"The Contestant" on Hulu, about the guy who spent a over a year in an empty room surviving on only what he could win in magazine contests, is quite good.
Has actually a few turns I wasn't expecting, which is lovely, because it could be a complete downer.
"Let It Be," restored by Peter Jackson and the team that worked on "The Beatles: Get Back," will be released on Disney+ tomorrow (May 8). Variety's Owen Gleiberman compares the new version to the original, which he first watched in the summer of 1970, and says it's "one of the most joyful rock documentaries ever made." What do you think of the constant repackaging of the Beatles archive?
Mixed with the testimonies of a dozen survivors, most of them young women, terrible scenes retrace from the inside the siege of Mariupol, a large port in southeastern Ukraine on the Sea of Azov, from the start of the Russian invasion on February 24 to the surrender of the last combatants entrenched in the Azovstal metallurgical complex on May 21.
Please, #bookstodon and everyone else , recommend your very favorite books and other #information to me. I'll read anything, audio or ebook or maybe even paper #book, #website or recurring graphics or whatever.
Feed me.
Crummy that #PBS uses dark patterns to try and get you to buy Ken Burns documentaries that are available to stream or download from their own site. It's one thing to promote DVD merch or provide a link to it on iTunes. It's a whole different thing to intentionally bury the free public access.
Persist and find the Season 1 list and you're on your way to finding the episode page where you can stream it or download via:
I've got S01E01 of "The U.S. and the Holocaust" ready to go in my home media server. Hopefully this works for the other Ken Burns docs since I don't trust PBS to resist disappearing these for real someday.
"Cheech & Chong's Last Movie," a documentary about the stoner comedians, premiered last week. Here's the Hollywood Reporter's review of the movie, which covers how the two met in the 1970s in Vancouver, rose to fame, hit their cinematic nadir, and what happened next. “So, is this a documentary or a movie?” asks Chong at one point. “I don’t know, man,” Cheech replies.
A new documentary, "Grand Theft Hamlet," is filmed within Grand Theft Auto Online, and tells the story of the first staged production of a Shakespeare play in a multiplayer online video game. "The doc is an impressive piece of machinima, a niche but increasingly utilized method of filmmaking that exclusively utilizes in-game graphics to create a cinematic experience," writes Allegra Frank for Daily Beast. Here's the full story (may be paywalled).
This is one of my all-time favourite #documentaries. It has a bit of a cult following. Was it done weirdly on purpose, or by accident? Serious and hilarious at the same time. Get out the popcorn!
Cane #toads An Unnatural History.
"The 17-minute documentary takes an intimate look at the unique sisterhood between Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó, Wang’s paternal and maternal grandmothers. The pair initially met because of Wang’s parents and took a particular liking to each other. They became close after the deaths of their husbands, and eventually they chose to live together."
As an "independent source" it was used by politicians, students, and many everyday people alike.
It was used for #publications & #documentaries, and triggered some inquires where I assisted in shaping national & international political statements. It's been fun & fulfilling 🙂
In today's siloed internet its usefulness is gone. No more days with 5.000 unique visitors & multiple email inquires.
The 12th Global Festival of #Journalism, organized by the International Journalism Centre of #MarwahStudios, witnessed a poignant moment as the #documentary 'AYOUB' from #Palestine was screened to a captivated audience. The screening, held as part of the festival's lineup of diverse #documentaries, was inaugurated by Dr. Abu Al Jazer, the Media Advisor of the Embassy of Palestine in New Delhi.
"There’s Stevie Wonder having to teach Bob Dylan how to sing his part. There’s Sheila E. being used in an effort to try and get Prince to show up. There’s Huey Lewis being asked at the last minute to sing Prince’s part. And why was Dan Aykroyd there? Honestly, I could keep going, but there’s just too much...But, again, there are so many stories along the way...Ahead, we dig into all these stories with [Director Bao] Nguyen.'
This year is the centennial of James Baldwin's birth. For Interview magazine, writer Lynne Tillman talked to Pat Hartley, co-director of 1982 documentary "I Heard it Through the Grapevine," about the making of the film, which sees Baldwin traveling through the Deep South. reflecting on moments from the civil rights movement two decades before. "What he said is so relevant now because he said, 'I don’t care if you assassinate me now, but your time, white supremacy, is over,” and this is 1980," said Tillman.
What do you see as the pro's and con's of #documentaries? I'm often not a fan, but want to be. My issues with them, and mostly it comes from I love to learn and want docs to be a starting point, not the end:
Credentials of the experts can be spotty
No sources given
No way to ask follow-up questions
Too much theatrics / reenactment
Not as detailed as a book
Often don't cover the topics I want (social science, #religion, #history, etc)
'Can an Army of Feral Cats Help Solve New York City’s Rat Problem?'
"The four locations, all situated between West 160th Street and West 164th Street, comprised a perfect geographical test zone: four cat colonies transplanted directly on top of four rat habitats to contest a real-life game of Tom and Jerry.
@NIH_LLAMAS
I don't know what the impact of many more feral cats would be in NYC. But if your warning is well-placed, the story would parallel one of my favorite #documentaries: the intentional misguided introduction of a species of toad to #Australia to eat sugar beetles. The toad population exploded, but it didn't eat the sugar beetles, in part because the toads were nocturnal and the beetles were diurnal. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130529/
— #film#environment#farming#CaneToads
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