October 29, 2008

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:06 am

Today is my 13th wedding Anniversary!

Over the last few nights I have watched the Dylan documentary No Direction Home. It was very well put together, quite riveting and lots of interesting performance footage and interviews.

QOTD: Do you have any favorite documentaries or rockumentaries? Besides being about a favorite subject, what else do you like about them?

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:37 am

Happy anniversary Ross and to your wife for tolerating you for the past 13 years.

QOTD: I can't think of one off hand.
edit: I like watching Discovery Channel's extreme engineering. I think the last one I saw was on a 55 mile bridge over the Bering straight to connect Asia and North America.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:45 am

- Woodstock
- Isaac Stern in China
- Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
- Buena Vista Social Club
- Bowling for Columbine
- Capturing the Friedmans (we hired his brother, the clown, for one of our parties!)
- Born into Brothels
- March of the Penguins
- An Inconvenient Truth

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:24 am

American Splendor is somewhere between a documentary and a biopic. It's more a biopic though.

Roger and Me is good, Bowling for Columbine is decent. I don't care much for Fahrenheit 9/11. Haven't seen Sicko yet. Slacker Uprising was meh.

The Parrots of Telegraph Hill is nice, but like most documentaries, somewhat depressing.

jack · Post by **jack** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:27 am

tom dowd and the language of music

also, festival express is very entertaining!

and of course, some kind of monster.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:32 am

Trinity: The Atomic Bomb Movie (awesome soundtrack! Dolby 5.1! Narrated by William Shatner!)
American Pimp

erm... propoganda films and other oddball stuff found at archive dot org.

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:07 am

Crumb is one that comes to mind. While the artist's story is insightful and interesting, the side story about his brother is heartbreaking and tragic. How cheery!

Albatross · Post by **Albatross** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:49 am

I watch Word Wars about 12,486 times a week. Really like the Aristocrats documentary as well.

Hated the F**k doc. Absolutely hated it.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:56 am

Crumb
Beyond the Mat
Spellbound
The Aristocrats

Elvis · Post by **Elvis** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:59 am

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (about Wilco)
Clash Westway to the World
Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue
How to Draw a Bunny (about the artist Ray Johnson, soundtrack by Max Roach)

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:20 am

"Scratch" is awesome.

Elvis · Post by **Elvis** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:29 am

How could I forget this one - Dogtown and Z-boys. Great documentary about the early skateboarding scene, with a great rock & roll soundtrack. Alice Cooper, James Gang, Stooges, Hendrix, Thin Lizzy, T-Rex.

Billy's Little Trip · Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:41 am

Elvis wrote:How could I forget this one - Dogtown and Z-boys. Great documentary about the early skateboarding scene, with a great rock & roll soundtrack. Alice Cooper, James Gang, Stooges, Hendrix, Thin Lizzy, T-Rex.

Damn, I forgot this one too. Really good.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:39 pm

This Film is Not Yet Rated

I don't know if that's my absolute favorite. In fact I'm not really into documentaries. I loved Fahrenheit 911 although I'd hardly call that a documentary.

The Aristocrats was also awesome.

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:28 pm

Let it Be
Don't Look Back
Theremin
The Thin Blue Line
King of Kong

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:32 pm

I really liked The Civil War and now The War (Ken Burns). Very well done.
On a totally different subject, the spelling bee documentary Spellbound was great, and gripping!
-bill

rone rivendale · Post by **rone rivendale** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:50 pm

Loose Changes.

It shows how Bush and co. planned 9/11. And I'm not joking.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:51 pm

HeuristicsInc wrote:I really liked The Civil War and now The War (Ken Burns). Very well done.
On a totally different subject, the spelling bee documentary Spellbound was great, and gripping!
-bill

spelling bee? Can you use it in a sentence....
.....that doesn't make me spontaneously combust?

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:13 am

Rone Rivendale wrote:Loose Changes.

It shows how Bush and co. planned 9/11. And I'm not joking.

Ok...you're not joking...but you've got to be kidding me.

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:23 am

The Grateful Dead movie, both for the music scenes and the "Deadhead" scenes.

Also, "Hail, Hail Rock 'n' Roll," in which Keith Richards tries to produce a Chuck Berry concert.

Charles

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:50 am

Another fascinating one was Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State.

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