rolling documentary thread 2020

there are two Twin Flames documentaries now? also is there a newer thread than this?

There should be a thread for junk viral docs, definitely, stuff like this and Fyre Festival, Tiger King, etc.

Basically I really want to talk about the Rustin one that’s on Netflix… and it looks like no one else does? Oh well.

As in … not comparing Rustin to the other ones, but I want to talk about it

I'm writing about a few of the big World Premieres from CPH:DOX in English this year, if anyone's interested :)

https://icsfilm.org/reviews/chpdox-2024-review-life-and-other-problems-max-kestner/

Heard on the radio last week that Toronto's Hot Docs festival is on life support. They'll go through with this years (in April/May), but next year is up in the air. Genuinely sorry to hear this: never cared a bit about TIFF, but for a decade-plus, until I left the city, Hot Docs was the highlight of my filmgoing year.

Really liked Modernism, Inc., about industrial design artist Eliot Noyes. He must have shown up in a Philip Johnson biography I read last year, but whatever I encountered there I'd forgotten, so it was all new. A story I always respond to: a period of great influence and achievement, the moment passes--there's a 1970 conference where Noyes' world is challenged and found egregiously wanting (unlike many in a similar situation, he gracefully steps aside)--and then 50 years later, a documentary pops up and you see him for the great artist he was. Claudia Weill unexpectedly turns up in connection to that conference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Ts8r6KItU

(Xpost - Weird follow-up story of 10 programmers resigning from Hot Docs.)