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Yay! Reboots, Remakes, Reimaginings. More sequels means more money which is good right? Actually, that's not even a joke because it actually is bringing in more value for the broader movie economy. But wait, is that a good thing for the movies themselves? What about the future of cinema? I'm confused. Much confusion. Stress building. Contradictions rising. Cognitive dissonance peaking.
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![The Greatest Documentaries of All Time (Vol. 4)
This is part four of what I consider as a list of the greatest documentaries of all time. Each documentary is a film that Im recommending because, for some reason, the documentary format feels like the black sheep of the film world with many more watching fictional films than films that are actually about something in real-life.
Why is this? Are they not as entertaining? Do we prefer escaping into another world?
Hopefully, the films on this list prove that this doesnt have to be the case and that importantly, show how documentaries can actually be just as entertaining if not more. Because as the old adage goes, sometimes the truth can be stranger than fiction.
This is my video explaining why.
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Full List (in video order) - some films are available for free online:
Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (2019) dir. Chris Smith – Trailer Below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ0KNVU2fV0
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013) dir. Mami Sunada – Trailer Below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx8LuiJ30os
Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010) dir. Banksy – Full Film Below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqVXThss1z4
Three Identical Strangers (2018) dir. Tim Wardle – Trailer Below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-OF0OaK3o0
Grizzly Man (2005) dir. Werner Herzog – Trailer Below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWA7GtDmNFU
Waltz with Bashir (2008) dir. Ari Folman – Full Film Below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynH68E1GEdc
Finding Vivian Maier (2013) dir. John Maloof & Charlie Siskel – Trailer Below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er8-Vq cRE
Pumping Iron (1977) dir. George Butler & Robert Fiore – Trailer Below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1vprTwGQ4M
What is a documentary?
A documentary film is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record - compare documentary theatre. Bill Nichols has characterised the documentary in terms of a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries. Documentary films, originally called actuality films, lasted one minute, or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved to become longer in length, and to include more categories; some examples being: educational, observational, and docufiction.
Documentaries are meant to be informative works, and are often used within schools, as a resource to teach various principles. Social-media platforms (such as YouTube) have provided an avenue for the growth of the documentary-film genre. These platforms have increased the distribution area and ease-of-accessibility; thereby enhancing the ability to educate a larger volume of viewers, and broadening the reach of persons who receive that information.
Polish writer and filmmaker Bolesław Matuszewski was among those who identified the mode of documentary film. He wrote two of the earliest texts on cinema Une nouvelle source de lhistoire (eng. A New Source of History) and La photographie animée (eng. Animated photography). Both were published in 1898 in French and among the early written works to consider the historical and documentary value of the film.[3] Matuszewski is also among the first filmmakers to propose the creation of a Film Archive to collect and keep safe visual materials.
In popular myth, the word documentary was coined by Scottish documentary filmmaker John Grierson in his review of Robert Flahertys film Moana (1926), published in the New York Sun on 8 February 1926, written by The Moviegoer (a pen name for Grierson).
Griersons principles of documentary were that cinemas potential for observing life could be exploited in a new art form; that the original actor and original scene are better guides than their fiction counterparts to interpreting the modern world; and that materials thus taken from the raw can be more real than the acted article. In this regard, Griersons definition of documentary as creative treatment of actuality[6] has gained some acceptance, with this position at variance with Soviet film-maker Dziga Vertovs provocation to present life as it is (that is, life filmed surreptitiously) and life caught unawares (life provoked or surprised by the camera).
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