It just looks like an interesting project. As I said I stumbled on the short You Tube video recently and it struck me as something I'd like to see. A lot of documentaries are like that. Sometimes you'll be skimming channels late at night and you'll click on something already about 20 minutes in and suddenly you're hooked. I have about five different PBS stations on my system and I'm always checking each of them because their documentary programming and choice of subjects is almost always outstanding.
I'm not an obsessive Star Trek fan as I gather you are not. But at 83, this guy has certainly lived an interesting life both in and out of show business. Then you have the whole fish out of water concept of Nimoy trying to reconnect in some way with a place where many (if not most) of the people and places he knew in his youth are either long since dead, gone, or changed dramatically.The fact that it's shot in and around a picturesque city like Boston is another plus.
Given that everyone frequenting this board has an interest in at least one aspect of movies and most of us love movies in general, I'm a little surprised no one has yet mentioned Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, about the making of Apocalypse Now. Perhaps it's too obvious a suggestion?
Given that everyone frequenting this board has an interest in at least one aspect of movies and most of us love movies in general, I'm a little surprised no one has yet mentioned Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, about the making of Apocalypse Now. Perhaps it's too obvious a suggestion?
Not at all. It's an excellent documentary and a great suggestion. In fact, it's brought to mind a couple more favorites of mine:
INFERNO - Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea's examination of Henri-Georges Clouzot's unfinished 1964 film of the same title with Romy Schneider & Serge Reggiani, including much footage from the aborted project.
THE EPIC THAT NEVER WAS - The story of Josef von Sternberg's uncompleted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton & Merle Oberon, with all of its surviving footage assembled and including interviews with all the surviving participants (as of 1965): Robert Graves, von Sternberg, Merle Oberon, Flora Robson, Emlyn Williams, and others.
And on a different note:
PORTRAIT OF JASON - Shirley Clarke's searing 1967 interview with "Jason Holliday", house boy, would-be cabaret performer and self-proclaimed hustler, giving his gin-soaked view of what it was like to be black and gay in 1960's America.
THE EPIC THAT NEVER WAS - The story of Josef von Sternberg's uncompleted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton & Merle Oberon, with all of its surviving footage assembled and including interviews with all the surviving participants (as of 1965): Robert Graves, von Sternberg, Merle Oberon, Flora Robson, Emlyn Williams, and others.
Wasn't there one about the (un)making of Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote project? That sounded good.
THE EPIC THAT NEVER WAS - The story of Josef von Sternberg's uncompleted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton & Merle Oberon, with all of its surviving footage assembled and including interviews with all the surviving participants (as of 1965): Robert Graves, von Sternberg, Merle Oberon, Flora Robson, Emlyn Williams, and others.
Wasn't there one about the (un)making of Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote project? That sounded good.
LOST IN LA MANCHA. I put a hold on it just now at the library.
PORTRAIT OF JASON - Shirley Clarke's searing 1967 interview with "Jason Holliday", house boy, would-be cabaret performer and self-proclaimed hustler, giving his gin-soaked view of what it was like to be black and gay in 1960's America.
This sounds interesting.
I wish THAT MAN were in the library, the documentary about the 70's-era famous-for-being-famous (and for always looking like he had a yam stuffed down his pants) Peter Berlin.
PORTRAIT OF JASON - Shirley Clarke's searing 1967 interview with "Jason Holliday", house boy, would-be cabaret performer and self-proclaimed hustler, giving his gin-soaked view of what it was like to be black and gay in 1960's America.
This sounds interesting.
It's more than just interesting, it's amazing, especially for 1967. By turns it's humorous, eye-opening, and heart-breaking.
This aired on HBO circa 1998-99 and consisted of readings from 20th Century dictators on the most mundane topics and still managing to come off as terrifying.
I just picked up a print of a 1964 documentary made by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, THE INHERITANCE. The story of the rise of labor unions, it is narrated by Robert Ryan and features the unbilled voices of such actors as Lionel Stander and Anne Revere. Wonderful piece with a folk soundtrack and a score by George "Tubby the Tuba" Kleinsinger. There is a video release that runs 42 minutes. This 16mm print is the complete full-hour release.
The producers, Harold Mayer Productions, have the final portion of the picture on youtube:
'Out of the Clear Blue Sky'. The CEO of the Trading Firm of Cantor Fitzgerald survived because he was delayed getting to work that day because of his Son's first day of school. That day in question was September 11, 2001 and the (seemingly) entire Trading Firm of 700 employees were all killed in the World Trade Center. He vows to 'help the 700 families' of his employees by any means necessary. Watch. Listen. The film had me crying a few times. The absolute final frames of the Documentary and the absolute final words to those images (before the credits roll), will haunt you in their beauty and grace.
This is a 1970 documentary called "The Tribe That Hides From Man", about Indianist Orlando Villas Boas, who goes deep into the jungle to try and make contact with the elusive Kreen-Akrore tribe, who have slaughtered everybody they have come in contact with, down to children, since soon buildings and roads will be coming in.
Will he make contact? Will he and his party be murdered?
A man documents his friend's death for the child the friend never met. The accused killer, the mother of the child, leaves the country. Then it gets really, REALLY interesting.
A man documents his friend's death for the child the friend never met. The accused killer, the mother of the child, leaves the country. Then it gets really, REALLY interesting.
