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Old 12-29-09, 02:15 PM
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Re: Any good documentaries on the origin of film and television?

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Thomas Edison invents the motion picture camera

people go to california and steal his ideas and sell them without paying patent royalties. Hollywood hasn't changed much in over 100 years
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Best Documentaries About Movies

I have watched a few in recent times (Best Worst Movie, American Movie, Hammer Movies) and i just wondered what other good documentaries are there out there that discuss the movies or a specific movie.
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There are some terrific threads on this topic already here.
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Originally Posted by Dr Mabuse
There are some terrific threads on this topic already here.
Is this another one of those situations where you know this to be fact, but can't be bothered to back it up with some links?

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Visions of Light. Find it.

And Hearts of Darkness.
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wait...didn't we have a thread about this...like literally?
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Lost in La Mancha. Frightening at how if it could go wrong it did on this film shoot.
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This thread has pretty pictures: http://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/...ve-making.html
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Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC
wait...didn't we have a thread about this...like literally?
Maybe, but I'm almost positive we have one, figuratively.
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Divine Trash is one I can watch over and over.
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Re: Best Documentaries About Movies

The Kid Who Stays in the Picture
Terror in the Aisles
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation
Double Dare
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Los Angeles Plays Itself
My Best Friend
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque
A.K (documentary about the making of Kurosawa's 'Ran')
Frank & Olie
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre
The Perverts Guide to Cinema


I can't recommend it, as I have not seen it yet, but I anxiousily looking forward to seeing:
American Grindhouse

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Just a couple of title corrections...


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The Kid Stays in the Picture
My Best Fiend
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Just a couple of title corrections...
oops, sorry there. thanks.
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oops, sorry there. thanks.
No worries. Nice list Giles.
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I just watched Tales From the Script on Netflix Instant, greats warts and all look at what it is like being a screenwriter.
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Originally Posted by Giles
I can't recommend it, as I have not seen it yet, but I anxiousily looking forward to seeing:
American Grindhouse
It's on Netflix Instant.
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^ oh really - awesome! Thanks Mondo
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Been there for at least a month, too. Weird. Very entertaining.
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I must admit I haven't really been keeping up with my Netflix account have had 'Salt' for the last two weeks or so.
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CineMania is pretty good. Follows a bunch of New Yorker's who do nothing but watch movies all day. Sad and funny at the same time.
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Originally Posted by Dean Kousoulas
CineMania is pretty good. Follows a bunch of New Yorker's who do nothing but watch movies all day. Sad and funny at the same time.
when I was at the Walter Reade (Lincoln Center) theatre a few summers back, I was talking with another patron and he pointed out one of the 'subjects' of the movie three rows in front of me.
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Overnight, a documentary about the rise and fall of Troy Duffy, the writer/director/asshole behind The Boondock Saints

You'll never watch The Boondock Saints the same way. Although God knows why you'd want to subject yourself to repeated viewings of The Boondock Saints.


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