That Documentary Films Thread

[duluoz]

I’ve seen 4 of the 5 Oscars docs. Still need to see Soundtrack to a Coup.

All of these are heavy, disturbing, important, and well done. I’d rank them:

No Other Land
Sugarcane
Black Box Diaries
Porcelain War

 

[duluoz]

I’ve seen 4 of the 5 Oscars docs. Still need to see Soundtrack to a Coup.

All of these are heavy, disturbing, important, and well done. I’d rank them:

No Other Land
Sugarcane
Black Box Diaries
Porcelain War

Holy smoke, Soundtrack is a real work of art and history. I think I might have to put it above No Other Land as best of the year.

The caveat is you should be very awake and engaged when you watch. It throws a lot of players at you from Khruhschev to Louis Armstrong to Eisenhower to Maya Angelou to John Foster Dulles (and his brother) to Dizzy Gillespie and Malcolm X and dozens more.

Dense as fuck. Dense as an annotated tome of a modernist or postmodernist classic, but on film, and with a ton of style.

With this one and Dahomey (which wasn’t nominated), that’s a couple of really compelling, creative, and important docs.



And it includes this absolute ripper of Nina Simone doing Dylan better than Dylan:

 

[an0maly]

duluoz, thank you for these. I have a number of documentaries to catch up with lately.