MikeIsGood wrote:I also hope to rent The Lives of Others soon. Apparently, I'm told that I've seen it before, but it must have been after a night of drinking or something because I don't remember really watching it anymore. Clearly it deserves another look.
Another good one which I'd also recommend.
There have also been a lot of good documentaries this year. I saw one entitled Protagonist which was very Errol Morris like (Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, Fog of War etc guy).
It was mostly interviews with 4 different people: a runt kid who got picked on and turned to a martial arts obsession after seeing an episode of Kung Fu, a German who later became an infamous leftist terrorist, a homo who was a Christian preacher who believed his gay desires were a test from god, and a guy abused as a child who later attacked his father and became a famous bank robber thinking he was Nietzsche's uber-mensch incarnate. On the surface, not a lot in common there... but there are scenes between the interviews are interspersed with puppets acting scenes from Greek tragedies that give a framework to weave the storys together. Very good documentary.
Other good docs: King of Kong, Crazy Love, Desperate Man Blues.. the last one is about Joe Bussard who ran the Fonotone record label and preserved massive amounts of blues/hillbilly/jazz/country etc music that would have been lost by collecting 78's. He's an amusing character who says things like "Ah 1933, right around the end of Jazz" and refers to the "cancer of rock." I'm a huge fan of late 20's/early 30's music so I loved it.
