Meet The Fokkens http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/meet_the_fokkens
Dutch film about two sisters who worked as prostitutes in the red light district (one still does) into their 70's. This sometimes light-hearted story does hit a bit at the gut when you hear their story. There were some people in the story that weren't clarified which made it a bit confusing but overall, it was a tender film.
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The Invisible War http://www.hotdocs.ca//film/title/invisible_war
An investigative documentary about the rampant rape and sexual abuse women and some men endure in the US Armed Forces and how the military not only refuses to help them but adopts a strategy that ultimately destroys the victims lives. Definitely not a film for the jingoistic american. Your'e not gonna like seeing this stuff. Just brutal to watch really.
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Off Label http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/off_label
A film about the use of human guinea pigs by the pharmaceutical industry and the conflict that exists. The directors did not want to do a standard stat driven/big pharma is bad movie so the film became a bit disjointed - for me, this really was a film about class struggles and the lack of oversight by pharmaceutical giants.
Goldfish in public toilets, meths drinkers, Italian caffs ... Bob Stanley on an extraordinary documentary that captures the seamy underbelly of 1960s London
'In the wholly terrestrial 1980s, I would scour and dogear the Radio and TV Times the day they came out, looking for rare showings of great films and archive oddities. Channel 4 made life easy with Truffaut, British new wave, or Marx Brothers seasons. The real plums, though, could often be hidden in the ITV - or Thames, round our way - schedules, maybe at one in the morning, maybe at three in the afternoon.
It was the latter slot that broadcast The London Nobody Knows, a 1967 documentary stroll around the city with James Mason. No horseguards, no palaces, but Islington's Chapel Market, pie shops, and Spitalfields tenements. Carnaby chicks and chaps, the 1967 we have been led to remember, are shockingly juxtaposed with feral meths drinkers, filthy shoeless kids, squalid Victoriana. Camden Town still resembles the world of Walter Sickert. There is romance and adventure, but mostly there is malnourishment. London looks like a shithole...'
I just watched the doc he did on the Westboro Baptist Church. I think the thing about his films is that despite the craziness, and oftentimes hostility, of the people he spends time with, he always ends up being the star of the show. He's so personable and funny that you end up marveling at his patience and charm and almost forgetting about the idiots that are the actual focus of his documentary.
I think you could drop him into a lions den and he'd end up managing to charm his way out.
I downloaded a bunch of his films. Next up is 'Ultra Zionists'.
AWESOME --> Johnny Carson documentary on PBS' "American Masters"...
Highly recommend...learned a lot and was amazed - superb 2 hrs... saw it last night (5/14) and will be recording it when its on again, for sure!
Awesome thread! Documentaries are the only think that makes netflix anywhere close to worth $7.99 a month. So many great one I agree with on here, all the Michael Moore stuff, Obama Deception, The Bridge, etc. A few great ones that haven't already been mentioned include:
The Listening Project - how people in other countries see America and Americans
I Need That Record - about the death of indie record stores
Cocaine Cowboys - (one of my all time favs) about how drugs built Miami
The Loose Change series - Actually investigating 9/11
The Men Who Killed Kennedy (1-9) - JFK Assassination
The Evidence of Revision series - JFK, RFK, MLK (really amazing stuff)
Gashole - about people who have tried to make efficient or non-gas fueled cars and what happened to them
"All I Ever Knew" available now in print and digital formats at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and iBooks.
AWESOME --> Johnny Carson documentary on PBS' "American Masters"...
Highly recommend...learned a lot and was amazed - superb 2 hrs... saw it last night (5/14) and will be recording it when its on again, for sure!
Really wanted to see that but had to work last night. :(
Just about everything I've seen on American Masters has been great. Loved the one about Rod Serling.
1996: Toronto 1998: Barrie 2000: Montreal, Toronto, Auburn Hills 2003: Cleveland, Buffalo, Toronto, Montreal 2004: Boston X2, Grand Rapids 2005: Kitchener, London, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto 2006: Toronto X2 2009: Toronto 2011: PJ20, Montreal, Toronto X2, Hamilton 2012: Manchester X2, Amsterdam X2, Prague, Berlin X2, Philadelphia, Missoula 2013: Pittsburg, Buffalo 2014: Milan, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin, Stockholm, Oslo, Detroit 2016: Ottawa, Toronto X2 2018: Padova, Rome, Prague, Krakow, Berlin, Barcelona
2022: Ottawa, Hamilton, Toronto 2023: Chicago X2 2024: New York X2
The People vs George Lucas
If you like Star Wars (esp EPS 4, 5 & 6), I highly recommend this doc...very humorous and quite an interesting look at fandom...and if you have a bone to pick w/ Georgie over the last 3 films (ahem, Jar Jar Binks) then this is defintely for you!!! HAN SHOT FIRST!!!
Really well done, funny and less then 2 hrs...
I am NOT a Star Wars lunatic fan by any stretch, in fact Empire Strikes Back is my fave & I disliked Jedi - but this film was great...and since a ton of folks on this board have a deep passionate bond with PJ, you will totally get where some of these fanatics are coming from!
Enjoy
Deliver Us From Evil
Oh. My. Gosh.
Extremely moving, twisted, sad and anger inducing.
As Ed sings gloriously "God, what do you say?"
The good ol' Catholic church, horrific child abuse, pedophile priest (WHO ROAMS FREE IN IRELAND), victims & their families..tuff to shake what I witnessed in this doc...
Wow.
I watched this about a month ago on your recommendation. It's very good. And I really didn't envisage the kid being killed by that woman. It's definitely a pretty intense doc. You have to give 100% respect to the parents for coping so well with it all.
omg-spoiler alert!!! geez, dude!
It's an amazing documentary and that little twist was totally unexpected. The Canadian justice system obviously has faults of its own.
http://skylightpictures.com/films/when_ ... ns_tremble
This new, updated version of the 1983 classic on war and social revolution in Guatemala is a vigorous and persuasive documentary. It describes the struggle of the largely Indian peasantry against a heritage of state and foreign oppression. Centered on the experiences of Rigoberta Menchú, a Quich Indian woman, the film knits a variety of forms--- interviews, direct address, re-enactment, video transmission, and on the spot footage shot at great hazard--- into a wide-ranging and remarkable cohesive epic canvas of the Guatemalan struggle.
Despite the long history of oppression it depicts, the overall effect of the film is exhilarating; with clarity and energy it conveys the birth of a national and political awareness.
"When the Mountains Tremble" was updated and re-released in 1992 when Rigoberta Menchú won the Nobel Peace Prize. The film now includes what happened in Guatemala in the intervening 10 years, and footage of the Nobel ceremony.
"When the Mountains Tremble" was released theatrically in 40 U.S. cities and 30 foreign countries. It was shown on PBS and recieved awards at the Sundance Film Festival (Special Jury Award), the American Film Festival (Blue Ribbon Award), and the Havana Film Festival (Grand Coral Award, Best North American Documentary).
Based on the trailer, this will be one of my favorite documentaries. I can't wait to see this:
KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON is the inspiring story of a jazz legend and one of his last students. The legend is 91-year-old Clark Terry, a man who played in the Duke Ellington and Count Basie bands and mentored the likes of Miles Davis and Quincy Jones. His student is 24-year-old Justin Kauflin, a blind piano prodigy who struggles with stage fright but has a dream of following in his mentor's footsteps. When Justin is invited to compete in a prestigious jazz competition and Clark’s health takes a turn for the worse, the film builds to an emotional climax, chronicling every heart-warming practice session and heart-breaking hospital visit. The result is an intimate portrait of two lives in music and of a teacher who continues to inspire even as he fights for his own survival. As Quincy Jones testifies: “He’s one of god’s gifts to this planet.”
Here's the trailer, I must have have watched it more than 30 times by now: http://vimeo.com/40281216
What a doc...
If you like comedy, if you liked /love Bill --> must see
If you are into a completely unique way of film-making - this is definetly a must see
You will totally understand TOOL (for you Tool fans) if you watch this - Bill was a genius, ahead of his time and influenced not only many comedians, but many artists of this generation.
NOVA: The Elegant Universe: The String’s The Thing
String Theory...I "almost" get it
Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman
Universe...
AND OF COURSE.....anything explained by Dr. Michio Kaku
he makes the impossible seem almost fathomable
peace,
jo
http://www.Etsy.com/Shop/SimpleEarthCreations
"How I choose to feel is how I am." ~ EV/MMc
"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends." ~ One Stab ~
NOVA: The Elegant Universe: The String’s The Thing
String Theory...I "almost" get it
Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman
Universe...
AND OF COURSE.....anything explained by Dr. Michio Kaku
he makes the impossible seem almost fathomable
Dr. Michio Kaku, he's lies
how can it be lies?
Its THEORETICAL physics
Just ideas...unproven ideas
Its what keeps the world turning
peace,
jo
http://www.Etsy.com/Shop/SimpleEarthCreations
"How I choose to feel is how I am." ~ EV/MMc
"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends." ~ One Stab ~
not the greatest in narration but for those who follow paul watson and his sea shepherd organization ... it's cool ...
it's basically a guy who decided to do a pseudo documentary on the shark fin trade and himself ... the facts are staggering ... it's crazy how stupid people are ...
1) Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price - makes me never want to shop at Wal-Mart
2) Up for Grabs - about the controversy over who caught/owned Barry Bonds' record setting 73rd home run baseball
3) Freedom Fries and Other Stupidity We'll Have to Explain to Our Grandchildren - title sounded promising, but was kind of boring. Focused on patriotic stances like anti-French sentiment when the French didn't support the Iraq war and the irony of Americans being pro-capitalism while waving little flags made in China.
4) Road to the Big Leagues - In Spanish with English subtitles. It's about the Dominican Republic and how baseball is a dream for many and a way to better their family. Really good if you like baseball imo.
5) Fagbug - cross country road trip to raise awareness for gay rights after someone spray painted anti-gay slurs on a girl's VW Beetle.
6) Civil War Journal: The Conflict Begins - about the lead up to and reasons for the Civil War
7) Kill Your Idols - About 70s and 80s punk/no wave scene that intended to challenge their audience and the bands they inspired that are unoriginal and more radio friendly.
I have worked on the subtitles for a a documentary called Saving Face today. It is about women in Pakistan who are victims of acid attacks by their husbands or other family members. It broke my heart, and made me sad and angry. And it made me feel like a spoiled brat with all my "luxury problems". Go watch it if you can.
Please, Pearl Jam, consider a Benaroya Hall vinyl reissue!
Comments
Didn't know about this one
Thanks for that, Looking forward to it
Meet The Fokkens http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/meet_the_fokkens
Dutch film about two sisters who worked as prostitutes in the red light district (one still does) into their 70's. This sometimes light-hearted story does hit a bit at the gut when you hear their story. There were some people in the story that weren't clarified which made it a bit confusing but overall, it was a tender film.
**************
The Invisible War http://www.hotdocs.ca//film/title/invisible_war
An investigative documentary about the rampant rape and sexual abuse women and some men endure in the US Armed Forces and how the military not only refuses to help them but adopts a strategy that ultimately destroys the victims lives. Definitely not a film for the jingoistic american. Your'e not gonna like seeing this stuff. Just brutal to watch really.
***************
Off Label http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/off_label
A film about the use of human guinea pigs by the pharmaceutical industry and the conflict that exists. The directors did not want to do a standard stat driven/big pharma is bad movie so the film became a bit disjointed - for me, this really was a film about class struggles and the lack of oversight by pharmaceutical giants.
The London nobody knows (1969): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMHCVHLI68M
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2003/nov/21/history
The naked city
Goldfish in public toilets, meths drinkers, Italian caffs ... Bob Stanley on an extraordinary documentary that captures the seamy underbelly of 1960s London
'In the wholly terrestrial 1980s, I would scour and dogear the Radio and TV Times the day they came out, looking for rare showings of great films and archive oddities. Channel 4 made life easy with Truffaut, British new wave, or Marx Brothers seasons. The real plums, though, could often be hidden in the ITV - or Thames, round our way - schedules, maybe at one in the morning, maybe at three in the afternoon.
It was the latter slot that broadcast The London Nobody Knows, a 1967 documentary stroll around the city with James Mason. No horseguards, no palaces, but Islington's Chapel Market, pie shops, and Spitalfields tenements. Carnaby chicks and chaps, the 1967 we have been led to remember, are shockingly juxtaposed with feral meths drinkers, filthy shoeless kids, squalid Victoriana. Camden Town still resembles the world of Walter Sickert. There is romance and adventure, but mostly there is malnourishment. London looks like a shithole...'
I just watched the doc he did on the Westboro Baptist Church. I think the thing about his films is that despite the craziness, and oftentimes hostility, of the people he spends time with, he always ends up being the star of the show. He's so personable and funny that you end up marveling at his patience and charm and almost forgetting about the idiots that are the actual focus of his documentary.
I think you could drop him into a lions den and he'd end up managing to charm his way out.
I downloaded a bunch of his films. Next up is 'Ultra Zionists'.
Highly recommend...learned a lot and was amazed - superb 2 hrs... saw it last night (5/14) and will be recording it when its on again, for sure!
7.9.03~9.28.04~10.1.05~5.12.06~5.13.06~5.27.06~5.28.06
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The Listening Project - how people in other countries see America and Americans
I Need That Record - about the death of indie record stores
Cocaine Cowboys - (one of my all time favs) about how drugs built Miami
The Loose Change series - Actually investigating 9/11
The Men Who Killed Kennedy (1-9) - JFK Assassination
The Evidence of Revision series - JFK, RFK, MLK (really amazing stuff)
Gashole - about people who have tried to make efficient or non-gas fueled cars and what happened to them
Just about everything I've seen on American Masters has been great. Loved the one about Rod Serling.
Zeitgeist: Addendum
Manufactured Landscapes
The Doors: Narrated by Johnny Depp
Zizek
Big River Man
The Union
Tyson
Waiting For Superman
Who The F%#k is Jackson Pollock
Home: Narrated by Glen Close
1998: Barrie
2000: Montreal, Toronto, Auburn Hills
2003: Cleveland, Buffalo, Toronto, Montreal
2004: Boston X2, Grand Rapids
2005: Kitchener, London, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto
2006: Toronto X2
2009: Toronto
2011: PJ20, Montreal, Toronto X2, Hamilton
2012: Manchester X2, Amsterdam X2, Prague, Berlin X2, Philadelphia, Missoula
2013: Pittsburg, Buffalo
2014: Milan, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin, Stockholm, Oslo, Detroit
2016: Ottawa, Toronto X2
2018: Padova, Rome, Prague, Krakow, Berlin, Barcelona
2023: Chicago X2
2024: New York X2
If you like Star Wars (esp EPS 4, 5 & 6), I highly recommend this doc...very humorous and quite an interesting look at fandom...and if you have a bone to pick w/ Georgie over the last 3 films (ahem, Jar Jar Binks) then this is defintely for you!!!
HAN SHOT FIRST!!!
Really well done, funny and less then 2 hrs...
I am NOT a Star Wars lunatic fan by any stretch, in fact Empire Strikes Back is my fave & I disliked Jedi - but this film was great...and since a ton of folks on this board have a deep passionate bond with PJ, you will totally get where some of these fanatics are coming from!
Enjoy
7.9.03~9.28.04~10.1.05~5.12.06~5.13.06~5.27.06~5.28.06
8.5.08(EV)~10.9.09~5.21.10~6.20.11(EV)~7.5.11(EV)~7.9.11(EV)
11.21.13~8.27.16(EV)~11.14.16(TOTD)~4.13.20~9.27.20~9.26.21~10.2.21
2.15.22 (EV)~2.25.22 (EV)~2.27.22 (EV)~5.3.22~5.7.22~9.17.24~9.29.24
Oh. My. Gosh.
Extremely moving, twisted, sad and anger inducing.
As Ed sings gloriously "God, what do you say?"
The good ol' Catholic church, horrific child abuse, pedophile priest (WHO ROAMS FREE IN IRELAND), victims & their families..tuff to shake what I witnessed in this doc...
Wow.
7.9.03~9.28.04~10.1.05~5.12.06~5.13.06~5.27.06~5.28.06
8.5.08(EV)~10.9.09~5.21.10~6.20.11(EV)~7.5.11(EV)~7.9.11(EV)
11.21.13~8.27.16(EV)~11.14.16(TOTD)~4.13.20~9.27.20~9.26.21~10.2.21
2.15.22 (EV)~2.25.22 (EV)~2.27.22 (EV)~5.3.22~5.7.22~9.17.24~9.29.24
omg-spoiler alert!!! geez, dude!
It's an amazing documentary and that little twist was totally unexpected. The Canadian justice system obviously has faults of its own.
Very moving film!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzi7g_gi8Ro
(Torrent: http://kat.ph/when-the-mountains-trembl ... 55232.html)
http://skylightpictures.com/films/when_ ... ns_tremble
This new, updated version of the 1983 classic on war and social revolution in Guatemala is a vigorous and persuasive documentary. It describes the struggle of the largely Indian peasantry against a heritage of state and foreign oppression. Centered on the experiences of Rigoberta Menchú, a Quich Indian woman, the film knits a variety of forms--- interviews, direct address, re-enactment, video transmission, and on the spot footage shot at great hazard--- into a wide-ranging and remarkable cohesive epic canvas of the Guatemalan struggle.
Despite the long history of oppression it depicts, the overall effect of the film is exhilarating; with clarity and energy it conveys the birth of a national and political awareness.
"When the Mountains Tremble" was updated and re-released in 1992 when Rigoberta Menchú won the Nobel Peace Prize. The film now includes what happened in Guatemala in the intervening 10 years, and footage of the Nobel ceremony.
"When the Mountains Tremble" was released theatrically in 40 U.S. cities and 30 foreign countries. It was shown on PBS and recieved awards at the Sundance Film Festival (Special Jury Award), the American Film Festival (Blue Ribbon Award), and the Havana Film Festival (Grand Coral Award, Best North American Documentary).
Here's the trailer, I must have have watched it more than 30 times by now: http://vimeo.com/40281216
Wow
What a doc...
If you like comedy, if you liked /love Bill --> must see
If you are into a completely unique way of film-making - this is definetly a must see
You will totally understand TOOL (for you Tool fans) if you watch this - Bill was a genius, ahead of his time and influenced not only many comedians, but many artists of this generation.
Can't wait to watch it again!
7.9.03~9.28.04~10.1.05~5.12.06~5.13.06~5.27.06~5.28.06
8.5.08(EV)~10.9.09~5.21.10~6.20.11(EV)~7.5.11(EV)~7.9.11(EV)
11.21.13~8.27.16(EV)~11.14.16(TOTD)~4.13.20~9.27.20~9.26.21~10.2.21
2.15.22 (EV)~2.25.22 (EV)~2.27.22 (EV)~5.3.22~5.7.22~9.17.24~9.29.24
String Theory...I "almost" get it
Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman
Universe...
AND OF COURSE.....anything explained by Dr. Michio Kaku
he makes the impossible seem almost fathomable
jo
http://www.Etsy.com/Shop/SimpleEarthCreations
"How I choose to feel is how I am." ~ EV/MMc
"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends." ~ One Stab ~
Dr. Michio Kaku, he's lies
how can it be lies?
Its THEORETICAL physics
Just ideas...unproven ideas
Its what keeps the world turning
jo
http://www.Etsy.com/Shop/SimpleEarthCreations
"How I choose to feel is how I am." ~ EV/MMc
"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends." ~ One Stab ~
http://www.sho.com/sho/reality-docs/tit ... lex#/index
I cried like a baby and had to turn it off. I'm sure you can guess when!
not the greatest in narration but for those who follow paul watson and his sea shepherd organization ... it's cool ...
it's basically a guy who decided to do a pseudo documentary on the shark fin trade and himself ... the facts are staggering ... it's crazy how stupid people are ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G1SaatI ... re=related
1) Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price - makes me never want to shop at Wal-Mart
2) Up for Grabs - about the controversy over who caught/owned Barry Bonds' record setting 73rd home run baseball
3) Freedom Fries and Other Stupidity We'll Have to Explain to Our Grandchildren - title sounded promising, but was kind of boring. Focused on patriotic stances like anti-French sentiment when the French didn't support the Iraq war and the irony of Americans being pro-capitalism while waving little flags made in China.
4) Road to the Big Leagues - In Spanish with English subtitles. It's about the Dominican Republic and how baseball is a dream for many and a way to better their family. Really good if you like baseball imo.
5) Fagbug - cross country road trip to raise awareness for gay rights after someone spray painted anti-gay slurs on a girl's VW Beetle.
6) Civil War Journal: The Conflict Begins - about the lead up to and reasons for the Civil War
7) Kill Your Idols - About 70s and 80s punk/no wave scene that intended to challenge their audience and the bands they inspired that are unoriginal and more radio friendly.