Documentary Recommendations

[user_hostile]

Errol Morris’s The Thin Blue Line

It’s a disillusioning reminder that the US Justice system is all too human. And for the victim, well you just have to see the film first and Google his name second.

[pancakes3]

Bump for: Spinning Plates (2012) - IMDb

Streaming on Netflix. Got dusty throughout the movie.

[Mahaloth]

@pancakes3

Bump for: Spinning Plates (2012) - IMDb

Streaming on Netflix. Got dusty throughout the movie.

Spinning Plates is the documentary he links to, folks. It’s about restaurant owners and their circumstances.

[Tangent]

@Rollo_Tomasi

Exit through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010): About Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in L.A., who is obsessed with street art (particularly the work of the famously elusive Banksy) and who eventually becomes a famous street artist himself, even though his work is sniffed at by some for its commercial aspect. There’s been some controversy over whether this is actually a documentary or just some kind of elaborate mockumentary-like commentary on modern art, but it’s a good time either way.

Since this thread was bumped, I’ll take the opportunity to recommend the recent HBO documentary, Banksy Does New York. It chronicles a month where each day Banksy ‘unveiled’ a new piece of art at different places in the city. He would post clues to the location online and fans would rush to find it before it got vandalized, covered up, or removed. The art pieces themselves were sometimes interesting on their own, sometimes not, but the interaction between the people and the art was fascinating, which is of course the point of the project and the focus of the documentary.