I’ve been looking for any evidence whatsoever to show Bobby Liebling had been approached by this woman, anywhere at any time, but it doesn’t seem to exist. What a brilliant tie-in that would have made.
The Teachings of Jon - A good watch. It’s been a few years on this one, but it stayed with me all this time.
A family produced a retarded child, and immediately decided to place the boy in an institution in order to reserve contact with him (ouch, I know).
But conscience may have gotten hold of them, so they reverse that decision by bringing him home after several years. He is a cool character despite experiencing neglect from day-one, and he proceeds to educate the family on the finer things in life (especially dad, who is with him every day).
This one manages to raise lots of humor, even with its heaviness. All around great stuff. Gotta watch-out for our sisters and our brothers!
Good intro: Amanda Lukoff confronts the use of word 'retarded' in The R-Word documentary | Daily Mail Online
Some of my faves have already been mentioned:
Mr Death
Capturing the Friedmans
Grizzly Man
Louis Theroux stuff
A few others:
[ul]
[li]Cropsy - Filmmakers interested in learning about a local urban legend find out more than they intended[/li][li]First Person - This was a series by Erol Morris on IFC i think? he had these 1 hour interviews with various subjects and all of them are very interesting[/li][li]Into the Abyss - Werner Herzog looks into a young man in solitary confinement for murder[/li][li]Paradise Lost - About the West Memphis Three murders in Arkansas[/li][li]This Film is Not Yet Rated - A look into how the movies rating system is broken in the US[/li][li]Room 237 - A bunch of crackpots share elaborate insane theories about what Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is really about[/li][li]Hell House - A look into the "hell houses put on by evangelical churches during Halloween[/li][li]Jesus Camp - A look into religious evangelical camps for children[/li][li]Atari: Game Over - The rise and fall of the Atari home console[/li][/ul]
I thought of one more “Slasher” about a guy who gets brought in to car lots to help them liquidate overstock.
I was going to mention this one. I thought Room 237 was great. It’s fascinating hearing the theories about The Shining. I really liked the visual style and the way the interviews were used by the director.
I am very fond of The Day the Universe Changed, Edmund Burke’s 10-part documentary series highlighting interesting bits of the history of science and technological development. His theme is some discoveries are so ground-breaking they literally change the way we think about the world.
Here’s the link I meant to post:
http://current.org/files/archive-site/doc/doc0522teachings.shtml
:smack:
Directed by John Landis. That’s interesting.
Totally new to me about The Shining and the theories. I had no idea.
:eek:
Here are the “Ten Best”:
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This guy, Rob Ager, has a site with a bunch of psychological movie analysis. He has a lot of stuff about The Shining and lots of videos on YouTube.
Here’s his analysis of the meaning of the twin girls in The Shining.
I guess you can’t watch it unless you attend a screening at the moment, but you can watch the trailer. It’s about wooden boat building and trading in the Caribbean.
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This guy, Rob Ager, has a site with a bunch of psychological movie analysis. He has a lot of stuff about The Shining and lots of videos on YouTube.
Here’s his analysis of the meaning of the twin girls in The Shining.
[/QUOTE]I wouldn’t have imagined any of this existed, or at least not on such a scale. What do you make of it all, A.M.?
Have you seen Titicut Follies?
Here’s what I said about it in this earlier thread about documentaries:
FWIW, here’s the Wiki article.
I’m going to brag. I actually got a couple questions answered by the director of the movie Room 237. It was on reddit, but he wrote me back specifically. It was cool. I mentioned it back here in this post, but I’ll repost the q’s and a’s’.
Here was our exchange:
A lot of it needs to be taken with a large grain of salt, of course, but I still find all of the different theories interesting to hear. Without Kubrick telling us exactly what he was attempting to do, we really don’t know what, if any, his intended interpretation was. Maybe he deliberately put lots of stuff in there that could be open to different interpretations or maybe it’s all just baseless speculation. I think one of Kubrick’s assistants has said that a lot of the stuff that people have cited as clues to explain their theories really have no deeper meaning and some are merely the result of continuity errors. Regardless, I really enjoyed Room 237 even though much of the stuff the interview subjects put forth was pretty far-fetched. I thought it was very well done and fun to watch.
Yeah, you’ve convinced me. Will watch and comment.
That is too cool. Excellent, excellent.
Yeah, so on the particular one he commented on: I wonder what the theorist would claim is the greater meaning behind it.
When I think about this, for some reason my mind goes to the case of The Wizard of Oz - Pink Floyd (and how it turns out Dark Side of the Moon was synchronized with the movie).
Sort of like playing The Shining forwards and backwards.
http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2012/10/01/fantastic-fest-review-the-shining-forwards-and-backwards
https://vimeo.com/53766925
Yeah, great one. Damn. I see some people will try to explain this by saying he was a balance freak.