Documentary Challenge (Official, December 2020)

[flavo5000]

110. Chung Kuo - Cina (1972)
Antonioni does a China travelogue here. It's not bad but I wouldn't call it essential viewing either. Due to the nature of the documentary format, what we don't get are many of Antonioni's breathtaking widescreen visuals. Still, he does make good use of copious panning and tracking shots. While there is some narration, this is more of a dive into the culture than a super-informative doc.


111. Messi (2014)
Alex de la Iglesia angles his unique talents in service of making a documentary on celebrated Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi, and the results are very much a reflection of Iglesia's filmmaking techniques. While obviously you don't have the trademark dark, twisted comedy/horror of many of his films, the format of the doc has groups of friends, family and colleagues of Messi sitting at tables and enthusiastically painting a picture of his life and accomplishments mixed with archival home movies, footage from various broadcasts of games and early well-filmed dramatizations of Messi as a kid. The discussion sections are very boisterous and rapid fire with an energy that reflects many of Iglesia's dialogue-heavy films. While I'm not much of a fan of soccer at all, I still found this to be a pretty engaging doc.


112a. Trance and Dance in Bali (1952)
112b. Appalachian Spring (1944)
112c. Heretic (1931)
112d. Beauty Knows No Pain (1972)
Here we have a block of dance-themed shorts. Trance and Dance in Bali basically walks through a traditional Bali dance ritual while Appalachian Spring and Heretic are early stagings of Martha Graham ballet performances. Beauty Knows No Pain is a doc on the first large scale majorette team and the pursuit of success despite the pain and discomfort of the tryouts. They were all fine but none are essential.


113. Freedom Riders (2010)
This was a very good PBS-produced doc on the freedom riders of the '60s that staged bus sit-ins as part of the Civil Rights movement as well as the danger and adversity they faced while attempting it. It's a comprehensive view of the subject and well worth a watch for anyone interested in the subject.


114a. Cities of the Underworld: New York (2007)
114b. La Paella di Dan Albert (2014)
So I picked up the DVD of Cities of the Underworld: New York thinking it would be a doc on organized crime. Much to my chagrin, it is instead a profile of New York's subway system, aqueducts and other subterranean architectural constructs... Suffice it to say, I wasn't much of a fan. Dan Albert's Paella is a sort of doc on the heritage of Spanish immigrants of the early 20th century shot through the lens of a paella recipe that has been handed down from Dan Albert's family for generations. The concept is interesting but in execution, it mostly plays out like a cooking video.


115. Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019)
This was actually a very good, well-produced doc on the original Alien film that goes deeper than the average behind-the-scenes studio-produced doc. We have discussions with experts, philosophers, historians, fans and production crew and cast to paint a full picture of the significance and impact the film has had and the little details that went into making it.


116. Tiny Giants 3D (2014)
Absolutely beautifully shot but pretty shallow doc that follows small mammals such as chipmunks and mice as they survive in the wild. It's definitely mostly intended as eye candy and on that count it definitely delivers. My kids actually really enjoyed it.

There's No Such Thing As Fact

1. London (1994)
2. Un vivant qui passe a.k.a. A Visitor from the Living (1999)
3. Sobibór, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures (2001)
4. Le rapport Karski a.k.a. The Karski Report (2010)
5a. Monster Makeup (1989)
5b. Hammer’s Lost Worlds (2017)
5c. Producing Schlock: The Career of Al Adamson (2008)
5d. Freud In Color: Guido Crepax (?)
5e. May I Help You? Confessions of a Game Play Counselor (2020)
6. Alaska: Silence & Solitude (2005)
7. A Musicares Tribute to Paul McCartney (2012)
8. L'île au trésor a.k.a. Treasure Island (2018)
9. The Search for Weng Weng (2007)
10. Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story (2013)
11a. Eyes on Mars (2003)
11b. Solarmax (2000)
11c. Lost in Space: Nic Roeg’s Flash Gordon (2020)
12. Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror (2000)
13. Memories of Nashville/Memories of Sulphur Dell (2003?)
14. That's Sexploitation! (2013)
15. American Nightmare: Reunion Documentary (2015)
16. Reflections on the Living Dead (1993)
17. The Unwinking Gaze: The Inside Story of the Dalai Lama's Struggle for Tibet (2008)
18. Seven Wonders of the World (1956)
19. Diary (1983)
20. Mercury 13 (2018)
21. The Best in the Biz (2018)
22. Batkid Begins (2015)
23. Hangs Upon Nothing (2014)
24. King of Beasts (2018)
25. The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)
26. RR (2007)
27. Princely Toys: The Private Kingdon of Jack Donovan (1976)
28. The Living Desert (1953)
29. Water and Power (1989)
30. Latcho Drom (1993)
31. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (2017)
32. La terre des âmes errantes a.k.a. The Land of Wandering Souls (2000)
33. Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora (1994)
34. $100 & a T-Shirt: A Documentary About Zines in the Northwest (2004)
35. Ben Folds: Live at My Space (2007)
36. Wheel of Time (2003)
37. ‎Twisted Tale: The Unmaking of Spookies (2019)
38. VIPCO The Untold Story (2018)
39a. Biltmore Estate: The Faces Behind the Dream (2005)
39b. The Pony Express: The Legend Begins (2013)
39c. Now: Fish on the Line/Robert F. Kennedy Jr (2005)
39d. Por primera vez a.k.a. For the First Time (1969)
40. The Power of Glove (2017)
41. Fuocoammare a.k.a. Fire at Sea (2016)
42. Made in Serbia (2005)
43. Forest of Bliss (1986)
44-50. The War (2007) E1-7
51. De cierta manera a.k.a. One Way or Another (1977)
52a. Now You See Him: The Invisible Man Revealed! (2000)
52b. Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' (1999)
52c. The Wolf Man: From Ancient Curse to Modern Myth (2018)
53a. Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney Jr. (2010)
53b. He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce (2008)
53c. 100 Years of Universal - The Lot (2012)
54. Planet Ocean (2012)
55. Frazetta: Painting with Fire (2003)
56. This Is It (2009)
57. Estou Me Guardando Para Quando O Carnaval Chegar a.k.a. Waiting for the Carnival (2019)
58. The Queen of Versailles (2012)
59. The Omen Legacy (2001)
60. Dog Days: The Making of 'Cujo' (2007)
61. Re-Animator Resurrectus (2007)
62. ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads (2019)
63. Die Mauer (1991)
64. The Moon and the Sledgehammer (1971)
65. Below Sea Level (2008)
66a. America Undercover: Looking for Fidel (2004)
66b. Alone in a Haunted House (2004)
67. Amazing Grace (2018)
68. The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield (1968)
69. Italiani come noi a.k.a. The Wild Weird Wonderful Italians (1963)
70. Navajo Shorts: (Navajo Silversmith, A Navajo Weaver, Intrepid Shadows, Old Antelope Lake, Shallow Well Project) (1966)
71. Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II (2015)
72. Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West (2002)
73. Rome and Vatican: The Secrets and Romance Through an Insider's View (2004)
74. No Greater Love (2015)
75. Lucha Libre: Life Behind the Mask (2005)
76. National Parks Exploration Series: Voyageurs - Spirit of the Boundary Waters (2011)
77. Coast Guard at War (2006)
78. I Am Jane Doe (2017)
79. Chuyen tu te a.k.a. Living as One Should (1987)
80. Sweetgrass (2009)
81. Fart: A Documentary (2016)
82a. Images de la folie a.k.a. Images of Madness (1950)
82b. Le Monde de Paul Delvaux 1946)
82c. Désordre a.k.a. Disorder (1950)
82d. Magritte ou La leçon de choses (1960)
82e. Archeologia (1968)
82f. Black TV (1968)
83. Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four (2014)
84. Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD (2014)
85. Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017)
86. Bixa Travesty a.k.a. Tranny Fag (2018)
87a. I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009)
87b. The Real Story: Saving Private Ryan (2012)
88. 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street (2015)
89. The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
90. Boatman (1993)
91. Sacro GRA (2013)
92. Garrincha - Alegria do Povo (1963)
93a. Couro de Gato (1962)
93b. Improvisiert und zielbewusst (1967)
93c. O Mestre de Apipucos (1959)
93d. Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade (1968)
94. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)
95a. Ancient Mysteries: The Lost Ark of the Covenant (1994)
95b. Castles in the Air: A Journey to Walden (2003)
96. The Wonders of Appalachians (2003)
97. The Who: Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 2004 (2004)
98. Inside the Forbidden City (2009)
99. Sharks 3D (2004)
100-106. The Story of Film: An Odyssey E2-15 (2011)
107. The Beales of Grey Gardens (2006)
108. Into the Inferno (2016)
109. The Making of Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws' (1995)
110. Chung Kuo - Cina (1972)
111. Messi (2014)
112a. Trance and Dance in Bali (1952)
112b. Appalachian Spring (1944)
112c. Heretic (1931)
112d. Beauty Knows No Pain (1972)
113. Freedom Riders (2010)
114a. Cities of the Underworld: New York (2007)
114b. La Paella di Dan Albert (2014)
115. Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019)
116. Tiny Giants 3D (2014)

[blocho]

So I picked up the DVD of Cities of the Underworld: New York thinking it would be a doc on organized crime. Much to my chagrin, it is instead a profile of New York's subway system, aqueducts and other subterranean architectural constructs

This made me giggle. I wonder if the titling was purposefully ambiguous. As for me, I can think of few topics more fascinating than the NYC subway, but it sounds like this is more about infrastructure than about the more intriguing social milieu of the subway. I have to love any mass transit system where things like this happen: https://gothamist.com/news/photos-shark-on-the-subway

[maxwelldeux]

You can't HANDLE the truth:

"1. Tornado Alley (2011)
2. Rocky Mountain Express (2011)
3. This is Not a Film (2011)
4. Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP (2014)
5. The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends (2006)
""6. Shorts:
London Can Take It (1940, 9m)
Vzglyanite na litso (1968, 11m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Washington Inside Murder (2020, 47m)
O Dreamland (1956, 13m)""
7. Clinton Cash (2016)
8. 12 O'Clock Boys (2013)
9. The Ocean's Eleven Story (2001)
10. Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2012)"
"11. Sneakerheadz (2015)
12. Root Cause (2019)
13. Cuadecuc, vampir (1971)
14. Geek Girls (2017)
15. The Heart in Screenland (2020) <- by prodigalgodson
""16-18. American Guns: A History of US Firearms (2017, 13ep x 22m = 286m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: The Kentucky Long Rifle and the Revolutionary War (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: U.S. Armories and the War of 1812 (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Breechloaders and Jacksonian Democracy (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Trouble in Texas and Samuel Colt (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Prelude to War and Increased Fire Power (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns of the American Civil War (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: The Six Shooter and America's New Industrial Age (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: The Long Gun (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Dawn of Modern Firearms Browning and the Spanish-American War (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns of World War I and Gangsters (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns of World War II (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns of Korea, Vietnam and 21st Century Warfare (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns for Hunters, Sport and Protection (2017, 22m)""
""19-21. Shorts/TV (UM=211, +17, +12float = 240m)
Afrique 50 (1950, 17m)
Unsolved Mysteries: A Death in Oslo (2020, 43m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Death Row Fugitive (2020, 36m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Tsunami Spirits (2020, 47m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Lady in the Lake (2020, 48m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Stolen Kids (2020, 37m)""
22. The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
23. Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (2005)
24. The Mask You Live In (2015)
25. The Storm Makers (2014)
26. For They Know Not What They Do (2019)
27. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (2018)
28. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017)
29. Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic (2018)
30. Love Free or Die (2012)"
"31. Fire in Paradise (2019)
32. Roll Red Roll (2018)
33. This Changes Everything (2018)
34. Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It (2015)
35. Atari: Game Over (2014)
36. Empire (1964)
37. All Male, All Nude (2017)
""38-42. Wild Wild Country (2018, 400m):
Wild Wild Country: Part 1 (2018, 64m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 2 (2018, 64m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 3 (2018, 66m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 4 (2018, 69m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 5 (2018, 66m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 6 (2018, 71m)""
43. Trafficked in America (2018)
44. The Sky Piercer (2018)
45. Blutch (2018)
""46-47. Waco: Madman or Messiah (2018, 172m) - Float: 12m + 34m = 46m
Waco: Madman or Messiah: Part 1 (2018, 86m)
Waco: Madman or Messiah: Part 2 (2018, 86m)""
48. Finders Keepers (2015)
49. Films of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Movie (2011)
50. COVID's Hidden Toll (2020)
51. The Act of Killing (2012)
52. The Devil We Know (2018)
53. The Speed Cubers (2020)
54. Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020)
55. 14 Minutes from Earth (2016)
""56-60. America's Book of Secrets, s1 (2012, 428m, float 28m) 4/10
America's Book of Secret: The White House (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: Freemasons (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: Fort Knox (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: Area 51 (2012, 42m)
America's Book of Secret: The Playboy Mansion (2012, 42m)
America's Book of Secret: Presidential Transports (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: The FBI (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: West Point (2012, 44m)
America's Book of Secret: Black Ops (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: The Pentagon (2012, 42m)"""
61. Homosaywhat (2019)
62. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011)
"63-64. Shorts (113m + 47 from Float): [new float 27]
Hôtel des Invalides (1952, 22m)
Schastye/Paradise (1995, 22m)
La Soufrière (1977, 30m)
Heroin(e) (2017, 39m)"
65. Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
66. Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
67. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002)
68. Jose Canseco: The Truth Hurts (2016)
69. Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
70. The Flaw (2011)
"71-72. Exhibit A (144m) + Jaime (1974, 33m) = 177m, 17m added to prior float
Exhibit A: Video Forensics (2019, 41m)
Exhibit A: Blood Spatter (2019, 29m)
Exhibit A: Cadaver Dogs (2019, 37m)
Exhibit A: Touch DNA (2019, 37m)"
73. '85: The Greatest Team in Pro Football History (2016)
74. 49 Pulses (2017)

75. Begging Naked (2007) 6/10
This focuses in on the story of a homeless New York woman and how she got there. Shot over 9 years, it documents her history of being trafficked in sex, drug addiction and eventual recovery, and return to stripping. Also talks about her art. Profoundly sad story.

76. Fires Were Started (1943) 4/10
It's true. Fires were, in fact, started.

77. Burger Town (1998) 5/10
Everything you ever wanted to know about burgers and burger history in southern California.

78. Flint's Deadly Water (2019) 6/10
You know what's even worse than having a shit-ton of lead in your drinking water? Having a shit-ton of lead in your water AND the bacteria that causes Legionnaire's disease. Lucky Flint!

79. Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1995) 5/10
I did learn some things about her, which I wanted to, but I hated the style of this doc. Too much conflicting statements taken, little reality discussed. I did NOT learn as much as I wanted.

80. What Haunts Us (2018) 6/10
Basically, Twist of Faith, secular edition. A teacher at a South Carolinan prep school was molesting kids for 40 years. 6 boys from a class of 49 killed themselves. So

81. The Hunt for Transylvanian Gold (2017) 5/10
An interesting enough story about some ancient artifacts.

82-83. The Code (2011, 174m, float 14) 6/10

episodes

The Code: Numbers (2011, 59m)
The Code: Shapes (2011, 58m)
The Code: Prediction (2011, 57m)

A docuseries about math. I like the subject, but this was not as good as the same person's series on Algorithms. Math is cool. "The Code" is a stupid title, though.

[Kublai Khan]

Documented Documentaries

1. Fear of 13 (David Sington-2015) UK 1 official list 316 checks
2. This Film Is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick-2006) UK/USA 2,859 checks
3. Amazing Grace (Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack-2018) USA 1 official list 238 checks
4. Eric Andre: Legalize Everything (Eric Notarnicola-2020) USA 53 checks
5. Cuba and the Cameraman (Jon Alpert-2017) USA 111 checks
6. A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Rivers, Ben Russell-2013) France/Estonia/Germany 1 official list 139 checks
7. Nova: Black Hole Apocalypse (Rushmore DeNooyer-2017) USA 24 checks
8. Zoo (Robinson Devor-2007) USA 1 official list 251 checks
9. Tickled (David Farrier, Dylan Reeve-2016) New Zealand 1,112 checks
10. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Travis Wilkerson-2017) USA 71 checks
11. Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (Madeleine Parry-2020) USA 112 checks
12. I Am Jane Doe (Mary Mazzio-2017) USA 81 checks
13. Mommy Dead and Dearest (Erin Lee Carr-2017) USA 340 checks
14. For All Mankind (Al Reinert-1989) USA 5 official lists 1,571 checks
15. The Decline of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris-1981) USA 2 official lists 739 checks
16. The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (David France-2017) USA 129 checks
17. Crip Camp (James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham-2020) USA 113 checks
18. Jim Jefferies: Intolerant (Scott Zabielski-2020) USA 48 checks
19. Eddie Murphy: Raw (Robert Townsend-1987) USA 1,980 checks
20. Hondros (Greg Campbell-2017) Iraq/Libya/Liberia/USA 14 checks
21. Weiner (Josh Kriegman-2016) USA 831 checks
22. Numero Deux (Jean-Luc Godard-1975) France 3 official lists 354 checks
23. Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story (Jamie Meltzer-2003) USA 27 checks

24. Night on Earth: Moonlit Plains (Peter Fison-2020) UK 25 checks
25. Secrets of Body Language (James Millar-2008) UK 14 checks

[flavo5000]

So I picked up the DVD of Cities of the Underworld: New York thinking it would be a doc on organized crime. Much to my chagrin, it is instead a profile of New York's subway system, aqueducts and other subterranean architectural constructs

This made me giggle. I wonder if the titling was purposefully ambiguous. As for me, I can think of few topics more fascinating than the NYC subway, but it sounds like this is more about infrastructure than about the more intriguing social milieu of the subway. I have to love any mass transit system where things like this happen: https://gothamist.com/news/photos-shark-on-the-subway

Yea, honestly if it had focused on the quirky weirdos that populate the NYC subway (like somebody leaving a damn dead shark on the floor... ), I think it would've been a lot more interesting. Instead our overenthusiastic host leads us through various underground tunnels talking excitedly about when they were built and marveling at how cool everything is. A particular highlight was showing off the drainage system under the Empire State Building.

[sol]

Imagine if I suffered from heptadecaphobia...

Document This!

1. Long Shot (2017)
2. The Social Dilemma (2020)
3. Three Identical Strangers (2018)
4a. It's Wonderful Being a Girl (1968) 17min
4b. Happy Mother's Day (1973) 26min
4c. Highball Highway (1963) 11min
4d. Alco-Beat (1965) 11min
4e. Housing Problems (1935) 15min
5a. The Song of Ceylon (1934) 38min
5b. Granton Trawler (1934) 11min
5c. The River (1938) 31min
6a. Inside Reel: Eps.1 - 3 (2019) 27min
6b. In the Sky's Wild Noise (1983) 29min
6c. Coast Land (2020) 25min
7. Before Stonewall (1984)
8. Living on the Edge (1987)
9. Burden of Dreams (1982)
10. A British Picture (1989)
11. Ashes and Snow (2005)
12. Winter on Fire (2015)
13. The Fear of 13 (2015)
14. Troublemakers (1966)
15. Resurrect Dead (2011)
16. An Injury to One (2002)

17. Patient Seventeen (2017)



Believing that a mysterious shard of metal in his leg is an alien microchip, an American is interviewed, along with the surgeon hired to remove it and a chemical scientist in this UFO conspiracy documentary. The surgeon always seems rational, discussing non-UFO possibilities, but he passed away during production, which results in the second half of the film going totally off the deep end, with everyone interviewed insisting that the metal must be alien.

[1SO]

15. In the Year of the Pig (1968)
★ ★ ★
I’m no scholar on the timeline of the Vietnam War, but it seems like this came along right at the point where President Johnson’s escalation was turning to opposition and questioning what we were doing in Vietnam. The film goes back to the beginning of U.S. involvement and gives a history book of names and important events, coming as close as I’ve gotten to understanding some of the complexities of the situation. There are the political leaders presenting their spin, followed by footage of American soldiers, high on John Wayne levels of nationalism, contradicting the politicians. There’s a clear anti-war bias at work here, but it’s hard to argue with the footage of American soldiers acting superior and racist


16. talhotblond: (2009)
★ ★
Thank you Martin. I thought I was losing my mind. Somebody commits a Capital Crime and the Doc tries to shift the blame to somebody else for being a bad influence. I thought maybe this was a sign of the uncertainities of internet relationships 10 years ago. They even make a point to say that at no time does the Not Guilty person suggest such a crime should happen. Aside from that, this is an interesting story, but not a well made documentary.

[sol]

Document This!

1. Long Shot (2017)
2. The Social Dilemma (2020)
3. Three Identical Strangers (2018)
4a. It's Wonderful Being a Girl (1968) 17min
4b. Happy Mother's Day (1973) 26min
4c. Highball Highway (1963) 11min
4d. Alco-Beat (1965) 11min
4e. Housing Problems (1935) 15min
5a. The Song of Ceylon (1934) 38min
5b. Granton Trawler (1934) 11min
5c. The River (1938) 31min
6a. Inside Reel: Eps.1 - 3 (2019) 27min
6b. In the Sky's Wild Noise (1983) 29min
6c. Coast Land (2020) 25min
7. Before Stonewall (1984)
8. Living on the Edge (1987)
9. Burden of Dreams (1982)
10. A British Picture (1989)
11. Ashes and Snow (2005)
12. Winter on Fire (2015)
13. The Fear of 13 (2015)
14. Troublemakers (1966)
15. Resurrect Dead (2011)
16. An Injury to One (2002)
17. Patient Seventeen (2017)

18. Casting Jon Benet (2017)



Actors and actresses auditioning for reenactment footage roles are interviewed in this unique documentary about the murder of a six-year-old girl. The complexities of the case make the interviews very dynamic, and with the murder still unsolved, it is interesting how we are slowly fed more information while wilder and wilder conspiracy theories emerge. If arguably insensitive and disrespectful, watched as a layman, this was a riveting stylistic choice.

[ororama]

12. Jimi Plays Monterey (1986) * 49 min.

Amazing performance.

Spoiler

1. Monterey Pop (1968) 79 min.
2. Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown (2008) * 89 min.
3. Whitney Cummings: Money Shot (2010) * 48 min.
4. Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2015) * 98 min.
5. Defamation (2009) * 91 min.
6. 13th (2016) * 100 min.
7. ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads (2019) * 49 min.
8. Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (2005) * 103 min.
9-11. Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist: Part One: The Heist (2018) * 45 min.
Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist: Part Two: The Frozen Body (2018) * 53 min.
Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist: Part Three: The Suspects (2018) * 45 min.
Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist: Part Four: The Confessions (2018) * 48 min.
Andes Mágicos: Argentina y Chile, desde los hielos del sur/ Magical Andes: Argentina and Chile, From the Southern Ice (2019) * 27 min.
Andes Mágicos: Chile y Argentina, del Aconcagua al desierto/ Magical Andes: Chile and Argentina, From Aconcagua to the Desert (2019) * 24 min. 

*First time viewing

[tourdesb]

51a. Hiroshima genbaku no kiroru (1970, Yasuo Matsukawa & Motoo Ogasawara) : 28
51b. Isole nella laguna (1948, Luciano Emmer & Enrico Gras)
51c. Las Callampas (1958, Rafael Sanchez)
51d. Kumshagalskaya istoriya (1986, Igor Vovnyanko)
52. Directed by John Ford (1971, Peter Bogdanovich)
53. Juízo (2007, Maria Ramos)
54. Ileksen (1979, Dennis O'Rourke)
55. Los reyes del pueblo que no existe (2015, Betzabé García) : contemplative, prefect for a quiet saturday morning
56. Memoria del saqueo (2004, Fernando E. Solanas)

Now I'm under 500 unseen documentaries on official lists. Yay me !

Seen this month

1. El botón de nácar (2015, Patricio Guzmán)
2. Route One USA (1989, Robert Kramer)
3. Geschichte der Nacht (1979, Clemens Klopfenstein)
4. Najeun moksori (1995, Young-Joo Byun)
5. Ett anständigt liv (1979, Stefan Jarl)
6. Acidente (2007, Cao Guimarães & Pablo Lobato)
7. Al hayatt al yawmiyah fi quariah suriyah (1976, Omar Amiralay)
8. Tierische Liebe (1996, Ulrich Seidl)
9. Gubben i stugan (1995, Nina Hedenius)
10. Zem spieva (1933, Karel Plicka)
11. Xianshi shi guoqu de weilai (2009, Weikai Huang)
12. Undergångens arkitektur (1989, Peter Cohen)
13. Surire (2015, Iván Osnovikoff & Bettina Perut)
14. Stand van de Sterren (2010, Leonard Retel)
15. The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer (1992, Arthur Ginsberg & Tom Spain)
16. 4 Little Girls (1997, Spike Lee)
17. La croisière jaune (1933, André Sauvage & Léon Poirier)
18. Poto and Cabengo (1980, Jean-Pierre Gorin)
19. Povelitel mukh (1991, Vladimir Tyulkin)
20. The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988, Penelope Spheeris)
21-22. "Room 2806: The Accusation" (2020, Jalil Lespert)
23. Autrement, la Molussie (2012, Nicolas Rey)
24. Ångrarna (2010, Marcus Lindeen)
25-31. "The War" (2007, Ken Burns)
32-36. "Long Way Round" (2004, -)
37a. I am Somebody (1970, Madeline Anderson)
37b. La Batalla de Vieques (1986, Zydnia Nazario)
37c. Ganjine-haye gohar (1965, Ebrahim Golestan)
38. Avodah (1935, Helmar Lerski)
39. Belarmino (1964, Fernando Lopes)
40. Trances (1981, Ahmed El Maanouni)
41. The Inland Sea (1991, Lucille Carra)
42. Estamira (2004, Marcos Prado)
43-50. "The Beatles Anthology" (1995, -)
51a. Hiroshima genbaku no kiroru (1970, Yasuo Matsukawa & Motoo Ogasawara) : 28
51b. Isole nella laguna (1948, Luciano Emmer & Enrico Gras)
51c. Las Callampas (1958, Rafael Sanchez)
51d. Kumshagalskaya istoriya (1986, Igor Vovnyanko)
52. Directed by John Ford (1971, Peter Bogdanovich)
53. Juízo (2007, Maria Ramos)
54. Ileksen (1979, Dennis O'Rourke)
55. Los reyes del pueblo que no existe (2015, Betzabé García)
56. Memoria del saqueo (2004, Fernando E. Solanas)

[frbrown]

2. Chariots of the Gods (1970)

Visually and musically impressive tour of some of the wonders of the world - combined with a ridiculous, but amusing, narration.

Spoiler

1. Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
2. Chariots of the Gods (1970)

[Knaldskalle]

12. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Nelson, 2015). A 2-hour brief history of the Black Panther Party with lots of the people involved interviewed. I don't know too much about the Black Panthers, so I feel like this was a good introduction to them.

13. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen, 2003). I was intimidated by the runtime of this one (almost 3 hours), but the hours just flew by. This was very engrossing and well worth your time.

Spoiler

1. Iron Maiden: Flight 666 (Dunn, 2009).
2. Foo Fighters: Back and Forth (Moll, 2011).
3. Diaries Notes and Sketches (Mekas, 1969).
4. Sigur Ros: Heima (DeBlois, 2007).
5. Stop Making Sense (Demme, 1984).
6. For All Mankind (Reinert, 1989).
7. Chavez: Inside the Coup (aka. The Revolution will not be Televised) (Bartley & O'Briain, 2003).
8. Let There Be Light (Huston, 1946).
9. The Spanish Earth (Ivens, 1937).
10. The City (Steiner & van Dyke, 1939).
11. Empire (Warhol, 1964).
12. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Nelson, 2015).
13. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen, 2003).

[maxwelldeux]

You can't HANDLE the truth:

"1. Tornado Alley (2011)
2. Rocky Mountain Express (2011)
3. This is Not a Film (2011)
4. Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP (2014)
5. The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends (2006)
""6. Shorts:
London Can Take It (1940, 9m)
Vzglyanite na litso (1968, 11m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Washington Inside Murder (2020, 47m)
O Dreamland (1956, 13m)""
7. Clinton Cash (2016)
8. 12 O'Clock Boys (2013)
9. The Ocean's Eleven Story (2001)
10. Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2012)"
"11. Sneakerheadz (2015)
12. Root Cause (2019)
13. Cuadecuc, vampir (1971)
14. Geek Girls (2017)
15. The Heart in Screenland (2020) <- by prodigalgodson
""16-18. American Guns: A History of US Firearms (2017, 13ep x 22m = 286m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: The Kentucky Long Rifle and the Revolutionary War (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: U.S. Armories and the War of 1812 (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Breechloaders and Jacksonian Democracy (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Trouble in Texas and Samuel Colt (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Prelude to War and Increased Fire Power (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns of the American Civil War (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: The Six Shooter and America's New Industrial Age (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: The Long Gun (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Dawn of Modern Firearms Browning and the Spanish-American War (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns of World War I and Gangsters (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns of World War II (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns of Korea, Vietnam and 21st Century Warfare (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns for Hunters, Sport and Protection (2017, 22m)""
""19-21. Shorts/TV (UM=211, +17, +12float = 240m)
Afrique 50 (1950, 17m)
Unsolved Mysteries: A Death in Oslo (2020, 43m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Death Row Fugitive (2020, 36m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Tsunami Spirits (2020, 47m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Lady in the Lake (2020, 48m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Stolen Kids (2020, 37m)""
22. The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
23. Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (2005)
24. The Mask You Live In (2015)
25. The Storm Makers (2014)
26. For They Know Not What They Do (2019)
27. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (2018)
28. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017)
29. Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic (2018)
30. Love Free or Die (2012)"
"31. Fire in Paradise (2019)
32. Roll Red Roll (2018)
33. This Changes Everything (2018)
34. Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It (2015)
35. Atari: Game Over (2014)
36. Empire (1964)
37. All Male, All Nude (2017)
""38-42. Wild Wild Country (2018, 400m):
Wild Wild Country: Part 1 (2018, 64m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 2 (2018, 64m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 3 (2018, 66m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 4 (2018, 69m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 5 (2018, 66m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 6 (2018, 71m)""
43. Trafficked in America (2018)
44. The Sky Piercer (2018)
45. Blutch (2018)
""46-47. Waco: Madman or Messiah (2018, 172m) - Float: 12m + 34m = 46m
Waco: Madman or Messiah: Part 1 (2018, 86m)
Waco: Madman or Messiah: Part 2 (2018, 86m)""
48. Finders Keepers (2015)
49. Films of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Movie (2011)
50. COVID's Hidden Toll (2020)
51. The Act of Killing (2012)
52. The Devil We Know (2018)
53. The Speed Cubers (2020)
54. Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020)
55. 14 Minutes from Earth (2016)
""56-60. America's Book of Secrets, s1 (2012, 428m, float 28m) 4/10
America's Book of Secret: The White House (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: Freemasons (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: Fort Knox (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: Area 51 (2012, 42m)
America's Book of Secret: The Playboy Mansion (2012, 42m)
America's Book of Secret: Presidential Transports (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: The FBI (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: West Point (2012, 44m)
America's Book of Secret: Black Ops (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: The Pentagon (2012, 42m)"""
61. Homosaywhat (2019)
62. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011)
"63-64. Shorts (113m + 47 from Float): [new float 27]
Hôtel des Invalides (1952, 22m)
Schastye/Paradise (1995, 22m)
La Soufrière (1977, 30m)
Heroin(e) (2017, 39m)"
65. Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
66. Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
67. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002)
68. Jose Canseco: The Truth Hurts (2016)
69. Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
70. The Flaw (2011)
"71-72. Exhibit A (144m) + Jaime (1974, 33m) = 177m, 17m added to prior float
Exhibit A: Video Forensics (2019, 41m)
Exhibit A: Blood Spatter (2019, 29m)
Exhibit A: Cadaver Dogs (2019, 37m)
Exhibit A: Touch DNA (2019, 37m)"
73. '85: The Greatest Team in Pro Football History (2016)
74. 49 Pulses (2017)
75. Begging Naked (2007)
76. Fires Were Started (1943)
77. Burger Town (1998)
78. Flint's Deadly Water (2019)
79. Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1995)
80. What Haunts Us (2018)
81. The Hunt for Transylvanian Gold (2017)
"82-83. The Code (2011, 174m, float 14)
The Code: Numbers (2011, 59m)
The Code: Shapes (2011, 58m)
The Code: Prediction (2011, 57m)"

84. In Search of Greatness (2018) 7/10
A sports doc about what makes for "greatness" - I liked it, largely because I liked the people interviewed in it, but also because they talk quite a bit about child development, hard work, and knowledge acquisition, which are super important, while de-emphasizing the physical tools.

85. Particle Fever (2013) 7/10
Rewatch. All about the discovery of the Higgs boson - it takes you through process of discovery and makes you feel like you're part of the team. A ton of fun if you like particle physics at all.

86. Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014) 4/10
I kinda hated this, even though I generally agree with it. Like even if they're right, the methods they use to tell their story are so off-putting it's almost unwatchable. Picture every anti-vax documentary, except apply those methods to the meat industry.

87. Red Hollywood (1996) 4/10
This is a clip show that goes through the Hollywood 10 who were blacklisted for communism, and the messages in their films. I recognized a few of the films, but not many, so it missed on that front. I'm not well versed enough in communist politics to get the subtle portrayals in these clips. It just fell flat and boring for me.

[Lu-Chin]

Spoiler

1. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1985) 5/10
2. La Operación (1982) 6/10
3. The War Game (1966) 8/10
4. El Salvador: el pueblo vencerá (1982) 7/10
5. Vernon, Florida (1981) 5/10
6. Le mystère Koumiko (1965) 7/10
7. Sans soleil (1983) 8/10
8. El telón de azúcar (2005) 8/10
9. Cabra Marcado Para Morrer (1984) 8/10
10. Hamshahri (1983) 6/10
11. Tongues Untied (1989) 7/10
12. Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989) 5/10
13. En la otra isla (1968) 6/10
14. Con todo mi amor, Rita (2000) 5/10
15. Jimi Plays Monterey (1986) 6/10
16. Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988) 7/10
17. Megacities (1998) 7/10
18. Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973) 7/10
19. Cuba: Caminos de Revolución (2004) Documentary. TV Miniserie. 3 eps = 162 minutes.
20. Italianamerican (1974) 6/10
21. Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) 7/10
22. Fuera de liga (2008) 6/10
23. Abril: La trinchera del honor (1988) 7/10
24. Hecho con Sabor a Puerto Rico (2012) 5/10
25. The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985) 4/10
26. The Terror and the Time (1979) 5/10
27. Herdsmen of the Sun (1989) 6/10
28. The Atomic Cafe (1982) 8/10
29. ¿OVNIS en Cuba? (1997) 4/10
30. De mi alma recuerdos (2002) 5/10
31. Bazooka: Las Batallas de Wilfredo Gomez (2003) 7/10
32. Huie's Predigt (1981) 5/10
33. Las carpetas (2011) 6/10
34. The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) 8/10
35. Chile: Hasta Cuando? (1986) 7/10
36. EJKEI: Un documental sobre el skateboarding en Puerto Rico (2012) 5/10
37. La guerra necesaria (1980) 8/10
38. David Bowie: Serious Moonlight (1983) 6/10
39. A.K. (1985) 5/10
40. La Batalla de Vieques (1986) 5/10
41. Gracias a Dios y a la revolución (1981) 6/10
42. Juan Melendez 6446 (2009) 7/10
43. Mur murs (1981) 5/10
44. Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder (1980) 6/10
45. Louie Bluie (1985) 7/10
46. Water and Power (1989) 6/10
47. Room 666 (1982) 6/10
48. God's Angry Man (1981) 5/10
49. 100,000 (2010) 7/10
50. Mer dare (1983) 7/10
51. Homework (1989) 6/10
52. Luisa Capetillo: Pasión de justicia (1995) 4/10
53. John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band: Sweet Toronto (1988) 4/10
54. Burden of Dreams (1982) 8/10
55. Antonio Gaudí (1984) 7/10
56. La ultima rumba de papa Montero (1992) 4/10

57. Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982) 5/10
58. La motora roja tiene que aparecer (2008) 5/10
59. Powaqqatsi (1988) 8/10
60. Roger & Me (1989) 8/10
61. Une histoire de vent (1988) 4/10

[flavo5000]

117-118a. Nintendo Quest: Power Tour (2015) E1-9
This was a fun follow up to the Nintendo Quest documentary that involves the star and filmmaker of the doc going on a road trip across the US and Canada to the premiere showings of Nintendo Quest in several major cities, along the way looking for games on their Must Have list. If you've seen Nintendo Quest and liked it, you'll probably be down for this similar mini-series.


118b. They Call It Pro Football (1966)
The doc that birthed ESPN apparently...


119. George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)
Scorsese directs a comprehensive doc about George Harrison that features interviews with Paul and Ringo naturally as well as many others. Honestly my biggest complaint with this one is it's close to four-hour length. This isn't the first time I've thought Scorsese has had problems with editing down his babies, and it probably won't be the last.


120. Gray Matter (2004)
Joe Berlinger, director of Paradise Lost, goes in search of Dr. Heinrich Gross, a doctor who worked for the Nazis and purportedly participated in awful, fucked up experiments and murder of over 700 children whose brains kept in jars are finally being laid to rest. As you can imagine, this one is a ray of sunshine... For real though, the subject is an important one to cover although Berlinger's Michael Moore-esque hunt for Dr. Gross feels unnecessary.


121. The Inland Sea (1991)
This is essentially a travelogue of island communities off the coast of Japan based on writings of Donald Ritchie. Yet, it has a certain engaging quality unlike many more static travelogues, filmed with a certain poetic fluidity and populated with interesting side-trips. I can actually see why Criterion would deem this one worth releasing.


122. Patrick Stewart Narrates 'The Planets' (1993)
The title sums this one up pretty well. Captain Picard himself takes us on a hypnotic aural and visual journey through the solar system using a combination of photography and footage from space probes and CGI animation. It's not super informative and in fact feels like it's almost more intended as an art piece. Unfortunately the CG comes across very dated nowadays and while Stewart's narration is top notch, there are probably better docs on space you can watch instead.


123. For Sama (2019)
This was a harrowing and incredibly gripping doc following firsthand experiences of the bombing of Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War structured as a letter to the filmmaker's daughter Sama who lived through the intense experience as a baby along with her parents. It actually reminded me of The Square about the Egyptian riots from a few years ago in terms of its structure and immediacy. Definitely recommended.


124. Tales of the Rat Fink (2006)
Despite me having little interest in cars, I actually had a whole lot of fun with this one. It uses a mix of voiceover narration by John Goodman, archival images, footage from films of the era, animation, comic strip stop motion and all manner of transitional effects to tell the story of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, creator of the Rat Fink character and prominent figure in the Kustom Kulture movement of the '50s and '60s. While the doc is a little light on actual content on Roth's personal life, it's so fun to watch that it's easily forgiven.

There's No Such Thing As Fact

1. London (1994)
2. Un vivant qui passe a.k.a. A Visitor from the Living (1999)
3. Sobibór, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures (2001)
4. Le rapport Karski a.k.a. The Karski Report (2010)
5a. Monster Makeup (1989)
5b. Hammer’s Lost Worlds (2017)
5c. Producing Schlock: The Career of Al Adamson (2008)
5d. Freud In Color: Guido Crepax (?)
5e. May I Help You? Confessions of a Game Play Counselor (2020)
6. Alaska: Silence & Solitude (2005)
7. A Musicares Tribute to Paul McCartney (2012)
8. L'île au trésor a.k.a. Treasure Island (2018)
9. The Search for Weng Weng (2007)
10. Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story (2013)
11a. Eyes on Mars (2003)
11b. Solarmax (2000)
11c. Lost in Space: Nic Roeg’s Flash Gordon (2020)
12. Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror (2000)
13. Memories of Nashville/Memories of Sulphur Dell (2003?)
14. That's Sexploitation! (2013)
15. American Nightmare: Reunion Documentary (2015)
16. Reflections on the Living Dead (1993)
17. The Unwinking Gaze: The Inside Story of the Dalai Lama's Struggle for Tibet (2008)
18. Seven Wonders of the World (1956)
19. Diary (1983)
20. Mercury 13 (2018)
21. The Best in the Biz (2018)
22. Batkid Begins (2015)
23. Hangs Upon Nothing (2014)
24. King of Beasts (2018)
25. The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)
26. RR (2007)
27. Princely Toys: The Private Kingdon of Jack Donovan (1976)
28. The Living Desert (1953)
29. Water and Power (1989)
30. Latcho Drom (1993)
31. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (2017)
32. La terre des âmes errantes a.k.a. The Land of Wandering Souls (2000)
33. Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora (1994)
34. $100 & a T-Shirt: A Documentary About Zines in the Northwest (2004)
35. Ben Folds: Live at My Space (2007)
36. Wheel of Time (2003)
37. ‎Twisted Tale: The Unmaking of Spookies (2019)
38. VIPCO The Untold Story (2018)
39a. Biltmore Estate: The Faces Behind the Dream (2005)
39b. The Pony Express: The Legend Begins (2013)
39c. Now: Fish on the Line/Robert F. Kennedy Jr (2005)
39d. Por primera vez a.k.a. For the First Time (1969)
40. The Power of Glove (2017)
41. Fuocoammare a.k.a. Fire at Sea (2016)
42. Made in Serbia (2005)
43. Forest of Bliss (1986)
44-50. The War (2007) E1-7
51. De cierta manera a.k.a. One Way or Another (1977)
52a. Now You See Him: The Invisible Man Revealed! (2000)
52b. Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' (1999)
52c. The Wolf Man: From Ancient Curse to Modern Myth (2018)
53a. Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney Jr. (2010)
53b. He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce (2008)
53c. 100 Years of Universal - The Lot (2012)
54. Planet Ocean (2012)
55. Frazetta: Painting with Fire (2003)
56. This Is It (2009)
57. Estou Me Guardando Para Quando O Carnaval Chegar a.k.a. Waiting for the Carnival (2019)
58. The Queen of Versailles (2012)
59. The Omen Legacy (2001)
60. Dog Days: The Making of 'Cujo' (2007)
61. Re-Animator Resurrectus (2007)
62. ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads (2019)
63. Die Mauer (1991)
64. The Moon and the Sledgehammer (1971)
65. Below Sea Level (2008)
66a. America Undercover: Looking for Fidel (2004)
66b. Alone in a Haunted House (2004)
67. Amazing Grace (2018)
68. The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield (1968)
69. Italiani come noi a.k.a. The Wild Weird Wonderful Italians (1963)
70. Navajo Shorts: (Navajo Silversmith, A Navajo Weaver, Intrepid Shadows, Old Antelope Lake, Shallow Well Project) (1966)
71. Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II (2015)
72. Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West (2002)
73. Rome and Vatican: The Secrets and Romance Through an Insider's View (2004)
74. No Greater Love (2015)
75. Lucha Libre: Life Behind the Mask (2005)
76. National Parks Exploration Series: Voyageurs - Spirit of the Boundary Waters (2011)
77. Coast Guard at War (2006)
78. I Am Jane Doe (2017)
79. Chuyen tu te a.k.a. Living as One Should (1987)
80. Sweetgrass (2009)
81. Fart: A Documentary (2016)
82a. Images de la folie a.k.a. Images of Madness (1950)
82b. Le Monde de Paul Delvaux 1946)
82c. Désordre a.k.a. Disorder (1950)
82d. Magritte ou La leçon de choses (1960)
82e. Archeologia (1968)
82f. Black TV (1968)
83. Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four (2014)
84. Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD (2014)
85. Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017)
86. Bixa Travesty a.k.a. Tranny Fag (2018)
87a. I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009)
87b. The Real Story: Saving Private Ryan (2012)
88. 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street (2015)
89. The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
90. Boatman (1993)
91. Sacro GRA (2013)
92. Garrincha - Alegria do Povo (1963)
93a. Couro de Gato (1962)
93b. Improvisiert und zielbewusst (1967)
93c. O Mestre de Apipucos (1959)
93d. Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade (1968)
94. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)
95a. Ancient Mysteries: The Lost Ark of the Covenant (1994)
95b. Castles in the Air: A Journey to Walden (2003)
96. The Wonders of Appalachians (2003)
97. The Who: Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 2004 (2004)
98. Inside the Forbidden City (2009)
99. Sharks 3D (2004)
100-106. The Story of Film: An Odyssey E2-15 (2011)
107. The Beales of Grey Gardens (2006)
108. Into the Inferno (2016)
109. The Making of Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws' (1995)
110. Chung Kuo - Cina (1972)
111. Messi (2014)
112a. Trance and Dance in Bali (1952)
112b. Appalachian Spring (1944)
112c. Heretic (1931)
112d. Beauty Knows No Pain (1972)
113. Freedom Riders (2010)
114a. Cities of the Underworld: New York (2007)
114b. La Paella di Dan Albert (2014)
115. Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019)
116. Tiny Giants 3D (2014)
117-118a. Nintendo Quest: Power Tour (2015) E1-9
118b. They Call It Pro Football (1966)
119. George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)
120. Gray Matter (2004)
121. The Inland Sea (1991)
122. Patrick Stewart Narrates 'The Planets' (1993)
123. For Sama (2019)
124. Tales of the Rat Fink (2006)

[zzzorf]

Spoiler

1. Portrecista (2006) - 6/10

2. Who Took Johnny (2014) - 7/10
3. To Catch a Serial Killer with Trevor McDonald (2018) - 4/10
4. The House in Between (2020) - 3/10
5. Alone in the Wilderness (2004) - 6/10

[maxwelldeux]

2. Who Took Johnny (2014) - 7/10

I love that one to an almost absurd degree. So strange and interesting and heartbreaking and unexpected.

[maxwelldeux]

You can't HANDLE the truth:

"1. Tornado Alley (2011)
2. Rocky Mountain Express (2011)
3. This is Not a Film (2011)
4. Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP (2014)
5. The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends (2006)
""6. Shorts:
London Can Take It (1940, 9m)
Vzglyanite na litso (1968, 11m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Washington Inside Murder (2020, 47m)
O Dreamland (1956, 13m)""
7. Clinton Cash (2016)
8. 12 O'Clock Boys (2013)
9. The Ocean's Eleven Story (2001)
10. Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2012)"
"11. Sneakerheadz (2015)
12. Root Cause (2019)
13. Cuadecuc, vampir (1971)
14. Geek Girls (2017)
15. The Heart in Screenland (2020) <- by prodigalgodson
""16-18. American Guns: A History of US Firearms (2017, 13ep x 22m = 286m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: The Kentucky Long Rifle and the Revolutionary War (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: U.S. Armories and the War of 1812 (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Breechloaders and Jacksonian Democracy (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Trouble in Texas and Samuel Colt (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Prelude to War and Increased Fire Power (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns of the American Civil War (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: The Six Shooter and America's New Industrial Age (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: The Long Gun (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Dawn of Modern Firearms Browning and the Spanish-American War (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns of World War I and Gangsters (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns of World War II (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns of Korea, Vietnam and 21st Century Warfare (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns for Hunters, Sport and Protection (2017, 22m)""
""19-21. Shorts/TV (UM=211, +17, +12float = 240m)
Afrique 50 (1950, 17m)
Unsolved Mysteries: A Death in Oslo (2020, 43m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Death Row Fugitive (2020, 36m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Tsunami Spirits (2020, 47m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Lady in the Lake (2020, 48m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Stolen Kids (2020, 37m)""
22. The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
23. Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (2005)
24. The Mask You Live In (2015)
25. The Storm Makers (2014)
26. For They Know Not What They Do (2019)
27. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (2018)
28. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017)
29. Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic (2018)
30. Love Free or Die (2012)"
"31. Fire in Paradise (2019)
32. Roll Red Roll (2018)
33. This Changes Everything (2018)
34. Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It (2015)
35. Atari: Game Over (2014)
36. Empire (1964)
37. All Male, All Nude (2017)
""38-42. Wild Wild Country (2018, 400m):
Wild Wild Country: Part 1 (2018, 64m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 2 (2018, 64m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 3 (2018, 66m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 4 (2018, 69m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 5 (2018, 66m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 6 (2018, 71m)""
43. Trafficked in America (2018)
44. The Sky Piercer (2018)
45. Blutch (2018)
""46-47. Waco: Madman or Messiah (2018, 172m) - Float: 12m + 34m = 46m
Waco: Madman or Messiah: Part 1 (2018, 86m)
Waco: Madman or Messiah: Part 2 (2018, 86m)""
48. Finders Keepers (2015)
49. Films of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Movie (2011)
50. COVID's Hidden Toll (2020)
51. The Act of Killing (2012)
52. The Devil We Know (2018)
53. The Speed Cubers (2020)
54. Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020)
55. 14 Minutes from Earth (2016)
""56-60. America's Book of Secrets, s1 (2012, 428m, float 28m) 4/10
America's Book of Secret: The White House (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: Freemasons (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: Fort Knox (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: Area 51 (2012, 42m)
America's Book of Secret: The Playboy Mansion (2012, 42m)
America's Book of Secret: Presidential Transports (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: The FBI (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: West Point (2012, 44m)
America's Book of Secret: Black Ops (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: The Pentagon (2012, 42m)"""
"61. Homosaywhat (2019)
62. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011)
""63-64. Shorts (113m + 47 from Float): [new float 27]
Hôtel des Invalides (1952, 22m)
Schastye/Paradise (1995, 22m)
La Soufrière (1977, 30m)
Heroin(e) (2017, 39m)""
65. Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
66. Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
67. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002)
68. Jose Canseco: The Truth Hurts (2016)
69. Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
70. The Flaw (2011)
""71-72. Exhibit A (144m) + Jaime (1974, 33m) = 177m, 17m added to prior float
Exhibit A: Video Forensics (2019, 41m)
Exhibit A: Blood Spatter (2019, 29m)
Exhibit A: Cadaver Dogs (2019, 37m)
Exhibit A: Touch DNA (2019, 37m)""
73. '85: The Greatest Team in Pro Football History (2016)
74. 49 Pulses (2017)
75. Begging Naked (2007)
76. Fires Were Started (1943)
77. Burger Town (1998)
78. Flint's Deadly Water (2019)
79. Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1995)
80. What Haunts Us (2018)"
81. The Hunt for Transylvanian Gold (2017)
"82-83. The Code (2011, 174m, float 14)
The Code: Numbers (2011, 59m)
The Code: Shapes (2011, 58m)
The Code: Prediction (2011, 57m)"
84. In Search of Greatness (2018)
85. Particle Fever (2013)
86. Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014)
87. Red Hollywood (1996)

88. The Look of Silence (2014) 8/10
This was everything the first film should have been. It challenged the narrative of the people in power. I get that this film couldn't have worked without the first, but wow... a powerful expose of nazis, Indonesian edition.

89. Miss Representation (2011) 7/10
I can't say this is overwhelmingly happy or anything, but it was really exciting to watch. All about the representation of women in media, it did a nice job of putting words to a lot of unflattering and harmful trends in media. Definitely a tad over the top, but has a good message to help nudge people in the right direction.

90-92. The Ripper (2020, 195m + 45 from float)

Spoiler

The Ripper: Once Upon a Time in Yorkshire (2020, 51m)
The Ripper: Between Now and Dawn (2020, 48m)
The Ripper: Reclaim the Night (2020, 49m)
The Ripper: Out of the Shadows (2020, 47m)

This... was something. The first half was a relatively boring recitation of serial killer crimes (Yorkshire Ripper), but the back half was a fascinating look into sexism in the crime-solving industry and how it lead to some legitimately awful outcomes for a number of women.

[Kublai Khan]

Documented Documentaries

1. Fear of 13 (David Sington-2015) UK 1 official list 316 checks
2. This Film Is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick-2006) UK/USA 2,859 checks
3. Amazing Grace (Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack-2018) USA 1 official list 238 checks
4. Eric Andre: Legalize Everything (Eric Notarnicola-2020) USA 53 checks
5. Cuba and the Cameraman (Jon Alpert-2017) USA 111 checks
6. A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Rivers, Ben Russell-2013) France/Estonia/Germany 1 official list 139 checks
7. Nova: Black Hole Apocalypse (Rushmore DeNooyer-2017) USA 24 checks
8. Zoo (Robinson Devor-2007) USA 1 official list 251 checks
9. Tickled (David Farrier, Dylan Reeve-2016) New Zealand 1,112 checks
10. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Travis Wilkerson-2017) USA 71 checks
11. Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (Madeleine Parry-2020) USA 112 checks
12. I Am Jane Doe (Mary Mazzio-2017) USA 81 checks
13. Mommy Dead and Dearest (Erin Lee Carr-2017) USA 340 checks
14. For All Mankind (Al Reinert-1989) USA 5 official lists 1,571 checks
15. The Decline of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris-1981) USA 2 official lists 739 checks
16. The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (David France-2017) USA 129 checks
17. Crip Camp (James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham-2020) USA 113 checks
18. Jim Jefferies: Intolerant (Scott Zabielski-2020) USA 48 checks
19. Eddie Murphy: Raw (Robert Townsend-1987) USA 1,980 checks
20. Hondros (Greg Campbell-2017) Iraq/Libya/Liberia/USA 14 checks
21. Weiner (Josh Kriegman-2016) USA 831 checks
22. Numero Deux (Jean-Luc Godard-1975) France 3 official lists 354 checks
23. Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story (Jamie Meltzer-2003) USA 27 checks
24. Night on Earth: Moonlit Plains (Peter Fison-2020) UK 25 checks
25. Secrets of Body Language (James Millar-2008) UK 14 checks

26. Night on Earth: Frozen Night (Peter Fison-2020) UK 25 checks
27. Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky-2000) USA 710 checks

[adwest]

83. #Female Pleasure (2018) 8/10
About female sexuality and the ways it gets suppressed in cultures around the world. One-sided but lots of good info that I mostly tend to agree.

84. Red Hollywood (1996) 6/10
Didn't recognize most of the films but there was some decent info about the time period, especially post-war America so I found that part the most interesting. Still probably wouldn't recommend.

85-87. Who Killed Malcolm X? (Episodes 1-6) (270 min total, 30 remaining added to previous remainder, 61 min. remaining)
I don't really know all that much about Malcolm X or the Nation of Islam so this was informative but I also found the documentarian frustrating and since I still haven't figured out how to hide spoilers I won't say why.

88-93. The 1990s: The Deadliest Decade (Episodes 1-10) (420 min total, use 60 of previous remainder)
I really liked this show for two reasons: the episodes match my attention span at a short 42 minutes each and they only seem to cover news stories where it's pretty clear who the culprit was so I'm not left wondering whodunit like I am with so many true crime documentaries.

94. The Look of Silence (2014) 9/10
Far superior to the first film he did about what is basically the Indonesian Holocaust. This time he documented it in a more nuanced way instead of focusing only on the killers' stories. The Pro-democracy/anti-communist propaganda is gross to watch and the fact that it was continuing in 2014 or thereabouts is disgusting. But, what was so sad to witness was that there is no truth or reconciliation in this community because no one is willing to admit the truth. Without truth, there seems to be very little hope for healing for this country and its people. Which is certainly not limited to Indonesia. How many countries haven't yet gotten the message that killing or incarcerating whole groups of people profoundly damages the social fabric of a nation, and destroys those who oppress in equal measure to those who are oppressed? Certainly not mine.

95. Miss Representation (2011) 8/10
All about how women are represented in media and how those images may affect us. It felt very personally true for me, but also having discussed this with many friends and read a lot on this topic, I give it a thumbs up. Not perfect, but well done.

96-98. The Food that Built America (Episodes 1-3) (255 min total, remainder of 15 min.)
I wasn't sure if I was going to like this going in, but it started playing on Hulu after the 1990s Deadliest Decade show ended and I kept watching and found that it was interesting. It's a little weird because they hired actors to act out parts of it, so it felt partially narrative and not just fully documentary. I have no idea how accurate those parts of it are but they had lots of historians and experts who they interviewed, and a narrator which is where most of the information came from.

[ChrisReynolds]

Previously watched...

1. Free Solo (Chin-Vasarhelyi, 2018) 7/10
2. Startup.com (Hegedus-Noujaim, 2001) 6/10
3. Into the Abyss (Herzog, 2011) 5/10
4. Dogtown and Z-Boys (Peralta, 2001) 7/10
5. In Search of Darkness (Weiner, 2019) 4/10

6a. Once Upon a Time in Iraq [Episode 1: War] (Bluemel, 2020)
6b. Once Upon a Time in Iraq [Episode 2: Insurgency] (Bluemel, 2020)
7a. Once Upon a Time in Iraq [Episode 3: Fallujah] (Bluemel, 2020)
7b. Once Upon a Time in Iraq [Episode 4: Saddam] (Bluemel, 2020)
8a. Once Upon a Time in Iraq [Episode 5: Legacy] (Bluemel, 2020)
This documentary was shown over the summer in the UK, and I'm amazed that I'm the first check on this. It's a fairly typical series of eyewitness interviews intercut with footage, but the fascinating interviewees and the horrifying stories they have to tell are astonishingly involving and powerful.
8/10



8b. Can Sex Offenders Change? (Harrison, 2020)
Interviews with sex offenders and the people treating/managing them. A lot of the offenders seem to be saying what they think people want to hear. She was abused by her father herself, and her search for answers in the face of her own anxiety about her father being released is the most interesting part.
5/10



9. In the Realms of the Unreal (Yu, 2004)
A nice telling of the intriguingly strange secret life of Henry Darger, the janitor who secretly created a massive fantasy world. It becomes very moving at the end.
7/10



10. Helvetica (Hustwit, 2007)
This documentary makes a subject that seems intrinsically dry into a compelling documentary with a selection of good interviews that communicate their subjects' passion both for and against the Helvetica typeface
6/10

[blueboybob]

73. Domestic Violence (2001)
74. Domestic Violence 2 (2002) <--- Both of these documentaries are good but very sad and heartbreaking. We want "out of site, out of mind" when it comes to stuff like this, but people need to know it happens often.
75. East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story (2020) <--- Loved this one. Great detail and story telling. Really goes to show how systematic racism is used to hold a group of people down.
76. Human (2015) <--- it was a pretty movie, but I dont think the plot was great. There are other similar documentaries that are better.
77. Agents of Chaos <--- I was not impressed. I heard so many good things, but I didn't think this movie was great. Maybe at this point im just jaded about this whole subject.



This is one of those times that going by minutes would be cool, but I'm not too concerned. I enjoyed many of the documentaries I watched.

[frbrown]

3. Water and Power (1989)

For a supposed documentary, I didn't get much (or any) information out of this. Nice to look at, though, with its array of optical trickery.

Spoiler

1. Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
2. Chariots of the Gods (1970)
3. Water and Power (1989)

[72aicm]

26. Picture of Light (1994)
27. Obyknovennyy fashizm (1965)

Spoiler

1. The Painter and the Thief (2020) 9/10
2-11. The Vietnam War (2017) 8/10
12. 4 Little Girls (1997)
13. For Sama (2019)
14-22. Baseball (1994)
23. Law and Order (1969)
24. Water and Power (1989)
25. Chronos (1985)
26. Picture of Light (1994)
27. Obyknovennyy fashizm (1965)

[blocho]

6. Hearts and Minds (1974)
An agitprop documentary of the highest order. Interviews with famous names like Clark Clifford, Walt Rostow, Westmoreland, and Ellsberg are balanced with interviews with lesser-known activists, veterans, POWs, and Vietnamese civilians.

7. National Gallery (2014)
The sixth Wiseman movie I've seen and the first that bored me. Perhaps it's because I took so many art history classes in college. There was very little here that was interesting or offered a deeper understanding of this museum's social function.

8. Ashes and Snow (2005)
The kindest thing I can say about this movie is that it wasn't for me.

9. Antarctica: A Year on Ice (2013)
The movie delivers what it promises -- a yearlong exploration of life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica's bustling metropolis. It's defined mostly by the extensive use of time-lapse photography, which yields some utterly gorgeous images, and by interviews with residents. All of the interviewees are support staff rather than scientists. The filmmaker himself is only in Antarctica as a radio technician -- his cinematic efforts are a hobby. Highly enjoyable for those interested in Antarctica.

[klaus78]

Spoiler

1. Ici et ailleurs (1976) 7/10
2. Five Broken Cameras (2011) 7/10
3. El desencanto (1976) 6/10
4. RR (2007) 8/10
5. Jaguar (1968) 8/10
6. Tongues Untied (1989) 6/10
7. Chung Kuo - Cina (1972) 7/10
8. Robinson in Space (1997) 7/10
9. Où gît votre sourire enfoui? (2001) 7/10
10. Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004) 8/10
11. S21, la machine de mort khmère rouge (2003) 8/10
12. Dukhovnye golosa. Iz dnevnikov voyny. Povestvovanie v pyati chastyakh (1995) 7/10
13. Videogramme einer Revolution (1992) 8/10

14. Jaime (1974) 8/10
15. Dreams of a Life (2011) 6/10
16. American Movie (1999) 7/10
17. Zappa (2020) 6/10
18. Civilisation (1969) 8/10

[Kublai Khan]

Documented Documentaries

1. Fear of 13 (David Sington-2015) UK 1 official list 316 checks
2. This Film Is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick-2006) UK/USA 2,859 checks
3. Amazing Grace (Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack-2018) USA 1 official list 238 checks
4. Eric Andre: Legalize Everything (Eric Notarnicola-2020) USA 53 checks
5. Cuba and the Cameraman (Jon Alpert-2017) USA 111 checks
6. A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Rivers, Ben Russell-2013) France/Estonia/Germany 1 official list 139 checks
7. Nova: Black Hole Apocalypse (Rushmore DeNooyer-2017) USA 24 checks
8. Zoo (Robinson Devor-2007) USA 1 official list 251 checks
9. Tickled (David Farrier, Dylan Reeve-2016) New Zealand 1,112 checks
10. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Travis Wilkerson-2017) USA 71 checks
11. Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (Madeleine Parry-2020) USA 112 checks
12. I Am Jane Doe (Mary Mazzio-2017) USA 81 checks
13. Mommy Dead and Dearest (Erin Lee Carr-2017) USA 340 checks
14. For All Mankind (Al Reinert-1989) USA 5 official lists 1,571 checks
15. The Decline of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris-1981) USA 2 official lists 739 checks
16. The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (David France-2017) USA 129 checks
17. Crip Camp (James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham-2020) USA 113 checks
18. Jim Jefferies: Intolerant (Scott Zabielski-2020) USA 48 checks
19. Eddie Murphy: Raw (Robert Townsend-1987) USA 1,980 checks
20. Hondros (Greg Campbell-2017) Iraq/Libya/Liberia/USA 14 checks
21. Weiner (Josh Kriegman-2016) USA 831 checks
22. Numero Deux (Jean-Luc Godard-1975) France 3 official lists 354 checks
23. Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story (Jamie Meltzer-2003) USA 27 checks
24. Night on Earth: Moonlit Plains (Peter Fison-2020) UK 25 checks
25. Secrets of Body Language (James Millar-2008) UK 14 checks
26. Night on Earth: Frozen Night (Peter Fison-2020) UK 25 checks
27. Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky-2000) USA 710 checks

28. John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid (Rhys Thomas-2015) USA 407 checks

Watched with my wife who was finding it hilarious and her enjoyment was infectious. Which is probably the best way to enjoy stand up comedy.

29. Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (David Gregory-2014) USA 310 checks

This was just amusing and fantastic. I haven't yet watched some of the more infamous disaster film set docs (Heart of Darkness, Lost in La Mancha), but this might spur me to watch them sooner.

[tourdesb]

57a. The Ax Fight (1975, Timothy Asch & Napoleon Chagnon)
57b. Señales de ruta (2000, Tevo Diaz)
57c. El Domador (1978, Joaquín Cortés) : erk, lots of animal cruelty inside ...
58. Paris mil neuf cent (1947, Nicole Védrès)
59. Señorita extraviada (2001, Lourdes Portillo)
60. Dhrupad (1983, Mani Kaul)
61. Diario de Uma Busca (2010, Flavia Castro)
62. Dom kallar oss mods (1968, Stefan Jarl & Jan Lindkvist)

Seen this month

1. El botón de nácar (2015, Patricio Guzmán)
2. Route One USA (1989, Robert Kramer)
3. Geschichte der Nacht (1979, Clemens Klopfenstein)
4. Najeun moksori (1995, Young-Joo Byun)
5. Ett anständigt liv (1979, Stefan Jarl)
6. Acidente (2007, Cao Guimarães & Pablo Lobato)
7. Al hayatt al yawmiyah fi quariah suriyah (1976, Omar Amiralay)
8. Tierische Liebe (1996, Ulrich Seidl)
9. Gubben i stugan (1995, Nina Hedenius)
10. Zem spieva (1933, Karel Plicka)
11. Xianshi shi guoqu de weilai (2009, Weikai Huang)
12. Undergångens arkitektur (1989, Peter Cohen)
13. Surire (2015, Iván Osnovikoff & Bettina Perut)
14. Stand van de Sterren (2010, Leonard Retel)
15. The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer (1992, Arthur Ginsberg & Tom Spain)
16. 4 Little Girls (1997, Spike Lee)
17. La croisière jaune (1933, André Sauvage & Léon Poirier)
18. Poto and Cabengo (1980, Jean-Pierre Gorin)
19. Povelitel mukh (1991, Vladimir Tyulkin)
20. The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988, Penelope Spheeris)
21-22. "Room 2806: The Accusation" (2020, Jalil Lespert)
23. Autrement, la Molussie (2012, Nicolas Rey)
24. Ångrarna (2010, Marcus Lindeen)
25-31. "The War" (2007, Ken Burns)
32-36. "Long Way Round" (2004, -)
37a. I am Somebody (1970, Madeline Anderson)
37b. La Batalla de Vieques (1986, Zydnia Nazario)
37c. Ganjine-haye gohar (1965, Ebrahim Golestan)
38. Avodah (1935, Helmar Lerski)
39. Belarmino (1964, Fernando Lopes)
40. Trances (1981, Ahmed El Maanouni)
41. The Inland Sea (1991, Lucille Carra)
42. Estamira (2004, Marcos Prado)
43-50. "The Beatles Anthology" (1995, -)
51a. Hiroshima genbaku no kiroru (1970, Yasuo Matsukawa & Motoo Ogasawara) : 28
51b. Isole nella laguna (1948, Luciano Emmer & Enrico Gras)
51c. Las Callampas (1958, Rafael Sanchez)
51d. Kumshagalskaya istoriya (1986, Igor Vovnyanko)
52. Directed by John Ford (1971, Peter Bogdanovich)
53. Juízo (2007, Maria Ramos)
54. Ileksen (1979, Dennis O'Rourke)
55. Los reyes del pueblo que no existe (2015, Betzabé García)
56. Memoria del saqueo (2004, Fernando E. Solanas)
57a. The Ax Fight (1975, Timothy Asch & Napoleon Chagnon)
57b. Señales de ruta (2000, Tevo Diaz)
57c. El Domador (1978, Joaquín Cortés)
58. Paris mil neuf cent (1947, Nicole Védrès)
59. Señorita extraviada (2001, Lourdes Portillo)
60. Dhrupad (1983, Mani Kaul)
61. Diario de Uma Busca (2010, Flavia Castro)
62. Dom kallar oss mods (1968, Stefan Jarl & Jan Lindkvist)

[frbrown]

4. Stop Making Sense (1984)

I had only heard a few hit songs by Talking Heads before, and those turned out to be the only songs I liked here. Also, the movie is not much to look at, mostly just a lot of goofy choreography.

Spoiler

1. Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
2. Chariots of the Gods (1970)
3. Water and Power (1989)
4. Stop Making Sense (1984)

[DudeLanez]

11. Antonio Gaudí (1984, Teshigahara) 7/10
12. Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000, Varda) 7/10
13. Les glaneurs et la glaneuse... deux ans après (2002, Varda) 7/10
14. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997, Herzog) 7/10

Spoiler

1. Mur murs (1981, Varda) 8/10
2. For All Mankind (1989) 7/10
3. Roger & Me (1989) 5/10
4. Glaube und Währung (1981, Herzog) 6/10
5. Burden of Dreams (1982) 8/10
6. Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten (1984, Herzog) 6/10
7. How much Wood would a Woodchuck chuck... (1976, Herzog) 4/10
8. Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel (2000, Herzog) 7/10
9. The Atomic Cafe (1982) 8/10
10. Wodaabe - Die Hirten der Sonne. (1989, Herzog) 6/10
11. Antonio Gaudí (1984, Teshigahra) 7/10
12. Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000, Varda) 7/10
13. Les glaneurs et la glaneuse... deux ans après (2002, Varda) 7/10
14. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997, Herzog) 7/10

Spoiler

[AB537]

43 minutes carried over

21. Nostalgia de la luz - Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzman, 2010) 7/10
22-23. Roman Empire season 3 (Caligula - Netflix, 2019) 7/10 ... 47 minutes carried over

[cinephage]

16. For all Mankind, by Al Reinert (1989) 8/10

Awe-inspiring and intimate as well. What a documentary !!

17. The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear, by Adam Curtis (2004) 8/10

Quite a solid summary and good analysis of a past process. I didn't learn much, but found the form rich and efficient in its explanation.

It's all true (15)

01. 4 Little Girls, by Spike Lee (1997) 7,5/10
02. Juvenile Court, by Frederick Wiseman (1973) 8/10
03. Nostalgia de la luz, by Patricio Guzman (2010) 7,5/10
04. Voyage à travers le cinéma français, by Bertrand Tavernier (2017) 8/10 ep.1
05. Voyage à travers le cinéma français, by Bertrand Tavernier (2017) 8/10 ep.2
06. Voyage à travers le cinéma français, by Bertrand Tavernier (2017) 8/10 ep.3
07. Voyage à travers le cinéma français, by Bertrand Tavernier (2017) 8/10 ep.4
08. Voyage à travers le cinéma français, by Bertrand Tavernier (2017) 8/10 ep.5
09. Voyage à travers le cinéma français, by Bertrand Tavernier (2017) 8/10 ep.6
10. Voyage à travers le cinéma français, by Bertrand Tavernier (2017) 8/10 ep.7
11. Voyage à travers le cinéma français, by Bertrand Tavernier (2017) 8/10 ep.8
12. Voyage à travers le cinéma français, by Bertrand Tavernier (2017) 8/10 ep.9
13. La marche de l'empereur, by Luc Jacquet (2005) 8,5/10
14. Cabra Marcado Para Morrer, by Eduardo Coutinho (1984) 7,5/10
15. Tongues untied, by Marlon Riggs (1989) 7/10

[jdidaco]

(Screenshots from 'Lord of the Dance/Destroyer of Illusion' (borrowed from PdA), 'Affettuosa presenza' & 'Demônios e Maravilhas')

Toujours vivant.../Still Alive... (Jocelyn Saab)



43. Phela-ndaba/End of the Dialogue (Antonia Caccia & Chris Curling & Simon Louvish & Nana Mahamo & Vus Make & Rakhetla Tsehlana, 1970) 9/10
44. Last Grave at Dimbaza (Chris Curling & Pascoe Macfarlane & Nana Mahamo, 1973) 9.5/10
45. Saat el Tahrir Dakkat, Barra ya Isti Mar (The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived, Heiny Srour, 1974) 8.5/10
46. Rissala min Beirut/A Letter from Beirut (Jocelyn Saab, 1979) 8/10
47. Dis-moi (Tell Me, Chantal Akerman, 1980) 9/10
48. Al Dhakira al Khasba (Fertile Memory, Michel Khleifi, 1981) 8/10
49. Der Ball (The Prom, Ulrich Seidl, 1982) 7.5/10
50. D'amore si vive (We Live of Love, Silvano Agosti, 1983) 9/10
51. Lord of the Dance/Destroyer of Illusion (Richard Kohn, 1985) 9/10
52. Demônios e Maravilhas (Demons and Wonders, José Mojica Marins, 1987) 7.5/10
53. Urgences (Raymond Depardon, 1988) 8/10
54. Die UFA (Hartmut Bitomsky 1992) 8/10
55. Affettuosa presenza (Tender Presence, Franco Piavoli, 2004) 8/10
56. Taiwan hei dianying (Taiwan Black Movies, Hou Chi-jan, 2005) 8/10
57. Let Each One Go Where He May (Ben Russell, 2009) 8/10
58. Ghost Strata (Ben Rivers, 2019) 7.5/10




A collection of shorts,

59-60. Skyscraper (Shirley Clarke & Willard Van Dyke & D.A. Pennebaker & Irving Jacoby & Wheaton Galentine, 1960) 8/10 (21 min), Beyrouth, jamais plus (Beirut Is No Longer Never, Jocelyn Saab, 1976) 8.5/10 (35 min), Einsvierzig (One Fourty, Ulrich Seidl, 1980) 7/10 (16 min), Beyrouth, Ma Ville (Beirut, My City, Jocelyn Saab, 1983) 9.5/10 (35 min), Contacts (William Klein, 1983) 7.5/10 (14 min), About Tap (George T. Nierenberg, 1985) 8/10 (28 min), Violin Fase (Eric Pauwels, 1986) 9/10 (12 min) (Total: 161 min)

Who rules the Earth? God? Satan? the Wandering Spirits?

Under Zé's spells/enlightenments, I wish a (safe) Happy Christmas to all my fellow ICMers...

Spoiler

1. British Sounds (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Henri Roger, 1970) 8/10
2. Bird on a Wire (Tony Palmer, 1974) 8.5/10
3. Reggae Sunsplash (Stefan Paul, 1980) 8.5/10
4. Urgh! A Music War (Derek Burbidge, 1981) 9/10
5. Selva. Un portrait de Parvaneh Navaï (Selva. A Portrait of Parvaneh Navaï, Maria Klonaris, 1983) 9.5/10
6. T4 - Hartheim 1 - Sterben und Leben im Schloß (T4 - Hartheim 1, Andreas Gruber & Egon Humer, 1988) 9/10
7. Cuba feliz (Karim Dridi, 2000) 8/10
8. The Nomi Song (Andrew Horn, 2004) 7.5/10
9. Estou Me Guardando Para Quando O Carnaval Chegar (Waiting for the Carnival, Marcelo Gomes, 2019) 7.5/10
10. American Utopia (Spike Lee, 2020) 9.5/10
11. The Body (Roy Battersby, 1970) 9/10
12. Att vara zigenare (Being Gypsy, Peter Nestler, 1970) 8/10
13. D.O.A. (Lech Kowalski, 1980) 8/10
14. Style Wars (Tony Silver, 1983) 8/10
15. 1/2 Mensch (1/2 Man, Gakuryû Ishii, 1986) 8/10
16. Die Küche (The Kitchen, Jürgen Böttcher, 1987) 8/10
17. Dandy (Peter Sempel, 1988) 8/10
18. La ultima rumba de papa Montero (The Last Rumba of Papa Montero, Octavio Cortázar, 1992) 9/10
19. Santa Teresa y otras historias (Santa Teresa & Other Stories, Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias, 2015) 9/10
20. Bixa Travesty (Tranny Fag, Kiko Goifman & Claudia Priscilla, 2018) 7/10
21. A Rosa Azul de Novalis (The Blue Flower of Novalis, Gustavo Vinagre & Rodrigo Carneiro, 2018) 7/10
22. Cavalo (The Horse, Rafhael Barbosa & Werner Salles, 2020) 8/10
23. Paris-Cinéma (Pierre Chenal & Jean Mitry, 1929) 9.5/10
24. Les rendez-vous du diable (The Devil's Blast, Haroun Tazieff, 1959) 8/10
25. En la otra isla (On the Other Island, Sara Gómez, 1968) 8/10
26. Le territoire des autres (The Territory of Others, François Bel & Gérard Vienne & Michel Fano & Jacqueline Fano, 1970) 10/10
27. Kihnu naine (Women from Kihnu, Mark Soosaar, 1974) 8.5/10
28. Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (Les Blank, 1980) 7.5/10
29. Step on Silence (Jørgen Leth, 1981) 8.5/10
30. Das szenische Opfer (The Scenic Sacrifice, Klaus Wyborny, 1981) 9.5/10
31. Model (Frederick Wiseman, 1981) 9.5/10
32. Say Amen, Somebody (George T. Nierenberg, 1982) 8/10
33. Mississippi Blues (Robert Parrish & Bertrand Tavernier, 1983) 9/10
34. Mode in France (William Klein, 1985) 9/10
35. Voyage iconographique: Le martyre de Saint-Sébastien (Iconographic Journey: the Martyrdom of San Sebastian, Eric Pauwels, 1989) 8/10
36. Atlantis (Luc Besson, 1991) 7.5/10
37. L'arche et les déluges (The Ark and the Deluge, François Bel, 1993) 8/10
38. En frusen dröm (A Frozen Dream, Jan Troell, 1997) 8/10
39. In die Erde gebaut (Building Under Ground, Ute Aurand, 2008) 8.5/10
40. Aquarela (Viktor Kosakovskiy, 2018) 8.5/10
41-42. Aufsätze (Essays, Peter Nestler, 1963) 8/10 (10 min), Stadtbahn (Antonis Lepeniotis, 1966) 9/10 (4 min), Una isla para Miguel (An Island for Miguel, Sara Gómez, 1968) 8/10 (20 min), Isla del Tesoro (Treasure Island, Sara Gómez, 1969) 8/10 (9 min), Le coucou (François Bel & Gérard Vienne, 1970) 8/10 (12 min), Comme une araignée sur son fil (François Bel & Gérard Vienne, 1970) 8/10 (12 min), À vingt jours de la vie (François Bel & Gérard Vienne & Francis Roux, 1970) 8/10 (12 min), Boleto de Ida (One Way Ticket, Luis Molina Casanova, 1983) 7/10 (30 min), Tras las huellas de Palau (In the Footsteps of Palau, René Fortunato, 1985) 7.5/10 (21 min), Imagenes de un artista (Images of an Artist, René Fortunato, 1987) 7.5/10 (27 min), Days Passed (Michelle Cho, 2020) 8/10 (3 min) (Total: 160 min)

[sol]

Document This!

1. Long Shot (2017)
2. The Social Dilemma (2020)
3. Three Identical Strangers (2018)
4a. It's Wonderful Being a Girl (1968) 17min
4b. Happy Mother's Day (1973) 26min
4c. Highball Highway (1963) 11min
4d. Alco-Beat (1965) 11min
4e. Housing Problems (1935) 15min
5a. The Song of Ceylon (1934) 38min
5b. Granton Trawler (1934) 11min
5c. The River (1938) 31min
6a. Inside Reel: Eps.1 - 3 (2019) 27min
6b. In the Sky's Wild Noise (1983) 29min
6c. Coast Land (2020) 25min
7. Before Stonewall (1984)
8. Living on the Edge (1987)
9. Burden of Dreams (1982)
10. A British Picture (1989)
11. Ashes and Snow (2005)
12. Winter on Fire (2015)
13. The Fear of 13 (2015)
14. Troublemakers (1966)
15. Resurrect Dead (2011)
16. An Injury to One (2002)
17. Patient Seventeen (2017)
18. Casting Jon Benet (2017)

19. Brother's Keeper (1992)



The case here is intriguing at first as all sorts of theories emerge as to why the accused farmer might have murdered his ailing brother. As the film progresses though, it becomes very clear that the farmer is probably not guilty with the only evidence against him being a confession signed under duress. Questions then arise of why the police are so keen on pursuing it - which the filmmakers never answer. Interesting stuff, but this left me a little wanting.

[peeptoad]

8. Stop Making Sense (1984) 8
9. D.O.A. (1980) 7

Spoiler

1. Vernon, Florida (1981) 6
2. Harry & Snowman (2015) 6
3. Grizzly Man (2005) 6
4. Mondo New York (1988) 7+
5. Skinhead Attitude (2003) 7
6. Killer Legends (2014) 5
7. Dog Days: The Making of 'Cujo' (2007) 7

[flavo5000]

125a. Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage (1937)
125b. Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (1940)
125c. San Francisco Earthquake & Fire: April 18, 1906 (1906)
125d. The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)
125e. The Atom Strikes! (1945)
Well, decided to take in a block of destruction-themed shorts... Overall, these succeeded in thoroughly bumming me out. Although The Atom Strikes is hilariously blatant propaganda that pretends like nuclear fallout doesn't exist. Also, my kids absolutely loved the Tacoma Bridge footage and watched it multiple times.


126. Darwin's Nightmare (2004)
MAN WAS NOT MEANT TO PLAY GAAAAHHHHHDDDDD!!!


127. Samira cheghoneh 'Takhté siah' rol sakht a.k.a. How Samira Made the Blackboards (2000)
This was a pretty interesting doc on Samira Makhmalbaf, daughter of noted Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and an accomplished filmmaker in her own right. While it has a focus on following her as she directs her second film The Blackboards, it also features behind-the-scenes segments on her first film The Apple as well as it's big premiere at Cannes. One of the most intriguing things about this is just showing how a 19-year-old woman has to interact with her actors in the making of the film. It looks to be a very frustrating experience, particularly given Iran's attitude toward women in general.


128. On the Bowery (1956)
This was a kind of hybrid of documentary and fiction. Using a framing fictional story of a man named Ray who's barely scraping by and whittles away his money on booze, it profiles the denizens of the Bowery, populated by people down on their luck who just want to drown their sorrows in the bottom of a bottle. The narrative device actually seems to work pretty well to elicit conversations from people who may not necessarily feel inclined to talk otherwise and offers a pretty grim picture of this distinct place and time.


129-132. Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020) E1-8
Well, now that all the hype has died down from earlier this year, my wife and I decided to go through this ridiculous story. It was indeed entertaining, populated with a whole menagerie of unlikable, sketchy people doing ludicrous things. I did feel like it could've been tightened up to three or four episodes though rather than seven (the eighth episode is a wrap-up with interviews from many of the people involved in the story).


133. Married to the Eiffel Tower (2008)
Um....huh....

There's No Such Thing As Fact

1. London (1994)
2. Un vivant qui passe a.k.a. A Visitor from the Living (1999)
3. Sobibór, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures (2001)
4. Le rapport Karski a.k.a. The Karski Report (2010)
5a. Monster Makeup (1989)
5b. Hammer’s Lost Worlds (2017)
5c. Producing Schlock: The Career of Al Adamson (2008)
5d. Freud In Color: Guido Crepax (?)
5e. May I Help You? Confessions of a Game Play Counselor (2020)
6. Alaska: Silence & Solitude (2005)
7. A Musicares Tribute to Paul McCartney (2012)
8. L'île au trésor a.k.a. Treasure Island (2018)
9. The Search for Weng Weng (2007)
10. Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story (2013)
11a. Eyes on Mars (2003)
11b. Solarmax (2000)
11c. Lost in Space: Nic Roeg’s Flash Gordon (2020)
12. Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror (2000)
13. Memories of Nashville/Memories of Sulphur Dell (2003?)
14. That's Sexploitation! (2013)
15. American Nightmare: Reunion Documentary (2015)
16. Reflections on the Living Dead (1993)
17. The Unwinking Gaze: The Inside Story of the Dalai Lama's Struggle for Tibet (2008)
18. Seven Wonders of the World (1956)
19. Diary (1983)
20. Mercury 13 (2018)
21. The Best in the Biz (2018)
22. Batkid Begins (2015)
23. Hangs Upon Nothing (2014)
24. King of Beasts (2018)
25. The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)
26. RR (2007)
27. Princely Toys: The Private Kingdon of Jack Donovan (1976)
28. The Living Desert (1953)
29. Water and Power (1989)
30. Latcho Drom (1993)
31. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (2017)
32. La terre des âmes errantes a.k.a. The Land of Wandering Souls (2000)
33. Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora (1994)
34. $100 & a T-Shirt: A Documentary About Zines in the Northwest (2004)
35. Ben Folds: Live at My Space (2007)
36. Wheel of Time (2003)
37. ‎Twisted Tale: The Unmaking of Spookies (2019)
38. VIPCO The Untold Story (2018)
39a. Biltmore Estate: The Faces Behind the Dream (2005)
39b. The Pony Express: The Legend Begins (2013)
39c. Now: Fish on the Line/Robert F. Kennedy Jr (2005)
39d. Por primera vez a.k.a. For the First Time (1969)
40. The Power of Glove (2017)
41. Fuocoammare a.k.a. Fire at Sea (2016)
42. Made in Serbia (2005)
43. Forest of Bliss (1986)
44-50. The War (2007) E1-7
51. De cierta manera a.k.a. One Way or Another (1977)
52a. Now You See Him: The Invisible Man Revealed! (2000)
52b. Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' (1999)
52c. The Wolf Man: From Ancient Curse to Modern Myth (2018)
53a. Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney Jr. (2010)
53b. He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce (2008)
53c. 100 Years of Universal - The Lot (2012)
54. Planet Ocean (2012)
55. Frazetta: Painting with Fire (2003)
56. This Is It (2009)
57. Estou Me Guardando Para Quando O Carnaval Chegar a.k.a. Waiting for the Carnival (2019)
58. The Queen of Versailles (2012)
59. The Omen Legacy (2001)
60. Dog Days: The Making of 'Cujo' (2007)
61. Re-Animator Resurrectus (2007)
62. ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads (2019)
63. Die Mauer (1991)
64. The Moon and the Sledgehammer (1971)
65. Below Sea Level (2008)
66a. America Undercover: Looking for Fidel (2004)
66b. Alone in a Haunted House (2004)
67. Amazing Grace (2018)
68. The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield (1968)
69. Italiani come noi a.k.a. The Wild Weird Wonderful Italians (1963)
70. Navajo Shorts: (Navajo Silversmith, A Navajo Weaver, Intrepid Shadows, Old Antelope Lake, Shallow Well Project) (1966)
71. Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II (2015)
72. Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West (2002)
73. Rome and Vatican: The Secrets and Romance Through an Insider's View (2004)
74. No Greater Love (2015)
75. Lucha Libre: Life Behind the Mask (2005)
76. National Parks Exploration Series: Voyageurs - Spirit of the Boundary Waters (2011)
77. Coast Guard at War (2006)
78. I Am Jane Doe (2017)
79. Chuyen tu te a.k.a. Living as One Should (1987)
80. Sweetgrass (2009)
81. Fart: A Documentary (2016)
82a. Images de la folie a.k.a. Images of Madness (1950)
82b. Le Monde de Paul Delvaux 1946)
82c. Désordre a.k.a. Disorder (1950)
82d. Magritte ou La leçon de choses (1960)
82e. Archeologia (1968)
82f. Black TV (1968)
83. Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four (2014)
84. Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD (2014)
85. Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017)
86. Bixa Travesty a.k.a. Tranny Fag (2018)
87a. I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009)
87b. The Real Story: Saving Private Ryan (2012)
88. 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street (2015)
89. The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
90. Boatman (1993)
91. Sacro GRA (2013)
92. Garrincha - Alegria do Povo (1963)
93a. Couro de Gato (1962)
93b. Improvisiert und zielbewusst (1967)
93c. O Mestre de Apipucos (1959)
93d. Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade (1968)
94. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)
95a. Ancient Mysteries: The Lost Ark of the Covenant (1994)
95b. Castles in the Air: A Journey to Walden (2003)
96. The Wonders of Appalachians (2003)
97. The Who: Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 2004 (2004)
98. Inside the Forbidden City (2009)
99. Sharks 3D (2004)
100-106. The Story of Film: An Odyssey E2-15 (2011)
107. The Beales of Grey Gardens (2006)
108. Into the Inferno (2016)
109. The Making of Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws' (1995)
110. Chung Kuo - Cina (1972)
111. Messi (2014)
112a. Trance and Dance in Bali (1952)
112b. Appalachian Spring (1944)
112c. Heretic (1931)
112d. Beauty Knows No Pain (1972)
113. Freedom Riders (2010)
114a. Cities of the Underworld: New York (2007)
114b. La Paella di Dan Albert (2014)
115. Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019)
116. Tiny Giants 3D (2014)
117-118a. Nintendo Quest: Power Tour (2015) E1-9
118b. They Call It Pro Football (1966)
119. George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)
120. Gray Matter (2004)
121. The Inland Sea (1991)
122. Patrick Stewart Narrates 'The Planets' (1993)
123. For Sama (2019)
124. Tales of the Rat Fink (2006)
125a. Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage (1937)
125b. Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (1940)
125c. San Francisco Earthquake & Fire: April 18, 1906 (1906)
125d. The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)
125e. The Atom Strikes! (1945)
126. Darwin's Nightmare (2004)
127. Samira cheghoneh 'Takhté siah' rol sakht a.k.a. How Samira Made the Blackboards (2000)
128. On the Bowery (1956)
129-132. Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020) E1-8
133. Married to the Eiffel Tower (2008)

[sol]

Document This!

1. Long Shot (2017)
2. The Social Dilemma (2020)
3. Three Identical Strangers (2018)
4a. It's Wonderful Being a Girl (1968) 17min
4b. Happy Mother's Day (1973) 26min
4c. Highball Highway (1963) 11min
4d. Alco-Beat (1965) 11min
4e. Housing Problems (1935) 15min
5a. The Song of Ceylon (1934) 38min
5b. Granton Trawler (1934) 11min
5c. The River (1938) 31min
6a. Inside Reel: Eps.1 - 3 (2019) 27min
6b. In the Sky's Wild Noise (1983) 29min
6c. Coast Land (2020) 25min
7. Before Stonewall (1984)
8. Living on the Edge (1987)
9. Burden of Dreams (1982)
10. A British Picture (1989)
11. Ashes and Snow (2005)
12. Winter on Fire (2015)
13. The Fear of 13 (2015)
14. Troublemakers (1966)
15. Resurrect Dead (2011)
16. An Injury to One (2002)
17. Patient Seventeen (2017)
18. Casting Jon Benet (2017)
19. Brother's Keeper (1992)

20. Apollo 11 (2019)



Heavily reliant on audio from news reports, this certainly reflects the public awe and wonder at the moon landing. The filmmakers' insistence in only using archive footage mostly works against the project though. Without interviews or voiceover narration, the project has little sense of flow and the documentary does not really present any new views or insights through simply showing various bits of archive footage. Cool supersaturated colours though.

A bit of a disappointment for what was (at one stage) the frontrunner for the Oscar, but at least now I have this:



But to watch in order to maintain it in case something gets thrown off the list? (I do have a few in mind)

[maxwelldeux]

You can't HANDLE the truth:

"1. Tornado Alley (2011)
2. Rocky Mountain Express (2011)
3. This is Not a Film (2011)
4. Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP (2014)
5. The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends (2006)
""6. Shorts:
London Can Take It (1940, 9m)
Vzglyanite na litso (1968, 11m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Washington Inside Murder (2020, 47m)
O Dreamland (1956, 13m)""
7. Clinton Cash (2016)
8. 12 O'Clock Boys (2013)
9. The Ocean's Eleven Story (2001)
10. Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2012)"
"11. Sneakerheadz (2015)
12. Root Cause (2019)
13. Cuadecuc, vampir (1971)
14. Geek Girls (2017)
15. The Heart in Screenland (2020) <- by prodigalgodson
""16-18. American Guns: A History of US Firearms (2017, 13ep x 22m = 286m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: The Kentucky Long Rifle and the Revolutionary War (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: U.S. Armories and the War of 1812 (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Breechloaders and Jacksonian Democracy (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Trouble in Texas and Samuel Colt (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Prelude to War and Increased Fire Power (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns of the American Civil War (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: The Six Shooter and America's New Industrial Age (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: The Long Gun (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Dawn of Modern Firearms Browning and the Spanish-American War (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns of World War I and Gangsters (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns of World War II (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns of Korea, Vietnam and 21st Century Warfare (2017, 22m)
American Guns: A History of US Firearms: Guns for Hunters, Sport and Protection (2017, 22m)""
""19-21. Shorts/TV (UM=211, +17, +12float = 240m)
Afrique 50 (1950, 17m)
Unsolved Mysteries: A Death in Oslo (2020, 43m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Death Row Fugitive (2020, 36m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Tsunami Spirits (2020, 47m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Lady in the Lake (2020, 48m)
Unsolved Mysteries: Stolen Kids (2020, 37m)""
22. The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
23. Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (2005)
24. The Mask You Live In (2015)
25. The Storm Makers (2014)
26. For They Know Not What They Do (2019)
27. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (2018)
28. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017)
29. Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic (2018)
30. Love Free or Die (2012)"
"31. Fire in Paradise (2019)
32. Roll Red Roll (2018)
33. This Changes Everything (2018)
34. Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It (2015)
35. Atari: Game Over (2014)
36. Empire (1964)
37. All Male, All Nude (2017)
""38-42. Wild Wild Country (2018, 400m):
Wild Wild Country: Part 1 (2018, 64m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 2 (2018, 64m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 3 (2018, 66m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 4 (2018, 69m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 5 (2018, 66m)
Wild Wild Country: Part 6 (2018, 71m)""
43. Trafficked in America (2018)
44. The Sky Piercer (2018)
45. Blutch (2018)
""46-47. Waco: Madman or Messiah (2018, 172m) - Float: 12m + 34m = 46m
Waco: Madman or Messiah: Part 1 (2018, 86m)
Waco: Madman or Messiah: Part 2 (2018, 86m)""
48. Finders Keepers (2015)
49. Films of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Movie (2011)
50. COVID's Hidden Toll (2020)
51. The Act of Killing (2012)
52. The Devil We Know (2018)
53. The Speed Cubers (2020)
54. Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020)
55. 14 Minutes from Earth (2016)
""56-60. America's Book of Secrets, s1 (2012, 428m, float 28m) 4/10
America's Book of Secret: The White House (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: Freemasons (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: Fort Knox (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: Area 51 (2012, 42m)
America's Book of Secret: The Playboy Mansion (2012, 42m)
America's Book of Secret: Presidential Transports (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: The FBI (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: West Point (2012, 44m)
America's Book of Secret: Black Ops (2012, 43m)
America's Book of Secret: The Pentagon (2012, 42m)"""
"61. Homosaywhat (2019)
62. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011)
""63-64. Shorts (113m + 47 from Float): [new float 27]
Hôtel des Invalides (1952, 22m)
Schastye/Paradise (1995, 22m)
La Soufrière (1977, 30m)
Heroin(e) (2017, 39m)""
65. Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
66. Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
67. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002)
68. Jose Canseco: The Truth Hurts (2016)
69. Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
70. The Flaw (2011)
""71-72. Exhibit A (144m) + Jaime (1974, 33m) = 177m, 17m added to prior float
Exhibit A: Video Forensics (2019, 41m)
Exhibit A: Blood Spatter (2019, 29m)
Exhibit A: Cadaver Dogs (2019, 37m)
Exhibit A: Touch DNA (2019, 37m)""
73. '85: The Greatest Team in Pro Football History (2016)
74. 49 Pulses (2017)
75. Begging Naked (2007)
76. Fires Were Started (1943)
77. Burger Town (1998)
78. Flint's Deadly Water (2019)
79. Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1995)
80. What Haunts Us (2018)"
81. The Hunt for Transylvanian Gold (2017)
"82-83. The Code (2011, 174m, float 14)
The Code: Numbers (2011, 59m)
The Code: Shapes (2011, 58m)
The Code: Prediction (2011, 57m)"
84. In Search of Greatness (2018)
85. Particle Fever (2013)
86. Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014)
87. Red Hollywood (1996)
88. The Look of Silence (2014)
89. Miss Representation (2011)
90-92. The Ripper (2020, 195m + 45 from float)

93. Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004) 7/10
This is about Shriley Chisholm, who was the first Black female representative elected to US congress, who ran for president in 1972. Amazing story, and one I had not heard about. Delved into tons of issues she faced along the way, including an interview with her shortly before she died. Fascinating stuff.

94. Athlete A (2020)
More about the crimes and how Nassar got away with abusing so many girls in US Gymnastics. Not as good as At the Heart of Gold, but still interesting. Less about the outcomes, but still a nice complement to Gold.

95. After Truth (2020)
Rewatch with wife. All about fake news and how it's destroying our society. Not at all topical or anything...

96. The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (2019)
Frontline doc about, well, MBS. Tons of detail on him and did a really good job at discussing him and his politics in context of the PR campaign he has waged to improve his image. Learned a ton from this.

97. Primary (1960)
All about Kennedy vs. Humphrey in the 1960 Democratic primary. I appreciated the innovation of it, as used new equipment to get close to the candidates verite style, but this didn't do much beyond that for me.

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13. Draft Day (2013) * 9 min.
Shake!: Otis at Monterey (1987) * 19 min.
Lorena, Light-footed Woman (2019) * 28 min.
Farmer Moving South (1952) * 17 min.
City Out of Time (1959) * 16 min.
14-17. The Alcàsser Murders: Episode #1.1 (2019) * 66 min.
The Alcàsser Murders: Episode #1.2 (2019) * 59 min.
The Alcàsser Murders: Episode #1.3 (2019) * 67 min.
The Alcàsser Murders: Episode #1.4 (2019) * 53 min.
The Alcàsser Murders: Episode #1.5 (2019) * 62 min.
Andes Mágicos: Bolivia, la puerta al altiplano/ Magical Andes: Bolivia, the Door to the Altiplano (2019) * 24  min.

Shake!: Otis at Monterey documents an amazing performance by Otis Redding at the Monterey Pop Festival.

The Alcàsser Murders is the story of the kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of three teenage girls in València and its aftermath. Horrific television coverage of town's reaction and the funerals follow discovery of the bodies, and it keeps going downhill from there.

Spoiler

1. Monterey Pop (1968) 79 min.
2. Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown (2008) * 89 min.
3. Whitney Cummings: Money Shot (2010) * 48 min.
4. Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2015) * 98 min.
5. Defamation (2009) * 91 min.
6. 13th (2016) * 100 min.
7. ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads (2019) * 49 min.
8. Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (2005) * 103 min.
9-11. Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist: Part One: The Heist (2018) * 45 min.
Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist: Part Two: The Frozen Body (2018) * 53 min.
Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist: Part Three: The Suspects (2018) * 45 min.
Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist: Part Four: The Confessions (2018) * 48 min.
Andes Mágicos: Argentina y Chile, desde los hielos del sur/ Magical Andes: Argentina and Chile, From the Southern Ice (2019) * 27 min.
Andes Mágicos: Chile y Argentina, del Aconcagua al desierto/ Magical Andes: Chile and Argentina, From Aconcagua to the Desert (2019) * 24 min.
12. Jimi Plays Monterey (1986) * 49 min. 

*First time viewing

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63a. Coffea Arábiga (1968, Nicolás Guillén)
63b. O Guardador de Rebanhos (1999, José Edgar Feldman)
63c. Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking (1990, Les Blank)
64. El inmortal (2005, Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez)
65. Yang Ban Xi, de 8 modelwerken (2005, Yan Ting Yuen)
66. Suite Habana (2003, Fernando Pérez)
67. Tillbaka till Ararat (1988, Jim Downing & Göran Gunér)
68. Hot Pepper (1973, Les Blank)

Now it's time for me to spend a few days with the family.
I'm not sure I'll be able to update the OP until saturday.

Seen this month

1. El botón de nácar (2015, Patricio Guzmán)
2. Route One USA (1989, Robert Kramer)
3. Geschichte der Nacht (1979, Clemens Klopfenstein)
4. Najeun moksori (1995, Young-Joo Byun)
5. Ett anständigt liv (1979, Stefan Jarl)
6. Acidente (2007, Cao Guimarães & Pablo Lobato)
7. Al hayatt al yawmiyah fi quariah suriyah (1976, Omar Amiralay)
8. Tierische Liebe (1996, Ulrich Seidl)
9. Gubben i stugan (1995, Nina Hedenius)
10. Zem spieva (1933, Karel Plicka)
11. Xianshi shi guoqu de weilai (2009, Weikai Huang)
12. Undergångens arkitektur (1989, Peter Cohen)
13. Surire (2015, Iván Osnovikoff & Bettina Perut)
14. Stand van de Sterren (2010, Leonard Retel)
15. The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer (1992, Arthur Ginsberg & Tom Spain)
16. 4 Little Girls (1997, Spike Lee)
17. La croisière jaune (1933, André Sauvage & Léon Poirier)
18. Poto and Cabengo (1980, Jean-Pierre Gorin)
19. Povelitel mukh (1991, Vladimir Tyulkin)
20. The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988, Penelope Spheeris)
21-22. "Room 2806: The Accusation" (2020, Jalil Lespert)
23. Autrement, la Molussie (2012, Nicolas Rey)
24. Ångrarna (2010, Marcus Lindeen)
25-31. "The War" (2007, Ken Burns)
32-36. "Long Way Round" (2004, -)
37a. I am Somebody (1970, Madeline Anderson)
37b. La Batalla de Vieques (1986, Zydnia Nazario)
37c. Ganjine-haye gohar (1965, Ebrahim Golestan)
38. Avodah (1935, Helmar Lerski)
39. Belarmino (1964, Fernando Lopes)
40. Trances (1981, Ahmed El Maanouni)
41. The Inland Sea (1991, Lucille Carra)
42. Estamira (2004, Marcos Prado)
43-50. "The Beatles Anthology" (1995, -)
51a. Hiroshima genbaku no kiroru (1970, Yasuo Matsukawa & Motoo Ogasawara) : 28
51b. Isole nella laguna (1948, Luciano Emmer & Enrico Gras)
51c. Las Callampas (1958, Rafael Sanchez)
51d. Kumshagalskaya istoriya (1986, Igor Vovnyanko)
52. Directed by John Ford (1971, Peter Bogdanovich)
53. Juízo (2007, Maria Ramos)
54. Ileksen (1979, Dennis O'Rourke)
55. Los reyes del pueblo que no existe (2015, Betzabé García)
56. Memoria del saqueo (2004, Fernando E. Solanas)
57a. The Ax Fight (1975, Timothy Asch & Napoleon Chagnon)
57b. Señales de ruta (2000, Tevo Diaz)
57c. El Domador (1978, Joaquín Cortés)
58. Paris mil neuf cent (1947, Nicole Védrès)
59. Señorita extraviada (2001, Lourdes Portillo)
60. Dhrupad (1983, Mani Kaul)
61. Diario de Uma Busca (2010, Flavia Castro)
62. Dom kallar oss mods (1968, Stefan Jarl & Jan Lindkvist)
63a. Coffea Arábiga (1968, Nicolás Guillén)
63b. O Guardador de Rebanhos (1999, José Edgar Feldman)
63c. Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking (1990, Les Blank)
64. El inmortal (2005, Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez)
65. Yang Ban Xi, de 8 modelwerken (2005, Yan Ting Yuen)
66. Suite Habana (2003, Fernando Pérez)
67. Tillbaka till Ararat (1988, Jim Downing & Göran Gunér)
68. Hot Pepper (1973, Les Blank)