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| Author: | Bradley Witherberry [ Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | 2010: Another Great Year for Documentaries! |
2010 was another great year for feature documentaries, imho. While there weren't any huge BO docs to gather the genre a heap of attention like other years, all five of the documentaries I saw in the theatre this year were excellent in their own way. Babies Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer Inside Job Oceans Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Note 1: I don't count Exit Through The Gift Shop and Catfish as documentaries since they so obviously contain fictionalized manipulations of "reality". However, they both were very interesting examples of a new hybrid genre that is emerging!) (Note 2: I would have loved to see more feature documentaries, if only they were more available in theatres. I would have been happy to buy a ticket for: Restrepo, The Tillman Story, Waiting for Superman, Marwencol, etc, etc...) |
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| Author: | jmovies [ Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2010: Another Great Year for Documentaries! |
Babies and Oceans were terrible. |
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| Author: | Bradley Witherberry [ Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2010: Another Great Year for Documentaries! |
jmovies wrote: Babies and Oceans were terrible. I disagree. (Mind you - - Oceans was only great, and not up to the stratospheric level of excellence that it's creators' previous documentary Winged Migration achieved.) |
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| Author: | Argos [ Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2010: Another Great Year for Documentaries! |
I saw 'Restrepo' and 'Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work'. I liked the first, but the latter was actually interesting - and good, Bradley Witherberry. |
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| Author: | Brian [ Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2010: Another Great Year for Documentaries! |
Oceans was pretty good, in the same quality as Planet Earth |
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| Author: | Bergmaniac [ Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2010: Another Great Year for Documentaries! |
Yeah, I definitely enjoyed Boxing Gym, Ne Change Rien, Sweetgrass and I Wish I Knew. Marwencol was pretty good too. |
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