Comments on: 28 Docs Later You’ll Be A Better Person, Just Watch

By: Katlin Ryan

Katlin Ryan — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:55:47 +0000

Okay, this is full of awesome. I’m going to have so much fun watching these… AAHH

By: mason_jar

mason_jar — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:37:58 +0000

I second that you should all come to the True/False Festival in Columbia, Mo. It’s at the beginning of March and is freaking fantastic! I volunteered last year and am volunteering again this year. People, Parties, and Amazing Documentaries. . . COME!

By: diver

diver — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:33:03 +0000

Congrats Rachel, Krrru, and mason_jar for overcoming that insanity.

By: mason_jar

mason_jar — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:30:56 +0000

yeah, Jesus Camp made me bawl, because i was like, “that was ME. . .”

By: anon

anon — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:16:45 +0000

Ccheck out “Bus 174″, very insightful and an amazing film.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:13:53 +0000

American movie: the making of northwestern. Pretty much changed my life in terms of how I’m afraid my life might end up with the rest of my film/art/theatre friends. Even though I know my work is amazing and I’ll succeed with it no matter what, this could totally be what I become if somehow all of that fails. And it terrifies me. Watch it. It is so good and human and possible.

By: wepa

wepa — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 02:12:18 +0000

This website’s short documentaries are handsome.

Also, I recently came across this not-at-all-short documentary (24 hours). Based exclusively on the two hours I’ve seen I wouldn’t go as far as to say it’s wildly entertaining, but those hours (9PM* and 3AM) do contain several bits I found strangely compelling.

Finally, I saw ‘Beautiful Losers’ and I thought it was lovely; it’s very interesting, and I actually had to pause it a couple of times because it was making me feel things: two thumbs up. To the commenter who “joked” about it being “baloney” (having not seen the film, mind you) I want to say: please stop commenting on nice posts when you’re gloomy/cranky and grow up already, idiocymonger.

*All of you raging homophobes out here, be warned: a lesbian creature emerges for a couple of minutes during ‘9 PM’ and her deviancy is mildly, yet explicitly, discussed.

By: caitlinmae

caitlinmae — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:47:34 +0000

Ugh I go to the movies with those people. I am terrified about my friends becoming those people- they’re pretty close already except that they’re younger and have slightly better personal hygene. I remember when Roberta (who has since passed away) belching loudly in the middle of a quiet contemplative scene in a Japanese movie. Talk about killing the mood.

The best was when two olds got in a FISTFIGHT at an Anthony Mann western and actually rolled out into the aisle.

By: Brianna

Brianna — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:29:59 +0000

I just finished watching Freeheld and bawled like a baby through the entire thing.

A week later: still working through the list. I have now seen…

the carter documentary
helvetica
the weather underground
paris is burning
paperclips
anvil
beautiful losers
spellbound(which I realized I had watched before)
freeheld

clearly I have too much time on my hands.

By: TimeInvariant

TimeInvariant — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:57:15 +0000

‘Paris is Burning’ is so great. I stumbled across it at the local Blockbusters (movie rental place – is it UK-specific?)
Assume that someone working there is queer, cos there were a bunch of great gay films on the shelves.

Annnnyway, great film. I’m going to order Helvetica RIGHTNOW for my gf who gets a little *too* excited by fonts.

By: Ciara

Ciara — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:38:20 +0000

Love documentaries. Just watched “The Devil’s Playground” about a group of Amish teenagers going through “Rumspringa” where they get to go crazy for a while before getting baptised into the Amish faith.

One of my favourite docs is called “Être et avoir” (To be and to have), about a year in a tiny rural French primary (elementary?) school. It is adorable.

By: outfar

outfar — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:32:43 +0000

Anything at all, even if you don’t like the subject matter, by Ken Burns. ‘Unforgivable Blackness’ especially.

Recently watched ‘Training Rules’, that was really good. ‘The Aggressors’, amazing.

David Sutherland did two riveting documents, ‘The Farmer’s Wife’ and ‘Country Boys’. Both enthralling and I highly recommend them. If the Appalachian region interests you, (and you are interested in photography) then *definitely* check out ‘The True Meaning of Pictures’.