The Documentary Film Thread

[FloorFiller]

2 hours ago, Winslow Leach said:

Have you watched Bitter Lake yet? 

nope but just given it a look up and i definitely will be!

always meant to get round to watching documentaries as i do love em, but just don't have the patience/time to sift through the shite ones in order to find something great, which is why i asked for some suggestions

[When Jokers Attack]

Listen To Me Marlon is fantastic, Loved some of the recordings they used in it and it was edited well with the footage. 

 

[The Nal]

This looks interesting

 

 

[The Nal]

Couple available. 

All Things Must Pass - The Rise and Fall of Tower Records. Worth a watch.

Prescription Thugs. Follow up to Bigger, Stronger, Faster. Will be checking it out later.

[The Nal]

Absolutely fascinating stuff. Fascinating man. Fascinating time. Never heard a man in power use so many racial slurs so openly!

• I have the greatest affection for them [Negroes] but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like.

Err.... Dicky?!

 

 

Edited March 7, 2016 by The Nal

[The Nal]

Zoo Quest to be aired (in colour!) on Attenboroughs 90th birthday in May.  

[FloorFiller]

new Louis Theroux 'Drinking to Oblivion' being shown on BBC2 on Sunday at 9pm

[The Nal]

Just me then? 

OJ - Made in America out at the moment. First episode last night. Looks great.

Ties in well as I've just started reading Outrage by Vincent Bugliosi

[The Nal]

That O.J. doc is superb. Watched it all twice.

Watched The Beatles Eight Days a Week. Some good stuff in there but nowt you haven't seen before apart from very nicely restored footage and a bit of fan footage too. Was hoping for some lurid tales - Roger Moores, affairs, drugs, Epsteins death after they stopped touring and how it was Lennon who introduced him to pills etc - but never going to get that with Lennon dead I suppose. Decent watch but all very nice and safe.

Louis Theroux's My Scientology Movie available now....

Edited October 5, 2016 by The Nal

[lost]

New Adam Curtis hypernormalisation is apprently up on iplayer later today

Edited October 16, 2016 by lost

[Amy Lawn]

On 10/5/2016 at 4:56 PM, The Nal said:

Louis Theroux's My Scientology Movie available now....

Did you watch this Nal? I went to the cinema screening on Monday, I really enjoyed it, been a while since I've enjoyed a bit of Theroux that much, I'd go as far as to say it's one of his best ever.

[The Nal]

55 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Did you watch this Nal? I went to the cinema screening on Monday, I really enjoyed it, been a while since I've enjoyed a bit of Theroux that much, I'd go as far as to say it's one of his best ever.

I enjoyed it yeah although after the HBO documentary I sort of feel like its already been done.

I find the anti Scientology movement a bit odd anyway. Its no worse than any other religion. 

[Amy Lawn]

58 minutes ago, The Nal said:

I enjoyed it yeah although after the HBO documentary I sort of feel like its already been done.

I find the anti Scientology movement a bit odd anyway. Its no worse than any other religion. 

I never saw the HBO doc actually, so I found it pretty original. All the other Scientology stuff I've seen is all, as you say, anti-Scientology, but I find it hard to be outraged about a bunch of dipshit geeks who only really are any harm to each other. What Scientology acutally is, is piss-your-pants funny, and I thought this really played up the absurdity angle of it all. The guy they had as a consultant, and the Scientologists who showed up to try to harass them hadn't realised that they themselves were the film, which for me was the brilliance of it all. I found it an really original way of Theroux doing his usual thing of letting people show themselves up, but without them realising it. They thought they were involved in the making of a super-serious film about how super-serious it all is, but really it was a bit of bait to get them to show up and be showcased. So for me it really was the film about Scientology I wanted to see, because it wasn't a #shocking expose about all the weird shit they get up to among themselves, it was a pretty clever insight into the absurdities of it and an insight into the mind of a Scientologist to understand how people end up doing this silly shit. Scientology isn't outregous or shocking, it's a pretty funny satire of lots of parts of the more cartoonish elements of American culture, and this was the best use of it I've seen.

Edited October 16, 2016 by GETOFFAMYLAWN

[FloorFiller]

On 10/16/2016 at 2:17 PM, The Nal said:

I enjoyed it yeah although after the HBO documentary I sort of feel like its already been done.

yeah kind of how i felt about it. felt like he was a bit late in the game and everything that he found out/had to say had been said and done before. not bad but not worth the months of hype leading up to it

[The Nal]

Enjoyed Man vs Snake: The Long and Twisted Tale of Nibbler. 

 

[Winslow Leach]

Watched the new Adam Curtis film, Hypernormalisation. It's the most Adam Curtis thing that Adam Curtis has ever Adam Curtised. His usual blend of Actually Really Interesting and Insightful and Actual Literal Nonsense, but turned up to 11 and spread over nearly 3 hours. 

There's some interesting stuff in there, but it's not Bitter Lake. 

[big__phil]

Not strictly a doc, and not really a new release, but I watched Taxi Tehran the other night. I really enjoyed it, and am definitely going to have to check out more of Jafar Panahi's stuff.

[Winslow Leach]

35 minutes ago, big__phil said:

Not strictly a doc, and not really a new release, but I watched Taxi Tehran the other night. I really enjoyed it, and am definitely going to have to check out more of Jafar Panahi's stuff.

This Is Not a Film was pretty great. I haven't seen Taxi Tehran yet but he's a really interesting filmmaker.

[The Nal]

Oasis doc available. 

[Spindles]

This was a fascinating look into the end of the 80s and why it happened.  I turned 18 that summer, got myself involved in the free party scene in the west country and found my to Glastonbury for the first time (albeit only driving 20 miles down the road to buy drugs, spend some time with mates having a laugh and drive back again).  Watching this reminds me why I'm the dropout I am and not regret a moment.

 

[When Jokers Attack]

On 01/11/2016 at 11:12 AM, The Nal said:

Oasis doc available. 

I can't find it anywhere!

 

Watched this last night, loved it

 

 

Edited November 3, 2016 by When Jokers Attack

[The Nal]

7 minutes ago, When Jokers Attack said:

I can't find it anywhere!

Here you go

 

[When Jokers Attack]

10 minutes ago, The Nal said:

Here you go

 

Nice one, just as you posted this I found it on a site I use but cheers anyway.

[The Nal]

Looks interesting!

 

[Spindles]

Eight days a week, Ron Howard's Beatles documentary, made for good watching.  I'd seen much of the footage before, but laid out as it was as a timeline, with reconstructed stills and video being played over archive audio I found it to be a good history of the first half of their career.  I'd be very happy to see a post Sergeant Pepper film in a similar style.