most recent fave: "Home"
http://www.youtube.com/wa...qxENMKaeCU

I want to see


"Anvil: The Story of Anvil"

I liked

"It Might Get Loud" )Jimmy Page and the edge and some other guy
and

This Film Is Not Yet Rated - MPAA arbitrary rating system


I also like the mockumentaryies like

Best in Show
This is Spinaltap
Bowling for Columbine
Clerks
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-Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter '70
-David Bowie: Cracked Actor '74
-Catherine Destivelle in Mali '92
-Hearts and minds '74
-Home '04
-Triumph of the will '34
-Bowling for Columbine '02
-Roger & Me '89
-Heavy Metal Parking lot '86
-Grizzly Man '05
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From the top of my head;

The Times of Harvey Milk
The Beatles Anthology
Capturing the Friedmans (dayum)
Buena Vista Social Club by Wim Wenders
Bowling For Columbine (not a total Moore fan, but this has a Manson interview I love AND mocks something I truly hate about a country I would like to love)
When We Were Kings
Atlantis by Luc Besson
Z-Boys and Dogtown

saw Sicko last night

things are worse than I thought, MUCH worse

ZombieKitten said:

Hey ZK, what kind of healthcare do you get down under? Is it like Britain or Canada or is is a less crappy version of the USA?

sextonseven said:

Wooow, I gotta check this out!! Thanks forthe tip!!

728huey said:

like that, but not AS advanced as France. We have midwives doing follow up visits at home for a while after birth, but nobody comes and does the laundry etc!!! I WISH

Hospital is free, waiting lists for elective surgery can be long, but essential, emergencty etc there is no wait for treatment. It's covered by our taxes, which are very reasonable. Medical treatment of a high standard is the right of every citizen and nobody here would even think twice to see a doc about any ailment, no matter how small.

Private health cover is optional, and even if you have it you can still opt to use the free Medicare (it's often much better to do this when having a baby - the level of care is no different, same ob-gyns etc)

Medicine - as an example, the $120 inhaler in Sicko would cost maybe $20 here

I watched Tyson 2 nights ago....WOW

KING OF KONG!!!!!

Will get back with an actual list soon

-All of Michael Moore's films
-Cocaine Cowboys
-The Life(a documentary about swingers)
-Paris is Burning. (Kind of sad. Many of the people in that film are dead now)
- Why we fight (about the millitary industrial complex)

...oh and how could I forget, Pumping Iron?

I'm so glad I made this thread

SO I haven't been fimiliar with prior to this discussion...

My absloute FAVE mockumentary ever...


She took all kinds of DUMBS on the "diva" cliche

Would you go to Whitney Houston's house and see pictures of other bitches hanging on her wall?

joseph8 said:

Oh shit! I forgot that one as well! What a classic!

And Arnold in Rio (or whatever it is called ) is also a must see, but only if misogynistic jokes turn you on...

united1878 said:

Ok, here we go, in no order

King Of Kong (suprise suprise)

Ken Burns- Jazz (not a film as such but it was my Bible back in my days of study)

Calle '54 (for some reason, I prefer it to Buena Vista Soc. Club)

Live Forever

Standing In The Shadows of Motown

Inside Deep Throat (stop laughing, it's a GOOD doco)

Some Kind Of Monster

The Aristocrats (I think that's classed as a doco)

American Splendour (I suppose that's a bio rather than a doco but still a good TRUE story)

Rize the doco about Krumping

A few documentaries that haunted me for days after:

Sick: The Life and Death of Bill Flannagan, Supermachocist
(The scene where he nails his penis to a board)

GG Alin and the Murder Junkies
(The scene where GG Alin poops on stage and more)

Food Inc.
(The scene where the slaughterhouse worker moves a sick cow with a forklift)

Movies like these are not pleasant but I feel they are important, truth being stranger than fiction.
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zaza said:

I loved Control too, Zaza, but it's a biopic with actors, not a documentary.

markpeg said:

I saw this one this week. I winced when the chickens were put in the funnel so their throats could be slit.

sextonseven said:

How about the pigs being squashed by some kind of moving wall? Ewww.