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Post by PromNightCarrie on Apr 20, 2020 10:30:47 GMT
Tiger King. I tell you, there were so many weird degenerates in this that I couldn't help but be fascinated. Those people oozed crystal meth. Only the campaign manager seemed somewhat normal. I found myself only liking him and the man with no legs. All those zoo/wildlife sanctuary owners were scum. Joe Exotic wasn't about the animals. He was about Joe Exotic. And there was the man using animals to lure young women in so he can run his little harem/cult. Then there is a little murder mystery involving that irritating hypocrite Carole Baskin with her soulless eyes (If what we were shown was true, I can absolutely believe she killed her husband and got away with it.) All of it stranger than fiction.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Apr 26, 2020 19:23:18 GMT
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound - Very rudimentary and has the personality of a film 101 chapter. It's mostly comprised of clips from Lucas and Spielberg movies but from the POV of the sound teams that designed them (Walter Murch, Ben Burtt, Pat Jackson etc.--titans of their craft), so it's educational but not very exciting/engaging if you already know enough about film to appreciate how sound is fundamental to the viewing experience (I feel like at least 30% of this doc is trying to convince you of that). I learned some interesting tidbits but that's about it. Worth a watch if you're down for some quick film history. Love that Roma got a few seconds of airtime.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Apr 26, 2020 19:35:43 GMT
Circus of Books
Decent enough stuff, but it really needed a tighter sense of direction. I wanted more of the couples life in the business and how it coincided with what was going on politically and socially. The parts about their family often seemed too shoehorned.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 3, 2020 0:50:32 GMT
Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out (2012) ~7/10Inferior follow-up to the great Wanted and Desired which here focuses on his 2009 Swiss arrest and his 289 (!) days being held by the Swiss in house arrest. The best thing about this is you see Samantha Geimer's mother and husband interviewed - but very little footage or new info or investigations (the banking scandal that likely lead to Polanski's arrest is never fully explained). Still it's an amazing twist in the story and makes a decent but not essential companion piece to the earlier film by the same director (Marina Zenovich).
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Post by pacinoyes on May 4, 2020 0:20:17 GMT
Stiv: No Compromise, No Regrets (2019) - 6.5+/10Too long, over-glorification of Stiv Bators who wasn't a great Punk rock talent but was a genuine dangerous guy to have in your band and that drives the first third. The next third is more interesting musically - the Disconnected album and The Lords of The New Church and historically too - but starts to falter as you know where this is going (nowhere commercially) even if you never heard of him. The last third becomes repetitive in a way that reveals him and not in a good way. Still - like his music - some of this sticks anyway especially early on ......
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Post by isabelaolive on May 15, 2020 2:19:00 GMT
Amy (2015)I went to watch this documentary almost blind, the most I knew about Amy was that I remembered seeing news about her death in 2011 (but I didn't care much) and hearing 'Rehab' often on the radio and that's it. When she passed away I was 13 years old, so I wasn't very close to music and for me Amy Winehouse was just a name. The documentary is yet another example of artists exploited by family and so-called 'friends' ... There are several artists who claim to write 'personal' songs, but I think this was never as real as in Amy case, before watching the documentary I never saw anything too much in the depressive lyrics of her songs, after all, depression nowadays is something that sells and several artists adopt this 'sad-girl' image, but after knowing about how and why she had problems with alcohol and drugs, the songs look more like a cry for help. The documentary could have been better, I thought it was good but not too deep, but it was satisfactory as an introduction to someone who knew nothing about Amy's life. After watching this documentary I will probably spend hours listening to her songs on Youtube. I loved her style.
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Post by avnermoriarti on May 15, 2020 5:37:29 GMT
isabelaolive Have you seen Maradona, by the same director of Amy ? I think that's more incisive and deeper, the fact that he's still alive and the uncertainty of what's coming next for him make the final moments more resonant. ... I was totally captivated by this two-part documentary on Dirk Bogarde. Lots of gorgeous home movie footage and insightful interviews with Charlotte Rampling and more... Have you seen it @tyler ? you might like it
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Post by cheesecake on May 16, 2020 17:32:03 GMT
I'm four episodes into the Netflix series Trial by Media and I'm just angry all the time.
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Post by fiosnasiob on May 17, 2020 1:34:38 GMT
I rewatched Sand Wars (it's on YouTube), a very interesting and informative documentary, it makes you aware about the tremendous importance of the sand in our lifes.
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Post by Mattsby on May 24, 2020 17:05:02 GMT
The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2020) 7/10 Sort of feels like a glorified DVD supplement, as Peter Medak retraces and grapples with a long-ago failure, a pirate comedy with Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan. Struggles to widen its narrowed perspective, Medak's own, and he treats this like serious career trauma but went on to make The Changeling, Let Him Have It, Romeo is Bleeding, etc! I always thought the Sellers movie wasn't ever finished but apparently it was??? And hell, from the scenes/clips they showed, I'd watch it!
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Post by isabelaolive on May 25, 2020 0:35:01 GMT
isabelaolive Have you seen Maradona, by the same director of Amy ? I think that's more incisive and deeper, the fact that he's still alive and the uncertainty of what's coming next for him make the final moments more resonant. No, I never watched it, I honestly don't consider myself a big fan of sports in general and football just doesn't appeal to me. But thanks for the recommendation.
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Post by isabelaolive on May 25, 2020 0:47:07 GMT
Free Solo (2018)
This documentary is the definition of anxiety. As I said above, I am not very interested in sports and I think that maybe this is the first documentary of this type that I watch, but so many people recommended me that I decided to see it just out of curiosity. I had no idea that there was a type of climbing without equipment, I was amazed to find out that there are people who practice this sport. And the fact that there is a whole film crew, among them some friends who just watch him climb the mountain knowing that at any moment he can just fall off the precipice and die is scary. Even more frightening is the fact that they all lost friends in these circumstances and still continue to practice the sport. Anyway, I think it's a risk some are willing to take when they love something ... I really liked this documentary, it doesn't go too deep into the theme or try to explain the origins of the sport but it fulfills the objective, the last fifteen minutes are breathtaking!
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 25, 2020 1:33:14 GMT
Free Solo (2018)
I really liked this documentary, it doesn't go too deep into the theme or try to explain the origins of the sport but it fulfills the objective, the last fifteen minutes are breathtaking! I love how the whole doc is him preparing for this climb and then he just knocks it out in the last 15 minutes like it's nothing. I also love that my amygdala works
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Post by getclutch on May 27, 2020 20:07:39 GMT
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 27, 2020 21:10:22 GMT
@ getclutch, I just saw this too! Pretty intense eco-thriller. Some of that footage was crazy. What did you think?
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Post by getclutch on May 27, 2020 21:35:29 GMT
@ getclutch , I just saw this too! Pretty intense eco-thriller. Some of that footage was crazy. What did you think? I am just getting more saddened by our human activity destroying this planet. Was not aware of so little Vaquita’s out there, less than twenty at this moment. Overall, it was an intense doc yet made me worry about the whole crew filming this project. Heck, they were being watched! Really reminded me of another doc years ago, The Cove. I will defiantly re-watch this one again.
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Post by Schiggy on May 31, 2020 23:26:24 GMT
I Am Divine.
I liked it. Wish there was more with the actual Divine, though, but I suppose they are limited to what's available.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 1, 2020 22:09:09 GMT
Breadcrumb Trail (2014) - For those who know/love Slint the band who made the strangest, and strangely beloved uncommercial album I can think of maybe in US underground history - 1991's Spiderland. This wasn't the album for the year punk broke this album sounds like the album that broke punk: complex, methodical, at times achingly slow and studied it sounds like almost nothing else and feels like an inscrutable test. The movie shows you how these kids made this album and why it couldn't have been made by any other kids or in any other city than Louisville, Kentucky. Much like that album itself - it's too long (no song on the album is less than 5 minutes), overrated, but easy to underrate simultaneously - compelling, and weirdly unknowable really.......and it shows you how they didn't really NEED to even make Spiderland - a lot of the movie covers them and relationships before the album and they were just as weird/baffling and content then too. 7/10
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Post by isabelaolive on Jun 3, 2020 0:32:03 GMT
Since the last time I wrote here, I’ve watched a considerable number of documentaries that I want to talk about Three Identical Strangers - 3.5/5A good documentary with a story that looks like something out of a Shyamalan movie hahaha. I went to watch it without knowing anything about it and I was surprised, despite the tone getting a little dull and repetitive halfway through the film when some of the things discussed start to get obvious, but it is still a good documentary. Curious how I had never heard of this case before, and it is something that had already gone public years ago ...
De Palma - 3/5It's not bad, but it's very shallow, at the beginning there is some interesting information about De Palma and how he became a filmmaker, how he met Spielberg, Coppola, Lucas and I was extremely surprised to learn that he discovered De Niro and introduced him to Scorsese, I wonder what it would have been like if he had become De Palma's favorite and his many partnerships with Martin had never happened. Anyway, I found the documentary very shallow, it follows the same style as 'Spielberg', where the documented himself narrates the events, but does not have much substance, despite having only 1h30 I was bored before halfway through. However, I liked some things commented on behind the scenes of some films, mainly Carrie, Carlitos Way and Mission: Impossible. I even wonder what it would have been like for De Palma to have directed 'Fatal Attraction' instead of Lyne. Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff - 3/5
I don't have much to say about it, Cardiff certainly had an incredible life and career but the documentary doesn't live up to it. Jane - 3.5/5I'm not very fond of documentaries about animal life, biology or things like that ... But this one caught my attention and I found it extremely inspiring. I felt completely ignorant by the fact that in all these years I have never heard of this woman. It strikes me that until the 1960s, very little was known about primates and their similarities to humans. Taking into account that things like things like vaccines, rockets, television, etc. already existed at that time, I thought that studies on chimpanzees were already more advanced. I find extremely inspiring stories of people like Jane who dedicate their lives to causes that may not even result in great things ... Not only is her story inspiring, but also the story of her ex-husband, Hugo. Curious how there are things that I thought have been studied or discovered for years that are actually so recent ... For Sama - 4/5I usually avoid watching things about wars, since when I was a kid in the 2000s, everywhere was a flood of films, documentaries and TV stories about wars, I grew up seeing photos of starving children in Africa, movies about the bravery of American soldiers fighting in Asian and Middle Eastern countries and although there are some films / documentaries on the subject that I like I kind of got sick of seeing so many things about it.
'For Sama' is not much different from most other films on the topic, with the difference that it is the first one I watch that talks about the situation in Syria. It is a great documentary and although there are scenes of explicit violence that could have been censored (after all, it is not necessary to explicitly show the bodies of dead people to get the message across) I understood why they kept it. Curious how I avoided reading and watching things about wars, I remained ignorant about the situation in Syria, not that I didn't know there was war going on there, but I didn't really know why. Anyway, I think that from now on I will stop reading and watching important topics just because they are 'repetitive' themes.
LA 92 - 4/5This documentary can be summarized in one sentence: "When the people are oppressed and justice is not served, history repeats itself". Watching this documentary about the protests, deaths and looting that took place in 1992 caused by police brutality and racism in the USA was like simply turning on the TV on a random channel and watching the news today. And probably, some years from now, in the 50s and 60s people will watch documentaries about what is happening today, not only about the protests, looting and rioting but also about the commotion on the Internet and they will think the same as we think when we watch about what happened in the past decades and we realize that nothing has changed.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 3, 2020 23:27:53 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. Um, holy sh it............this maybe should be in current news or something ........moderators.......you make the call! British and German authorities are investigating a new suspect in connection with the disappearance of British child Madeleine McCann, 13 years ago. UK authorities on Wednesday described the development as a "significant new line of enquiry."
The three-year-old vanished while sleeping in her family's holiday apartment in Portugal on May 3, 2007, in a case that has since gained widespread media attention in the UK. www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/uk/met-police-madeline-mccann-new-suspect-intl/index.html
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jun 6, 2020 1:23:16 GMT
Oh honey, there's a theory that she was a kind of mail order movie star bride masterminded by Aristotle Onassis to boast Monaco's tourism profile and that Prince Rainier first choice had been Marilyn Monroe but she wasn't interested. Grace Kelly had a wild reputation before she became a virgin again for her wedding as a princess...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2020 1:37:57 GMT
MsMovieStar - Oh honey, I would think Papa Kelly's pockets had something to do with Rainier choosing Grace over Marilyn, too - the dowry was reportedly $2 million. I do know that Onassis wanted to meet Ava Gardner and had Princess Grace set it up - it didn't end well.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jun 6, 2020 7:55:29 GMT
MsMovieStar - Oh honey, I would think Papa Kelly's pockets had something to do with Rainier choosing Grace over Marilyn, too - the dowry was reportedly $2 million. I do know that Onassis wanted to meet Ava Gardner and had Princess Grace set it up - it didn't end well.
Oh honey, I never knew that. There was a dowry?
I can't imagine Ava being tied like that. She was a free spirit. Onassis & Ava - not her type at all. How did it end?
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 7, 2020 19:52:11 GMT
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019) - 6/10. Has the effort of your average dvd extra. It's a fine overview but feels lacking in research or thoroughness, more examples etc, and completely ignores television. Fascinating topic though... made me wanna see Blacula.
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