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Recommend a Documentary v. David Attenborough!

Blank City. A documentary of New York City art, music, and film from the late 1970s and 1980s.

cast: Cast: Steve Buscemi, Lydia Lunch, Jim Jarmusch, Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, John Waters, Beth B, James Nares, Amos Poe, Bette Gordon, Casandra Stark, Deborah Harry and Eric Mitchell

pretty good. if i could live in two time periods and places during the 20th century it would be 1) 1960s. haight-ashbury, hippies, streets flooded with dank L, summer of love and 2) NYC. 1970s during the birth of hip hop. just thought id share :D

here's the trailer for Blank City
 
I Am Fishead (2011)

"What's wrong with our world?...''.

Every meaningful change starts with awareness. In our culture, we not only praise psychopaths in the highest positions of power, but in many cases, they became our role models. Challenge your beliefs! We have delved into the world of psychopaths and heroes and revealed something crucial about us.
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"Man On Wire"

Storyline
On August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit, a French wire walker, juggler, and street performer days shy of his 25th birthday, spent 45 minutes walking, dancing, kneeling, and lying on a wire he and friends strung between the rooftops of the Twin Towers. Uses contemporary interviews, archival footage, and recreations to tell the story of his previous walks between towers of Notre Dame and of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, his passions and friendships, and the details of the night before the walk: getting cable into the towers, hiding from guards, and mounting the wire. It ends with observations of the profound changes the walk's success brought to Philippe and those closest to him.
 
^ what did you think of it?

i think this is possibly one of the best documentaries i've ever seen. aside from anything else, the source material is just so damned good. some of the shots of the action make me uncomfortable just thinking about them. it builds really well and it's such a triumphant story. in light of the events of 9/11, it's even more poignant.

alasdair
 
Bardeaux said:
I've been hearing/reading about Man on Wire forever now, I think it's time to take a look.
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I fell asleep halfway through it, but I attribute that to other factors outside the documentary. I'll have to give it another shot one day.





The last doc I saw was called What's The Matter With Kansas?. It was based off the book of the same name. It's about the Christian Right's influence in politics, specifically in Kansas. The documentary follows the lives of a few different people and it kept my attention throughout; it's not dry at all. It's interesting to see the parallels between religion and politics, how people can be controlled using both almost to the point of brainwashing. Definitely recommended for any fan of Religulous.
 
kytnism said:
^ the socio and psychopaths of today; were once labelled the ambitious and hard working powersuits of the 1980s.

the lost world of communism.

...kytnism...:|
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Yip, absolutley hun.:|<3

Begs the question of what it is that we don't challenge/dont want to right now. These situations arent subject to public discourse alone; they are a present reality, always morphing.

My Bear family and me

...so unbelievably brilliant-my second time watching it and tbh the clips online don't do it justice.

..but...Clip
 
whatever happened to documentaries? i don't think anything happened unless your point is that people are still making them and some of them are very, very good.

alasdair
 
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