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 Posted:   Nov 27, 2014 - 11:54 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

The Confessions of Robert Crumb (1987)

Not as insane or revealing as the 1994 documentary, CRUMB, but easier to take in, though ultimately not as fascinating, either.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR9vfcNYBhc

 
 Posted:   Nov 27, 2014 - 12:01 PM   
 By:   Josh   (Member)

Another one I saw a while back and really enjoyed was "Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea" (2004), narrated by none other than John Waters.

 
 Posted:   Dec 2, 2014 - 6:22 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0VoPrXqNi4

Comedian spends 30 days sober, then 30 days high-higher-highest on marijuana.

Pretty interesting.

 
 Posted:   Dec 2, 2014 - 6:24 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRotWuJNIQA

About the life of Kevin Clash, the puppeteer of Elmo.

Very interesting.

 
 Posted:   Dec 2, 2014 - 6:26 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRjPkl_4lmM

Pretty okay documentary about the effect of the ENORMOUS amount of plastic that people use now.

 
 Posted:   Dec 5, 2014 - 10:47 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

"Jesus. Fuckin' raging, epithet music comin' out of every car, every store, every person's head. They don't have noisy radios on, they got earphones; like, "motherfuckin', cocksuckin', son of a bitch. Lot of aggression. Lot of anger, lot of rage. Everybody walks around, they're walkin' advertisements. They've got advertisements on their clothes, you know? Walking around with "Adidas" written across their chests, '49'ers on their hats. Jesus. It's pathetic. It's pitiful. The whole culture's one unified field of bought-sold-market researched everything, you know. It used to be that people fermented their own culture, you know? It took hundreds of years, and it evolved over time. And that's gone in America. People now don't even have any concept that there ever was a culture outside of this thing that's created to make money. Whatever's the biggest, latest thing, they're into it. You just get disgusted after a while with humanity for not having more, kind of like, intellectual curiosity about what's behind all this jive bullshit."

~R. Crumb

http://www.criterion.com/films/2104-crumb

 
 Posted:   Dec 5, 2014 - 11:27 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

like

 
 Posted:   Dec 10, 2014 - 7:43 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

like

Now with video!


 
 Posted:   Dec 10, 2014 - 1:48 PM   
 By:   Warlok   (Member)

"The Poisoner`s Handbook"

Good feature about the modern history of forensic chemistry re. crime.

(hmmm... is forensic inherently indicative of crime? Hmmm...)

 
 Posted:   Dec 10, 2014 - 1:51 PM   
 By:   Warlok   (Member)

THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI
Fantastic doc on one of my all-time heroes!!!

THE ARMSTRONG LIE
Very good doc on a a total sleazebag

GLAD ALL OVER
Horrendous doc on the fine pop group ,DAVE CLARK FIVE, produced & directed by Dave Clark.
His LAST directorial job, i predict
bruce


Mr. Marshall, the best Ali documentary I`ve ever seen is one that covers his career and personality from the perspective of those he fought. Thoroughly engrossing.

"Facing Ali"

 
 Posted:   Dec 10, 2014 - 8:01 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)

"The Poisoner`s Handbook"

Good feature about the modern history of forensic chemistry re. crime.

(hmmm... is forensic inherently indicative of crime? Hmmm...)


It looks like I can watch this for free using my San Francisco Public Library card. Maybe I get to a free wifi spot and give it a try.

Thanks, Warlock.

 
 Posted:   Dec 10, 2014 - 10:08 PM   
 By:   Warlok   (Member)



Thanks, Warlock.


Yup.

 
 Posted:   Dec 11, 2014 - 12:38 AM   
 By:   Josh   (Member)

Another one I enjoyed is Spellbound (2002), about a bunch of really nerdy kids competing in a national spelling bee. I can call them nerdy since I am one myself*.



*I actually won a spelling bee in elementary school, but in the following year's competition I purposely misspelled a word in the final round because I didn't want to be considered a nerd.**

**They called me a nerd anyway! big grin

 
 Posted:   Dec 11, 2014 - 1:19 PM   
 By:   msmith   (Member)

Oh, those 1970's documentaries from Sun Classic Pictures.
I use to love these films - back in the day when I was a kid and believed everything they said.

The Mysterious Monsters:


The Outer Space Connection:


Beyond and Back:


In Search Of Noah's Ark:

 
 Posted:   Dec 13, 2014 - 4:48 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Chet Baker- Let's Get Lost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfPeqWtvEYQ

This documentary was an obsession of mine back around 1995. Haunting, disturbing stuff (the doc, not my obsession).

 
 Posted:   Dec 13, 2014 - 7:42 AM   
 By:   Warlok   (Member)

The most amazingly sinister documentary I have ever seen is one where some people sneak hidden cameras into the yearly meeting of the rich and powerful at Bohemian Grove in California.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtSVBTne-KY

Dark Secrets inside Bohemian Grove

The link above is a truncated version of this documentary. Just watch it.

Political leaders (including the Bushes) and heads of industry attend a quasi-religious ritual to worship a giant owl called Moloch, and then burn a child in effigy named "Care".

I shit you not.

This should worry you, yet also inform you of the proper context in which to be distrustful. It is honestly the most bizarre thing I have ever seen... .

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 13, 2014 - 8:50 AM   
 By:   Joe E.   (Member)

One of the most powerful, deeply affecting films of any kind I've ever seen is Last Grave at Dimbaza, a surreptitiously-shot mid-'70s documentary about conditions in apartheid-era South Africa. While we all know it was bad, I don't think many of us outside the country really knew just how wretched things were. It's a sobering look at what life was like for the majority of people in this land, but doesn't seem well-known today. It's well worth a look if you can get hold of it.

http://icarusfilms.com/new2006/dimb.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/in-era-of-apartheid-footage-of-oppression-biggest-threat-to-regime/

 
 Posted:   Dec 18, 2014 - 1:28 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Lots of excellent recommendations in this thread.

Here's another one:

Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt

"Waitin' Around to Die"

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 11, 2015 - 5:22 AM   
 By:   ANZALDIMAN   (Member)

So many. But I happened to stumble upon this one recently.

Although I have yet to see it, "Leonard Nimoy's Boston" done with his son Adam is one I'm looking forward to seeing.




Interesting to hear Nimoy talk about about not recognizing whole blocks of area he grew up in as the city has changed so much. But there's much more. I learned a lot. This is one of the better in depth interviews with Nimoy I have seen in quite some time. I love the intimacy of a small radio studio like this. You'd never get this type of depth and openness in any interview on a typical cookie cutter tv talk show where it's jovial Star Trek discussion and little else. This is a really good topic and I hope more people participate.

 
 Posted:   Jan 14, 2015 - 6:26 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)

So many. But I happened to stumble upon this one recently.

Although I have yet to see it, "Leonard Nimoy's Boston" done with his son Adam is one I'm looking forward to seeing.


Interesting to hear Nimoy talk about about not recognizing whole blocks of area he grew up in as the city has changed so much. But there's much more. I learned a lot. This is one of the better in depth interviews with Nimoy I have seen in quite some time. I love the intimacy of a small radio studio like this. You'd never get this type of depth and openness in any interview on a typical cookie cutter tv talk show where it's jovial Star Trek discussion and little else. This is a really good topic and I hope more people participate.



I wasn't wild about the idea of "Leonard Nimoy ANYTHING" but when I read it was about something like where one grows up, I took to the idea of seeing it.

I looked for this in the library catalog, but found that it is not yet out. It is apparently going to air soon on PBS!

http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Leonard-Nimoys-Boston-2672

 
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