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Professor Plum
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Post subject: Current TV: 50 documentaries to see before you die Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:07 pm |
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How many have you seen? Here's their list:
50. Spellbound (2002) 49. Truth or Dare (1991) 48. The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002) 47. One Day in September (1999) 46. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1998) 45. The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988) 44. Burma VJ (2008) 43. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) 42. Catfish (2010) 41. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) 40. When We Were Kings (1996) 39. Biggie & Tupac (2002) 38. March of the Penguins (2005) 37. Inside Job (2010) 36. Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) 35. Paragraph 175 (2000) 34. Brother’s Keeper (1992) 33. Tongues Untied (1989) 32. Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001) 31. Jesus Camp (2006) 30. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) 29. Man on Wire (2008) 28. Gasland (2010) 27. Tarnation (2003) 26. Murderball (2005) 25. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) 24. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) 23. The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000) 22. Shut Up & Sing (2006) 21. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) 20. Capturing the Friedmans (2003) 19. Touching the Void (2003) 18. Food, Inc. (2008) 17. Street Fight (2005) 16. Bus 174 (2002) 15. Crumb (1994) 14. Dark Days (2000) 13. The Fog of War (2003) 12. Bowling for Columbine (2002) 11. Paris Is Burning (1991) 10. Grizzly Man (2005) 9. Trouble the Water (2008) 8. An Inconvenient Truth (2006) 7. The Celluloid Closet (1995) 6. The War Room (1993) 5. Supersize Me (2004) 4. Waltz With Bashir (2008) 3. Roger & Me (1989) 2. The Thin Blue Line (1988) 1. Hoop Dreams (1994)
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Professor Plum
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Post subject: Current TV: 50 documentaries to see before you die Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:08 pm |
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I've seen 17 of them, although I object to the inclusion of Catfish from last year. I'm of the school of belief that particular film is faked.
Also, it's an interesting list but apparently the documentary format was only invented in 1988.
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RobertSwanderson
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Post subject: Current TV: 50 documentaries to see before you die Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:23 pm |
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Professor Plum wrote: Also, it's an interesting list but apparently the documentary format was only invented in 1988. Amazing, isn't it? I know that Roger & Me opened a lot of doors for documentarians, but come on... "Top 50 Documentaries that are Available on Netflix."
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Joe Mayer
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Post subject: Current TV: 50 documentaries to see before you die Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:49 pm |
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There are some fantastic documentaries on that list, and some I want to go back and watch again as it has been over a decade (I'm looking at you Brother's Keeper!). But I do have an issue with some of the things on there. I don't feel that Michael Moore opened the door for documentarians. They are editorials. Moore doesn't approach a subject with an open mind, looking for information that turns into a picture to be presented. He goes in and already knows his question and his particular answer. From there he goes specifically looking for information that supports his theory. His work is just too biased for me.
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Steven Clubb
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Post subject: Current TV: 50 documentaries to see before you die Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:56 pm |
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I will avoid all of them so I can live forever.
Most of the docs I saw on that list I'd consider far from essential. The first Decline Of Western Civilization documentary isn't exactly essential, but it's probably aged better than the far sillier sequel. Does the world really need to remember Hair Metal?
Or Super-Size Me? About the only thing that was surprising about the movie was how quickly his horrible diet led to his doctors wanting him to put a stop to the experiment. Otherwise, who knew that eating high calorie, high fat foods could lead to weight gain and a decline in health? At best, it's an amusing middle finger to McDonalds.
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Post subject: Current TV: 50 documentaries to see before you die Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 3:48 pm |
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43. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) 38. March of the Penguins (2005) 31. Jesus Camp (2006) 30. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) 12. Bowling for Columbine (2002) 8. An Inconvenient Truth (2006) 3. Roger & Me (1989) 1. Hoop Dreams (1994) These are the ones I've seen. I'm a bleeding heart liberal so none of these should surprise anyone, except maybe the penguins. 
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Dr. Brian Fever
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Post subject: Current TV: 50 documentaries to see before you die Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:07 pm |
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It's seems to be missing STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF MOTOWN.
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That meddlin kid
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Post subject: Current TV: 50 documentaries to see before you die Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:03 pm |
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Joe Mayer wrote: There are some fantastic documentaries on that list, and some I want to go back and watch again as it has been over a decade (I'm looking at you Brother's Keeper!). But I do have an issue with some of the things on there. I don't feel that Michael Moore opened the door for documentarians. They are editorials. Moore doesn't approach a subject with an open mind, looking for information that turns into a picture to be presented. He goes in and already knows his question and his particular answer. From there he goes specifically looking for information that supports his theory. His work is just too biased for me. Haven't seen any of them myself, but all of the ones on that list (except maybe "Hoop Dreams") that I've seen reviews of give me the impression that they were editorials rather than documentaries too.
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Post subject: Current TV: 50 documentaries to see before you die Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:37 am |
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Nobody could not like Young @ Heart.
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Post subject: Current TV: 50 documentaries to see before you die Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:37 pm |
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RobertSwanderson wrote: Professor Plum wrote: Also, it's an interesting list but apparently the documentary format was only invented in 1988. Amazing, isn't it? I know that Roger & Me opened a lot of doors for documentarians, but come on... "Top 50 Documentaries that are Available on Netflix." This guy agrees: Quote: Perhaps Current TV takes it moniker a bit too literally, as there are no docs on the roster earlier than 1988. That leaves no room for 1922′s groundbreaking Nanook of the North, Alain Resnais’s brilliant Night and Fog from 1955, Leni Riefenstahl’s controversial Triumph of the Will (1935), or Dziga Vertov’s 1933 proto-study in cinematography, Man with a Movie Camera.
The narrow date range of the documentaries selected also fails to pay credit to the people who shaped the form. Emile de Antonio (Point of Order, In the Year of the Pig) is missing entirely. And the Maysles’ brothers’, whose “Direct Cinema” style heavily influenced Brother’s Keeper (#34), are nowhere to be found. Where is Grey Gardens? Salesman? Gimme Shelter? That rock doc is one of a slew of music-related documentaries that were buried under the blush-inducing bravado of Madonna in Truth or Dare (#49). Where are 1970′s Woodstock, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz, Dylan doc Don’t Look Back, Talking Heads film Stop Making Sense, and Buena Vista Social Club?
Naturally, modern documentarians Werner Herzog and Michael Moore figure prominently, but of the other fine auteurs of our time are conspicuously missing. Where is Ken Burns? Or Spike Lee, who took on Civil Rights in Oscar-nominated 4 Little Girls and Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath in If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise. Where is Michael Apted, who began his Up series about British schoolchildren in 1965 and is taking it into its sixth decade of cinematic anthropology next year?
March of the Penguins makes the list (#38), but its Morgan Freeman-less — and visually superior — counterpart Winged Migration didn’t make the cut. Nor does The Cove. Other omissions include 1984′s The Times of Harvey Milk, 2004′s Born into Brothels, and last year’s exploration of soldiers’ lives in Afghanistan, Restrepo. http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/08/29/50-do ... e-roundup/
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That meddlin kid
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Post subject: Current TV: 50 documentaries to see before you die Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:05 pm |
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"Perhaps Current TV takes its name too literally" indeed!
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Post subject: Current TV: 50 documentaries to see before you die Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 9:49 pm |
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