Snarf
Dystopia
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This is intended to be a thread where you can introduce and discuss any kind of documentary you enjoy or would recommend. I searched and couldn't find a similar existing thread.
Last night I watched a short PBS Doc on Origami called Between the Folds:
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I had no idea how complex this art form was, all the math and science involved, the technique, etc. Blew my mind!
jimbach
Short North (WP division)
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Mercurius
First Avenue
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Man on Wire
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1155592/
Parking Lot Movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1504300/
Herb and Dorthy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1227929/
Gates of Heaven
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077598/
Cookie
Flyntonville
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jimbach said:
As much as I love film, I really don't like documentaries at all. I generally go out of my way to avoid them. With that in mind, let me recommend Dig!, a documentary by Ondi Timoner about The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. It's really fantastic.
I recommend listening to all three of the commentaries as well.
Mercurius
First Avenue
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The Gleaners and I
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247380/
Our Daily Bread
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765849/
Surfwise
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479547/
Hearts of Darkness
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102015/
the_linotypist
Olde North Columbus
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I highly recommend IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL, a documentary about reclusive author and artist Henry Darger, who lived in Chicago and died in 1973. Here is the Wikipedia entry about him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger
jarsloth
west side
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We've been watching a lot of documentaries about North Korea lately; really interesting subject as the country is so isolated (these are also all on Netflix):
Kimjongilia
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1180311/
Crossing the Line
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473181/
Seoul Train
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402492/
Vice Guide to Travel: Guide to North Korea
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/vice-guide-travel-north-korea/
Mister Shifter
Lewis Center
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War Dance
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0912599/
Beer Wars
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1326194/
jmak
Gahanna
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Mercurius said:
Gates of Heaven
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077598/
Have you seen "Vernon, Florida" also by Errol Morris? It has quite a cast of eccentric characters and as many quotable lines as a Monty Python movie. My wife's grandparents live about an hour away from Vernon so we went there one day. A woman in the little town hall gave us the directions to the Turkey Hunter's trailer (same one from the movie) and we ended up talking to him for over an hour. Quite a character.
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jmak said:
Have you seen "Vernon, Florida" also by Errol Morris? It has quite a cast of eccentric characters and as many quotable lines as a Monty Python movie. My wife's grandparents live about an hour away from Vernon so we went there one day. A woman in the little town hall gave us the directions to the Turkey Hunter's trailer (same one from the movie) and we ended up talking to him for over an hour. Quite a character.
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SusanB
Hungarian Village, Columbus' fastest growing Gayborhood!
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Ok Walker, I was just going to watch this thread unfold. There are so many great docs I hardly know where to start. The Best Of Festival this year was Barbershop Punk, a great doc on internet neutrality that everyone on CU should see. It's only on the festival circuit right now but by next year it should be available (hopefully).
Most of our recent screeners can't be seen anywhere else for a bit or ever in Columbus (that's why you should always attend the CIFVF screenings).
You could always start with the classics. Nanook of the North, Night and Fog, Triumph of the Will, The Atomic Cafe, and then move on to The Thin Blue Line, Bowling for Columbine, Food, Inc. and many more for the contemporary doc list.
I'll never forget Becoming a Women in Zanskar, but I don't think it's available anywhere in the US at this point.
ChrisSunami
King-Lincoln District
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Top of my list would be "Dancing Outlaw" the story of Jessco H. White, an unconventional free spirit from West Virginia, and his alternate personalities "Jesse" and "Elvis".
Right next to it would be "The Cruise" the life and times of New York tour guide Timothy "Speed" Levitch (featured in the cult classic "Waking Life").
"Hoop Dreams" is considered the gold standard for documentaries --the story of two inner city kids watching their dreams of NBA stardom fall apart.
"Paris is Burning" - the complex lives of New York city drag queens in the 80's.
I can also recommend an entry from last year's Film Fest (one of my wife's close friends was a producer of the film) "Which Way Home", about two street kids sneaking illegally into America.
Last years' slam poetry doc "Louder than a Bomb" was great. Along a similar line was "Rize", about the development of a new form of street dancing in California.
I've got more, but these are good places to start. Snarf, you'd love "Outlaw" if you haven't seen it yet. Jessco is also featured in two other documentaries, including last year's "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia"
OH --and of course for local flavor there's the award-winning but controversial depiction of gentrification tensions in Old Towne East -- "Flag Wars"
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Campus
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HA! When I read the title of this thread, my first thought was "Between the Folds." That was an amazing documentary. Rarely do I watch a documentary and wish it were twice as long.
SusanB
Hungarian Village, Columbus' fastest growing Gayborhood!
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+1 on Which Way Home, last year's CIFVF Best of Fest winner. Paris is Burning is also fab. Not crazy about Flag Wars because I know what was left out.....a great local doc maker is Tom Hayes. Very controversial stuff about the Intifada on the West Bank, People and the Land. His new one (unfinished) looks even more amazing.
ChrisSunami
King-Lincoln District
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HA! When I read the title of this thread, my first thought was "Between the Folds." That was an amazing documentary. Rarely do I watch a documentary and wish it were twice as long.
I'll have to look for this. I have to admit, I don't readily picture "snarf" and "PBS documentary on Japanese paper folding" as a match.
Coreroc said:
Style Wars. In case you would like to know a little about what inspires a graffiti artist and how the artform developed in NY decades ago.
I nearly forgot: Banksy's "Exit Through the Gift Shop" rocked my world. Although there's some dispute over whether it's a real documentary or just a mockumentary masquerading as real.
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Now, before you say "I hate Michael Moore"...I do too, but his first big work was outstanding:
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This is the first in a series, the final of the three coming out on HBO next month. It may change the way you think about things.
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