This is a topic where you can say which documentary has really impressed you, and why people should see it. Can be a recent one or an all-time favourite. Can't be your own though, sorry...
We also have a Documentary Films topic for our Professionals where the debate is private and possibly more controversial. This topic here is for recommendations to the documentary-interested public.
This topic is for praising the work of others, not your own. If you want to beat the drum for your own documentary, please don't do it here. Enthusiasts use our Public Classifieds, and Professionals have their own Shameless Self-Promotion topic.
Congratulations to distrify for having Bananas on the platform (which is looking terrific, by the way – I always loved the triangles as their logo)!
It's more of a matter of Dogwoof partnering with Distrify for their entire online distribution. Fredrik didn't even know BANANAS!* was up there. :-)
I#m just wondering if the above rental works anywhere or whether it's been geo-blocked for UK availability only?
I clicked on the rent and it put a "sign up for email notification for when it's available in your area" notice. So, I think it is geo-blocking...
Yeah, I did too and that sign-up notice appeared and that made me not want to continue. I sort of tune off sites that ask for my emails for basic access.. was that just because of geo-blocking? or do users have to register to watch a film?
Eli – At the moment, it's even doing that here in the UK although Dogwoof is a UK distributor. I've emailed Peter to find out.
Pablo – What do you mean, "for basic access"? You need to register in order to make a purchase (VoD or DVD) or to access your previous VoD purchase. You don't need to register to watch the trailer.
Update: the bug is fixed, but the film may still not be available in all territories. (You might have to empty your cache before you try again.)
In reply to Ben Kempas's post on Wed 21 Sep 2011 :
Fair enough.. I guess I just sort of expected to be directed to a page with a slot for a credit card number and then to the film in two simple steps. Its a great service, don't get me wrong... Thing is i just unconsciously seem to close pages that ask for email addresses up front..
Glass is a 1958 Dutch short documentary film by director and producer Bert Haanstra. The film won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. (thanks to my former student Anna in Barcelona for sending this)
It's great – where did I see this before?
Only I can't stand the sound of jazz vibraphone in film soundtracks. But the editing is pretty terrific.
Then check out Broadway by Light by William Klein, 1958 – prepare to be blown away)
Here's the final one of the three this evening: Portrait of Ga by Margaret Tait (1955) – also a gift from Anna
Whoever has not seen 5 broken cameras DO IT (if for no other reason than to question your humanity)
That always packs 'em in. People love to question their humanity.
That's an amazing film, though, all joking aside. See it if you can.
Forgive me if this has been posted elsewhere (I tried searching) but Jane Weiner is trying to raise funds for her film Ricky On Leacock over on Kickstarter and the deadline is January 1st. The film is only around 30% funded so far and it's an incredibly important project about a towering figure in documentary filmmaking. Please check it out and, if you can, support it with a pledge: http://kck.st/sSwdQs
I second your recommendation, James. Jane's an old friend of mine and we've worked together on 3 films as producers (including my own Home Page). But separating that out, it's a project well worth supporting. Leacock is, indeed, a towering figure in doc history.
In reply to Marj Safinia's post on Thu 17 Mar 2011 :
I'm honored to see La Mancha (which I edited) in such esteemed company. It was a tough edit. At times it seemed like our film, too, would suffer the fate of Gilliam's!
In reply to John Burgan's post on Sat 10 Dec 2011 :
Thanks so much for putting up this link to "Glass." I've looked for it online before and never found it.
A recent one that really impressed me was "Better This World", which was on POV last season. Wow. An amazing story, and inspired use of archival and reenactments.
Just saw SENNA....was very impressed w the storytelling, more so w the fact that no orig footage was shot for it....
One of my favorite docs is "Lake of Fire," directed by Tony Kaye. I'm reminded of it, because of his recent narrative feature, "Detachment," which will soon have a theatrical release.
http://www.tonykaye.com/index.php/films/detail/lake_of_fire_trailer/
i will never forget "The land of wandering souls" by Cambodian Rithy Panh
A historical curiosity rather than a great work, but fascinating nonetheless: painter Edvard Munch's home movies, shot in Spring 1927 on a Pathé-Baby with a 9,5 mm. film cassette
Munch's "The Scream" just sold for $120m at auction
A wealth of fascinating archive has recently been put online by The British Council
This is not as self promotion, but for "friendship" promotions.
My good friend and former co-producer, Waise Azimi, made this interesting documentary a few years back. It's called STANDING UP and its about an Afghan military unit as they go through recruitment. (I don't want to give too much away).
It's been around in the festival circuit and finally got picked up by a distribution company.
If you want to see another perspective on war, catch STANDING UP!
Here is the official website: http://www.standingupthemovie.com/index.htm
You can purchase the DVD on Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Standing-Up-Taking-Over-The/dp/B0064EGS66
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