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01.16.12Watch it For Free: DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus’ ‘Delorean’An awesome look at the prototyping, production and testing of John Delorean's infamous stainless steel car from the future!
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01.02.11Watch It For Free: High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in LowellIf any of you caught David O. Russell's awesome boxing film The Fighter this past month, you probably left the theatre as curious as I was about the HBO documentary crew that played such a big role in the movie. Dickie Edlund (played by Christian Bale) was one of three featured subjects in the 1995 made for television documentary film High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell. Guess what it's about? I'll tell you: crack addicts. This film came out in a time when HBO was known for their edgy non-fiction programming (most of which were under the subtitle ...
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11.25.10The Documentary Blog Recommends: AFOL A BlocumentaryWho didn't love Lego as a kid? I loved it even back before all of the franchise tie-ins (Star Wars, Harry Potter, Spider-Man). I have to say it isn't surprising to discover that a group of dedicated adult Lego fans have created their own society of builders called AFOL (Adult Fans of Lego) It's even less surprising that there's a documentary about them! AFOL A Blocumentary is a short film directed by Jess Gibson which examines the 'love for the brick', highlighting the passion and creativity behind one of the world's most open-ended and expressive toy products. As with ...
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08.25.10The Documentary Blog Recommends: Salim BabaI'm a little behind on this one (three years behind to be exact) but I just checked out director Tim Sternberg's beautiful short documentary Salim Baba and was pretty much blown away. The film looks at one man's love of cinema and his attempt to maintain a family tradition in the face of technological advancements. Salim Muhammad lives in Kolkata, India where he pushes a handmade portable cinema cart around town for the local kids to watch cut-up versions of Bollywood action scenes and dance sequences. It's a tradition that was passed down to him by his father and one ...
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08.12.10The Film That Almost Killed Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb: The BBC’s “The Confessions of Robert Crumb”With the recent Blu-ray release of Terry Zwigoff's Crumb last week (my review will be up soon), I thought it might be interesting to look at this 1987 BBC documentary (via The Uranium Cafe) that almost killed Zwigoff's documentary altogether. The Confessions of Robert Crumb was apparently commissioned as part of a series of films highlighting important contemporary artists, and the Crumbs (Robert and his wife Aileen) had no qualms about agreeing to the project even though their good friend Terry was in the middle of shooting his own film on their lives. Zwigoff actually talks about this on the ...
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07.23.10Watch it For Free: Shooting Robert KingWatch more free documentaries I haven't had a chance to check out Richard Parry's Shooting Robert King yet, but thanks to the fine folks at SnagFilms, I can now watch it for free, and so can you! Starting today, the film will be available for two weeks, and they've also opened up an embeddable option. Above this text is the full version of the film which you can watch right here at The Documentary Blog! TOTAL BONUS. Here's the synopsis: Sarajevo, 1993. Robert King is 23-years-old, fresh out of Art College and prepared to dodge bullets on the front line with dreams ...