Docs Holiday

04. Oct, 2007 0 Comments

anyone who has anything above their eyes and in between their ears knows that documentaries are the true knees’ bees of cinema (although not so much monetarily-wise), and dat’s why our jollies were most rogered when we took a peep at the International Documentary Association’s 25 Bestest Documentaries list, as voted by its members [indieWIRE]!

We’ve seen 17 of them, how bout jew?

1. Hoop Dreams directed by Steve James, Peter Gilbert and Frederick Marx
2. The Thin Blue Line directed by Errol Morris
3. Bowling for Columbine directed by Michael Moore
4. Spellbound directed by Jeffery Blitz
5. Harlan County USA directed by Barbara Kopple
6. An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim
7. Crumb directed by Terry Zwigoff
8. Gimme Shelter directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
9. The Fog of War directed by Errol Morris
10. Roger and Me directed by Michael Moore
11. Super Size Me directed by Morgan Spurlock [TWS review]
12. Don’t Look Back directed by DA Pennebaker
13. Salesman directed by Albert and David Maysles
14. Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balancedirected by Godfrey Reggio
15. Sherman’s March directed by Ross McElwee
16. Grey Gardens directed by Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer
17. Capturing the Friedmans directed by Andrew Jarecki
18. Born into Brothels directed by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski [TWS review]
19. Titicut Follies directed by Frederick Wiseman
20. Buena Vista Social Club directed by Wim Wenders
21. Fahrenheit 9/11 directed by Michael Moore [TWS review]
22. Winged Migration directed by Jacques Perrin
23. Grizzly Man directed by Werner Herzog [TWS review]
24. Night and Fog directed by Alain Resnais
25. Woodstock directed by Michael Wadleigh

for the moist part, they did a purty good jobby job, but as the years pass, titles like Inconvenient Truth and Super Size Me won’t pack the Hawaiian punch like they do today

here’s a list of some docs, outta the 7.9 zillion we’ve seen, that we heart hispecially, which apparently wasn’t mustard cutting enuff to make their list

In the Realms of the Unreal directed by Jessica Yu [TWS review]

The Devil and Daniel Johnston directed by Jeff Feuerzeig [TWS review and #1 movie of the 006]

every other movie directed by Fred Wiseman

Best Boy directed by Ira Wohl

The Filth & The Fury directed by Julian Temple

In The Shadow of The Moon directed by David Sington [TWS review]

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room directed by Alex Gibney [TWS review]

Olympia directed by Leni Riefenstahl

The Kid Stays in the Picture directed by Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen
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Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple directed by Stanley Nelson

Touching the Void directed by Kevin Macdonald

The Eyes of Tammy Faye directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato

When We Were Kings directed by Leon Gast