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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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 Posted - 01/08/2014 : 14:12:16
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Several of us have raved about this ground-breaking film, which has now caught a truly great honor! Do try to track it down. It's bizarre and surprising and the essence of originality. I think there may be clips on YouTube. Enjoy 
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lemmycaution
"Long mired in film"
Canada
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Posted - 02/08/2014 : 03:56:57
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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
New Zealand
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Posted - 02/08/2014 : 09:22:00
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I thought "sounds interesting, must try and find it". But then noticed I've scored it 7/10 on IMDb and recall nothing about it. 
Anyway, I haven't seen 5 of their Top 10, so have put 4 in the queue (no interest in Bob Dylan).
Also, here are my favourite documentaries, I've scored 68 of them 8/10 or greater:-
10
Emperors of Antarctica (1993)
March of the Penguins (2005)
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Hearts and Minds (1974)
Latcho Drom (1993)
Dark Days (2000)
The Road to Guantanamo (2006)
Deliver Us from Evil (2006)
Inside Job (2010)
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Kokoda Front Line! (1942)
Night and Fog (1955)
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
Woodstock (1970)
The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)
The Song Remains the Same (1976)
The Last Waltz (1978)
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Shoah (1985)
Chronos (1985)
For All Mankind (1989)
Lessons of Darkness (1992)
Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill (1995)
Microcosmos (1996)
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
My Best Fiend (1999)
Genghis Blues (1999)
The Filth and the Fury (2000)
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000)
Winged Migration (2001)
Stevie (2002)
Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)
The Corporation (2003)
The Fog of War (2003)
Touching the Void (2003)
The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003)
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Des manchots et des hommes (2004)
Why We Fight (2005)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
Grizzly Man (2005)
The God Who Wasn't There (2005)
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005)
The Bridge (2006)
Earth (2007)
Sicko (2007)
Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains (2007)
Up the Yangtze (2007)
Religulous (2008)
Man on Wire (2008)
It Might Get Loud (2008)
Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Herb & Dorothy (2008)
The Cove (2009)
The End of the Line (2009)
This Way of Life (2009)
The Tillman Story (2010)
Lemmy (2010)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
Restrepo (2010)
Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
TT3D: Closer to the Edge (2011)
Samsara (2011)
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)
When a City Falls (2011)
The Gatekeepers (2012)
Marley (2012)
The House I Live In (2012)
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demonic 
"Cinemaniac"
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/08/2014 : 16:15:51
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I tracked that one down after it made the top 10 in the last big Sight and Sound poll, and really enjoyed it. Excellent film.
Like Sean, I was interested to see what my top docs were according to IMDB - here's the skinny....
9's (my highest rating)
Lessons of Darkness (1992)
Etre et Avoir (2002)
Man on Wire (2008)
Waltz With Bashir (2008)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
Blackfish (2013)
8's
Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Microcosmos (1996)
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
One Day in September (1999)
Lost in La Mancha (2002)
Spellbound (2002)
Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
The Corporation (2003)
Touching the Void (2003)
The White Diamond (2004)
Grizzly Man (2005)
Why We Fight (2005)
Deep Water (2006)
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
The End of the Line (2009)
The Arbor (2010)
Armadillo (2010)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)
Catfish (2010)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
Inside Job (2010)
Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
Senna (2010)
Dreams of a Life (2011)
Five Broken Cameras (2011)
Into the Abyss (2011)
Life in a Day (2011)
Project Nim (2011)
Samsara (2011)
The Act of Killing (2012)
The Gatekeepers (2012)
The Imposter (2012)
McCullin (2012)
Mea Maxima Culpa (2012)
Stories we Tell (2012)
20 Feet From Stardom (2013)
A couple of those 8s may become 9s on another viewing - I'm thinking "Nostalgia for the Light" and maybe "Five Broken Cameras". All of the above are excellent films though.
I've only seen 3 of the S&S top 10 - of those "Sans Soleil" went straight over my head, and "Night and Fog" was too unpleasant a viewing experience to really "enjoy". Must watch "Shoah" sometime. |
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rockfsh 
"Laugh, Love, Cheer"
United States
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