Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category
Kurt Cobain: About A Son
Following in the deeply idiosyncratic footsteps of Last Days, About a Son plays more like autobiography than documentary. Gus Van Sant’s feature extrapolates moments from the life of Kurt Cobain (with Michael Pitt as a musician named Blake), while A.J. Schnack’s non-fiction film adheres closer to the facts, but advances a more radical Koyaanisqatsi-like approach. [...]
Rebel Music: The Bob Marley Story
Award-winning biography of the man who with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer brought reggae out of Jamaica and gave it to the world. Interviews with Bob, his mom Cedella and wife Rita, Peter and Bunny, their friends and co-workers. Many performances including some rare footage of the Old Grey Whistle Tests.
Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon’s Imagine Album
An instant classic when released in September 1971, John Lennon’s Imagine was the ex-Beatle’s solo masterpiece, and its musical legacy is matched here by priceless footage of Lennon’s creative process, independently edited from original 16-millimeter footage by producer-director Andrew Solt with the hands-off approval of Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono. Incorporating footage from John and Yoko’s [...]
The Pixar Story
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios – from the success of “Toy Story” and Pixar’s promotion of talented people, to the building of its East Bay campus, the company’s relationship with Disney, and its remarkable initial string of eight hits. The contributions of John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs are [...]
Helvetica
A documentary about typography, graphic design and global visual culture, that looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives.
Stupidity
Stupidity is an action-packed comic exploration of the issue of willful stupidity in the modern world. Stupidity sets out to determine whether our culture is hooked on deliberate ignorance as a strategy for success. From Adam Sandler to George W. Bush, from the IQ test to TV programming, to the origins of the word moron, [...]
The Merchants Of Cool
They spend their days sifting through reams of market research data. They conduct endless surveys and focus groups. They comb the streets, the schools, and the malls, hot on the trail of the “next big thing” that will snare the attention of their prey–a market segment worth an estimated $150 billion a year. They are [...]
Step Into Liquid: The Story of Surfing
Step into Liquid is a 2003 documentary about surfing directed by Dana Brown, son of famed surfer and filmmaker Bruce Brown. The film includes surfing footage from the famous Pipeline, the beaches of Vietnam, and some of the world’s largest waves 200 miles off the San Diego coast on the Cortes Bank. Step Into Liquid [...]
Bill Hick’s Revelations
This is an older stand up comedy video from 1993, but it’s a classic. Before his premature death at 35, Bill Hicks was one of the most brilliant and hilarious political comics in the United States. Revelations was filmed at the Dominion theater in London, England. Along with Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright, Bill Hicks [...]
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on the Media
“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” “Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.” This film showcases Noam Chomsky, one of America’s leading linguists and political dissidents (often called the most quoted man alive). It [...]
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College Inc.
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Cyber Warfare: Fighting in the Fifth Dimension
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Occupy: The Movie
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2012: Time For Change
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Inside the Mind of Google
May 10, 2012 08:05
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An excellent documentary. I am a Buddhist, yet think that much of the story arou -
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