Favorite documentaries

[Brad]

i have a red neck buddy that loves to fish. he accidentally watched fishing with john one night thinking it was a real fishing show. it was the episode with tom waits. he came over the next day and said "man, i watched the strangest fishing show last night.....there was this old man who would put the fish he caught down his pants" of course i got a good chuckle out of it.

[dspring]

I don't know if anyone mentioned this yet, but the NFB site has a lot of documentaries. I was shown this one in one of my structural undergrad classes. It is a great film on craftsmanship... seriously, check it out.

I used to work at an agency next door to the NFB in Toronto... many a lunch hour was spent in their viewing chairs watching docs.. Carts of Darkness is up for streaming: http://nfb.ca/film/carts_of_darkness/

[evanmarnoch]

Awesome, thanks for the link Dan. Hadn't seen that one on there and I've been meaning to try and watch it somehow. Works out nice.

[dspring]

you can see all and search the streaming films here: Films : All - NFB

[caribou]

caught a few this week:

taxi to the dark side (depressing, but really well done)
end of the century (kind of sad to see that in the end they really didn't like each other that much)
the rape of europa (great story about the plunder of artwork before, during and after WWII)

[evanmarnoch]

My friend sent me this link. It is a "WTF" type of documentary...

STREET BONERS and TV CARNAGE GUESS WHAT OBJECTUM-SEXUALS LOVE

[caribou]

I used to work at an agency next door to the NFB in Toronto... many a lunch hour was spent in their viewing chairs watching docs.. Carts of Darkness is up for streaming: Carts of Darkness by Murray Siple, - NFB

there's no way i could download that movie with my crappy dialup connection. is it any good? the description on his website looked interesting. worth the $20 for a dvd copy?

[caribou]

just got done with "street fight", about the 2002 mayoral election in newark, NJ. really interesting seeing how low politicians will go to win the election.

[DWITT]

'Surfwise'
Doug Pray's documentary delves into the often inspiring, sometimes shocking life of 85-year-old Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, a renowned surfer, surf camp owner, doctor and sex guru who, together with his wife, brought up nine children. Paskowitz raised his family in a camper on the beach, home-schooling them and requiring them to follow a strict lifestyle regimen. Now, his grown children speak out about how their unique upbringing affected them.


This was pretty amazing.

[phoondaddy]

The Aristocrats was fukking hor-i-bull. Waste of my time.

Just watched "Gram Parsons - Fallen Angel". INCREDIBLE doc. One of the best I have seen in awhile. Even talked in detail about his death and the day that followed. MUST SEE if you are a fan.