i'm looking for an interesting documentary to watch. it can be old or new, as long as it's not about religion, politics or war. anyone have any recommendations?
Feature-length documentaries
Zoo
there's an interesting body modification that used to be on netflix called modify
hypernormalization
the thin blue line
> not about religion, politics or war.
Ok.
Into the Abyss
Senna
LA '92
The Thin Blue Line
Encounters at the End of the World
This Film is Not Yet Rated
The Invisible War
Roger and Me
Man on Wire
Hearts of Darkness
Wait a week for Planet Earth 2. Deep Sea edition.
the act of killing
Off the top Herzog's funny, foreboding new Lo and Behold is streaming, as well as Morris' Tabloid, a fun look at an outsized, eccentric life.
happy people a year in tiaga
The nightmare
The Seven Five, also known as Precinct Seven Five
Unironically my favourite film
Hoop Dreams
King of Kong
imdb.com
Man vs Snake is good too, kind of a sequel to king of kong
The Source Family
Valley Uprising
The Source Valley
Valley Uprising
Breddy gud
bit depressing though, innit?
You're in for some serious feels.
of the following list, which would make for the most interesting analysis in essay form? how could they be talked about
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
The Act of Killing
The Invisible War
Encounters at the End of the World
LA 92
Senna
Into the Abyss
Tickled
An Honest Liar
HyperNormalisation
Zoo
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
To me it's just surreal
Analyze in which aspect?
in a free-form way, not a review or answering a particular question. how is the story told, who is the filmmaker, what is he trying to say, is it cinematic, explain why you think all of these things are the way they are
That's one of the things I actually dislike about the film.
It frames these horrendous real-life mass killings in this surreal, stylistic manner, surely to point out its absurdity.
But in a way the interesting-ness of the aesthetic wipes out the sheer horror of the subject to the point that you admire it on that stylistic level rather than on its human documentation.
Errol Morris and Herzog have always leaned on the precipice of this but Oppenheimer took the leap and it just doesn't sit totally right with me...
Valley Uprising
Lenny Cooke is an interesting one, about a high school basketball player who as a junior was ranked higher than LeBron and Carmelo but got JUSTed hard
The Fog of War
Senna might be good, since it's mostly archival footage. Very few (if any?) talking heads from what I remember
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Fuck Canada.