Rep a Really Good Documentary

fishmongerfunkfishmongerfunk 4,154 Posts
edited August 2007 in Strut Central
Wallowing in unemployment until term time, please to drop knowledge on some high quality, possibly little-known docs. if there is a torrent for it, all the better.ok i'll start it off: babara kopple's "harlan county"http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1291105/3876110/frederick wiseman's "titicut follies"http://www.monova.org/details.php?id=291097
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  • titticut follies is prolly one of my top 3 docs!!!

    man there are so many. its prolly not popular nor pc to say but i really love the flaherty and riefenstahl docs. flaherty was merely a homophobe though and that really aint shit around here. however, riefenstahl was a antisemite or so the story goes. beautiful flicks from both regardless.

    i like louisiana story and moana the best out of flahertys shit. and triumph of the will and that olympic doc of riefenstahls.

    most recently i was really digging "the search for the wrong-eyed jesus". brilliant on a number of different levels.

    i really love joris ivens early docs. regen is my alltime favorite movie. he gets a lil preachy toward the latter part of his career but that early shit like the bridge and of course rain do it for me.

    vertov's kinopravda lenin propaganda was nice as was his experimental shit.

    there's a lomax series of documentaries that are really nice stuffs if u can get your hands on them. its prolly easier than finding the wiseman stuff.

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    American Hardcore

  • that was ok but i really cant get with that music. i even started to watch some of the bonus concert footage and then i realized i really cant stand it. interesting straight ahead music doc.

  • riefenstahl

    check the doc called "the wonderful horrible life of leni riefenstahl"

    http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/26/riefenstahl.html

    as one of the chosen people its hard to admire her; nevertheless she was brilliant in her way. many commercials, rock videos etc were inspired by her technique.

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    that was ok but i really cant get with that music.


    U cant get w/ Bad Brains?

  • i actually dont mind bad brains. but they were but a small part of that doc.

  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,121 Posts
    I'm not deep into the Fania label or salsa in general, but "Our Latin Thing" is really good, as far as music documentaries go.

  • WoimsahWoimsah 1,734 Posts
    I heavily fucked with "The Protocols of Zion" - Mark Levan is a beast on the documentary front. Peeped his new shit at a screening - it's due out soon.... "Mr. Untouchable" which is the story of Nicky Barnes. That shit was dumb fresh as well.

    So get Protocols and if you haven't seen "The Aristocrats" then do yourself a big favor and get that shit asap as well.

  • Capturing the Friedmans was really good...disturbing.


  • markus71markus71 937 Posts
    Have you guys ever seen Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus by Jim White?
    Amazing movie/documentary....music is amazing as well....go see!!!

    http://www.searchingforthewrongeyedjesus.com/#

  • no, whats that?



  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    Have you guys ever seen Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus by Jim White?
    Amazing movie/documentary....music is amazing as well....go see!!!

    http://www.searchingforthewrongeyedjesus.com/#


  • markus71markus71 937 Posts
    Check the link for a taste of it.
    Makes me want to watch it again.....need to buy this on dvd.

  • gravelheadwrapgravelheadwrap corn 948 Posts
    "The Take" | a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0426596/" target="_blank">http://imdb.com/title/tt0426596/[/url]

    http://www.thetake.org/


    In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave.

    All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - The Take - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head.

    In the wake of Argentina's dramatic economic collapse in 2001, Latin America's most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. The Forja auto plant lies dormant until its former employees take action. They're part of a daring new movement of workers who are occupying bankrupt businesses and creating jobs in the ruins of the failed system.

    But Freddy, the president of the new worker's co-operative, and Lalo, the political powerhouse from the Movement of Recovered Companies, know that their success is far from secure. Like every workplace occupation, they have to run the gauntlet of courts, cops and politicians who can either give their project legal protection or violently evict them from the factory.

    The story of the workers' struggle is set against the dramatic backdrop of a crucial presidential election in Argentina, in which the architect of the economic collapse, Carlos Menem, is the front-runner. His cronies, the former owners, are circling: if he wins, they'll take back the companies that the movement has worked so hard to revive.

    http://thetake.org/index.cfm?page_name=synopsis

  • izm707izm707 1,107 Posts
    Coca??ne Cowboys...disturbing. I heard Vol.2 is dropping soon...With the blonde lady as a main story teller.

  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    Soul In The Hole

  • johmbolayajohmbolaya 4,472 Posts
    I Like Killing Flies

    Directed by Matt Mahurin, some of you in NY may know him or his food very well, but it's an interesting story about a guy who worked at a literal hole in the wall, I believe it was once a corner store, and he has over 400 items on the menu, from macaroni & cheese pancakes to taco fried chicken, burrito French toast, as well as normal cuisine. He yells at people all the time, throws them out when he feels like it, but the neighborhood loved him. After years of being in the same place, the landlord tells him that there are new terms, and if he doesn't want to deal with any of them, he can move. A longtime friend gives him an offer he shouldn't refuse, but realizes that even if the move is just two blocks away, it means a change from the (dis)comfort he has known for years. Either that, or he can just quit and live a normal life. Eventually he makes a decision, and one that is good for everybody.

    I've always liked these type of neighborhood documentary films, especially those that have to do with food. It's not so much about the food, but the fact that these guys are giving up a lot of time to feed people, or as Kenny Shopsin says, it allows people to forget about what's going on in the rest of the world for at least 30 minutes, to turn that off and eat something he created.

    http://shopsins.com/


  • SIRUSSIRUS 2,554 Posts
    CRUMB

  • tonyphronetonyphrone 1,500 Posts
    anything by Albert and David Maysles= AKA The Maysles Bros.





    and Salesman!!!


  • Rivers And Tides

  • Salesman!!

    i forgot about this jem. the freezer frame at the end of buddy's pained expression is priceless.

    whats is grey garden about?

  • edith headedith head 5,106 Posts
    "the five obstructions" is really good. for fun rock history stuff, i love the ramones "end of the century" and sex pistols "the filth and the fury" documentaries lots of entertaining and gossipy stories. that can be said for that one on hollywood in the 70's "a decade under the influence" too, love hearing about robert evans greenlighting movies while on the massage table and crazy ass dennis hopper. also i developed an appreciation for william friedkin the person even though i don't like the exorcist movies. he seems like an authentic tough guy and is kinda plus i liked his interviews, he doesn't mince words.

    aside from that brian mcknight song playing at the end, this is easily in my top 3:




    the norman mailer and george plimpton interviews are so good. their descriptions of everything surrounding that fight are downright poetic

    i think my most favorite documentary has to be The Fog of War



    seriously, it doesn't get more perfect than this. i've seen it at least 4 times. my face melted during every viewing


  • parsecparsec 5,087 Posts
    Erroll Morris

  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    Rivers And Tides

    Rivers and Tides shreds.

  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    Erroll Morris

    yeah, basically any Errol Morris, Thin Blue Line is incredible, def Fog of War, Fast Cheap and Out of Control is pretty insane as well.

    The Staircase which was a doc series on the Sundance Channel is on DVD. Def worth checking out.

    Wiseman's other docs are great as well, High School I thought was very good.

  • LamontLamont 1,089 Posts
    I heavily fucked with "The Protocols of Zion" - Mark Levan is a beast on the documentary front. Peeped his new shit at a screening - it's due out soon.... "Mr. Untouchable" which is the story of Nicky Barnes. That shit was dumb fresh as well.

    So get Protocols and if you haven't seen "The Aristocrats" then do yourself a big favor and get that shit asap as well.

    The Protocols is (*ducks for cover*) just one jew's opinion, a good documentary it isn't.

  • PSellersPSellers 157 Posts
    i enjoyed 'american movie' lots!

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181288/

  • pknypkny 549 Posts


    Check it online here.
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