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Joe Rogaine

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Re: Documentary recs
« Reply #225 on: February 24, 2015, 01:40:18 AM »
Citizenfour was on HBO tonight its pretty good.

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Re: Documentary recs
« Reply #226 on: February 24, 2015, 11:50:33 AM »
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« Reply #227 on: February 24, 2015, 11:53:57 AM »
Brother's Keeper (1992)


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Re: Documentary recs
« Reply #228 on: March 28, 2015, 12:37:04 PM »
Has anyone seen RADIO UNNAMEABLE?

http://www.radiounnameablemovie.com/

Popped up on Netflix, thought it would be a wise choice b/c NYC freeform radio, all-night call-in show, 60s.

Almost turned it off as soon as the talking heads starting holding court on Abbie Hoffman and the power of the yippies. Made it ten more minutes in until someone said call-in radio was "The Twitter of our times" and then was done with it.

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Re: Documentary recs
« Reply #229 on: March 29, 2015, 10:27:38 PM »
About to be go-time for this Scientology doc on HBO.   Interested to hear what folks think of it.

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« Reply #230 on: March 31, 2015, 09:59:47 AM »
About to be go-time for this Scientology doc on HBO.   Interested to hear what folks think of it.

I watched it last night, I had heard a lot of what they talked about over the years but damn, hearing it all laid out at once from the mouths of people where were high ranking members for years was frightening and fascinating. I loved it. also, David Miscavige looks so much like a super villain it almost seems like a joke.

as a side note, it's only touched on briefly in the doc but the Occult O Rama episode of The Dana Gould Hour podcast goes more into detail of Hubbard's association with Jack Parsons and the whole story of what went down between them is unbelievable. It's worth a listen.
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Mike Desert

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Re: Documentary recs
« Reply #231 on: March 31, 2015, 12:35:32 PM »
Watched it last night too.  Putting it on at 11:30 was a mistake. Kept me awake and interested for 2 hours.
Then I put on the Hobbit and fell right to sleep. During a dragon attack or somesuch.
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« Reply #232 on: March 31, 2015, 04:15:00 PM »
I thought the Going Clear documentary was outstanding. The book is equally good, but different. The same primary ex-members are featured in both, but obviously there's a lot more detail in the book. But the film made everything more human. Cruise comes off terrible in the movie, but I was surprised how light Travolta got off (insert joke). Also surprised the Battlefield Earth wasn't mentioned at all. But the fact that Miscaviage's wife Shelley, who hasn't been seen in public in seven yeas, was also absent from the film.

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« Reply #233 on: April 01, 2015, 02:34:09 PM »
Tom's mention of the Daniel Johnston doc reminded me of a great documentary my friend/bandmate Henry also produced called Welcome to Nollywood about Nigerian film making.  Same director as their other movie Off the Charts (also great). see it if you can!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Nollywood
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Re: Documentary recs
« Reply #234 on: April 01, 2015, 02:36:17 PM »
I will forever appreciate Jeff Feuerzig for his interaction with Zeph Marshack, Cher's uncle.
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Re: Documentary recs
« Reply #235 on: April 01, 2015, 02:40:38 PM »
director as their other movie Off the Charts (also great). see it if you can!


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Re: Documentary recs
« Reply #236 on: April 01, 2015, 04:17:02 PM »
The Newburgh Sting, currently being shown on HBO, is great.
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Joe Rogaine

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Re: Documentary recs
« Reply #237 on: April 01, 2015, 09:06:11 PM »
I always like the HBO doc about the woman who sued Mcdonalds because of her hot coffee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBKRjxeQnT4

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« Reply #238 on: April 06, 2015, 04:31:53 PM »
I watched Going Clear and it really skeezed me out. Has anyone else seen the Showrunners documentary? I'm watching it now and I like most of it, but some of these talking heads come across as preening jerks, particularly Sutter, Ronald Moore, and Anthony LaPaglia.
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Re: Documentary recs
« Reply #239 on: April 06, 2015, 06:16:50 PM »
GLOW doc is amazing