ffs history mayne, poor show
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't seen many of the others *sigh* so can't comment on the apples and oranges controversy.
Anvil is horrible tho'. Guess Spinal Tap is going to win *deeper sigh*
Hoping Night and Fog makes it.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
i love innocence unprotected!
― puerile fantasies (Matt P), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
hah, i didnt even consider that someone would vote for spinal tap. it'd be funny if it placed
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
unless that was a joke!
spinal tap definitely isn't a documentary. LOL
#15 best in show
― ☝ (am0n), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
All-Guest "Top 3".
(x-post)
― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
#1 'the office'
― ☝ (am0n), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
why do u h8 shermy's march amon
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
it came out in about 1973. they made docs about the war as it happened. and used clips from them to make... 'the world at war'.
― we started this punning display name shit (history mayne),
oh, my mistake, thought it came out in the '60's. either way that was 40 years ago. And obviously it's largely constructed with clips from other sources. It's a documentary.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
you cant write it off as a 'clip compilation' though because they shot a shitload of interviews with important dudes for it
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
true, forgot that. i wasn't writing it off anyway -- some of my favourite... audio-visual things are compilations. like adam curtis's stuff, whatever that is. (again, it seems to me legitimate to include tv documentaries. they've never had good theatrical distribution.)
― we started this punning display name shit (history mayne), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
i guess it's coz my phd is (partly) on documentary in the grierson-flaherty sense.
― we started this punning display name shit (history mayne), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
<3 john grierson
― puerile fantasies (Matt P), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
i probably could've done a list entirely of tv docs
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
If there's one way I could expand what I've seen, it would be to see a lot of TV stuff over the years that aired and then more or less disappeared--An American Family being the obvious example, but there are others.
― clemenza, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Friday, 12 August 2011 Bookmark
Seems like its all up for grabs w/this poll. No idea if its been nominated or what.
Curtis is what Makavejev sounds like -- video essay. Like Curtis v much apart from the last one. Even less of an argument with not enough golden nuggets in the archives. xxp
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
i have a fluctuating relationship w/ curtis's stuff. didn't like 'the trap', did like the most recent, even though it was completely mental.
― we started this punning display name shit (history mayne), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
i'd include 'century of the self' in my list of er, non-fiction films
― we started this punning display name shit (history mayne), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
Me too. It Felt Like A Kiss is the one I like best and it is probably the least "documentary"
― A41 (admrl), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
The World at War is the That's Entertainment! of bombing.
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
priceless
― we started this punning display name shit (history mayne), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
Urgh, I hated the last Curtis. Bad premises. Loved and voted for The Power of Nightmares, though.
― emil.y, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
Urgh, I hated the last Curtis. Bad premises. Loved and voted for The Power of Nightmares, though.― emil.y, Friday, August 12, 2011 7:27 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark
― emil.y, Friday, August 12, 2011 7:27 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark
yeah, sort of feel this is 'generation very much in character'. i think the premises of both series are pretty bad, the resulting films good. but people object more to the premise of ALOBMOLG. the last ep is transcendent imo.
― we started this punning display name shit (history mayne), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
woah never seen you get so effusive, maybe take a lie down
― A41 (admrl), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
I agree with you too! craziness
I must confess I didn't watch the last one, as I'd been so annoyed by the first two.
― emil.y, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
ALOBMOLG was great
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
The last one really stood out
― A41 (admrl), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
*AWOBMOLG
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
If you're going to praise something, at least get its name right. 'All Licked Over By Machines of Loving Grace'? (lol xp)
Not gonna retread why I hated it in detail, though - pretty sure I posted a few annoyances on the dedicated thread.
― emil.y, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know a thing about Adam Curtis until this conversation started. This is good. (Not sure how I'll see this stuff if it's BBC, though.)
― clemenza, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― we started this punning display name shit (history mayne), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
www.rapidshare.com
most of them are on youtube or google video
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOlwbaPe2os
― we started this punning display name shit (history mayne), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
Not one for downloading films, and really hate watching anything longer than a short clip off the computer.
― clemenza, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
^^ 'generation very much in character'
― sonderangerbot, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
i doubt the good old beeb would sue. like 'la plays itself' i don't think it could be put on dvd even if there were a market, because it uses loads of copyright material. (like broadcast is governed by different rules than dvd or something.)
― we started this punning display name shit (history mayne), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
I voted for one Adam Curtis: The Mayfair Set.
― Alba, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
(at least, I think I did)
― Alba, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
"la plays itself" is a gay porn film. just sayin'
― A41 (admrl), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
You did vote for The Mayfair Set, yes. And there is an Adam Curtis film in the top 25.
― clemenza, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
i haven't seen AOLOLBLOGOMG
― ☝ (am0n), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
Either The Trap or Power of Nightmares, prob. the latter
xp
― A41 (admrl), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
"la plays itself" is a gay porn film. just sayin'― A41 (admrl), Friday, August 12, 2011 7:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
― A41 (admrl), Friday, August 12, 2011 7:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
wrongly naming that film has become just an annoying thing that i do.
― we started this punning display name shit (history mayne), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
It's actually a really interesting film, I mean both of them are. u shld check it out
― A41 (admrl), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Friday, August 12, 2011 2:12 PM
not sure, iirc it was really long and the narrator seemed overly-sedate. just total snooze-fest. should i watch it again, its been years since i've seen it
― ☝ (am0n), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link