Good Documentaries

justine

justine

stop the penistry
if you want to watch something really sad and heartbreaking, there's this documentary about the pets left behind in the wake of hurricane katrina.

i got about 15mins into it and seriously began to think maybe i would have to turn it off - all the images of stranded/abandoned/injured/starving animals was really hard to watch.
 
yojimbo

yojimbo

Last one i saw i was about Bukowski, The Charles Bukowski's Tapes, very good and insightful look at the man and writer.
 
Ambreen

Ambreen

Sordide Sentimental
Has anybody seen When you're strange, the docu (first ever made!) on the Doors?

Oh and this one looks very cute: [This video is unavailable.].
Yesterday, I saw a poster in the street with the face of the baby from Namibia on it and there was written : "For the first time on screen: Ponijao" (his name). I found this so lovely.
 
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Stavrogin

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"Rust and decay. Within that is the warmth of the soul..."
 
Ponder

Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
Thanks, chronic!! Just what I needed.

I think I start with `Do I Drink Too Much`
 
chronic

chronic

old and in the way
Just watched Year Zero - The Silent Death of Cambodia which, over 30 years later, is still intensely upsetting.

I've read a couple of books about Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge but still have never been able to understand what their aim was. Most ideologies seem to have, at their base, some perceived good for some group of people. What the Khmer Rouge did was beyond barbaric and had no possible good outcome for anyone. It does seem in retrospect, that their rise was planned by both America and China, but I still can't see what benefit it could have possibly had to either China or America. I guess it's just something that I'll never be able to understand.

It's interesting that Hitler and the Nazis are held up as having inflicted the most abhorrent crimes against humanity that the world has ever seen while the Khmer Rouge is rarely mentioned, even though what they did was probably worse, albeit on a smaller scale.
 
Mark73

Mark73

chronic, the documentaries site is a great find. Thank you for sharing.

Just watched "The World's Scariest Ghosts Caught On Tape" and will dig deeper into the mystery world tonight with "We Are The Aliens".
 
Scout

Scout

I'd name a few but you all seem to have covered it. Didn't see Brother's Keeper although I may of missed it. Apart from loving Burn's Civil War I also enjoyed his Baseball series. Waco: Rules of engagement, Crazy Love & Overnight were also good.
 
nervas

nervas

more crickets than friends
Rob. said:
End of the Century The Story of The Ramones
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I was cleaning the house this weekend, and pulled out my old VHS copy of the first Ramones documentary, We're Outta Here. I don't think it was ever available on anything but VHS?

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Anyway, it completely covers the last Ramones show ever at the Hollywood Palace. It's a great documentary, and runs 2hrs 30mins(wow, that's as long as Inglorious Basterds) but I tell ya, this documentary is way better! It's kinda cool to see how some of the band, friends, and family were kinda upset that they would hold the last Ramones show in Los Angeles. At the time Johnny was living in L.A. and had all his Hollywood friends, so refused to do it in New York. Dee Dee wasn't even in the band at this point, but he does join to sing Love Kills in classic Dee Dee manner, found below. It's cool, at the beginning of the clip, Marky Ramone is on the phone with Dee Dee trying to convince him to be in the film, do some interviews, etc and Dee Dee refuses. Also CLASSIC moment at 1:50 in this clip...Dee Dee can't remember the words to the song, so he completely butchers the song, and finally says, that's me, that's just the way I am! He looks so messed up, hard to believe the show was in 1996 and he lived another 6 years longer.
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The doc covers a lot of their career and has a ton of interviews and special guests. Anyway, a must see for any Ramones fan, or music documentary fans. It's not just the concert, definitely a must see documentary. Here's a cover of anyway you want it from the film with Eddie Vedder. It's the very last song of the concert, making it the last song the Ramones ever played. And unlike all the most bands, when they said they were done, they really meant it. Poor Joey died 5 years later and Johnny 8 years later, but I'm not sure they would have reunited, they really did hate each other as many of you have seen in the End of the Century doc.
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Petey

Petey

RIP
The DVD " Anvil - the story of Anvil " arrived last week from Amazon - best docu of the last years for sure , Lips rules !
 
bospress.net

bospress.net

www.bospress.net
I love the British. We have a lot of family in South-end-on-Sea. Even the cops there are polite. They actually called her "love". Here, the cops would have shot them both to keep them from hurting themselves.

Bill
 
justine

justine

stop the penistry
anyone here seen House of Numbers? i found it really eye-opening - i had no idea there was so much controversy surrounding the 'existence', definition and diagnosis of HIV/AIDS.
 
justine

justine

stop the penistry
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

- really hilarious and totally sad story about a famous hillbilly family
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

Usually wrong.
In the Realms of the Unreal is pretty good. Love Darger. Didn't know that was o.p.

A new doc, Public Speaking, about Fran Lebowitz, is good.


 
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