Update: the bug is fixed, but the film may still not be available in all territories. (You might have to empty your cache before you try again.)
Recommended Documentaries
Recommended Docs
This is a topic where you can say which documentary has really impressed you, and why people should see it. Can be a recent one or an all-time favourite. Can't be your own though, sorry...
Praise the work of others, not your own. If you want to beat the drum for your own documentary, please don't do it here. Professionals have their own Shameless Self-Promotion topic.
We also have a Documentary Films topic for our Professionals where the debate is private and possibly more controversial. This topic here is for recommendations to the documentary-interested public.
Re: Ben Kempas's post on Wed 21 Sep 2011: View thread
Fair enough.. I guess I just sort of expected to be directed to a page with a slot for a credit card number and then to the film in two simple steps. Its a great service, don't get me wrong... Thing is i just unconsciously seem to close pages that ask for email addresses up front..
Sat 10 Dec 2011
Edited Sat 10 Dec 2011 by John Burgan
Glass is a 1958 Dutch short documentary film by director and producer Bert Haanstra. The film won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. (thanks to my former student Anna in Barcelona for sending this)
Sat 10 Dec 2011
Edited Sat 10 Dec 2011 by James Longley
It's great – where did I see this before?
Only I can't stand the sound of jazz vibraphone in film soundtracks. But the editing is pretty terrific.
Sat 10 Dec 2011
Edited Sat 10 Dec 2011 by John Burgan
Then check out Broadway by Light by William Klein, 1958 – prepare to be blown away)
Sat 10 Dec 2011
Edited Sat 10 Dec 2011 by John Burgan
Here's the final one of the three this evening: Portrait of Ga by Margaret Tait (1955) – also a gift from Anna
Forgive me if this has been posted elsewhere (I tried searching) but Jane Weiner is trying to raise funds for her film Ricky On Leacock over on Kickstarter and the deadline is January 1st. The film is only around 30% funded so far and it's an incredibly important project about a towering figure in documentary filmmaking. Please check it out and, if you can, support it with a pledge: http://kck.st/sSwdQs