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September 2009

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• 09.16.09
  Waterlife DVD Review 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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  There are a lot of environmentally themed documentaries floating around out there, but rarely do they present themselves on such a cinematically engaging level as Kevin McMahon’s Waterlife. While similar films might end up buried under their own information, McMahon manages to balance the facts with engaging filmmaking, never forgetting the most important ingredient: storytelling. I really love how documentary filmmakers have recently began to embrace the idea of genre filmmaking. If Man on Wire is the non-fiction equivalent of a heist film and The Cove an espionage-spy-thriller, Kevin McMahon's Waterlife is an environmental road trip movie. The film focuses on ...
• 09.09.09
  Bananas!* Trailer 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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  There have been plenty of documentaries over the years attacking corporations and their questionable methods of doing business, and most of the time, the corporations seem content to let the filmmakers air their grievances and then hopefully just fade away. Most corporations are smart enough to realize that responding to the claims would only create more publicity, and perhaps even add credibility to the accusations being made. The folks over at Dole, however, have chosen the exact opposite reaction to Fredrik Gertten's film Bananas!*. The film follows big shot lawyer Juan Dominguez as he takes Dole to court for 10,000 Nicaraguan ...
• 09.09.09
  Hands on a Hard Body to Become a Musical SeancloseAuthor: Sean Name:
  Site: http://www.seandwyer.net
  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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  How many documentaries out there can say they have been adapted for the stage and turned into musical? Not very many. But it looks like S.R. Bindler's cult classic doc Hands on a Hard Body is about to be re-invented by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright and lyricist Amanda Green for the La Jolla Playhouse. The 1997 documentary is about an annual competition in Longview, Texas, where 24 contestants compete to win a pickup truck. All they have to do is be the last person standing with their hand still touching the truck in a battle of endurance that goes for ...
• 09.08.09
  Sean Dunne’s Short Film ‘Man in Van’ 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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  Some of you may have caught Sean Dunne's great documentary short 'The Archive' online a short while back. It was an official selection at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and received some good airtime throughout the blog-o-sphere. Well Dunne has just finished his next short, 'Man in Van', which gives us a short look at the life of Jimmy Tarangelo; a dude who's been living out of his van in NYC for the last eight years. This is a great follow up to Dunne's previous work and another great example of some efficient short-form storytelling. I just love these bite ...
• 09.04.09
  Murderball director lines up Monogamy: another documentary filmmaker goes rom-com. http://bit.ly/1ht… 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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  Murderball director lines up Monogamy: another documentary filmmaker goes rom-com. http://bit.ly/1ht7qG
• 09.02.09
  Oliver Stone developing 10-part documentary series for Showtime called Secret History of America. ht… 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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  Oliver Stone developing 10-part documentary series for Showtime called Secret History of America. http://bit.ly/20kkFs

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