‘Documentary’ Archives
Michael Jackson’s This is It
This documentary contains the rehearsals of MJ's concert he was preparing, right before he died. This is not only the last footage of MJ on stage, it's also a nice behind the scenes of a big concert production. It appears that this concert was going to be about all MJ's past hits, not just the new stuff. So this would have been great for his [...]
Welcome to Machintosh
I've been following Apple ever since I bought an iPod Shuffle (1st Gen). I am now a proud owner of an iPhone 1, and some day I will buy a Mac. I really wanted to delve deep into Apple's history, so this documentary seemed the perfect one. I did learn many things about the company's history, but not as much as I wanted to. I understand [...]
Man on Wire
This is one of the most thrilling documentary I've ever seen. It's about Philippe Petit who managed to sneak into the twin towers and walk on high-wire between them. It's narrated by Petit himself and his partners, but it's presented as a heist movie. At first I didn't think this would be that interesting, I actually thought that I wouldn't [...]
Threevening with Kevin Smith
This is the latest of these DVDs, and I loved it just as much if not more than the previous ones. This time out the gem of the show was Smith's story about Bruce Willis. Just a great funny story, not unflattering to Willis, but honest and truthful. And funny! I don't have much else to say, so I'll just hope you can watch it and enjoy. [...]
An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder
I am a fan of Kevin Smith and I enjoy his movies. But I also enjoy him as a funny person, which is what this DVD is all about. He has a dirty mouth, and he's not afraid of it, he doesn't even care to talk about his parent's sex life in the presence of his mother. There's not much to say about this DVD, except that it's very long and it's very [...]
My Winnipeg
This is a very original piece of filmmaking, and just describing it is a challenge. It's a documentary by Guy Maddin about his hometown Winnipeg in Canada, but it's also about his own childhood and his relationship with his mother. And the style of this documentary is also very original. Guy Maddin himself narrates the film as if he were [...]
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
One of the classic movies of the 70's was Apocalypse Now, a movie that I watched in the last few years and liked, but wasn't blown away by. It's a very well made movie, but it had a dreamy quality to it and it was almost spiritual/mystical. But the shooting involved was not less spiritual for the filmmakers. That's what this documentary [...]
Bigger, Faster, Stronger
This is a documentary about steroids in America. There is a very personal story about the filmmaker Christopher Bell, not only his own story but that of his brothers and his parents. They all talk to the camera very candidly, often saying things that they wouldn't want anybody to know (yeah, it's contradictory). However Bell also made his [...]
King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
I heard good things about this documentary, so I was curious to watch it. I am not a gamer at all, I've played games in my life but never for a long period. A few times I would spend days on a game, but I would inevitably get bored and stop altogether. So at first I felt that this documentary was not that interesting to me, I even thought it [...]
Sicko
Sicko (2007): A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories.I don’t watch many documentaries, the main reason is that they’ve never been easy to get, but I also never went out and seek them out. However Michael Moore’s documentaries are always controversial and [...]
An Evening with Kevin Smith
An Evening with Kevin Smith (2002): Kevin Smith interacts in Q&A sessions throughout various college stops in the USA. I have watched all Kevin Smith movies, I enjoy them a lot but I consider them guilty pleasures. Not Chasing Amy though, that film is in my top 10 favorite movies, and I am proud of it. Despite the "fart & dick jokes" [...]
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth (2006): A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.The subject matter of this documentary is an important one, and it deserves to be discussed. Global warming can be felt by everybody who can see the difference of temperature year after year. But the biggest [...]
This Film is Not Rated Yet
This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006): Kirby Dick's exposé about the American movie ratings board. I usually don't watch a lot of documentaries, simply because of availability. I was lucky to find this one though, because I heard of it and as a movie fan was very interested in it. This film starts with an explaination of how movies are rated in US. [...]