Documentaries

[Ashley]

Watched any good ones recently?

 

I watched The Great Happiness Space last night (without realising it was a documentary before watching it). It was about a male host club in Osaka.

 

Fascinating gendered relationships in it (a lot of the women interviewed who attend had 'regular' jobs at first but turned to prostitution to pay for the clubs and then went there because they hated their jobs and wanted affection. However, all affection was false and they'd spend thousands trying to keep the guys' attention) and a nice insight into the business. I'd recommend it and I believe it can all be seen online.

 

So yeah, any you've watched recently?

[jayseven]

Watched one on Mike Tyson recently, on More4 I think. I always knew he bit Evander Holyfield's ear(s) off but I was too young to watch it as it happened, and never really had a massive interest in boxing. It was Tyson presenting it, and he provided a really mature look at his own life - from being a petty thug on the streets to his relationship with his trainer, his nefarious burst into the top tier of boxing elite and his pompous, heartless downfall from it.

 

It kinda made his actions against Holyfield forgiveable. But it didn't explain his stupid face tattoo!

[The Bard]

Watched American Movie recently, about some bum in small town America who has not a shred of talent in any department other than through sheer conviction being able to sell people on his batshit ideas for films. I don't know where he gets his artistic drive from, maybe its because nobody around him has the heart to tell him how god awful his shit is, but that's what makes it amazing and endearing. Him and his mentally retarded (literally) best friend, probably from doing too much PCP as a foetus, have an interesting dynamic... its just a great watch, although a bit depressing at points.

 

Got halfway through Trekkies as well...I'm watching this in increments, as I can't bear to watch too much at a stretch just because of the pure wahjah and embarrassment and awkwardness and ohmygodthatdentistisdressedascouncillortroyandhiswifeisdata kind of insanity.

 

I have a sort of itch that is only really scratched by watching socially imbecillic people form cliques and make fools of themselves completely sincerely and without any intended irony. Like that woman who went in full Star Trek costume to the Clinton trial. I'm really jealous of the way they just don't give a fuck.

 

I've been told that I'd really like Darkon as well, a documentary about LARPers.

[Paj!]

I went to the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam so...yes.

 

Ones I enjoyed:

NSFW / Images some may find disturbing

 

 

[Daft]

Food That Makes Billions on BBC2. Three parter. The first part about bottled water was absolutely fascinating.

[Emasher]

I've been watching a few since subscribing to netflix. I think the best one I've seen was We Live In Public. Its about Josh Harris, his predictions, his social experiments, and other stuff that happened in his life.

[Raining_again]

I love the discovery channels, especially the Crime & Investigation channel

 

Love a good murder

 

If you've watched nearly any of their programmes, the name Dayle Hinman (Criminal Profiler!) will surely have been mentioned. I think she spends her life filming stuff for C&I!

[arnold]

Think the last one I watched was Ben: Diary of an Heroin addict, was pretty interesting, was about this guy who filmed his last 2 years filming his life, the heroin addict side and the loves his mum and dad side.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3563953/Ben-Diary-of-a-Heroin-Addict.html

[Captain Falcon]

I don't know if you count Panorama as more current affairs than documentary but there is one tonight on video game addiction that might be worth a watch.

[arnold]

Forgot bout these two:

 

King of Kong and Chasing Ghosts, if you haven't watched them, you're missing out, there are some sad bastards on those, but still entertaining, and for reference Billy Mitchell is the biggest Douche in histroy

[Dan_Dare]

This week's episode of Imagine on the beeb was a cut of the new Bruce Springsteen doc The Promise about the making of Darkness on the Edge of Town. I've not watched it all yet but it seems pretty much awesome.