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  • Faust
    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
    • 37852

    Documentaries

    I thought these deserve a thread of their own. Post all the good ones you've seen. I am also looking for a good documentary on art/design/architecture, modern or postmodern to show in my class. Please don't recommend Helvetica.

    Also, has anyone seen 7up? It's in my Netflix cue, I heard it's quite good.
    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

    StyleZeitgeist Magazine
  • Jorge Hache
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2006
    • 457

    #2
    Here's a couple of very good ones (remember i'm an architect)

    - My Architect: A Son's Journey
    2003, directed by Nathaniel Kahn

    The son of the great architect Louis Kahn discovering who was his father though a worldwide journey exploring his father greatest buildings, moving and intelligent, one of the best architectural documentaries i ever seen.


    - Antonio Gaudi
    1984, directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara
    Now on Criterion Collection

    A poetic, artsy and elegant view of one of the most audacious and bizarre architectural master of the XX century

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    • Staton Viguier
      Senior Member
      • Jan 2008
      • 204

      #3
      ^ excellent choice

      Megacities, and Dark Days. Perhaps not the most notable of recommendations, but two reasonably good films i've seen recently.

      Has anyone seen the 1988 german documentary on kowloon the walled city?

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      • mass
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2006
        • 1131

        #4
        aside from all the usual ones every has seen (style wars, hoop dreams, etc) i really like the pbs documentary triumph of the nerds.

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        • Nikov
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2008
          • 385

          #5
          planet bboy is a good one. you can watch it instantly on netflix.

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          • Oldboy
            Junior Member
            • Aug 2008
            • 19

            #6
            Our Daily Bread



            A fascinating and unnerving look at what goes on behind the scenes of food production companies. Some very disturbing images of animals being slaughtered. I particularly like how there is no voiceover narration or interviews, as the images speak for themselves.

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            • philip nod
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2007
              • 5903

              #7
              i saw the doc about christian hosoi last night. great subject matter. some decent footage. great 80's nostalgia trip. horrible editing. there were sections that went on for days where people all say, hosoi man he was the best, like a chorus line, stalefishin' christ airin' muted air grabbin' there skinny legs up in your face.
              One wonders where it will end, when everything has become gay.

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              • Fuuma
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2006
                • 4050

                #8
                Faust, interestingly enough, I made you a dvd with Chris Marker docs on it :)
                Selling CCP, Harnden, Raf, Rick etc.
                http://www.stylezeitgeist.com/forums...me-other-stuff

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                • Seventh
                  Senior Member
                  • Dec 2006
                  • 270

                  #9
                  Docs

                  Chris Marker is great.

                  What about Herzog's documentaries, particularly, Little Dieter Needs to Fly and The White Diamond?

                  Also Wender's Tokyo-Ga is pretty fascinating.

                  The Day After Trinity (about Robert Oppenheimer)

                  A is for Atom, B is for Bomb (terrifying: about Edward Teller)

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                  • philip nod
                    Senior Member
                    • Aug 2007
                    • 5903

                    #10
                    the decline of western civilization (punk years)
                    One wonders where it will end, when everything has become gay.

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                    • maldoror
                      Senior Member
                      • Jun 2007
                      • 1132

                      #11
                      night and fog

                      titicut follies

                      guys and dolls

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                      • Faust
                        kitsch killer
                        • Sep 2006
                        • 37852

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Fuuma View Post
                        Faust, interestingly enough, I made you a dvd with Chris Marker docs on it :)
                        Send it over!
                        Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                        StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                        • sam_tem
                          Senior Member
                          • Apr 2007
                          • 650

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Seventh View Post
                          Chris Marker is great.

                          What about Herzog's documentaries, particularly, Little Dieter Needs to Fly and The White Diamond?
                          or what about Burden of Dreams, the documentary on Herzog and him filming fitzcarraldo. that's possibly related enough for Faust's class.

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                          • klangspiel
                            Senior Member
                            • Apr 2007
                            • 577

                            #14
                            anything by these people

                            Leni Riefenstahl
                            Jean Rouch
                            Barbet Schroeder
                            Chantal Akermann
                            François Reichenbach (who has ties with chris marker)
                            Claude Lanzmann
                            Marcel Ophüls

                            and more recently, something which is more of a "film essay",
                            by two gents from melbourne. syberberg is such a character.
                            view trailer here:

                            A journey up the Danube River, this film takes up some of the most challenging paths in Martin Heidegger's thought. With the philosophers Philippe Lacoue-Lab...
                            Last edited by klangspiel; 12-03-2008, 08:59 AM.

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                            • ahlefeldt
                              Senior Member
                              • May 2008
                              • 621

                              #15
                              American Mullet

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