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09.02.10Inside Job TrailerIt looks like Charles Ferguson is going to make a name for himself tackling huge issues from every which way possible. His last film, Oscar nominated No End in Sight took aim at the Iraq War and the back story within the Bush Administration and this time around he's delving into the mess of the financial crisis and its perpetrators. Narrated by Matt Damon, Inside Job appears to go that one step further by not only trying to get those responsible on camera, but also looking into the culture of Wall Street by talking to a ...
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08.31.10‘Adventures in Plymptoons!’ Begins Kickstarter CampaignI think it's almost time to set up a regular Kickstarter section here at The Documentary Blog. It seems like this form of crowd-source funding has become quite popular and there are a number of great projects looking for your help in one way or another. The latest film to grace my email inbox focuses on two-time Academy Award nominated animator Bill Plympton. 'Adventures in Plymptoons!' is a feature length documentary profiling Plympton's career and offering a look at his unusual body of work. I would imagine it would be a great primer for those unfamiliar with his work but ...
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08.30.10Werner Herzog to Edit and Narrate ‘Happy People: A Year in the Taiga’Being a huge Werner Herzog fan, it's a total bonus that such a prolific filmmaker can manage to remain so consistent when it comes to the quality of his output. It doesn't surprise me that, with the TIFF premiere of his 3D documentary 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams' (coinciding with the DVD release of one of the two films he premiered at TIFF last year, 'My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done?'), Herzog has already started talking about multiple upcoming projects. On the non-fiction side, he's teaming up with filmmaker Dmitry Vasyukov for a project that will find Herzog ...
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08.26.10Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo Official Trailer and TourYou know how documentaries like The Cove and Man on Wire have been drawing influences from genre filmmaking in their non-fiction storytelling? Well, I wonder if Bradley Beesley's Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo draws any inspiration from the 'women in prison' sub-genre... I'm guessing not. Regardless, based on the trailer and Beesley's solid track record (he directed Okie Noodling and The Fearless Freaks, co-directed Summercamp! with Sarah Price and helped shoot Ben Steinbauer's Winnebago Man), I'm totally sold! Check out the official synopsis below: Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo goes behind prison walls to follow convict cowgirls on their journey to ...
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08.26.10Machete Maidens Unleashed! TrailerIf you were a fan of Mark Hartley’s fantastic documentary Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!, well, there’s a pretty good chance that you’re going to dig his next film as well. Machete Maidens Unleashed! is another investigation into the outrageous low budget genre movies of a particular country, this time focusing on the Philippines. The movie features interviews with John Landis, Joe Dante, Roger Corman, and Sid Haig and looks at the making of such cult classics as Blood Island, Cleopatra Wong and For Y’ur Height Only. Although this might seem like a rehash of the same ...
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08.20.10Drew: The Man Behind The Poster TrailerThis post is provided by guest contributor filmmaker Joshua Ligairi. You can read more of Josh’s writing at Film Junk and we recommend checking out his documentary CleanFlix. Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Blade Runner, The Thing… the list goes on and on. Drew Struzan is one of the few “names” in movie posters. He is responsible for illustrating some of the most famous posters in cinema history and his work accomplishes what so many other movie posters fail to do, creating images so memorable that they become the key iconography of the films they represent. Frank Darabont, who ...