documentaries

Started by FreakAnimalFinland, December 10, 2009, 09:03:21 PM

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l.b.

"basically it's about being trapped in your head and not being able to get out, and there's sort of psychic waves of fear keep towering over you and bringing you to your knees, almost to where you think you're going to vomit eternally..."

angry samoans: true documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqCQreez58w

DSOL

not sure if Murder Mountain counts as a doc, but I started it yesterday - only watched 3 episodes so far and its pretty interesting so far. will post a better review when I complete it 
"I do not get bored of nude ladies nor good Japanese noise"

brutalist_tapes

saw some of the cannibal corpse doc.. couldn't help but respect the guys, especially alex webster - seemed like a no bullshit dude. and the love for the music seems to be the driving force.. + i can't really have anything against old geezers still doing their thing and not giving a fuck

EXU

The Aristocrats

"One hundred superstar comedians tell the same very, VERY dirty, filthy joke--one shared privately by comics since Vaudeville." And it is awesome on so many levels, I almost pissed my pants laughing. It's a fine and even deep study of comedy, what it is, how it's done, taking the most infamous joke and going berserk with it.
The joke is not even funny and yet, is the funniest ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxGD0rk547Y

online prowler

Lets Get Lost (1988) concerning Jazz singer, trumpet player and hustler Chet Baker is the best music documentary I've seen in a long long time. Expertly directed and put to celluloid by photographer Bruce Weber. The monochrome cinematography is worth the watch alone. Stunning.

Full streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PGeOZqvISk&t=328s

magnus

Really!? That is interesting. I am a big fan of Chet Baker (haven´t counted but have at the very least 70 different LPs of him...) and found that film very disappointing when i saw it some years ago. Were you also a fan before watching it?

online prowler

Quote from: magnus on January 14, 2019, 09:09:02 PM
Really!? That is interesting. I am a big fan of Chet Baker (haven´t counted but have at the very least 70 different LPs of him...) and found that film very disappointing when i saw it some years ago. Were you also a fan before watching it?

HaHa! The last sentence made me laugh.

EXU

#622
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
I've been obsessing over Rowland for the last year or so and it was a bitch to find this one but it is worth. It is effete as hell with moody lights, spoken word vignettes and stuff but so was Rowland, so it fits and doesn't feel forced. It is vague and at the same time doesn't seems shallow, much like the aura of the subject, and I wouldn't say it's a masterpiece but it is very good. I didn't found it depressing as people have said, even with the ending going very down with Rowland, I just found it celebratory and even if it paints him as an unquestionable genius (an approach I don't like) it didn't bothered me because it transpired a lot of care, sensibility and love for the subject. The people interviewed are interesting esp. Nick Cave (obviously) and I am in love with Rowland first wife.
I would love to have 3 hour docs on The Birthday Party, These Immortal Souls and Solo Rowland going deep in all the nerdy stuff but this 2 hour movie does a fine job at being a music biography of a ghost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpP9iWupUo0

re:evolution

#623
Quote from: EXU on January 15, 2019, 03:41:18 AM
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
I've been obsessing over Rowland for the last year or so and it was a bitch to find this one but it is worth. It is effete as hell with moody lights, spoken word vignettes and stuff but so was Rowland, so it fits and doesn't feel forced. It is vague and at the same time doesn't seems shallow, much like the aura of the subject, and I wouldn't say it's a masterpiece but it is very good. I didn't found it depressing as people have said, even with the ending going very down with Rowland, I just found it celebratory and even if it paints him as an unquestionable genius (an approach I don't like) it didn't bothered me because it transpired a lot of care, sensibility and love for the subject. The people interviewed are interesting esp. Nick Cave (obviously) and I am in love with Rowland first wife.
I would love to have 3 hour docs on The Birthday Party, These Immortal Souls and Solo Rowland going deep in all the nerdy stuff but this 2 hour movie does a fine job at being a music biography of a ghost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpP9iWupUo0

Yeah, its a good and enjoyable doco - but sometimes the 'talking heads' like Henry Rollins feels a bit too much of posthumous arse-kissing.

Incidentally before his death I lived on the same street as Rowland in St Kilda (Melbourne, Australia). Despite being gravely ill (...a walking corpse in fact), he could be regularly spotted walking around the neighbourhood - and always in a full dapper suit regardless of the heat.

Then after his death they named an unnamed pedestrian lane in St Kilda after him - it is a lane often frequented by junkies, prostitutes and random acts of violence - so rather apt really! Prior to its renaming to Rowland S Howard Lane, my wife and I referred to it as 'Blood Alley' given the few occasions of us finding large random pools of blood!

noise receptor: sound with impact - analysing the abstract
http://noisereceptor.wordpress.com/
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spectrum magazine archive: ambient / industrial / experimental / power electronics / neo-folk music culture magazine
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EXU

Quote from: re:evolution on January 15, 2019, 04:18:27 AM

Yeah, its a good and enjoyable doco - but sometimes the 'talking heads' like Henry Rollins feels a bit too much of posthumous arse-kissing.

I agree. Henry Rollins I kind of block out of my memory to be honest because he always appears in docs doing this same thing...

Quote from: re:evolution on January 15, 2019, 04:18:27 AM

Incidentally before his death I lived on the same street as Rowland in St Kilda (Melbourne, Australia). Despite being gravely ill (...a walking corpse in fact), he could be regularly spotted walking around the neighbourhood - and always in a full dapper suit regardless of the heat.

Then after his death they named an unnamed pedestrian lane in St Kilda after him - it is a lane often frequented by junkies, prostitutes and random acts of violence - so rather apt really! Prior to its renaming to Rowland S Howard Lane, my wife and I referred to it as 'Blood Alley' given the few occasions of us finding large random pools of blood!


Hahahaha, that's great, thank you a lot for sharing.

EXU

Incapacitants - The Movie
Just Mikawa and Kosakai talking about noise interspersed by live clips.
What's not to like?
Genius, joyful, feel the fuckin' love.
Incaps themselves shared on FB:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASa80SyUCso

absurdexposition

Yeah very sick doc. The old footage is amazing.
Primitive Isolation Tactics
Scream & Writhe distro and Absurd Exposition label
Montreal, QC
https://www.screamandwrithe.com

impulse manslaughter

Don't know how it compares to other documentaries but I just watched the first 2 episodes of the Ted Bundy Tapes on Netflix and liked it a lot..

aububs

i liked the incapacitants doc because it's the incapacitants but there not a huge amount of info there that most people on this forum wouldn't already be aware of from previous print interviews. the live footage is great of course

DSOL

the Fyre Fest documentary was hilarious
"I do not get bored of nude ladies nor good Japanese noise"