this one is mad genius as well. GREAt documentary

you said it man
crumb is great
ive watched it 8 times
seriously!
everytime i watch it i get back into old ragtime music haha
that and ghostworld do it

That was on tv here lastnite. It was great. I also liked the fact that a majority of them didn't even serve time due to the Polices carelessness in finding them. SBS in Australia have a docoumentary special every Tuesday nite. The other week it was a Patty Hearst doco which I mentioned above. If you like(d) The Weather Underground, I suggest you see it if you haven't already. Next week it's a Charles Bukowski doco. Looking forward to that, too.

Here are two some of you may have interest in:

the blue planet series is cool. they get some amazing shots.

I love any doc that follows around fucked up people.

Some very interesting docu's I haven't seen yet. In the realms of the unreal looks very cool.

Waco: Rules Of Engagement is absolutely essential

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)
Directed by Martin Scorsese & Michael Henry Wilson.

Despite its nearly four-hour running time, this is a uniquely personal look at movies from one of the late 20th century's great directors and film historians. The film consists of head & shoulder shots of Scorsese speaking into the camera for a minute or two, followed by 10-15 minutes of film clips with Scorsese voice-over. Scorsese approaches the films in terms of how they affected him as a director foremost and as a storyteller/film fan second. Segments include "The Director as Smuggler," "The Director as Iconoclast", and so on. The Journey begins with silent masters like D.W. Griffith and ends in 1969 - when Scorsese began to make films; as he says in closing, "I wouldn't feel right commenting on myself or my contemporaries."

Touching the Void was a really good film.
Empire of Dreams (covers the making of the first trilogy of Star Wars)
I saw a bit of a movie called Trekkies (about Star Trek geeks) and it was pretty hilarious

tribe is a fantastic documentary series



I think you can get some video clips on the bbc "tribe" minisite
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tribe/
you can download the first series here
http://www2.digitaldistractions.org:...=documentaries plus a lot ray mears series too




definitely my favourite feature length doc, like watching a real life spinal tap for films




I'm very surprised louis theroux hasnt been mentioned yet, his documentaries are always so entertaining and sometimes quite scary, particularily the one with the nazis and the one with the black nationalists who tried to claim that all of history's greatest people were black

also
The artist formerly known as captain beefheart
fearless freaks
the living planet
life on earth
year of the horse
dogtown and zboys
looking for truth with a pin (about Ivor Cutler)

I'd like to see derailroaded and titticult follies

would this be the one?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390299/

i haven't seen it but i heard it was good. It can't be anywhere near as good as the other "taking of..." movie I've seen

Imagine: John Lennon
Roger & Me
Arte TV Patti Smith
Arte TV Brad Mehldau Trio
South Bank show Put Blood in the Music
South Bank show Laurie Anderson
Rockpalast Sonic Youth Amsterdam 1989
plenty more I can't think of at the moment

south bank show is always fantastic if it's someone i'm interested in

I've got a few on my computer i can make into torrents if anyones interested

armando iannucci
manga mania
terry gilliam
douglas adams
hunt the funk (with lenny henry, a major downside to what could have been a very good documentary)


there is also a sonic youth/john zorn one floating around demonoid

I think there is an Arte TV John Coltrane one that I'd like to see/get.

I thought of some other goodies:
John Peel's Record Box
Punk: Attitude
Heavy Petting

those recent Hooked ones & Vh-1 drug docs are good.

Oh & there was this recent one which was a multi-part history of Twentieth-Century Art on PBS that was good.

No Direction Home
Martin Scorsese's The Blues
(especially the Scorsese & Wenders ones)
Scorsese's Italianamerican
Einstein's Letter
other Einstein ones

The BBC did one on The Velvet Underground last year or so that I haven't seen.

I've got that john peel record box too if anyone wants a torrent of it

Oh yeah I forgot to mention Radiohead: Meeting People is easy.

It's a doc about them on their tour supporting Ok Computer. You feel quite sorry for them, because of all the shit they have to go through on tour.

Refused Are Fucking Dead DVD is fantastic.
Someone mentioned Imagine which is great.
Hype is another good music docoumentary, as is obviously Dig!

I don't get to watch many documentaries, but I did enjoy this one that was on Sundance Channel about workers in China (I think they were Chinese) who made beads for Mardi Gras. I don't remember the name, but it was pretty good. All the Chinese women laughed when they saw pictures of women showing their breasts for the beads. They said the beads were ugly.

forgot to mention DiG! that was a really good one.