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I think it's also a record year for me for documentaries watched.

Highest score to lowest score:

Titicut Follies (Wiseman, 1967) 8/10

Salinger - PBS American Masters - (Salerno, 2013) 8
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Visages, villages (Varda, 2017) 7.5
Voyage à travers le cinéma français (Tavernier, 2016) 7.5
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise - PBS American Masters - (Whack, Hercules, 2016) 7.5
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Stories We Tell (Polley, 2012) 7
Ex Libris - The New York Public Library (Wiseman, 2017) 7
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny (Black, Bernstein, 2016) 7
De Palma (Baumbach, Paltrow, 2015) 7
Jane Fonda in Five Acts (Lacy, 2018) 7
Inventing David Geffen - PBS American Masters - (Lacy, 2012) 7
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Herzog, 2010) 7
Billie Jean King - PBS American Masters - (Erskine, 2013) 7
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise - PBS American Masters - (Trachtenberg, 2013) 7
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Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides - PBS American Masters - (Levin, 2011) 6.8
The Devil and Daniel Johnson (Feuerzeig, 2005) 6.8

Into the Inferno (Herzog, 2016) 6.6

Iris (Maysles, 2014) 6.5
Tonya Harding: The Price of Gold (Burstein, 2014) 6.5
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A To Zeppelin: The Story of Led Zeppelin (McLaughlin, 2004) 6.4


What Happened Miss Simone? (Garbus,Tolchin, 2015) 6
Alone with Chrissie Hynde (Roberts, 2017) 6
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life - PBS American Masters - (Levin, 2006) 6
Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey - PBS American Masters - (Iturriaga, 2015) 6

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Notes on Blindness (Spinney, Middleton, 2016) 5.8
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Edgar Allen Poe: Buried Alive - PBS American Masters - (Stange, 2016) 5.5
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The Director and the Jedi (Wonke, 2018) 5

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saw some good stuff this year!

what now? remind me (pinto 2013)
john heartfield, fotomonteur (herbst 1979)
joni mitchell: live at the island of wight 1970 (2018)
always for pleasure (blank 1978)
jaime (reis 1974) ♥♥
oxhide (liu 2005) ♥
the burnt theatre (panh 2005)
inca light (fulton 1972) ♥♥♥
the forgotten space (burch 2010)
bombay our city (patwardhan 1985)

and ogawa's sanrizuka series from the 60s

if you don't know who john heartfield is, he invented memes. fascinating guy







he was german but changed his name to an english name in protest of german nationalism

here's a good article about him https://spartacus-educational.com/spart ... gURL66.htm

I'm gonna try to look for some of those and watch them next year. Of all films, I find docos the hardest to find out there, because fictional stuff is so much more popular.

the highlight of the year for me was obvs les blank's a poem is a naked person, which is the best (quasi) concert film i've ever seen ever. and i actually just watched de palma, which was ugly af to look at (can someone explain to me why this was directed by noah frickin baumbach and gwyneth paltrow's little brother?), whenever it wasn't acting as a glorified clip show of some of de palma's best shots and sequences. but it was cool listening to the man himself shoot the shit for nigh two hours. also watched shut up little man!, which was enjoyable enough. also watched errol morris' gates of heaven and vernon, florida, both of which were pretty good, tho i did prefer the latter to the former tbh. also watched herzog's lessons of darkness, which would have been so much cooler on a big screen. and i think that's about it. sure was fun looking back thru my viewing log for the year

I absolutely love Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell. What a magnificent storytelling of an intimate family portrait.

Docs I've seen in 2018:

The Farthest (Emer Reynolds, 2017) 9/10
Silvana (Mika Gustafson, Olivia Kastebring & Christina Tsiobanelis, 2017) 9/10
Where to Invade Next (Michael Moore, 2015) 8/10
Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo (David Fairhead, 2017) 8/10
Spielberg (Susan Lacy, 2017) 8/10
G-Funk (Karam Gill, 2017) 7/10
Do You Trust this Computer? (Chris Paine, 2018) 6/10

I enjoyed They'll Love Me When I'm Dead way more than The Other Side of the Wind.

/2019?

I don't really like docs and don't watch them often. But I watched Mistaken for Strangers because I love The National. I thought I'd get some insight into Matt Berninger's mind. I didn't. I won't say much more. It was still really interesting, and not at all what I was expecting

3/4

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It's a varied genre, you just need to find a documentary that suits your taste, that's all. Good documentaries (or "docos" as many of us call them in Oz) can be amazing and/or incredibly satisfying. I love a good doco. Keep trying them and you'll eventually hit on a real cracker.

I started a thread for 2019.
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