11 posts tagged with documentary by growabrain.
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Movie: Homo Sapiens
This "documentary" is an eerie, wordless and scoreless vision of post-human abandonment. Without explanations and with a static camera, it visits deserted locations around the world years after the people had given up on them. Derelict concert halls, prison cells, bank vaults, cathedrals and train cabins, from Fukushima, and Chernobyl, and the many other disaster areas people have left behind, surrounding them to the elements, letting the birds and the rain and the weeds take over again. It’s hypnotic and transcendental. The trailer. [more inside]
Movie: Lobster Soup
A slow, enchanting documentary from Iceland. It tells of Bryggjan, a small cafe in a tiny fishing town and the few locals who’d been gathering there for 40 years. The place had slowly become the cultural center of the town. Surprisingly, it was made by a Spanish director. 9/10. [more inside]
Movie: The Parking Lot Movie
“On the rung of employment, it’s beneath taxidermy, it’s beneath bellhop… Bellhops get uniforms…” [more inside]
Movie: The House Is Black
Influential, controversial poet Forugh Farrokhzad was called The 'Persian Sylvia Plath’. She was a modernist feminist and iconoclast who broke barriers of sex and society and who died in 1967 at the age of 32. [more inside]
Movie: 17 Blocks
"Using two decades of intimate home video, the story of the Sanford family, whose struggles with addiction and gun violence eventually lead to a journey of love, loss, and acceptance." [more inside]
Movie: Instruments of a Beating Heart
First graders in a Tokyo public elementary school are presented with a challenge for the final semester: performing "Ode to Joy" at the ceremony for the new incoming first graders. Little girl Ayame, who often struggles to keep up with the group, is determined to play a major part - the big drum. [more inside]
Movie: Acasa, My Home
A raw, unexpected Romanian gem! A quiet documentary (with no music score!) about a family of feral Romas (9 kids and their stubborn parents) who live isolated from society, in a nature reserve just outside Bucharest. Filthy, proud, tight-knit and independent, they are eventually chased out of their shack and subsistence living, and struggle with their integration into the system. [more inside]
Movie: Fahrenheit 11/9
Michael Moore's 2018 documentary explored two questions of the first Trump Era: How the fuck did we get there, and how the fuck do we get out? It's good/bad! to look back at the beginning of this cluster. A lot of his usual stuff, plus some original / new POV's, for those who didn't watch tv during that time.
Movie: The Final Year
This is a 2017 documentary about Obama foreign policy team and the events of his final year in office. The crew mainly followed the activities of John Kerry, Samantha Power, Susan Rice and Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes.
Movie: Knock Down the House
Four women channel personal hardships and national angst into progressive, grassroots Congressional campaigns: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York), Amy Vilela (Nevada), Cori Bush (Missouri) and Paula Jean Swearengin (West Virginia). The trailer.
Movie: George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese examines the life of musician George Harrison, weaving together interviews, concert footage, home movies and photographs. Wiki. [more inside]
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