The companion piece to the best documentary I’ve ever seen. I was floored by Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary The Act Of Killing. Not only was it a fabulous and provocative film it really did change the way that I looked at violence and the world we live in. Returning to that subject is brave of Oppenheimer…
Kurt Cobain, whether he liked it or not, was the voice of a generation. In Brett Morgen’s documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck, we’re allowed never before access to Cobain’s family videos, writings, drawings and a chance to make some sense of a man whose brilliance cannot be questioned and whose suicide was a tragedy.…
Beautifully shot and even more so, beautifully scored. I was drawn into this documentary about rural poverty from minute one. A complex look at the repercussions of bad parenting, mental illness and unemployment that affect the families involved but more importantly the children that grow up inside of them. A story that should be seen…
Citizenfour won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature and it’s easy to see why. The information uncovered by Edward Snowden is shocking but what I found even more interesting was the process shown of what a whistleblower can go through. Snowden at first seems almost cocky about what he’s done and then how quickly the…
The story of The Grim Sleeper is one that I’m not familiar with at all and apparently I’m not the only one. The serial killer story isn’t even all that familiar throughout the Los Angeles area where the crimes are reported to have taken place and that is one of the things explored in the…
There are documentaries about interesting subject matter that just on their face make you want to dive in and find out more about them and then there are documentaries that feature interesting people and no matter the subject you have to follow these people to some kind of resolution. I found The Overnighters to be…
A fun documentary about the ups and downs of the filmmaking process and the vision one man had of making what possibly would’ve been a masterpiece or a train wreck but completely would’ve been memorable. Hilarious and heartbreaking, some of the stories and the ideas are just hilarious. Recommend? A must for any lover of…
An excellent documentary about corruption and power. You kind of get the impression that Spitzer really could’ve changed things and made a difference if only he didn’t get involved with the damn hookers. Well paced and put together, a documentary I had been looking to watch for awhile and didn’t let me down. Recommend? Documentaries…
The drug violence in Mexico is known throughout the world but for such an fascinating subject this is just a lackluster documentary. Unfocused and unfulfilling, I feel like there’s a great story here to be told but maybe by different filmmakers or in a different way. Recommend? I wouldn’t, there are just too many quality…
An excellent documentary about skateboarding and family, but even more than that it’s a look at sports and the pitfalls of fame. Skateboarding was something I never really followed but I do remember this time in it’s history and some of the events shown here, the aftermath and the photography stuck with me. Recommend? Absolutely,…
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