October 2006
The Archives
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10.23.06Style Wars: Revisited Sean | Reviews | (2)Style Wars Revisited (DVD) Directed by: Tony Silver, Henry Chalfant Long before Mark Ecko "tagged" Air Force One in a hoax video on the internet, before hip-hop music exploded into the mainstream and took the Billboard charts by storm, it all started as a very powerful and vital underground movement in the late 70's and early 80's in New York City. There was a massive flood of creativity and self-expression coming from the streets, from music to dance to visual art, all these elements intertwined to create a completely new and necessary subculture. Style Wars is the 1983 landmark film directed by Henry ...
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10.23.06Souvenir of Canada Sean | Reviews | (1)Souvenir of Canada Directed by: Robin Neinstein Written by: Douglas Coupland, Barry Stevens Last month at the Toronto Film Festival I caught a screening of Douglas Coupland's first feature film written for the screen, Everything's Gone Green. As a fan of Coupland's fiction I enjoyed it immensely, but knowing that he was such a talented visual artist as well, I was a little surprised that it was the first time he'd had a hand in developing a movie. It turns out, Everything's Gone Green is not the first film Coupland has been involved in. One year earlier he had been at the Toronto ...
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10.22.06Video Clip: The Papal Chase Jay C | News | (3)We here at The Documentary Blog are big fans of the television show Kenny vs. Spenny (Read my review of season one here.), so here's something that i'd heard about a while ago and was always interested in checking out. Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice got their start with the critically acclaimed documentary 'Pitch', in which they documented themselves attempting to sell a mob comedy script. The Papal Chase is another award winning documentary along the same lines, only this time, after a bet with a friend, Hotz is on a mission to meet The Pope. With only six days ...
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10.18.06Trinity & Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie Coming To HD-DVD Jay C | News, Trailers | (5)In light of recent news, I thought it might be cool to post some footage from one of my favourite films, Trinity & Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie. Originally released in 1995, Trinity was directed by Peter Kuran, who's best known for his visual effects work on the Star Wars films. Narrated by William Shatner, the film documents the nuclear arms race as the U.S. and Russia attempt to create the worlds most powerful weapon. Kuran managed to get a hold of recently declassified military archival film footage and used his special effects knowledge and resources to completely remaster the ...
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10.16.06Trailer: Werner Herzog’s ‘The Wild Blue Yonder’ Jay C | News, Trailers | (4)Two Werner Herzog video clips in one day! While I was looking around on Youtube I came across a trailer for The Wild Blue Yonder, Werner Herzog's unusual mix of documentary and science-fiction that's both hard to catagorize and hard to find ANY information about. FINALLY we get a look at what exactly is going on in this film. (well sort of...) Here's a synopsis from the official website: The film follows a hypothetical proposition: a group of astronauts are circling the earth in a spacecraft, but they cannot return, as our planet has become uninhabitable. The cause of this ...
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10.16.06Video Clip: Werner Herzog on The Henry Rollins Show Jay C | News | (0)Here's a video I found on Youtube of Henry Rollins interviewing Werner Herzog shortly after the release of Grizzly Man on DVD. Pretty good interview, mainly focusing on documentary filmmaking. Only an interview with Werner Herzog could contain the quote "This interview is somewhat successful in that you were not shot." Even Henry Rollins can't help but laugh at Herzog's non-shalant attitude at getting shot. Classic.
