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It’s a pretty dark documentary but I came across a British doc about addiction and it’s the single film that’s stuck with me the most. A ~London based photographer and journalist covered addiction but decided he wasn’t “close enough to the story” to really understand the subjects. He starts doing heroin and the documentary is about his unsuccessful journey to get clean (across like a decade) - it’s powerful and deepl…
The Civil War - by Ken Burns. One of his best and thoroughly well paced - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7HmBmWz9mI
Looking for Fidel - by Oliver Stone. Well worth watching - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTObNESnogQ
Fahrenheit 911. It's about a major terrorist attack that happened 21 years ago today. The film maker later said the number 1 question people asked him on the way out was, "How come we never saw any of this on TV?" I saw it in the theater on opening night. It got about 20 seconds of applause at the end.
This one should be great and yes shows a few things we didn’t typically get to see. But it hates its subject so much that it resorts to few lies(aka falsehoods) thrown in for good measure. Disappointing because of that. Read books of Clarke and Tenet for a better account. Blood and Oil is a good non partisan account of the history of oil dependence since WWII. Great for more background.
This is a good place to start:
https://michaelmoore.com/movies/fahrenheit-911/ click on the facts tab
Gary Hustwits design trilogy: Helvetica - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica_(film) “about typography and graphic design, centered on the eponymous typeface.” Objectified - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectified “examining the role of everyday non-living objects, and the people who design them, in our daily lives.” Urbanized - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanized “discusses how cities are designed, a…
These are some of my favorites. I have Helvetica and Objectified posters in my house.
'Bitter Lake' and 'Hypernormalisation' - both by Adam Curtis, and both blew me away. Loved 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams' by Werner Herzog
Did you see the latter with the 3D glasses?
Woody Allen (2012)
SlingShot (2014)
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story (2010)
Breaking the Maya Code (2008)
Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 (2007)
From:
Six Films That Leave You Better Off
https://moviewise.substack.com/p/six-films-that-leave-you-be...
thunder run on baghdad. It a documentary on iraq war seen from the eyes of bhagdadis, both military and common folk. This war was extensively covered in media but I've never seen it from the eyes of people who were on the other side. After all this time, i realize how racist and cruel this war was and such contrast to how we viewed people of ukraine. Helped me reflect on my own racist attitudes.
Under Saddam they had air conditioning, now many Iraqis don't even have fans.
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