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atsonicpark · 08.17.2010, 03:05 AM

Ah, here's a bonus!

my top 10 favorite documentaries ever!!

1. Streetwise - a movie about kids living on the streets. one of the most heartbreaking and ugly movies ever.
2. American Movie - a no budget documentary about no budget filmmaking. funny as hell.
3. Landscape Suicide - insane experimental documentary about murder... makes me more uncomfortable than any movie ever made...
4. Thin Blue Line - Erol Morris's important documentary which was a recreation/dramatization of a crime, LONG before that was popular... it actually got the conviction overturned!
5. Manson (1973) - amazing charles manson documentary, explores sides of the Manson story that have never been exploded, like how the followers had babies (which they gave acid to!)... the creator of this documentary murdered after it came out..
6. Story of a Junkie - story of a junkie!
7. Jefftowne - the story of a mentally challenged William Shatner fan. Straddles the line between exploitative and genuinely touching.
8. Speaking Directly - Jon Jost makes a documentary about, well, Jon Jost. Is the perfect summary of his work (which he hadn't made yet; this was his first film). It's basically a guy with $600 who lives in a cold cabin with no food, no heat, no water, making a film, because.. well.. he doesn't know what else to do. Interviews his friends and family, most of who seem to hate him. Admits to his friend's wife that he wants to sleep with her on camera. Jerks off on camera. Gives you 4 minutes of a blank white screen to project your own thoughts and ideas onto it. Just 2 hours of brilliance.
9. Paradise Lost - It might be a little manipulative, perhaps, but it's still one of the most important docs ever, and the nearly 3 hours just go by... insane look into one of the most insane murder cases ever...
10. Some Kind of Monster - 3 hours of Metallica screaming and crying and hating their lives and their success. Absolutely pathetic and embarassing for them... watching them pour their heart and soul into an absolutely horrible album... brilliant and insane..

08.17.2010, 03:05 AM	#11919
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Ah, here's a bonus! my top 10 favorite documentaries ever!! 1. Streetwise - a movie about kids living on the streets. one of the most heartbreaking and ugly movies ever. 2. American Movie - a no budget documentary about no budget filmmaking. funny as hell. 3. Landscape Suicide - insane experimental documentary about murder... makes me more uncomfortable than any movie ever made... 4. Thin Blue Line - Erol Morris's important documentary which was a recreation/dramatization of a crime, LONG before that was popular... it actually got the conviction overturned! 5. Manson (1973) - amazing charles manson documentary, explores sides of the Manson story that have never been exploded, like how the followers had babies (which they gave acid to!)... the creator of this documentary murdered after it came out.. 6. Story of a Junkie - story of a junkie! 7. Jefftowne - the story of a mentally challenged William Shatner fan. Straddles the line between exploitative and genuinely touching. 8. Speaking Directly - Jon Jost makes a documentary about, well, Jon Jost. Is the perfect summary of his work (which he hadn't made yet; this was his first film). It's basically a guy with $600 who lives in a cold cabin with no food, no heat, no water, making a film, because.. well.. he doesn't know what else to do. Interviews his friends and family, most of who seem to hate him. Admits to his friend's wife that he wants to sleep with her on camera. Jerks off on camera. Gives you 4 minutes of a blank white screen to project your own thoughts and ideas onto it. Just 2 hours of brilliance. 9. Paradise Lost - It might be a little manipulative, perhaps, but it's still one of the most important docs ever, and the nearly 3 hours just go by... insane look into one of the most insane murder cases ever... 10. Some Kind of Monster - 3 hours of Metallica screaming and crying and hating their lives and their success. Absolutely pathetic and embarassing for them... watching them pour their heart and soul into an absolutely horrible album... brilliant and insane..
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