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My Best Fiend 1999
Documentary
A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.
The sides of My Best Fiend
- Werner Herzog remembering Klaus Kinski
- Five films made together, from the jungle of Peru
- Rages on set caught on camera
Good for you if
- you want the true story behind Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo.
- you laugh at a director calmly recalling his plan to kill his star.
- you like two impossible men who could not work apart.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a film partly in German.
- you find footage from the seventies dated.
About: art · obsession · love and hate
Val 2021
Documentary
For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood's most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors, has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.
The sides of Val
- Val Kilmer's own home videos over forty years
- His son reading his words
- Throat cancer and a lost voice
Good for you if
- you like an actor's life told through his own camera.
- you can be moved by Val Kilmer struggling to speak after cancer.
- you like a family story, from 16mm films made with his brothers to his son reading his words.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch illness and a body that fails.
- you want the energy of his films, not a quiet look back.
About: art · illness · memory
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind 2018
Documentary
A funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through his own words. Celebrates what he brought to comedy and to the culture at large, from the wild days of late-1970s L.A. to his death in 2014.
The sides of Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
- Robin Williams in his own words
- Stand-up clips from the late 1970s
- Friends and family remembering him
Good for you if
- you want to laugh again at Robin Williams improvising at full speed.
- you like a portrait that makes you laugh and cry in the same scene.
- you want to hear the man behind Mork and Mrs. Doubtfire talk about himself.
Bad for you if
- you can't face depression and a death by suicide on screen.
- you roll your eyes at loving tributes from famous friends.
About: comedy · mental health · fame
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie 2023
Documentary
A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the 1980s—only to find the course of his life altered by a stunning diagnosis. What happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease?
The sides of STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
- Michael J. Fox telling his own life
- A Parkinson's diagnosis at twenty-nine
- Clips from Back to the Future and Family Ties
Good for you if
- you like hearing Michael J. Fox tell his story in his own words.
- you like being moved by his family standing by him.
- you like his jokes about his own falls and tremors.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch someone live with an incurable illness.
- you want a grim, unresolved look at Parkinson's. His optimism carries every scene.
About: illness · optimism · fame
Crumb 1995
Documentary
This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother, two brothers, wife, ex-wife and ex-girlfriends, as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art, we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one man's subconscious mind.
The sides of Crumb
- The cartoonist Robert Crumb at home and on the street
- His two troubled brothers
- Underground comics from the sixties
Good for you if
- you like a portrait of an artist that doesn't look away from his obsessions.
- you can laugh at a family this strange and this sad.
- you're drawn to the odd corners of sixties counterculture.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not see Crumb's sexual drawings up close.
- you can't take mental illness and a family falling apart on screen.
About: art · brothers · obsession · the family
BoJack Horseman 2014
Series
Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the '90s , 20 years later. He's a curmudgeon with a heart of...not quite gold...but something like gold. Copper?
The sides of BoJack Horseman
- A washed-up 90s sitcom horse
- Hollywoo, where humans and animals live side by side
- Friends he keeps letting down
Good for you if
- you like animal puns next to jokes about addiction and death.
- you want a show that looks hard at why BoJack keeps hurting the people who love him.
- you can take a comedy that doesn't promise anyone gets better.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch addiction, depression and an overdose on screen.
- you don't watch animated series.
About: fame · addiction · depression · regret
Tabloid 2011
Documentary
One of America's top documentary filmmakers turns his attention to the outrageous and nearly unbelievable story of Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming beauty queen who gained a great deal of notoriety after being accused of kidnapping a young Mormon missionary, restraining him in chains and raping him in 1977 England. The unbalanced McKinney is extensively interviewed, particularly about her ambition to write a memoir telling her side of the tale.
The sides of Tabloid
- A former beauty queen telling her side
- A Mormon missionary who vanished in 1977 England
- British tabloids racing for the scoop
Good for you if
- you like laughing at a true story so strange it sounds invented.
- you like a real 1977 scandal and the British tabloids that fought over it.
- you can't look away from Joyce McKinney telling her version with total conviction.
Bad for you if
- you need to know at the end who was telling the truth.
- you can't hear a kidnapping and rape accusation told as a strange, funny story.
About: obsession · the press · truth
American: The Bill Hicks Story 2010
Documentary
American: The Bill Hicks Story is a biographical documentary film on the life of comedian Bill Hicks.
The sides of American: The Bill Hicks Story
- A stand-up comedian from Texas
- Club sets and old photos brought to life
- Friends and family telling his story
Good for you if
- you like stand-up and want to see where Bill Hicks's jokes came from.
- you laugh at jokes about religion, war and advertising that go too far.
- you like the real life of a comedian told by the people who knew him.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a young man's death from cancer.
- you roll your eyes at a loving tribute told by friends and family.
About: comedy · truth · rebellion · early death
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters 2007
Documentary
In this hilarious arcade showdown, a humble novice goes head-to-head against the reigning Donkey Kong champ in a confrontation that rocks the gaming world to its processors! For over 20 years, Billy Mitchell has owned the throne of the Donkey Kong world. No one could beat his top score until now. Newcomer Steve Wiebe claims to have beaten the unbeatable, but Mitchell isn't ready to relinquish his crown without a fight. Go behind the barrels as the two battle it out in a vicious war to earn the title of the true King of Kong.
The sides of The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
- A Donkey Kong world record
- A humble family man from Washington state
- A reigning champion who won't let go
Good for you if
- you like the odd world of competitive Donkey Kong.
- you like a rivalry where the prize is a high score.
- you want a true story about real people, with an underdog to root for.
Bad for you if
- you need more happening than men at an arcade cabinet.
- you need beautiful images. This is camcorder footage in fluorescent-lit arcades.
About: obsession · rivalry · recognition
Sly 2023
Documentary
His love of film began as an escape from a rocky childhood. From underdog to Hollywood legend, Sylvester Stallone tells his story in this documentary.
The sides of Sly
- Sylvester Stallone telling his own story
- A rough childhood and a hard father
- Rocky written by an unknown actor
Good for you if
- you like hearing a movie star tell his life in his own words.
- you like the man behind Rocky and Rambo more than the muscles.
- you want to see how a hard father shaped his films.
Bad for you if
- you want the fights from his films, not an hour and a half of talking.
- you roll your eyes at an underdog story told by the underdog himself.
About: ambition · fathers · fame
Intocable 2011
Película
Un hombre tetraplégico y millonario contrata como cuidador a domicilio a Driss, un inmigrante de un barrio marginal recién salido de la cárcel. Aunque no parece la persona más indicada, congenian hasta forjar una amistad tan sólida como inesperada.
Las caras de Intocable
- Un hombre rico que no puede moverse
- Un cuidador de los suburbios
- Una amistad que nadie esperaba
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una comedia en la que dos hombres opuestos se pican.
- te gusta una película que sienta bien y que además te emociona.
- te gusta una historia real, con los verdaderos Philippe y Abdel al final.
Mala para ti si
- no lees subtítulos. Está en francés, aunque existe una versión doblada.
- no te ríes de los chistes sobre un hombre que no puede moverse.
Temas: la amistad · la discapacidad · las clases sociales
Tiger King 2020
Documentary
A zoo owner spirals out of control amid a cast of eccentric characters in this true murder-for-hire story from the underworld of big cat breeding.
The sides of Tiger King
- A private zoo full of tigers in Oklahoma
- A feud between Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin
- A murder-for-hire plot
Good for you if
- you can laugh at how far a feud between zoo owners goes.
- you like a real story stranger than anything you'd make up.
- you like a cast of big cat breeders who each seem invented.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch big cats kept in cages and badly treated.
- you need answers, and the disappearance of Carole Baskin's husband is never solved.
About: obsession · rivalry · greed
Williams 2017
Documentary
This sports documentary tells the story of the Williams Formula 1 team founded by the legendary Sir Frank Williams
The sides of Williams
- Frank Williams and his Formula 1 team
- A car crash that left him paralysed
- A daughter who took over the team
Good for you if
- you want the true story of a family behind a racing team.
- you like Formula 1 history from the pit wall.
- you like a portrait of a man who put racing before everything.
Bad for you if
- you want race footage more than family memories.
- you can't watch a family living with disability and illness.
About: obsession · family · resilience
Dick Johnson Is Dead 2020
Documentary
With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humor, she celebrates Dr. Dick Johnson’s last years by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.
The sides of Dick Johnson Is Dead
- A daughter filming her father's last years
- Staged deaths with stunt doubles
- A father living with dementia
Good for you if
- you can laugh at a daughter staging her father's death again and again.
- you want to be moved by a father and daughter saying goodbye.
- you like a close, playful bond between a father and his daughter.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a parent's memory fade right now.
- you'd rather a documentary stay plain, without staged scenes of heaven.
About: death · memory · father and daughter
Saving Mr. Banks 2013
Film
Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
The sides of Saving Mr. Banks
- P.L. Travers fighting Walt Disney over Mary Poppins
- A childhood in Queensland with a drinking father
- Songwriters at a piano in 1960s Los Angeles
Good for you if
- you like Emma Thompson's prickly author slowly letting people in.
- you like a film that reveals the father behind Mr. Banks and makes you cry.
- you like the true story behind a film you grew up with.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at Disney telling a heartwarming story about Disney.
- you can't watch a little girl growing up with an alcoholic father.
About: childhood · grief · fathers · creation
Listen to Me Marlon 2015
Documentary
With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.
The sides of Listen to Me Marlon
- Marlon Brando's private audio tapes
- A digital head of Brando speaking
- His life told in his own voice
Good for you if
- you like hearing Marlon Brando tell his own life, with no interviews.
- you like a portrait of a troubled man beyond his famous roles.
- you love clips of A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that moves, not a voice over archives.
- you can't take the family tragedies that marked his later life.
About: fame · acting · solitude
Lemmy 2010
Documentary
Over four decades, Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister has registered an immeasurable impact on music history. Nearly 65, he remains the living embodiment of the rock and roll lifestyle, and this feature-length documentary tells his story, one of a hard-living rock icon who continues to enjoy the life of a man half his age.
The sides of Lemmy
- Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead
- His Los Angeles apartment full of memorabilia
- Rock stars lining up to talk about him
Good for you if
- you like spending time with a rock legend who never changed his ways.
- you want the life of Motörhead's frontman from the man himself.
- you enjoy Lemmy's dry one-liners.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand two hours of loud heavy metal.
- you'd rather not watch heavy drinking and drugs treated as a way of life.
About: rock and roll · freedom · aging
Diego Maradona 2019
Documentary
Constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, this documentary centers on the personal life and career of the controversial football player Diego Maradona who played for SSC Napoli and Argentina in the 1980s.
The sides of Diego Maradona
- Maradona's years at Napoli
- Never-seen footage from the 1980s
- The 1986 World Cup and the Hand of God
Good for you if
- you like football told through its most famous goals.
- you like a life told only with footage from the time.
- you like a man split between the hero Diego and the star Maradona.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch cocaine and a slow fall from grace.
- two hours and ten minutes is too much for you.
About: fame · Naples · addiction · talent
The Wolfpack 2015
Documentary
Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed ‘The Wolfpack’, the brothers spend their childhood reenacting their favorite films using elaborate home-made props and costumes. Their world is shaken up when one of the brothers escapes and everything changes.
The sides of The Wolfpack
- Six brothers raised inside a Manhattan apartment
- Home-made remakes of Reservoir Dogs and The Dark Knight
- A first walk outside without their father
Good for you if
- you like a true story stranger than most fiction.
- you like six brothers who share everything in a few rooms.
- you like the Angulo brothers remaking Tarantino with cardboard props.
Bad for you if
- you can't face a father who kept his children locked away.
- you want every question about the family answered.
About: confinement · cinema · freedom · brotherhood
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story 2024
Documentary
Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After becoming a quadriplegic, he became a charismatic leader and activist in the quest to find a cure for spinal cord injuries, as well as a passionate advocate for disability rights and care.
The sides of Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
- The actor who played Superman, paralysed after a riding accident
- His wife Dana and his three children
- A fight for spinal cord research
Good for you if
- you like being moved by a man learning to live again.
- you want the real Christopher Reeve, from Superman to activist.
- you like a story told by his children, about a father they nearly lost.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch paralysis, hospitals and grief up close.
- you roll your eyes at a tribute full of courage and love.
About: courage · disability · fatherhood