All Things: DOCUMENTARIES




I happened upon these Sunday night and was transfixed. The complete refusal of the US government to acknowledge common sense and give suffering people ANYTHING that may help ease their pain...is unforgivable. I defy you to watch the children in these videos, whose debilitating seizures have responded to the use of oils(that have NO thc...the stuff that gets you high) and the parents who are refused those same lifechanging MEDICINES and not wonder just what the **** happened to this world.
 
DOC NYC Review: Amy Berg’s Incendiary, Must-See Hollywood Child Sex Abuse Expos? ‘An Open Secret’

A difficult subject that zeroes in on a rampant industry problem that needs attention and an open, safe forum to discuss the topic, “An Open Secret” will hopefully be a much-needed first step. But the doc will face much opposition and there’s already talk going around that the film will have a difficult time finding a release. “We get one screening,” the director told the audience in the post film Q&A. “Maybe we’ll get distribution. It’s not very likely.” The filmmaker might simply be advocating her own case, but in any event the silencing of “An Open Secret” would be tragic, but perhaps eerily apropos for a doc that dares to discuss the complicity and collusion that many in Hollywood would rather have quieted. [A-]
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OOOOF NFL network's A Day In The Life:Lyle Alzado, powerful stuff. Sure he was a goombah, and they don't shy away from that, but what a sad story. Kudos to the NFL for putting that forward where they have kinda buried the story in the past.
 
I watched HBO's Broad Street Bullies the other night. Gave me some great insight on hockey before my time and based on some of the stories in it you could see where some of the ideas in Slap Shot were derived.



Also If you like college football, Michigan vs Ohio State :The Rivalry is pretty awesome.

 
Sundance Review: Vibrant, Electrifying Narco Wars Documentary 'Cartel Land'

There are times when “Cartel Land” feels chaotic or confusing, simply because the situations in which the film is embedded are chaotic and confusing. It offers up no easy answers or clear calls to action, just a first-person account of these situations that rule the news and the hand of policy-makers It provides a deeply humanizing element to this incredibly difficult situation. Aesthetically, it is a vibrant, electrifying work, with stunning visuals and a sure hand over layers of complicated audio. Heineman, in placing himself in such danger, has managed to create a remarkable and distinctive film that takes on a difficult issue that cannot be so conveniently remedied or ignored. [A-]
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Sundance Review: Terrifying, Unsettling And Insightful Documentary 'Welcome To Leith'

The film, which initially seemed simply set on chronicling what was occurring in Leith, then hits upon a tangible narrative, as both Cobb and Kynan Dutton are addressed and charged with multiple counts of terrorizing their neighbors. As the people of Leith wait to hear if Cobb and Dutton will be sent to prison, passions continue to flare. Nichols and Walker, so adept at presenting both sides of the story, fail to capitalize on this decision, and the film continues to amble along at a relatively laidback pace. That the film ends without much in the way of a conclusion is an unwelcome shock, one that is oddly reflective of the mostly directionless final act. The story of Leith may not be over yet, but viewers will clamor for some kind of resolution, if only to help them sleep at night.
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Watch: Powerful New Trailer For Joshua Oppenheimer's 'The Look Of Silence'

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Here Oppenheimer centers his focus on Adi, a young optometrist who decides to confront the men who killed his brother during the brutal genocide in Indonesia in 1965. Meeting with each man under the pretext of an eye exam, he asks them to admit responsibility for their actions in what is a powerfully painful examination of history and memory.
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The Act Of Killing is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. Looking forward to this immensely.
 
Cannes: Get Behind The Wheel With 2 Clips And The Poster For 'Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans'

Senna’ meets ‘Bullitt’ in ‘Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans’ - an extraordinary, moving, white-knuckle drive with one of the greatest movie stars of all time, and the film that almost destroyed him.


By 1970, hot off the back of ‘The Magnificent Seven’, ‘The Great Escape’, ‘The Cincinnati Kid’, ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ and ‘Bullitt’, Steve McQueen was at the top of his game, and in such a powerful position in Hollywood that he could work for himself, choose his own material and reap the benefits. At last he could make the film that had been his passion for the best part of a decade, centred around the greatest test of driving skill in the world – a 24-hour race in France called LE MANS. And so began a life-changing 6 months for racing fanatic McQueen, both on set and off it. In the middle of filming the most dangerous car race movie of all time, legendary director John Sturges quit, McQueen’s marriage fell apart and his company was on the brink of bankruptcy; and all the while he was in constant fear for his life after learning that he was on the top of Charles Manson’s ‘death list’. Interweaving original insight and revelation with a remarkable sound archive – as well as hours of never-before-seen film that has remained untouched in basements and garages in Paris and LA, ‘The Man & Le Mans’ takes the viewer inside the mind of this driven, complex movie idol as he fought to save his film – set to the soundtrack of his own voice.
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