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September 2006

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• 09.17.06
  Kumar: My 88 Year Old Best Friend Jay CcloseAuthor: Jay C Name: Jay C
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  About: Jay loves the films of Werner Herzog, Errol Morris and The Maysles, and is currently in production on his own first feature-length documentary Beauty Day.
  
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  Any fan of the films of Wes Anderson should be no stranger to Kumar Pallana. Made famous for his non-actor acting in such films as Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and Steven Spielberg's The Terminal, Kumar is the go-to-guy for the role that calls for an 88 year old gardener (or safe-cracker) with a dead-pan, broken english delivery. Well as it turns out, Kumar's show biz experiences began years before he was discovered by Wes Anderson. Apparently Kumar originally made his living as a world famous plate spinner, opening for The Rat Pack and appearing on The Ed Sullivan ...
• 09.17.06
  Interview: Luke Meyer Talks About Darkon Jay CcloseAuthor: Jay C Name: Jay C
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  Anyone who's kept up with us here at The Documentary Blog knows that Darkon is one of our favourite films so far this year. (you can read Sean's review here) The film that sees pretty regular folks working day jobs by day and fighting dark elves by night perfectly mixes the adventure and danger of the fictionalized world of Darkon with the banality and struggles of the main character's every day lives. Recently I had a chance to ask co-director Luke Meyer a few questions about the film. Here's what he had to say about making the film, LARP'ing, and ...
• 09.11.06
  George & Me: A Star Wars Fan Documentary SeancloseAuthor: Sean Name:
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  About: Webmaster and editor of Film Junk, video game programmer by trade. Sean is obsessively blogging when he’s not blogging about obsessively blogging. He is also a big fan of reality in general.
  
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  Star Wars fans are an interesting and obsessive breed, but unlike some b-movies that have a small cult following, Star Wars fans are pretty much EVERYWHERE. I am curious about a new documentary coming out on DVD later this month called George & Me. British TV host Sky Wilson travels across two continents meeting Star Wars fans and how Star Wars has inspired them in their lives. There's already been at least one well-known Star Wars fan documentary that I'm aware of, Dennis Przywara's Starwoids, which mainly focused on the lead-up to the release of Episode I. George & Me sounds ...
• 09.05.06
  Errol Morris Directs NFL Reebok Commercials SeancloseAuthor: Sean Name:
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  Although he may seem a rather uncommercial and unlikely choice to direct a TV ad, documentarian Errol Morris (The Fog of War, Gates of Heaven) has done quite a few of them over the years. I guess this could lead to some speculation about whether or not documentary filmmaking adequately pays the bills, but in the case of these new Reebok commercials, Morris' talents are actually being put to good use. The concept behind this new series of commercials is that various NFL stars will recall a defining moment in their lives when they realized they had a gift for the ...
• 09.05.06
  Deliver Us From Evil: The Catholic Church and Pedophiles SeancloseAuthor: Sean Name:
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  There are a lot of hard-hitting religious documentaries coming out lately, possibly as a reaction to all the recent bible-thumping that the Bush administration has inspired, but more likely because it is (and always has been) a hot button topic. Deliver Us From Evil is a documentary that few filmmakers would dare tackle, and yet first-time director Amy Berg has bravely stepped forward to shed some light on this very dark issue. Oliver O'Grady is one of the most notorious pedophile priests in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. He was allowed to molest children for over 20 years ...

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