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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
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
Grey Gardens 1976
Documentary
Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.
The sides of Grey Gardens
- A mother and daughter in a decaying mansion
- Little Edie's improvised outfits and songs
- Cats and raccoons in the house
Good for you if
- you like spending time with Big Edie and Little Edie as they are.
- you like a mother and daughter who bicker and can't leave each other.
- you like a strange, closed world on a Long Island estate.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that goes somewhere.
- you find 1970s handheld footage dated.
About: mother and daughter · solitude · the past
American Movie 1999
Documentary
American Movie documents the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man's quest for the American Dream.
The sides of American Movie
- A Wisconsin man determined to make his own movies
- His friend Mike and his elderly uncle Bill
- A short horror film called Coven
Good for you if
- you like spending time with a real dreamer who won't give up.
- you like laughing with people who are very much themselves.
- you want the real, messy side of making a film with no money.
Bad for you if
- you feel uneasy laughing at a real man's struggles.
- you can't take watching drinking, debt and family arguments.
About: ambition · obsession · the American dream · friendship
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 2022
Documentary
The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
The sides of All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
- Nan Goldin and her photographs
- Protests in museums against the Sackler family
- A sister lost young
Good for you if
- you like a true fight against the family behind OxyContin.
- you like seeing museums made to take a name off their walls.
- you like an artist telling her own life through her slideshows.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch addiction, AIDS and a sister's suicide on screen.
- you'd rather not see intimate and nude photographs.
About: addiction · activism · grief
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
Tell Me Who I Am 2019
Documentary
In this documentary, Alex trusts his twin, Marcus, to tell him about his past after he loses his memory. But Marcus is hiding a dark family secret.
The sides of Tell Me Who I Am
- A man who lost his memory at eighteen
- A twin brother who rebuilt his past for him
- A family secret kept for decades
Good for you if
- you like a true story where the truth comes out piece by piece.
- you want two brothers finally facing what happened in their home.
- you like being moved by a hard conversation between twins.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a film where buried childhood pain comes back to the surface.
- you need momentum more than long, quiet interviews.
About: memory · family secrets · brotherhood · trauma
The Devil and Daniel Johnston 2006
Documentary
This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.
The sides of The Devil and Daniel Johnston
- Daniel Johnston's home tapes and drawings
- A songwriter living with manic depression
- Parents caring for their adult son
Good for you if
- you love raw songs recorded on cassette in a basement.
- you want a close portrait of one fragile, gifted man.
- you like a life told through its own tapes and home movies.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch mental illness take hold of someone up close.
- you want a feel-good music story, and you get a hard and tender one.
About: mental illness · art · family
Four Daughters 2023
Documentary
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters' life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion, violence, transmission and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.
The sides of Four Daughters
- A Tunisian mother and her four daughters
- Two daughters who left home and never came back
- Actresses standing in for the missing
Good for you if
- you like a story about mothers and daughters told without hiding the hard parts.
- you want a true story told by the family who lived it.
- you want to be moved to tears by two sisters facing the actresses who play their missing sisters.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a film in Arabic.
- you can't watch a family talk about abuse, violence and radicalisation.
About: motherhood · sisterhood · radicalisation · memory
Stories We Tell 2012
Documentary
Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending on their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.
The sides of Stories We Tell
- Sarah Polley questioning her own family
- A mother who died when Sarah was young
- Home movies, some of them restaged
Good for you if
- you like siblings and fathers each telling a mother's story their own way.
- you like a film that keeps changing what you thought was true.
- you can be moved by a daughter looking for her mother's secret.
Bad for you if
- you need things to happen, and this is people remembering.
- you want one clear version of the truth at the end.
About: memory · truth · family secrets
Minding the Gap 2018
Documentary
Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.
The sides of Minding the Gap
- Skateboarders filming each other in Rockford, Illinois
- A director turning the camera on his own family
- A young father struggling with his temper
Good for you if
- you like a friendship followed over more than a decade of skate footage.
- you want to watch boys become men, with all the mistakes that brings.
- you like a documentary where the filmmaker is part of the story.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch frank talk about domestic abuse and violent fathers.
- you came for skateboarding tricks and need more of them.
About: growing up · domestic violence · friendship · fatherhood
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
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991
Documentary
A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.
The sides of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
- The shoot of Apocalypse Now in the Philippines
- Footage filmed by Eleanor Coppola
- A typhoon, a heart attack and a director near breaking point
Good for you if
- you like seeing how a famous film almost never got made.
- you like watching Francis Ford Coppola stake everything on one film.
- you like the strange scenes of Brando improvising in the dark and Dennis Hopper rambling.
Bad for you if
- you want the battles of the film, not the chaos behind them.
- you find grainy 1970s home footage dated.
About: obsession · art · ego · madness
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
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present 2012
Documentary
Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The sides of Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
- Marina Abramović before her MoMA retrospective
- An artist sitting silent for hours, facing strangers
- A reunion with her former partner Ulay
Good for you if
- you want to see how a famous artist prepares a show.
- you like watching one woman hold a room in total silence.
- you're drawn to strong, uncompromising people.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum and can't sit through long silences.
- you have no patience for strange art, like walking the Great Wall to break up or staring at strangers for hours.
About: art · endurance · presence · love
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
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
One of Us 2017
Documentary
Penetrating the insular world of New York's Hasidic community, focusing on three individuals driven to break away despite threats of retaliation.
The sides of One of Us
- Three people leaving a Hasidic community in New York
- A mother fighting to keep her children
- A closed world seen from the inside
Good for you if
- you want real people telling what leaving cost them.
- you like following three lives over time, up close.
- you want to follow a mother fighting her own community to keep her children.
Bad for you if
- you can't take stories of abuse and addiction.
- you want a hopeful story with a clean ending.
About: freedom · faith · belonging · family
Feels Good Man 2020
Documentary
When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt Furie, fights to bring Pepe back from the darkness and navigate America's cultural divide.
The sides of Feels Good Man
- Pepe the Frog, a stoner comic character
- A meme taken over by hate groups
- Artist Matt Furie trying to win him back
Good for you if
- you want the true story behind a meme you've seen everywhere.
- you like a gentle artist caught in something huge.
- you're curious how internet culture reached politics.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand hate symbols and online harassment.
- you want something light about a cartoon frog.
About: the internet · ownership · hate
American Beauty 1999
Película
Divertida, inquietante y sorprendente incursión en la América suburbana a través de las vidas de Lester y Carolyn, una pareja perteneciente a la clase medio-alta cuyo matrimonio -y cuyas vidas- lentamente se deshacen. Carolyn odia a su marido, su hija lo desprecia y su jefe está a punto de despedirlo. Así que Lester decide cambiar algunas cosas en su vida; a medida que va siendo más libre, consigue ser más feliz, lo que enfurece más a su esposa y a su hija.
Las caras de American Beauty
- Un padre de barrio residencial en plena crisis de los cuarenta
- Rosas por todas partes
- Una bolsa de plástico que baila con el viento
Buena para ti si
- te gusta la sátira de la familia perfecta de los suburbios.
- te gusta toda una calle de gente que esconde quién es.
- te gustan las rosas rojas en cada rincón del plano.
Mala para ti si
- pones los ojos en blanco ante un discurso sobre la belleza de una bolsa de plástico en el viento.
- un vecino que le pega a su hijo es demasiado para ti esta noche.
Temas: la belleza · el deseo · la libertad