Good Documentaries.

[pointless]

A replica:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Replica_Herzog_shoes_from_Chez_Panisse_40th_anniversary_celebration._%2816530529319%29.jpg/599px-Replica_Herzog_shoes_from_Chez_Panisse_40th_anniversary_celebration._%2816530529319%29.jpg

Boiled in stock with garlic and herbs at Chez Panisse. Supposedly the very shoes he was wearing when he made a bet that Gates of Heaven would never be shown in theatres or he'd eat his shoes.


Burden of Dreams, on the other hand, is mostly about the making of Fitzcarraldo and is perhaps best known for a spectacular monologue that Herzog gives about how nature is inherently violent and trying to destroy us.



You shouldn't thank me, you were right before the edit.

I really only mentioned documentaries by Les Blank about Werner Herzog.

you sold me. i just love hearing that man talk.

 

[Not Normal]

I think I have seen something similar about studio musicians.

There is Standing in the Shadows of Motown about the house band at Motown. There's also Muscle Shoals about the scene in Alabama.

 

[Equinoxe]

you sold me. i just love hearing that man talk.

Oh, then I definitely recommend them. In Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, in addition to eating his shoe, he then gives a brief lecture about how
the media and consumerism are destroying artistic expression.

 

[Que]

Firing up Net-Flix.

Looks like I might not need to shave my head and go socialize while consuming adult beverages, after-all.

 

[pointless]

Oh, then I definitely recommend them. In Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, in addition to eating his shoe, he then gives a brief lecture about how
the media and consumerism are destroying artistic expression.

god bless that man.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Werner Herzog sounds German. You know what I don't like about the Germans? They smoke their sausage rather than salt it. That makes it greasy when cooked. It's not their fault, really. That's just the difference between Northern European countries and those boarding the Mediterranean. One works with what one has. I can't abide a greasy sausage though.

 

[Que]

Great, now I want to find a documentary on sausage making, and I am about to eat Italian sausage on a sub roll. I have heard that one does not want to actually see how sausage is made, but I feel morbidly curious.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I make some good sausage.

 

[pointless]

this is more of that code isn't it?

 

[Que]

Hertzog's "Happy People: a Year in the Taiga" is this night's selection. None of the other selections were on NetFlix.

 

[jomar]

well, fuck you too.

Ha, overlooked your post.

 

[glynndah]

There is Standing in the Shadows of Motown about the house band at Motown. There's also Muscle Shoals about the scene in Alabama.

I own the Motown one. It's very good.

 

[Not Normal]

I own the Motown one. It's very good.

It is. I should watch it later.

 

[Que]

Werner Herzog's "Happy People: a Year in the Taiga" is this night's selection. None of the other selections were on NetFlix.

Was a really good piece. It was not the focus but I loved the tradecraft you learned watching the trapper work on his cabin or make traps with nothing but an axe.

Today's selection was Herzog's "Into the Abyss" about the execution of a young man convicted of capital murder. Some 19 year-olds killed a woman and her two sons just to joyride in their Camero. Shocking as that sort of crime is, he did a wonderful job treating victims with deference and respect, the executioner, and humanized the killers. You could see the killers minimizing and deflecting as you would expect anyone to do, but the film persuaded me that in this one instance, I would just as soon they got life.

Love that when an article or a film can cause me to reconsider the bias I brought with me to the piece.

 

[jomar]

I just finished watching "Jinx-The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst."

You can see it on BBO on demand. Well worth watching and it might just do what three states couldn't do...put the man behind bars. Worth watching.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Crumb.

 

[Disgustipated]

Buena Vista Social Club

Dog Town & Z-Boys

 

[Lord Pmann]

Super High Me- it's with comedian Doug Benson. It's the same premise as Super Size Me, but with weed. He smokes out once a day for thirty days in a row and examines the effects. It's quite amazing and entertaining. And I'm not a stoner at all.

 

[Libsam]

Excited to see this one:

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

 

[Libsam]

Crumb.

Wrote a paper for my psych class on this documentary.

 

[juttjaw]

Ive got to say, an all time favorite of mine is "Alone in the Wilderness" .. fucking amazing at what one man can do.

 

[Ncaligirl]

Pelada is great (even for non soccer fans) and the Central Park 5 was pretty good. Oh and Blackfish was good but horrible at the same time

 

[Libsam]

Ha! Found the Crumb paper!

 

[johncsuk]

Lost Cities of the Ancients.

The Dark Lords of Hattusha

The story of the Hittite empire and its capital, Hattusha.
Very interesting

 

[Lord Pmann]

Talhotblond

It's on Netflix. It's a Catfish like documentary, but way crazier than the whole Catfish saga. Definitely worth a watch.