Documentaries List Discussion & Suggestions (Genre Project)
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 4:04 am
BALLOTS ARE DUE BY THE END OF THE DAY MARCH 15, 2014
This time, the list is documentaries, things that really actually happened (maybe) (for some of these)! We had 20 lists submitted for the Animation project, and I am greedy for more, more, more! So everybody post and vote.
Please PM me your list of what you believe are the top 50 Documentary films toward the end of the project. Between now and the end of the project, post the movies you're watching, post about the movies other people are watching, and yammer away at one another until we're exhausted of the topic forever.
THE RULES
We've hammered this out a bit in the list discussion thread, but I'm always happy for more suggestions.
BASICS
Each individual list is to comprise no more or less than 50 films, ranked in your order of preference (with no ties). You can make it your top 50 favorite Jeff Dunham stand up specials (there are that many, right?) if you want, there are no rules for minimum number of films seen or anything.
ELIGIBILITY
Any feature film, experimental film, short film, TV miniseries, TV movie, or TV special which could be called a documentary in any sense of the word- docufiction, ethnography, filmed sports, filmed plays, filmed stand up specials, filmed concerts, nature films, essay films, making-of docs, Tag Gallagher visual essays, and lots of other stuff I'm probably forgetting. If you're not sure if something is a documentary, bring it up in the thread, or just vote for it. I'm generally going for the widest definition of the term possible, so if you think it counts it and can make any kind of a passable case for it, we'll take it.
TV anthologies, like Errol Morris's First Person, should be voted on as individual episodes. Long form series with a defined end point, like Planet Earth, count as mini-series and can be voted for as a whole. For television stuff that fits into news reportage, like Frontline, it will generally count as an individual entry in an anthology, but bring it up in the thread if you're concerned. I'm going to go ahead and say that you have to vote for an individual iteration of the filming of a thing, and not the thing itself- so that you may not vote for "The 1989 World Series", but you can vote for "The Fox Broadcast of the 1989 World Series" or whatever. Also, please do not vote for the 1989 World Series.
For more details about rules and procedures, please refer here.
ELIGIBILITY – REMINDERS / SPECIAL CASES
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RESOURCES
I'm going to do some work here when I'm not bone tired, but please post anything relevant in the thread.
PWA Films thread
Any resources are welcomed, and I'll be looking for more myself in the near future.
GUIDES WITHIN THIS THREAD
Obviously, there aren't any of these yet, but I'd be delighted to post them once they are.
Available Guides:
FORUM MEMBER SPOTLIGHTS
You know what these are, you guys. Post your favorites, the ones you're afraid nobody else will have watched.
1. Make a post about the film discussing why you find it so exceptional.
2. Clearly indicate that you wish the film to be one of your spotlight titles.
3. Direct others to where the film can be found.
I'll keep track of all the spotlight titles here so that they can be easily referenced. You're welcome to have more than one spotlight title, but try not to have too many more, so it's manageable for everyone to be able to see them all.
Everyone is strongly encouraged to give each of these films the same chance that you would hope others would give your own spotlight titles.
Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984), matrixschmatrix. Available on DVD & Blu.
The Corporation (Jennifer Abbott & Mark Achbar, 2003), colinr0380. Available on YouTube here as well as Amazon Prime and DVD.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (March Achbar & Peter Wintonick), colinr0380. Available on YouTube here as well as Amazon Prime and recommended BFI DVD.
Psychic Powers Exposed - "Secrets of the Psychics" (Carl Charlson? No director listed in credits), Minkin. Available on YouTube here.
A Thing of Wonder (Adrienne Leverette & Eric Schopmeyer), Minkin. Available on DVD here.
Should I Marry Outside My Faith?) (Uncredited), Domino Harvey. Available on DVD as part of Atomic Age Classics Vol 6: Love & Marriage.
Surviving Edged Weapons (Dennis Anderson), Domino Harvey. Available on YouTube here and written up by Domino here.
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Kazuo Hara), Grand Wazoo. Available on YouTube here and on an out of print Facets DVD.
The Lacey Rituals (Bruce Lacy & Everybody), knives. Available on DVD through the BFI.
Ethnic Notions (Marlon Riggs), knives. Available online through the University of California San Diego here and on DVD through California Newsreel here.
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (Mark Lewis), barbarianeggplant. Available online through StaveVu here or in pieces on YouTube, and on an OOP DVD.
In the Family (Joanna Rudnick), Mr. Sausage. On PBS's website here and on DVD.
Thin (Lauren Greenfield), Mr. Sausage. Available on a YouTube playlist linked here.
Sherman's March (Ross McElwee), zedz. Available on DVD indivudally or as part of a Ross McElwee box set.
Kilka opowiesci o czlowieku (Bogdan Dziworski), Nabob of Nowhere. Available on YouTube here.
Growing Up: A New Approach to Sex Education, No. 1 (Martin Cole), bamwc2. Available on the BFI's Joy of Sex Education/The Birds and the Bees set.
Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate (Kirby Dick), bamwc2. Available on DVD and Amazon Instant.
Live Nude Girls Unite! (Vicky Funari & Julia Query), bamwc2. Available on DVD.
Katka (Helena Třeštíková), MichaelB. DVD?
Queen of Trees (Victoria Stone & Mark Deeble), Matt. Available on DVD here and on YouTube here.
Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston), Satori. Available on Netflix, Amazon Instant, and DVD.
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea), swo17. Available on DVD and Blu-ray. Written up by swo17 here.
Granton Trawler (Edgar Anstey & John Grierson), swo17. Available on DVD (in the BFI's GPO Film Collection Volume 1) on Blu-ray (in the BFI's The Soviet Influence: Battleship Potemkin + Drifters) and on YouTube here. Written up by swo17 here.
Les Maîtres fous (Jean Rouch), swo17. Available on YouTube here. Written up by swo17 here.
The Farmer's Wife (David Sutherland), HistoryProf. Available on DVD here.
Talhotblond: (Barbara Schroeder), Lemmy Caution. Available on Netflix, Amazon Instant, and DVD.
Facing Ali (Pete McCormack), Lemmy Caution. Available on Amazon Instant and DVD.
AWAITING FURTHER SUGGESTIONS
DESPERATELY SEEKING SO AND SO
Is there a film you're dying to see but you've exhausted all possible avenues for finding it and still come up short? List it here and perhaps some kind soul will be able to direct you to a copy by PM. Please limit listings here to only a few films that you're most desperate to see.
SUBMISSION GUIDE
When the end of this project rolls around and you're submitting a list, pleas ensure the following:
*Check the title against IMDb, and make sure you have it exactly right. If it's not on IMDb, include a link with your list so I can get the right information. If it goes by several names, the format I use is English Title/Original Language Title, so that's preferred, but make sure whatever you use is what's on IMDb.
*Have a director and year marked for every film on your list, so that I don't have to guess at which of several similarly titled works you meant to vote for.
*PM me the list before Midnight PST on the listed due date. I'm willing to go back and fix things if I absolutely must, but it's better for everyone if I have everything right the first go round.
*If you have a substitution to make, send me a full corrected list along a note saying 'I switched this and this' or whatever
I'm not going to throw anyone's list out for not meeting these guidelines, but if everyone follows them my life will be far, far easier.
Resources compiled by matrixschmatrix
This time, the list is documentaries, things that really actually happened (maybe) (for some of these)! We had 20 lists submitted for the Animation project, and I am greedy for more, more, more! So everybody post and vote.
Please PM me your list of what you believe are the top 50 Documentary films toward the end of the project. Between now and the end of the project, post the movies you're watching, post about the movies other people are watching, and yammer away at one another until we're exhausted of the topic forever.
THE RULES
We've hammered this out a bit in the list discussion thread, but I'm always happy for more suggestions.
BASICS
Each individual list is to comprise no more or less than 50 films, ranked in your order of preference (with no ties). You can make it your top 50 favorite Jeff Dunham stand up specials (there are that many, right?) if you want, there are no rules for minimum number of films seen or anything.
ELIGIBILITY
Any feature film, experimental film, short film, TV miniseries, TV movie, or TV special which could be called a documentary in any sense of the word- docufiction, ethnography, filmed sports, filmed plays, filmed stand up specials, filmed concerts, nature films, essay films, making-of docs, Tag Gallagher visual essays, and lots of other stuff I'm probably forgetting. If you're not sure if something is a documentary, bring it up in the thread, or just vote for it. I'm generally going for the widest definition of the term possible, so if you think it counts it and can make any kind of a passable case for it, we'll take it.
TV anthologies, like Errol Morris's First Person, should be voted on as individual episodes. Long form series with a defined end point, like Planet Earth, count as mini-series and can be voted for as a whole. For television stuff that fits into news reportage, like Frontline, it will generally count as an individual entry in an anthology, but bring it up in the thread if you're concerned. I'm going to go ahead and say that you have to vote for an individual iteration of the filming of a thing, and not the thing itself- so that you may not vote for "The 1989 World Series", but you can vote for "The Fox Broadcast of the 1989 World Series" or whatever. Also, please do not vote for the 1989 World Series.
For more details about rules and procedures, please refer here.
ELIGIBILITY – REMINDERS / SPECIAL CASES
Placeholder
RESOURCES
I'm going to do some work here when I'm not bone tired, but please post anything relevant in the thread.
PWA Films thread
Any resources are welcomed, and I'll be looking for more myself in the near future.
GUIDES WITHIN THIS THREAD
Obviously, there aren't any of these yet, but I'd be delighted to post them once they are.
Available Guides:
FORUM MEMBER SPOTLIGHTS
You know what these are, you guys. Post your favorites, the ones you're afraid nobody else will have watched.
1. Make a post about the film discussing why you find it so exceptional.
2. Clearly indicate that you wish the film to be one of your spotlight titles.
3. Direct others to where the film can be found.
I'll keep track of all the spotlight titles here so that they can be easily referenced. You're welcome to have more than one spotlight title, but try not to have too many more, so it's manageable for everyone to be able to see them all.
Everyone is strongly encouraged to give each of these films the same chance that you would hope others would give your own spotlight titles.
Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984), matrixschmatrix. Available on DVD & Blu.
The Corporation (Jennifer Abbott & Mark Achbar, 2003), colinr0380. Available on YouTube here as well as Amazon Prime and DVD.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (March Achbar & Peter Wintonick), colinr0380. Available on YouTube here as well as Amazon Prime and recommended BFI DVD.
Psychic Powers Exposed - "Secrets of the Psychics" (Carl Charlson? No director listed in credits), Minkin. Available on YouTube here.
A Thing of Wonder (Adrienne Leverette & Eric Schopmeyer), Minkin. Available on DVD here.
Should I Marry Outside My Faith?) (Uncredited), Domino Harvey. Available on DVD as part of Atomic Age Classics Vol 6: Love & Marriage.
Surviving Edged Weapons (Dennis Anderson), Domino Harvey. Available on YouTube here and written up by Domino here.
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Kazuo Hara), Grand Wazoo. Available on YouTube here and on an out of print Facets DVD.
The Lacey Rituals (Bruce Lacy & Everybody), knives. Available on DVD through the BFI.
Ethnic Notions (Marlon Riggs), knives. Available online through the University of California San Diego here and on DVD through California Newsreel here.
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (Mark Lewis), barbarianeggplant. Available online through StaveVu here or in pieces on YouTube, and on an OOP DVD.
In the Family (Joanna Rudnick), Mr. Sausage. On PBS's website here and on DVD.
Thin (Lauren Greenfield), Mr. Sausage. Available on a YouTube playlist linked here.
Sherman's March (Ross McElwee), zedz. Available on DVD indivudally or as part of a Ross McElwee box set.
Kilka opowiesci o czlowieku (Bogdan Dziworski), Nabob of Nowhere. Available on YouTube here.
Growing Up: A New Approach to Sex Education, No. 1 (Martin Cole), bamwc2. Available on the BFI's Joy of Sex Education/The Birds and the Bees set.
Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate (Kirby Dick), bamwc2. Available on DVD and Amazon Instant.
Live Nude Girls Unite! (Vicky Funari & Julia Query), bamwc2. Available on DVD.
Katka (Helena Třeštíková), MichaelB. DVD?
Queen of Trees (Victoria Stone & Mark Deeble), Matt. Available on DVD here and on YouTube here.
Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston), Satori. Available on Netflix, Amazon Instant, and DVD.
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea), swo17. Available on DVD and Blu-ray. Written up by swo17 here.
Granton Trawler (Edgar Anstey & John Grierson), swo17. Available on DVD (in the BFI's GPO Film Collection Volume 1) on Blu-ray (in the BFI's The Soviet Influence: Battleship Potemkin + Drifters) and on YouTube here. Written up by swo17 here.
Les Maîtres fous (Jean Rouch), swo17. Available on YouTube here. Written up by swo17 here.
The Farmer's Wife (David Sutherland), HistoryProf. Available on DVD here.
Talhotblond: (Barbara Schroeder), Lemmy Caution. Available on Netflix, Amazon Instant, and DVD.
Facing Ali (Pete McCormack), Lemmy Caution. Available on Amazon Instant and DVD.
AWAITING FURTHER SUGGESTIONS
DESPERATELY SEEKING SO AND SO
Is there a film you're dying to see but you've exhausted all possible avenues for finding it and still come up short? List it here and perhaps some kind soul will be able to direct you to a copy by PM. Please limit listings here to only a few films that you're most desperate to see.
SUBMISSION GUIDE
When the end of this project rolls around and you're submitting a list, pleas ensure the following:
*Check the title against IMDb, and make sure you have it exactly right. If it's not on IMDb, include a link with your list so I can get the right information. If it goes by several names, the format I use is English Title/Original Language Title, so that's preferred, but make sure whatever you use is what's on IMDb.
*Have a director and year marked for every film on your list, so that I don't have to guess at which of several similarly titled works you meant to vote for.
*PM me the list before Midnight PST on the listed due date. I'm willing to go back and fix things if I absolutely must, but it's better for everyone if I have everything right the first go round.
*If you have a substitution to make, send me a full corrected list along a note saying 'I switched this and this' or whatever
I'm not going to throw anyone's list out for not meeting these guidelines, but if everyone follows them my life will be far, far easier.
Resources compiled by matrixschmatrix