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Movie: I Am The Revolution

Three women (Rojda Felat, Selay Ghaffar, Yanar Mohammed) risk their lives in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq as they lead military formations and run organizations that work to protect women from fundamentalist violence. A documentary by Benedetta Argentieri. Primarily in Kurdish, with Arabic and English. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 8, 2024 - 0 comments

Movie: Control Room

[TRAILER] A behind-the-scenes look at the operations of Al-Jazeera -- the most prominent television news network in the Arab world -- during the war in Iraq. Through interviews with American journalists, journalists reporting for Al-Jazeera, and high-ranking U.S. military officials, the film explores the nature of media bias, Al-Jazeera's relationship with the Arab community and the network's perception in the Western world. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 29, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey "Po" Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A Saucerful of Secrets, helped launch two careers: that of Pink Floyd, one of the 70s megabands, and of Hipgnosis, which, over the course of the next 25 years, designed a stream of iconic album covers. [more inside]
posted by adamrice on Feb 14, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Dario Argento Panico

Dario Argento, 84, visits a quaint Italian countryside hotel to finish writing his next film. A camera crew comes along and interviews him about his life and career as one of horror's greatest filmmakers. Also featuring interviews with admirers like Guillermo del Toro and Gaspar Noe, as well as Argento's family, including daughter Asia Argento..
posted by kittens for breakfast on Feb 2, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: It's All True

A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about Latin America, narrated by Miguel Ferrer. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 27, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: AKA Mr. Chow

Explores the life and career of Michael Chow - a Zelig figure who owns restaurants around the world that celebrities and artists flocked to, is the son of a Chinese opera star, and now is asserting himself as an artist.
posted by larrybob on Jan 9, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Lynch/Oz

[TRAILER] Victor Fleming's film The Wizard of Oz (1939) is one of David Lynch's most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch's work. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 8, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

For all his brilliance, Orson Welles was consistently plagued by the inability to secure funding for his own projects, leading to decades' worth of films left unrealized or partially completed. Documentary filmmaker Vassili Silovic follows Croatian actress and screenwriter Oja Kodar, Welles' creative partner and lover during his later years, as she reconstructs Welles' notes and what little surviving footage remains from these abandoned projects from the 1960s to Welles' death in 1985. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 8, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Last Stop Larrimah

Nestled deep in the Australian Outback is the town of Larrimah and its 11 eccentric residents. When one of them mysteriously disappears into thin air, the remaining residents become suspects and a long history of infighting is unveiled. [more inside]
posted by drewbage1847 on Oct 21, 2023 - 0 comments

Beckham: Full Series  Season 1, Ep 0

This four-episode documentary series follows the life and career of Mr. Posh Spice, David Beckham. Directed by Fisher Stevens (Short Circuit, Succession, and The Cove), it is an in-depth look at his life both on and off the pitch.
posted by jimw on Oct 16, 2023 - 5 comments

Faking It: All episodes  Season 0, Ep 0

Faking It was an early British reality TV show. Its challenge was based on Shaw's Pygmalion: experts get a month to train a member of the public to the point where a panel of their peers would be unable to pick them from a group as an imposter. Often there might be a loose connection between the existing and new occupation of the candidate: "Sheep sheerer to hairdresser" or "Show girl to show jumper", for example. The trainee would live with the experts for the month and would usually undergo a makeover as well as training by actors. After their test - they would return home - either reluctantly or gratefully. [more inside]
posted by rongorongo on Oct 10, 2023 - 4 comments

Laurel Canyon: Part 2  Season 1, Ep 2

Part 2 of the MGM+ docuseries follows the residents of Laurel Canyon from the late 60s through the mid-70s as they write more political songs and start locking their doors for the first time after frightening neighborhood connections to the Manson Family murders. Footage and stories of Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers, Altamont, Little Feat, Linda Rondstadt (incl. her role helping start the Eagles), the Doors, Bonnie Raitt, an adorably young Jackson Browne, the love between Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash, the cocaine and ego battles that broke up CSN, and more.
posted by mediareport on Sep 14, 2023 - 1 comment

Laurel Canyon: Part 1  Season 1, Ep 1

2-part MGM+ docuseries about the famous LA mountain neighborhood where Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa, the Byrds, Love, Crosby/Stills/Nash/Young, the Monkees, the Turtles and many more found cheap housing and creative community in the mid-late 60s. With Mama Cass’s generosity and openness as a central ingredient, Lauren Canyon - above the smog, but also only a few minutes’ drive from the clubs on Sunset Strip - produced an amazing amount of psychedelic folk and rock music. Part 1. 100% on RT. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on Sep 14, 2023 - 4 comments

Movie: The Pollinators

A cinematic journey around the United States following migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honey bees as they pollinate the flowers that become the fruits, nuts and vegetables we all eat. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 11, 2023 - 0 comments

Movie: The Celluloid Closet

"This documentary highlights the historical contexts that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals have occupied in cinema history, and shows the evolution of the entertainment industry's role in shaping perceptions of LGBT figures." Viewable in the US for free on Tubi. Includes a lot of film clips ranging from the earliest US films to the mid 1990s (one is a deleted scene from "Spartacus"!) and interviews with a bunch of writers, directors, actors, and producers.
posted by brainwane on Sep 3, 2023 - 7 comments

Movie: Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down

This documentary tells the extraordinary story of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, of her relentless fight to recover following an assassination attempt in 2011, and her current work as one of the most effective activists in the battle against gun violence. [more inside]
posted by orange swan on Aug 31, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: Call Me Miles

Documentary about young South African Afrikaans trans masc nonbinary person, Miles Kean Cilliers Robinson. [more inside]
posted by Zumbador on Aug 26, 2023 - 1 comment

The Lady and the Dale: The Lady and the Dale  Season 0, Ep 0

Elizabeth Carmichael, a larger-than-life entrepreneur rose to prominence with her promotion of a fuel-efficient, three-wheeled car known as The Dale.
posted by porpoise on Aug 22, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: Doglegs

Doglegs is a cheerfully iconoclastic underground scene where the disabled battle the able-bodied - all in the name of exploding stereotypes. When the disabled champ seeks life and love beyond the ring, his idol, the able-bodied organizer, tries to sabotage his bid for independence. In a battle of the human spirit, can the power of disability win our hero his dreamgirl? [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 18, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: Anvil! The Story of Anvil

[TRAILER] At 14, best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, hailed as the "demi-gods of Canadian metal" influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now in their fifties, set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill their boyhood dreams. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 7, 2023 - 7 comments

How to Become a Tyrant: Seize Power  Season 1, Ep 1

The playbook for how to start a dictatorship and keep power begins with one of history's most brutal, Adolf Hitler.
posted by bunderful on Aug 1, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: The Day After Trinity

This Oscar-nominated documentary interviews the men and women who were at Los Alamos during work on the first atomic bomb. Includes the secrecy, lab alcohol-fueled social scene ("their average age was 29"), footage of the bomb, the tense final preparations in a lightning storm, scientists talking about the pride, horror and/or regret they felt in both 1945 and 1981, and more. At Criterion Channel and free on YouTube. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on Jul 17, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music

Drag performance artist Taylor Mac stages a monumental 24 hour marathon performance, examining the history of America through 24 decades of popular music, from a very queer and personal perspective. [more inside]
posted by dnash on Jul 3, 2023 - 2 comments

MerPeople: (all episodes)  Season 1, Ep 1

A four part documentary on Netflix about professional mermaids working at Weeki Wachee Springs and elsewhere. Mermaids of all colors, shapes, sizes and locations (Arkansas!?)! Also involves auditions, tail making, a cruise ship, a pageant competition, and a mermaid reunion. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Jun 14, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Follows the life of beloved actor and advocate Michael J. Fox, exploring his personal and professional triumphs and travails, and what happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease. [more inside]
posted by Stanczyk on May 13, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: Chop & Steele

When childhood friends Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett start booking their gag strongman routine on unsuspecting morning news shows, their pranks end up going viral, landing them in federal court with a vengeful media conglomerate. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on May 12, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: A Life On The Farm

Somerset, England, 2006. Young Oscar Harding's family discovers a mysterious VHS tape made by their neighbor Charles Carson, shutting it, alarmed, off just ten minutes in. Years later, Harding finds the tape and goes down an obsessive rabbit hole upon viewing its bizarre content, including scenes of Carson and his farm, explicit footage of calves being born, comic bits of horses stealing his hat, and footage of deceased loved ones. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on May 12, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

In 2001, Andrew Bagby, a medical resident, is murdered not long after breaking up with his girlfriend. Soon after, when she announces she’s pregnant, one of Andrew’s many close friends, Kurt Kuenne, begins this documentary, a gift to the child. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 27, 2023 - 7 comments

Movie: Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now

An intimate, all-access documentary that chronicles Lewis Capaldi's journey from a scrappy teen with a viral performance to a Grammy-nominated pop star.
posted by ellieBOA on Apr 13, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: All That Breathes

Amidst the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.
posted by vverse23 on Apr 4, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: Hale County This Morning, This Evening

A kaleidoscopic and humanistic view of the Black community in Hale County, Alabama. (Streaming on Criterion)
posted by latkes on Feb 26, 2023 - 1 comment

Lorena: Lorena (2019)  Season 1, Ep 0

Lorena Bobbitt became a household name in 1993 when she cut off her husband's penis. She became the butt of jokes as her story became a fixture on cable news. Twenty-five years after the case of Lorena and John Bobbitt, executive producer Jordan Peele reinvestigates the story that made headlines around the world. "Lorena" explores vital moral issues and the missed opportunity for a national discussion about domestic violence and sexual assault that surrounded the scandal. The four-part series, which looks back at the trial and the media coverage of it, includes interviews with the Bobbitts as they look back at the newsmaking incident a quarter-century earlier. Trailer. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Feb 10, 2023 - 2 comments

Cunk on Earth: The Beginnings  Season 1, Ep 1

Philomena Cunk's epic 5-part essay on civilization, tracing humanity's journey from prehistory to the present day. [more inside]
posted by SPrintF on Feb 4, 2023 - 35 comments

Movie: Serviced

Serviced explores touch based service businesses including cuddling, erotic massage, sex surrogacy and sex work. (NSFW: nudity [butts], talk of sex work) [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Jan 28, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: This Place Rules

Follows events and characters surrounding the January 6th, 2021 insurrection of the U.S. Capital Building in the days preceding the attack. From Andrew Callaghan of Channel 5 and All Gas No Breaks. Available on HBO. (Trailer) [more inside]
posted by riruro on Jan 6, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: I Am Not Your Negro

In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 5, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: Do I Sound Gay?

A documentary about the stereotype of the gay voice. Trailer. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 16, 2022 - 1 comment

Movie: Tongues Untied

A documentary about the experiences of black gay men living in the United States of America in the late 1980s. Trailer [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 14, 2022 - 3 comments

Movie: The Imposter

A documentary centered on a young man in Spain who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years. Trailer. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 13, 2022 - 3 comments

Movie: Man with a Movie Camera

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life in 1920s Moscow, Kharkiv, Kyiv and Odesa with dazzling invention. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 1, 2022 - 1 comment

Movie: Tokyo Olympiad

Kon Ichikawa examines the beauty and rich drama on display at the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, creating a record of observations that range from the expansive to the intimate. Trailer. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 30, 2022 - 3 comments

Movie: Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance

A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on nature, humanity, and the relationship between them. Trailer. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 29, 2022 - 26 comments

Movie: Transformer

A documentary following the former US Marine and world record weightlifter Janae Kroczaleski shortly after she is outed as transgender and loses her sponsors. Trailer. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 27, 2022 - 1 comment

Movie: My Old School

In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff of legend. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Nov 20, 2022 - 4 comments

Movie: Portrait of Jason

Black gay prostitute Jason Holliday is rigorously interviewed on his story and character, revealing nuanced truths about life and art. Trailer. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 18, 2022 - 2 comments

Movie: Murder on a Sunday Morning

Oscar-winning documentary that documents a murder trial in which a 15-year-old African-American is wrongfully accused of a 2000 murder in Jacksonville, Florida. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 16, 2022 - 3 comments

Movie: The Trials of Darryl Hunt

A feature documentary about a brutal rape/murder case and a wrongly convicted man, Darryl Hunt, who spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he did not commit. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 16, 2022 - 1 comment

Movie: Stop Making Sense

A concert film for the rock group Talking Heads, filmed while on tour in 1983 to promote Speaking in Tongues. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 15, 2022 - 15 comments

Movie: Waste Land

On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.
posted by johnofjack on Nov 15, 2022 - 1 comment

Movie: The Gleaners & I

[TRAILER] An 1867 painting by Jean-Francois Millet inspired septuagenarian documentarian Agnes Varda to cross the French countryside to videotape people who scavenge. Taking everything from surplus in the fields, to rubbish in trashcans, to oysters washed up after a storm, the "gleaners" range from those sadly in need to those hoping to recreate the community activity of centuries past, and still others who use whatever they find to cobble together a rough art. Highlighted by Varda's amusing narration. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 15, 2022 - 3 comments

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