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I'm not even sure if it actually counts as a documentary but Stories We Tell is on Hulu and is excellent.
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Mahoning posted:So I've been really into true crime documentaries lately. In the past few weeks I've watched: Murder On A Sunday Morning (Excellent! ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAeQlKnb7FA Brother's Keeper (Also excellent) On US Netflix or here : https://vimeo.com/136158118 Thin Blue Line available on US Netflix and youtube. The Staircase You'll have to do some searching for this one. It's a series like The Jinx. Death By Fire PBS.org Frontline A Death In St. Augustine PBS.org Frontline The First 48 series. Netflix has a few episodes.
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# ? Nov 3, 2015 11:23 |
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The Staircase is really good, as is its sequel.
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# ? Nov 3, 2015 11:48 |
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Stare-Out posted:The Staircase is really good, as is its sequel. Also legitimately like twelve hours long in total.
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# ? Nov 3, 2015 18:59 |
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cstang posted:Murder On A Sunday Morning (Excellent! ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAeQlKnb7FA Thanks for these. I've seen the 2 Frontline ones you posted. Both very good. I forgot to mention I watched the Paradise Lost trilogy on HBO. Holy cow is that good. Last night I watched Cropsey which was pretty good, but not great.
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# ? Nov 3, 2015 19:43 |
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Stare-Out posted:The Staircase is really good, as is its sequel. Isn't that the one that leaves out a lot of important, damning evidence?
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# ? Nov 4, 2015 04:59 |
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Dr.Caligari posted:Isn't that the one that leaves out a lot of important, damning evidence?
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# ? Nov 4, 2015 12:02 |
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Watching "This May be the Last Time" on Netflix, 4 minutes in and I'm on the edge of tears.quote:The film narrates that when in 1962 Pete Harjo, the director's grandfather, mysteriously went missing after his car crashed on a rural bridge in Sasakwa, Oklahoma, members of his Seminole and Muscogee community searched for him while singing songs of faith and hope that had been passed on for generations, with roots in both Scottish hymn lining and African American music.
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# ? Nov 6, 2015 17:26 |
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Mahoning posted:So I've been really into true crime documentaries lately. In the past few weeks I've watched: Thin Blue Line is great. Also, the West Memphis Three "Paradise Lost" trilogy and "West of Memphis".
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# ? Nov 6, 2015 19:56 |
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The Peanuts movie is in theaters, and the holidays are here, so I remembered this great American Masters episode featuring the Life of Charles Schulz. https://youtube.com/watch?v=CGv9qj2JTIM
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 00:58 |
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Call me Lucky will be on Netflix on the 13th, I've been waiting to see this one. A movie by Bobcat Goldthwait about his comedy mentor and children's rights advocate Barry Crimmins. And Best of Enemies on the 28th Best of Enemies (2015) Two of the greatest political and intellectual minds of their day — William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal — went head to head in a series of inflammatory, wildly entertaining TV debates that make the GOP circuses we’ve seen this year look tame. (And even less substantive.)
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# ? Nov 11, 2015 16:02 |
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I've been waiting to see Best of Enemies but missed wherever it played, so that's awesome.
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# ? Nov 11, 2015 16:13 |
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Has anyone seen The Smiley Face Killers? Watched it on YouTube last night. I watched the whole thing and didn't figure out it was fake until the very end. I guess in that sense the filmmaker did his job. Instead of feeling angry for being duped I'm actually glad I went in blind and fell for it, because the ending actually had me sitting there saying OH MY GOD.
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# ? Nov 11, 2015 18:29 |
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Mahoning posted:Has anyone seen The Smiley Face Killers? Watched it on YouTube last night. I think I figured it out at minute one from the poorly dubbed news footage and the fact that the first 40 seconds set up that all the deaths were ruled as accidents then all the news footage immediately said that they were committed by the smily face killers gang.
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# ? Nov 11, 2015 18:46 |
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I found Best of Enemies pretty underwhelming. Kind of a light entertainment documentary that hones in on amusing soundbites with less real insight into either individual.
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# ? Nov 11, 2015 21:57 |
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Finally watched The Overnighters. I don't know what to think. I kinda feel like it cheap shotted me. Like they knew what the twist was and just inflated the original story to feature length just so they could turn around and reveal a "shocking twist" end the movie and take off before folks can have a moment to go "whoa... you owe me more of an explanation than that!"
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 00:39 |
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BonoMan posted:Finally watched The Overnighters. For me the movie holds up even if you didn't know the "twist." Maybe that's personal preference. Just a really sharp take on the idea of the American dream and the contrast between the ideals we aspire to and what we're willing to do in practice. It's more about adding a shade to his character motivation as opposed to being truly integral to the plot.
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 03:34 |
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Cocoa Ninja posted:For me the movie holds up even if you didn't know the "twist." Maybe that's personal preference. Just a really sharp take on the idea of the American dream and the contrast between the ideals we aspire to and what we're willing to do in practice. That makes sense. Although I guess my real problem with it is I felt it could've been like a 30 minute doc. I loved the subject of it, but it just kinda felt like too little content stretched out to feature length.
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 04:54 |
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Kull the Conqueror posted:I found Best of Enemies pretty underwhelming. Kind of a light entertainment documentary that hones in on amusing soundbites with less real insight into either individual. I was a bit disappointed by it too, but still was glad I watched it. I knew almost nothing about them beforehand. I'll probably watch the debate series now and definitely Myra Breckinridge. The similarities between the talking points then vs now was frankly terrifying. It's like our political system is stuck in the Groundhog Day storyline.
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 17:09 |
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Winter on Fire about the Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine, is just absolutely thrilling. It's on Netflix.
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# ? Nov 13, 2015 06:36 |
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Mahoning posted:Winter on Fire about the Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine, is just absolutely thrilling. It's on Netflix. It's good. One sided though.
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# ? Nov 13, 2015 17:37 |
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spankmeister posted:It's good. One sided though. Laughably so. I'm no Russophile but you'd never know watching this thing that Yanukovych was an elected leader opting out of EU style financial coercion or that all Euromaidan did was manage to get neo-fascists into power.
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# ? Nov 13, 2015 21:11 |
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The far-right played a large role in the protests and the government that took over once the president fled had a handful of members from extremist parties, but it's not really true at all to say that the Maidan led to a fascist government.
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# ? Nov 14, 2015 18:08 |
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I've started watching Patricio Guzman's three-part epic The Battle of Chile, and it's pretty goddamned great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5GeEzBKGsQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTCVGdq7BAo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWCtYMEYBI
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# ? Nov 18, 2015 17:24 |
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What's the general thread opinion on Capturing the Friedmans? I watched it earlier today and thought it was really interesting and thought provoking, but then unfortunately it turns out the director left out a few huge key points that seemed to hurt the general tone of his film/his opinion.
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# ? Nov 18, 2015 23:20 |
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I just watched Call me Lucky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRkYG_AeRfU That's the trailer. Watch it, please. It's very, very, very good. This is an achievement for Bobcat.
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# ? Nov 19, 2015 07:05 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I just watched Call me Lucky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRkYG_AeRfU Where is it available? It looks fantastic. Also I watched Slingshot the other night. It's pretty good I guess. It sounds like it's supposed to be about Dean Kamen's water solution and there's a little bit of that in there, but really it's kind of just an inspiration piece on Kamen and the need for kids to look positively upon engineering in this country. I liked it though because I think Kamen is a legit genius and the Segway (or at least it's tech) is way ahead of its time.
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# ? Nov 19, 2015 15:57 |
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BonoMan posted:Where is it available? It looks fantastic. djwetmouse posted:Call me Lucky will be on Netflix on the 13th, I've been waiting to see this one.
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# ? Nov 19, 2015 16:38 |
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Hell yes, thanks! I know what I'm watching tonight!
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# ? Nov 19, 2015 16:40 |
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Anybody here get a kick out watching really bad "documentaries", like Dreams of My Real Father, Loose Change and Room 321 levels of silliness? I enjoy watching the insanity but get depressed knowing that too many people, who ordinarily don't watch documentaries, come away watching these and thinking they're enlightened. Because, "hey. Yeah. I read a BOOK/watched a doco" when ordinarily they never would?
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# ? Nov 19, 2015 17:36 |
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I can't find anything online about a movie called Room 321, you don't mean Room 237 because that is a good movie?HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Room 237 is both not a bad movie as well as one of my favorite documentaries ever made.
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# ? Nov 19, 2015 17:42 |
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Room 237 is both not a bad movie as well as one of my favorite documentaries ever made.
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# ? Nov 19, 2015 17:42 |
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cloudchamber posted:The far-right played a large role in the protests and the government that took over once the president fled had a handful of members from extremist parties, but it's not really true at all to say that the Maidan led to a fascist government. I phrased that poorly - I don't mean that the government of the Ukraine is now neo-fascist, but that there are now (even more) neo-fascists in positions of power in the Ukraine than before, while none of the more progressive and/or liberal elements of the movement have much to show for it.
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# ? Nov 19, 2015 17:57 |
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There aren't that many more, and they did just pass an anti-discrimination bill for homosexuals, so there's that at least. Watched The Wolfpack a while ago, thought that was kind of meh. It's a bizarre situation but I thought it didn't really develop its the subjects well enough to understand them properly, and the film itself has a kind of sketchy semi-mockumentary feeling about too.
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# ? Nov 20, 2015 11:00 |
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I watched Idiocracy, a true story about Trump's America.
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# ? Nov 20, 2015 21:19 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I just watched Call me Lucky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRkYG_AeRfU Watched this last night, it was really good although prob because I have young children it was really hard to watch in some parts I did have one question about the "you-know-what" When he first talks about the rape, he says it was the babysitter's friend, but later on he's talking about the priest guy. Was it the same guy? Or were there multiple perpetrators?
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# ? Nov 21, 2015 15:57 |
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It's bad....badass!!!
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# ? Nov 21, 2015 17:11 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I just watched Call me Lucky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRkYG_AeRfU Hey, the looks like a nic elittle documentary about a comic I've never heard of... Oh. Oh. 0_0
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# ? Nov 21, 2015 21:59 |
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Yeah I watched it last night. Great documentary, but goddamn it is some heavy heavy stuff.
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# ? Nov 21, 2015 22:10 |
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Sleepstupid posted:Watched this last night, it was really good although prob because I have young children it was really hard to watch in some parts
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