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Living in a foreign country limits what I get to see... but I can say a few that I have seen that will be in my top 10 no matter what.
Moonrise Kingdom Skyfall Argo Cabin in the Woods Looper
still need to see The Master, Killing Them Softly, Lincoln, and all the other oscar buzzers. Less than a week until The Hobbit!
Looper is playing at the dollar theater down the street from me, I may go check it out... have heard almost nothing but good to great things about it. Also, agree on Cabin In The Woods... I had high expectations and they were definitely exceeded. Also, I thoroughly enjoyed the Avengers... my pick for best odd ball flick goes to The Comedy (never seen a movie that accomplished what that film did in tone, and this was solidified after watching it again with a non-Tim and Eric fan last night).
As hyped as I am about Django, Zero Dark Thirty is the movie I'm looking most forward to that is yet to come.
Someone mentioned Les Miserables, and I think I may go see it with the fams over x-mas break. Still NEED to see Lincoln... Skyfall will probably have to wait, as will Argo.
I love that you have a dollar theatre! If I had a theatre in the city that charged a dollar a movie, I think I would have seen every theatrical release of 2012.
Cheapest we get here, even with second runs, is $5
i saw a little blurb on les mis that makes it look better in my eyes....they did the singing live. instead of recording the songs before and then lip syncing, all the actors sang while filming to an accompanying keyboard and then they added the orchestra in later instead of the voices like normal. we will see how seriously i can take russel crowe as a musical star.
lol - I was coming here to say the exact same thing. It was one of the most innovative commercials I've ever seen for a movie. Guess we both watched Top Chef last week.
02/08 Tool 02/11 Jeff Mangum 02/17 of Montreal 02/29 Blind Pilot 03/31 The Naked & The Famous 05/14 M83 and I Break Horses 05/19 Flaming Lips, Young the Giant, Dawes and AWOLNATION 06/07 Bonnaroo 2012!!! 06/13 Roger Waters 07/28 Toadies
Over the past few years I've found myself increasingly drawn to documentaries and nonfiction writing over narrative films and fiction. I thought we could list some of our favorite docs so others can share in the experience of learning a little more about our world and the weird characters that inhabit it. In general it seems I'm able to find most any doc I want to watch on a free streaming site so post a link if you can. Sorry for the shizzy popups on the movies I list, but the links all work. If you have a Netflix account then a lot of these are probably streaming there.
Overall from what I've viewed, Kirby weenie, Errol Morris, and Werner Herzog all consistently put out docs worth your time. They're among the big, revered names in documentary filmmaking. These dudes might be good starter places for someone wanting to watch quality stuff. Here's a list of the docs with the highest ratings on RT. I pick through it sometimes to find things to watch:
If you're going to watch any of these, please watch this. It's the best, most tense movie I've seen in years. I literally never knew where it was going. There were moments that made me feel genuinely creeped out which almost never happens for me. It is incredible. Don't look into what it's about if at all possible. If you need a simple summarization then it's about a family whose son goes missing, then a few years later they get a call saying he's been found. That just barely touches what really goes on in this movie, but you should go in blind.
This follows around homeless people who live in abandoned subway tunnels beneath NYC. I've seen it a few times and it kicked off my fascination with the homeless and other people living alternative lifestyles (e.g. hitchhikers).
This is about underground comix dude, Robert Crumb, and his depressed, weird, quacked up family. It's been a long time since I've seen it but I remember a scene where Crumb's brother sits on a bed of nails and eats string. I am going to try to rewatch it this week.
This is a series of interviews with Juggalos at their gathering festival. It's refreshing in that it doesn't set out to mock the people and instead just presents them. It's honestly not one of my favorite things but it's short and the subject matter is something that a lot of you would probably be interested in. The guy who made it is working on a documentary about small town Oxy addicts and the economy surrounding it that sounds like it's going to be great. I'm really looking forward to that.
Much like American Juggalo, I really like the way this movie carefully presents someone who at first glance could easily be mocked. It's about a lonely guy with brain damage who builds a large scale model town and kind of just plays out all these stories in it over time and documents it all. He definitely has a lot of trouble interacting with the world and so incorporates his real life into the storyline of his fictional town. He kind of uses that to explore the things that trouble him in his real life. This might be my second favorite on this list, right behind The Imposter.
This follows kids, usually pretty young, who hop trains in Mexico or further south, then try to ride them all the way to America. Some of them are trying to find relatives, some are trying to start a better life in America, and some disappear.
This is about how rape is marginalized and more or less allowed to happen in our military due to the low chance of repercussion. It interviews various men and women who were raped while enlisted and the various problems they faced in getting the system to do anything about it.
This works as a really good companion piece to Invisible War. It's about a man in his thirties who was raped by a priest as a teenager. Much like Invisible, it's about an institution downplaying sexual abuse and explores the ongoing psychological effects these marginalized people face. This dude is having problems with his wife, his mental state, and his friends and family. The people all have trouble fully reconciling how their beloved institution of faith and the bedrock of their morals could allow such heinous things to happen. It also focuses more on male sexual abuse which is something you don't see explored nearly as often. As a former Catholic I found it really interesting.
It's been too many years since I last saw this but it follows around the scientists and various other people that work in Antarctica. I wish I could remember more but I know it's awesome.
This is about a French dude who planned and executed walking across the Twin Towers on a tight rope. It is so quacking good. The movie interviews the people involved and feels like a heist film in the way you get to hear about all the planning and see how they pulled it off. I think this is one of the first documentaries I ever saw that made me see what a documentary could be in terms of feeling slick and mainstream. I think given the subject matter and the way it's presented you could show it to anyone, whether they have interest in docs or not.
The Golden Gate Bridge is the most popular place to commit suicide in the world. A guy set up clandestine cameras for a year filming these jumps and explores the people who have done it, including a guy who survived. It's depressing.
This is about two dudes climbing a mountain who end up trapped on it and it seems like they're going to die there. This one is different from a lot of the others in that it combines interviews with reenactments. Reenactments can definitely be shizzy but they are so incredibly good in this film. I think it's worth checking out if only to see how they can be done tastefully and to help flesh out a doc with talking heads to make it more cinematic and engaging.
If you like it then I'd recommend reading Into Thin Air.
There are many more to explore but I think this is a good starter list. Please let us know some great ones you've seen, especially films we might not know about!
"In the darkness hundreds of glowsticks streaked the air like tracer shots in war. Giant inflatables bounced over dozens of light sabers pointed skyward. Stuffed animals impaled on sticks danced above the hot crowds, puppeted by someone just given ecstasy by a friend made seconds before."
Dark Days is excellent... there's actually a documentary about that documentary (a making of) that might be even better. Great DJ Shadow soundtrack, to boot.
Encounters At The End Of The World is great, as well. Crumb was pretty good... can't say I've seen the others.
Post by NothingButFlowers on Dec 11, 2012 13:29:07 GMT -5
I really liked Dark Days too.
I'm at work, so I can't look for links, but of the documentaries I've seen relatively recently, I really liked Dear Zachary and the Paradise Lost movies. It's been talked about on here before, but Exit Through the Gift Shop was also good. And RIP! A Remix Manifesto was pretty interesting.
I've got to figure out how to hog tie the hubby to go with me to Les Miserables. He is adamant he is not going.
Take him even if he is kicking and screaming. I have never known a man to see this movie and not absolutely love it. In many ways it is very much a man's musical. The main storyline and leads are all men and thematically you've got revolution, war, death, justice and humanity. Even my Dad liked it and he's a Fox news, Bill O'Reilly kinda guy.
I'm at work, so I can't look for links, but of the documentaries I've seen relatively recently, I really liked Dear Zachary and the Paradise Lost movies. It's been talked about on here before, but Exit Through the Gift Shop was also good. And RIP! A Remix Manifesto was pretty interesting.
I haven't seen RIP! but I can attest that the others are all really good, especially the Paradise Lost series. There's going to be a new documentary about them now that they've been freed.
The guys who made those movies also did the Metallica therapist documentary and this really interesting one about a mercy killing and some possible incest involving two mentally disabled brothers on a dairy farm. That one is called Brother's Keeper.
"In the darkness hundreds of glowsticks streaked the air like tracer shots in war. Giant inflatables bounced over dozens of light sabers pointed skyward. Stuffed animals impaled on sticks danced above the hot crowds, puppeted by someone just given ecstasy by a friend made seconds before."
I haven't seen RIP! but I can attest that the others are all really good, especially the Paradise Lost series. There's going to be a new documentary about them now that they've been freed.
We watched Hot Coffee last night. It was okay. More informative than entertaining. It's billed as being about why the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit got so much attention, but they really only talk about that particular case at the beginning. It's generally more about what's wrong with tort reform, damage caps, and mandatory arbitration. (In full disclosure, the mandatory arbitration part might be a little tainted by the girl they focused on, but the points about why it is a problem are still valid.)
Just picked up the (relatively) new Blu Ray for Chinatown from Barnes and Nobles. Once again, a stupidly good deal... I now own my two favorite Polanski movies on BR.
Post by Alberto Balsalm on Dec 13, 2012 2:51:09 GMT -5
Holy hell. Just watched Drive for the first time. May have been the most gripping piece of cinema I've ever watched. Incredibly well done film, I was on the edge of my seat the entire time and it was shot BEAUTIFULLY. Never knew Ryan Gosling had that type of performance in him. I am already looking forward to watching it again (and again)
April 12-14th - Indio, CA - Coachella Weekend 1
May 3-5th - Memphis, TN - Beale St. Music Festival
June 13-16th - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
July 12-14th - Louisville, KY - Forecastle Festival
August 2-4th - Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
September 27-29th - Atlanta, GA - TomorrowWorld
October 25-27th - Asheville, NC - Mountain Oasis
