty funny at times... When the guys are chanting for Fuller... he goes, "If they're saying Hollywood, they're too late!" It's also an interesting ravel of endeavor and memory, thru filmmaking, how Fuller enters his own lore and finds a realized place for the pieces (the documentary itself). And it's quite touching how the Karaja consider the film of them - their departed tribesmen are "alive again."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2022 2:48:21 GMT
Jane by Charlotte (2021) - A lovely, intimate look at Jane Birkin, as seen through the eyes of her daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2022 3:48:53 GMT
No Frank in Lumberton (1988) - A surrealist behind-the-scenes look at the production of Lynch's Blue Velvet in Wilmington, North Carolina, shot for German television by director Peter Braatz.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2022 1:04:25 GMT
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond (1990) - A look into the personal and professional life of Vivien Leigh, narrated by Jessica Lange, who has always considered Leigh to be her favorite actress.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Sept 12, 2022 1:58:04 GMT
The Princess (Ed Perkins, HBO) Decent doc but doesn't offer anything new to the Diana Mythos. Whatever revelations I learned from this thing I will have forgotten tomorrow, whereas I'm still haunted by last year's Spencer which laid bare more truth with fantasy than can ever be revealed through archival footage (especially of this much-picked over sad chapter in pop culture history). In sidestepping obvious backwards-looking commentary from contemporary subjects, Perkins finds himself in an equally awkward bind of simply not saying enough.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Sept 15, 2022 21:00:15 GMT
The Last Movie Stars - directed by Ethan Hawke (!) this was remarkable. A biographical docuseries about Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman (about both of their careers and their marriage) that does everything right and justifies a lengthy six-episode run with sensitivity, thoughtfulness and a conversational approach that makes the project digestible and engaging. The conceit is brilliant in its simplicity -- Ethan Hawke just got together with his showbiz buddies on Zoom and in between conversations about these two subjects has them read transcripts from old interviews. The highlights are Brooks Ashmanskas as Gore Vidal and especially George Clooney & Laura Dern who give voice to Newman & Woodward themselves, but there's a whole cast of familiar faces who were in on this. Extensively relying on these interview transcripts along with clips and other primary sources and Zoom interviews with remaining family members, Hawke has made something truly special that honors the legacy not only of Woodward & Newman's brilliant careers but also their enduring partnership. Towards the end it gets really sweet. The timeline is chronological so there's an intrinsic significance of combining Newman's cancer diagnosis and Woodward's Alzheimer's with clips from Color of Money and Mr. and Mrs. Bridge. This is not a typical biographical doc the way Listen to Me Marlon wasn't typical. It goes deeper than average and is more fun and more loose, and its love for its subjects comes through in Hawke's presence. must-watch for anyone with HBO Max. I've seen a lot of boring docs this year so I was sort of caught off guard by how much of a palette cleanser this was, and how great a doc can be when done right and by the right people.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 28, 2022 0:12:53 GMT
Travelin' Band : Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall (2022) on Netflix This is great......narrated by Jeff Bridges........focusing on music from their two 1969 masterpieces Green River and Willy and The Poor Boys this movie captures how at odds with hippie culture they really were......I could make a case for them as the first great populiist American band - or at least a populist band that hit more higher highs first. Perfect if you're a fan of them or those 2 records at least .......or if you never quite got them - lots of unseen footage to win you over.....
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Post by Mattsby on Nov 2, 2022 2:44:03 GMT
Section 1 (2022) - fun 40ish min data-packed documentary thriller from some sport Youtubers.....really just for NFL fans, I watched bc the setup had me intrigued -- basically, a plane will crash and kill people in the upper-deck stadium unless one team totally humiliates the other, sending fans home early! but what really sent me rushing to it, multiple reviewers compared the screen layering to De Palma. Bit of a stretch but it got me to go for it.
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 17, 2022 12:59:42 GMT
The Assassination and Mrs. Paine (2022) Essential viewing .......in a way...... but not in THE way imo.......@tyler , Joaquim , Martin Stett , Tommen_Saperstein may be interested in this but it's a bit long @ 100 minutes .....not so much politically maybe but historically / culturally Kind of makes the film JFK look like just the tip of the iceberg ..... Mrs. Paine is covered in that (impressive, fine but a bit overrated film imo) but only in a small way - with a changed name - where she may have been bigger, far bigger (?)........or a smaller player (!?!).......wittingly or unwittingly..... ............and she's still alive.......quite lucid, intelligent and even charming ......she's in her mid-80s There are no answers here but there's a whole lot of fun (or boring, depending on your POV) corollaries to call the assassination of JFK - the first coup in our US history (the term is used here more than once).......the tantalizing possibility of a nice old (Leftist, but not in any way seemingly "dangerous") lady who - with her husband (possibly dangerous (or not), and a bit more complex?) - under the sway of a kind of noblesse oblige (the term used in the movie actually) was involved (or not) in an (unproven) Parallax View style like thicket of conspiracies ..... Like I said.......no answers .........at all..........but some sobering thoughts anyway - weirdly a lot of those are apart from Mrs. Paine herself.... who gets to refute every theory against her here - it is remarkably even-handed as a documentary.......and yet in our conspiracy theory culture run amok she still seems highly suspicious
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Nov 17, 2022 15:20:09 GMT
@ pacinoyes >100 ratings on IMDb so I probably wouldda never heard about this without your rec but it looks fascinating! Love stories like this that have "no answers" because you can find a lot of truth on the journey if you're asking the right questions. This looks right up my alley, thanks for the shoutout! and tbh I need to see some good docs about now. They're soooo oversaturated with streamers pushing them out all the time. Already seen a handful this year and my favorite is still Jackass Forever
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Dec 8, 2022 18:12:03 GMT
The Assassination & Mrs. Paine (Max Good) it's time to crack out the tinfoil hats again and re-open the can of worms that is the JFK assassination, the Warren Report, and leftist conspiracy theories about far-right coups! The star of the show is the dead-eyed Mrs. Paine. An allegedly Quaker housewife who just happened to be intimately connected with Lee Harvey Oswald, just happened to have him staying at her house. just happened to have gotten him the Dallas job that would put him in position to shoot the president, and just happened to be able to supply the police with an orgy of evidence of Oswald's guilt. including incriminating letters, pictures, files, and even the murder weapon. How could this innocent old lady be the center of a far-right coup? And yet... the circumstantial evidence just keeps piling up and piling up around her. Max Good interviews both sides and finds deeply compelling reasons to believe in her guilt or innocence. We'll probably never know what happens, at least not until POTUS unseals those records and gives the tinfoil hats the receipts they've been waiting for, but Good's documentary again proves the value of asking unanswerable questions. At the very least, it's entertaining as hell. thanks again for the rec, @ pacinoyes because this is currently my fav doc of the year and I never would've heard about it. I hope it finds some kind of audience, I feel like 5 years ago this would've been a more significant release and potential awards contender but there are so many docs released these days that it just got lost in the shuffle. For those interested, it's on Kanopy but also available to rent on Google, Youtube, Prime Video, all the usual suspects.
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 15, 2022 22:08:49 GMT
Heiligabend auf St. Pauli (1968)This merry bender of German direct-cinema comes in the hangover of On the Bowery (1956) (“I’m the dryest guy at the party, I was waitin’ for ya to spring a drink”) and is like a yuley pre-game to Bloody Nose Empty Pockets (2020), as the local Hamburgians crowd a small bar on xmas eve and wonder whether they’re celebrating the holiday or trying to forget it. Lots of boozy losing out and overheard wit (“Love?? You’ll slow us down!”). Something sad stuck in the air of it. 50min on YouTube (translated subs).
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Post by getclutch on Jan 24, 2023 20:12:39 GMT
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Post by VERITAS on Jan 24, 2023 23:10:30 GMT
Fire of Love. Finally. Was beyond elated seeing it get nominated...
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 8, 2023 7:09:51 GMT
Andrew Dominik's latest Nick Cave doc This Much I Know to Be True featuring performances from Ghosteen and Carnage. Fantastic. Their previous collab was a full 7 years ago with One More Time with Feeling in 2016 and this is best watched with that film in context. One More Time found Cave dealing with the aftermath of his son's death and working on the pitch-black Skeleton Tree so this film in contrast feels like a sigh of relief. Performances are beautiful, especially "Spinning Song" from Ghosteen which feels like a final farewell to a loved one, and the heavenward "Lavender Fields" off Carnage. In between performances, Dominik peppers in Cave's musings about identity and purpose in the face of loss. He's never sounded so forward-looking and optimistic. If One More Time with Feeling was Cave staring into the abyss of his grief, this film is him coming out the other side and back into the light.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 28, 2023 6:33:53 GMT
Woooooo! Becoming Ric Flair (2022)Ric Flair - the star of America's national soap opera for men / grand timewaster - Professinal Wrestling - as a character and in a performance of that character - the GOAT .....not because he always won......but because even in his prime - he was unafraid to lose as scripted and then win as scripted..........a master of wrestling promotion psychology, wrestling gimmick and crucially how to play to the camera - a movie about him should be a classic. He was as also "well acted" as any movie character too........emerging in the era where what he did was specifically unsuitable for the masses and more than a little sleazy...... This would have been so much better if it lived up to the title - I'll tell you Ric Flair was maybe at his best right before he ever won a title - but this movie skims over his fascinating, 70s matches and focuses on his shaping of the character (and Ric in interviews a bit too much). People say he wrestled the same match ........but that misses a lot of years where he did not.... Some of this first hour is great anyway (the getting hit by lightning story, wtf?!?) but too many early great matches - Valentine, Piper, Reed, Race (and more!) are just totally missing - at the expense of the usual drunken, womanizing stories. Still this is at its best when Flair was around 27 or 28 until around 43 or 44....... circa 1978-his beating Vader (whenever that was - I don't think Vader is actually mentioned!) - not amazing, but an easy intro to Riding Space Mountain, his influences (not just Buddy Rogers but Jerry Lee Lewis and Joe Namath) - some cool stuff in the era - weird talking head stuff from Stephen A. Smith, Mike Tyson, Post-Malone (um) ..........the best parts are Flair as a real life Frankenstein's monster where he loves the character he created too much............. and it took him over........
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2023 14:30:13 GMT
Catwalk (1995) - Follows supermodel Christy Turlington (the most beautiful of the 90s era models - that bone structure! ) as she dashes about Milan, Paris, and New York from one job to the next. Other top models of the day are featured - Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Carla Bruni - it's quite fun to see the friendships these women formed. My favorite bit is when she takes some time from her hectic Paris schedule to visit the flagship Hermès boutique - she buys a beautiful Bolide. She's shown a saddle (so fitting, as she was discovered at an equestrian event in California when she was 15) - she says she'll buy it after she does "a few more shows." MsMovieStar LaraQ Allenism - Have you guys seen this one?
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Post by LaraQ on Feb 28, 2023 14:55:58 GMT
Catwalk (1995) - Follows supermodel Christy Turlington (the most beautiful of the 90s era models - that bone structure! ) as she dashes about Milan, Paris, and New York from one job to the next. Other top models of the day are featured - Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Carla Bruni - it's quite fun to see the friendships these women formed. My favorite bit is when she takes some time from her hectic Paris schedule to visit the flagship Hermès boutique - she buys a beautiful Bolide. She's shown a saddle (so fitting, as she was discovered at an equestrian event in California when she was 15) - she says she'll buy it after she does "a few more shows." MsMovieStar LaraQ Allenism - Have you guys seen this one? Yes,I watched it last year on YouTube.I love that era,the models were so stunning.Christy Turlington might have the most flawless face I've ever seen.
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