Yes, Bill Cunningham is a very interesting documentary. What is unsaid is as interesting as what is said. He apparently has no life other than photographing what people wear, and that seems to be all he wants to do. A happy monomaniac. And a very likable character.
That's a shame, from what I've heard they spoke with a patois that fused Virgil with Romani colloquialism. You could've unearthed their secrets with offerings of shortbread.
DiG! (as previously mentioned) is pretty incredible. My favourite (by the same film-maker) is one called, We Live In Public. Modify is also pretty spectacular.
Best Worst Movie, about the making of Troll 2, is a really great doc - particularly for the scenes with the mother, who is (in real life) 7 kinds of crazy.
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?
Best Worst Movie, about the making of Troll 2, is a really great doc - particularly for the scenes with the mother, who is (in real life) 7 kinds of crazy.
Hey mjp. I can't remember now if it runs that long, but I just re-checked my tape and it does show 150minutes. Is this the version you have? I thought there was only one version, but maybe not...
I'm not sure if it's ok to plug a documentary or not, but I think most people who appreciate Buk will really enjoy watching this film. It's called I, Curmudgeon by Alan Zweig.
I watched a great 80 min. documentary on TV today called "Kumaré - The False Guru", about an American of Indian descent who sets out to prove all those guru's are not more spiritual than the rest of us. So, he invents a completely bogus meditation system, dresses himself as an Indian guru with a loin cloth and a cape and a long staff, and with long beard and hair and he speaks broken English with an exaggerated Indian accent and he soon gets a bunch of followers who all think he's the best thing since sliced bread. One obese follower loses 70 pounds, thanks to the "wisdom" she receives from the fake guru, and some of the other followers thinks the guru has changed their lives forever and for the better, such as a young girl who had no purpose in life and did'nt want to work, who ends up being a certified yoga instructor. At the end, the fake guru reveals himself and stands before his followers after he's cut his hair and shaved his beard off and dressed himself in his normal clothes. He tells them about the experiment, that he's really an American (of Indian descent), and how he wanted to prove that nobody is more spiritual than anybody else, and that you should'nt listen to so called gurus. About 2/3 of the followers reacts in a positive way and still likes him (amazing!), but the last 1/3 refuses to have anything to do with him feeling they've been had.
It's from 2011 or 2012, so I don't think it's not on Amazon yet.
Saw the Marley documentary this afternoon. Lots of chills throughout, and most of the story I didn't know. Such was my life. Then I messed it up by watching the Graceland documentary just put on A&E. Should have waited so I wouldn't have the two moving through my brain (what there is of it) at the moment.
You think this forum is so powerful and mind-altering that it can make people type things they don't believe?
Speaking of mind altering, I saw Rush in an arena the 70s, at the height of their fame. I did not like their music, but my friends and I went to see everyone. We were equal opportunity that way. And you never knew, a band you didn't care for could really surprise you.
But Rush didn't surprise me. Oh my, it was awful. They just stood there while the ugly one shrieked and shrieked and it seemed as if it would never end. It was so dull that people actually woke up to cheer when the double-neck guitars were brought out. That was the most exciting part. Seeing the guitars with two necks.
I'll watch the documentary though, because any documentary about music is a good documentary.
being Canadian, I thought I was forced to listen to Rush because of Can Con (a certain percentage of what is broadcast has to be of Canadian origin). imagine my surprise when I found out how popular they were outside of Canada. jesus.
Poor wandering Huckleberry Finn, Doesn't know what dimension he's in. Laser teeth of glittery doom! His mind implodes in an apocalyptic boom!
