Filed under: Top 10 lists
Exit Through the Gift Shoppe (2010, Banksy)
How to Draw a Bunny (John Walter, 2002)
Le mystère Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1956)
Filed under: Uncategorized
Les quatre cent coups [The 400 Blows] (Truffaut, 1959)
Where the Wild Things Are (Jonze, 2009)
The Bridge (Eric Steel, 2006)
Deep Water (Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell, 2006)
Dream Deceivers – The Story of James Vance & Judas Priest (David Van Taylor, 1992)
How to Draw a Bunny (John Walter, 2002)
Kevorkian (Matthew Galkin, 2010)
TO WATCH: Boy Interrrupted [re Evan Scott Perry], Suicide Killers, The Suicide Tourist, Surviving Suicide,…
See also: Flight from Death, Jonestown, Solo: Lost at Sea [re Andrew McAuley]
These films are so tense, I get a headache just thinking about them!
Angst [Fear] (Gerald Kargl, 1983)
Cutting Moments (Douglas Buck, 1997)
Haze (Shinya Tsukamoto, 2005)
Seul contre tous [I Stand Alone] (Gaspar Noé, 1998)
Tras el cristal [In a Glass Cage] (Agustí Villaronga, 1987)
Filed under: Top 10 lists | Tags: documentaries, Herzog-umentaries, Werner Herzog
Mein liebster Feind – Klaus Kinski / My Best Fiend (Herzog, 1999)
Even Dwarves Started Small (Herzog, 1970)
Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, 1982) / Burden of Dreams (Blank, 1982)
Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache / How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck… (Herzog, 1976)
Incident at Loch Ness (Penn, 2004)
La Soufrière (Herzog, 1977)
Lektionen in Finsternis / Lessons in Darkness (Herzog, 1992)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Herzog, 1997)
Plastic Bag (Bahrani, 2009)
Stroszek (Herzog, 1977)
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Blank, 1980)
The White Diamond (Herzog, 2004)
Filed under: Monkey versus gorilla
Thank you, Blue Sunshine, for screening Trent Harris’ Beaver Trilogy!
A documentary on the original Beaver Kid is de/reconstructed, first with Sean Penn and then again with Crispin Glover – it’s a reality-bending (and gender-bending) meta-meta-meta-narrative.
Man on Wire / Who Skied Down Everest
Endless Summer (Bruce Brown, 1966)
The King of Kong (Seth Gordon, 2007)
Man on Wire (James Marsh, 2008)
The Man Who Skied Down Everest (Bruce Nyznik, Lawrence Schiller, 1975)
Murderball (Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro, 2005)
On Any Sunday (Bruce Brown, 1971)
Touching the Void (Kevin Macdonald, 2003)
When We Were Kings (Leon Gast, 1996)
Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle / Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno, 2006)
Considerations:
Bigger Stronger Faster
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Hoop Dreams
Les Chiefs (Jason Gileno, 2004)
Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl, 1938)
Pumping Iron
Spellbound
Tyson
…
Need to see:
Tokyo Olympiad
The Heart of the Game
…
