Category: Documentaries
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (2009)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Four Beers) - Ten years after PBS’s short profile of Jesco White, the Dancing Outlaw, the surprising reach of the half hour television special manifested itself in the form of another documentary film crew descending
Dancing Outlaw (1991) & Dancing Outlaw II (1999)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Four Beers) - In 1991, PBS set off a minor sensation with their half-hour documentary short Dancing Outlaw. It’s popularity would spawn a sequel, if that’s what you want to call it, as well as
Bully (2012)
By: Oberst Von Berauscht (Two Beers) – Anyone who has been the victim of protracted childhood bullying knows the toll it takes both physically, and mentally. It is a feeling of helplessness, in severe cases worthlessness. Adults are often
The Interrupters (2011)
By: Henry J. Fromage (A Toast) - So, documentary filmmaker Steve James must be a serial lawn-shitter with a special preference for the grass of Hollywood bigwigs. That, or he’s just really popular with their daughters. Because I don’t
Chimpanzee (2012)
By: LivingDeadGuy (Three Beers) – From Cabin In The Woods one week to Chimpanzee the next….oh this is going to be fun. Also, I just watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes…there may be some cross over commentary from Caesar.
Paris is Burning (1990)
By: The Cinephiliac (A Toast) - For the past few days I’ve had a problem— I can’t seem to stop voguing. When a song comes on or I’m zoned out and walking around my house, I’ll come to and realize my
Into the Abyss (2011)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Two Beers) - The best documentarians mix up their subject material regularly, showing a broad range of interests and a nose for unique stories. Even among the Errol Morris’s and James Marsh’s of the world,
Hell and Back Again (2011)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Four Beers) - The Academy Award nominees for Best Documentary this year displayed a dazzling array of techniques and approaches to the craft, even if the subjects- Afghanistan War veterans, recently deceased artists, wrongful imprisonment,
Pina (2011)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Three Beers) - You pretty much need to be a world-renowned and slightly eccentric filmmaker to look at a documentary subject and say “I’m going to shoot that in 3-D!” and then pull it off.
If a Tree Falls (2011)
By: Henry J. Fromage (A Toast) - Towards the end of If a Tree Falls, a federal agent who spent a good chunk of his career pursuing the Earth Liberation Front sums up the film in a few sentences.
