Rep a Really Good Documentary
fishmongerfunk
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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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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.
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.
U cant get w/ Bad Brains?
So get Protocols and if you haven't seen "The Aristocrats" then do yourself a big favor and get that shit asap as well.
Amazing movie/documentary....music is amazing as well....go see!!!
http://www.searchingforthewrongeyedjesus.com/#
Makes me want to watch it again.....need to buy this on dvd.
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
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/
and Salesman!!!
i forgot about this jem. the freezer frame at the end of buddy's pained expression is priceless.
whats is grey garden about?
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
Rivers and Tides shreds.
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.
The Protocols is (*ducks for cover*) just one jew's opinion, a good documentary it isn't.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181288/
Check it online here.