Best making-of docs?
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Originally posted by Hiro11
Another vote for LOTR EE
Also:
The Wild Bunch has a great documentary that won an Academy Award the year it came out.
Another vote for LOTR EE
Also:
The Wild Bunch has a great documentary that won an Academy Award the year it came out.
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Full Tilt Boogie (From Dusk 'til Dawn)
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"The Making of" The Shining
Just to finally hear Kubrick speak.
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"The Making of" The Shining
Just to finally hear Kubrick speak.
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I really enjoyed the docs on Silence of the Lambs, Platoon, Amadeus, and Legend. Two that were not solely about production that I really liked were: The Battle Over Citizen Kane and Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer which is on Sullivan's Travels. I am really looking forward to the docs on Black Hawk Down Deluxe Edition and The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition.
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I can't believe no one mentioned The Exorcist - 25th Anniversary Edition. It comes with the feature length BBC documentary The Fear Of God. It may be the best "making of" extra that I've seen yet.
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I enjoyed the making-of doc from Jackie Brown - it was very well done, and didn't appear to be going through the motions as most documentaries do. In fact, out of all of Quentin Tarantino's DVD's, I'd have to vote for "Jackie Brown" as being the best overall.
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I second Mr. Kite!'s recommendation. The BBC's "The Fear of God - 25 Years of the Exorcist" found on the 25th Ann. Ed. DVD is one of the most comprehensive and compelling film documentaries you'll ever see...not to be missed.
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no one mentioned the fantastic doc on taxi driver - makes up for no commentary.
oh yeah there also the bbc doc on the french connection
a look inside the godfather doc (with de niro screen test)
easy rider making of
amadeus/on flew over/unforgiven/singin' in the rain docs
last picture show/platoon/cape fear/butch cassidy/patton/close encounters/jurasic park/lawerence of arabia/who framed roger rabbit
all great making of doc's
oh yeah there also the bbc doc on the french connection
a look inside the godfather doc (with de niro screen test)
easy rider making of
amadeus/on flew over/unforgiven/singin' in the rain docs
last picture show/platoon/cape fear/butch cassidy/patton/close encounters/jurasic park/lawerence of arabia/who framed roger rabbit
all great making of doc's
Last edited by ETILIM19; 06-19-03 at 03:26 PM.
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Originally posted by MJKTool
The Phantom Menace.
The Phantom Menace.
I prefer these types of "making of" docs to the more slickly produced "HBO" style(which is usually just a bunch of ego stroking). The actually documnetary style ones show so much more of what really goes on.
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Another I just watched the other day that I greatly enjoyed was the Field of Dreams documentary. I had no idea all the s**t the filmmakers had to go through with that corn!