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Zoobot
Joined: 25 Aug 2006
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I find Michael Moore extremely overrated. Roger and me was brilliant, and I thought his TV show was good, but Bowling for Columbine didn't do it for me.
He tends to warp what people say by cutting interviews and rearrangements out of context. For a leftist cultural critic who probably disapproves of similar out of context quotation used in news sources, I find this slightly hypocritical.
And I thought March of the Penguins was kind of corny... |
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daninkorea
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| Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I've been trying to get hold of some of the documentaries mentioned. I am presuming people mostly download them from somewhere - but where? |
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Hollywoodaction
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| Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 3:21 am Post subject: |
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| Who Killed The Electric Car |
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jajdude
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| Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 5:26 am Post subject: |
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I watched one on google videos the other day about Ted Bundy if anyone is interested. It was interesting how some would like to blame pornography for violent sex crimes, obviously nonsense since porn is everywhere whereas monsters like Bundy and thankfully very scarce.
It's 49 minutes long.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2334295434685794228&q=bundy |
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sistersarah
Joined: 03 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I've been trying to get hold of some of the documentaries mentioned. I am presuming people mostly download them from somewhere - but where? |
you can get a lot of them via bit torrent. i just google the title of the doc and the word "torrent" and i've been able to find quite a few.
last weekend i watched spike lee's "when the levees broke." it was fantastic. |
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oskinny1
Joined: 10 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:34 am Post subject: |
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The Kid Stays in the Picture-about the director Robert Evens, beautifully done.
Devil's Playground-Amish on a drug binge
Hands on a Hard Body- A group of Texans trying to win a truck by seeing who can keep their hand on it the longest (better than my description) |
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helly
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oskinny1
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| Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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I can't remember the name of a great one, maybe one of you can help me out.
It's about a Canadian who is trying to build a bear proof suit. Any ideas? |
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sistersarah
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i found a good one the other day....."Slavery and the Making of America" narrated by morgan freeman. i could only find parts 1 and 2 of 4, so maybe it's a new one. haven't watched it yet, but looks good.
also, i've downloaded a 4 part BBC doc called "conquistadors." looks great.
also, PBS frontline "from jesus to christ: the first christians." 4-parter.
also, BBC wild south america: andes to amazon. 4-parter.
i'm addicted! |
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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I can't remember the name of a great one, maybe one of you can help me out.
It's about a Canadian who is trying to build a bear proof suit. Any ideas? |
That would be Project Grizzly.
I lived and went to teacher's college in North Bay. I'd see the guy there at Tim Horton's every morning as I picked up my coffee on the way out to the job site (when I was steel erecting). Never thought nothing of it until I saw him and his side kicks on film. Quite the character and Lynch did a great job on this film, showing the passion of the little Walter Mitty dreamer......
DD |
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Zoobot
Joined: 25 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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| That Ted Bundy documentary was pretty good. Thanks jajdude. |
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jajdude
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| Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:05 am Post subject: |
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http://www.alluc.org/
There's a bunch on this site under 'tv shows' there's a documentary option, they have A and E Biography... someone likes the serial killers... Charles Manson and Jack the Ripper and others
I think google video has some good stuff too |
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Zoobot
Joined: 25 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:28 am Post subject: |
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Part of my major research project for my Master's degree was geared towards the relationship between the culture's reception of serial killers and cultural representations of mass murderers in slasher films.
Mark Seltzer wrote an excellent book on Serial Killers. And people who think that serial killing is some new phenomenon have obviously never heard of Joan of Ark's pal Gilles de Rais. |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:38 am Post subject: |
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Gates of Heaven- about pet cemetaries
Also Ross McElwee's documentaries about his own life. He pretty much takes a camera everywhere and edits them into fascinating ruminations about his life and America. See his earliest, Sherman's March, and his later Bright Leaves. |
Glad to see both of these mentioned. Gates of Heaven may be the funniest movie I've ever seen. |
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