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  1. Salesman 1969

    Documentary

    This documentary from Albert and David Maysles follows the bitter rivalry of four door-to-door salesmen working for the Mid-American Bible Company: Paul "The Badger" Brennan, Charles "The Gipper" McDevitt, James "The Rabbit" Baker and Raymond "The Bull" Martos. Times are tough for this hard-living quartet, who spend their days traveling through small-town America, trying their best to peddle gold-leaf Bibles to an apathetic crowd of lower-middle-class housewives and elderly couples.

    The sides of Salesman

    • Four Bible salesmen on the road
    • Sales pitches in working-class living rooms
    • Motel rooms between visits

    Good for you if

    • you like watching real door-to-door salesmen at work in 1960s America.
    • you like following Paul Brennan as his pitch stops working.
    • you enjoy black and white documentaries from the sixties.

    Bad for you if

    • you need more happening than sales pitches in living rooms.
    • you need music to carry a film. There's no score and no narrator, just the salesmen talking.

    About: work · failure · the American dream

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  2. Blue 1993

    Documentary

    Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.

    The sides of Blue

    • A single blue screen for the whole film
    • Derek Jarman's voice on losing his sight
    • Music and sound in place of images

    Good for you if

    • you like a film that is only one colour and a voice.
    • you like a soundtrack of voices and music that does all the work.
    • you want Derek Jarman's own account of living with AIDS.

    Bad for you if

    • you need images to hold your attention.
    • you can't take a film about dying of AIDS.
    • you need momentum. Its voices and sounds drift slowly for 79 minutes.

    About: illness · death · blindness

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  3. 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

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  4. Shoah 1985

    Documentary

    Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.

    The sides of Shoah

    • Survivors, bystanders and perpetrators interviewed
    • The sites of the camps filmed decades later
    • No archive footage at all

    Good for you if

    • you want the Holocaust told by those who were there.
    • you can sit with long silences and slow train journeys.
    • you can be moved to tears by a barber breaking down as he recalls Treblinka.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't give more than nine hours to one film.
    • you won't read subtitles, and the film moves between many languages.
    • you can't hear first-hand accounts of mass murder.

    About: memory · testimony · genocide

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  5. Into the Abyss 2011

    Documentary

    We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life and death and looks deep into these individuals, their stories, their crimes.

    The sides of Into the Abyss

    • Werner Herzog talking to a man days before his execution
    • A triple murder in a small Texas town
    • Families of the victims and of the killers

    Good for you if

    • you like Herzog's quiet questions and the long answers they get.
    • you can take a film about death with no easy comfort.
    • you want to hear everyone touched by one crime, on every side.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit through grieving families and a death row countdown.
    • you need momentum more than long, still interviews.

    About: the death penalty · loss · guilt

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  6. 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

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  7. 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

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  8. A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek's most exciting ideas on personal subjectivity, fantasy and reality, desire and sexuality.

    The sides of The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

    • Slavoj Žižek talking through famous films
    • Rebuilt sets from Hitchcock and Lynch films
    • Psychoanalysis applied to desire and fantasy

    Good for you if

    • you like an excited philosopher talking nonstop about movies.
    • you like strange readings of Psycho, The Birds and Blue Velvet.
    • you love classic Hollywood and want to see it with new eyes.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours of lecture is too much for you.
    • you need a story with people to follow, not one man talking over film clips.

    About: desire · fantasy · cinema

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  9. 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

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  10. Stutz 2022

    Documentary

    In candid conversations with actor Jonah Hill, leading psychiatrist Phil Stutz explores his early life experiences and unique, visual model of therapy.

    The sides of Stutz

    • Jonah Hill filming his own therapist
    • Therapy tools drawn on index cards
    • A psychiatrist living with Parkinson's

    Good for you if

    • you like long, honest conversations about how to live.
    • you like the warmth between Jonah Hill and Phil Stutz.
    • you want to know the man behind the therapist.

    Bad for you if

    • you roll your eyes at self-help and open hearts on camera.
    • you need more than two men talking in a room.

    About: therapy · self-acceptance · mentorship

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  11. Casting JonBenet 2017

    Documentary

    Twenty years after the modern world's most notorious child murder, the legacy of the crime and its impact are explored.

    The sides of Casting JonBenet

    • Local actors auditioning to play the people in a real case
    • The murder of a six-year-old girl in Boulder
    • Everyone's own theory of what happened

    Good for you if

    • you like a film that leaves the question open on purpose.
    • you want to see how a famous crime lives on in a town's imagination.
    • you like local actors whose own lives seep into the roles they audition for.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit with the death of a child, even years later.
    • you want a plain documentary, not rows of local actors playing the same parents.

    About: grief · rumour · the media

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  12. Behind the Curve 2018

    Documentary

    Meet the growing, worldwide community of theorists who defend the belief that the Earth is flat while living in a society who vehemently rejects it.

    The sides of Behind the Curve

    • Flat Earth believers at a convention
    • Mark Sargent and his YouTube videos
    • An experiment that does not go their way

    Good for you if

    • you're curious about people who believe the Earth is flat.
    • you like a portrait that takes Mark Sargent and his friends seriously.
    • you like a tight community of believers who find friends, and rivals, in each other.

    Bad for you if

    • you want to laugh at flat Earthers. The film listens to them instead.
    • you need more happening than people talking on camera.

    About: belief · community · science

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  13. Chronicle of a Summer 1961

    Documentary

    Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes.

    The sides of Chronicle of a Summer

    • Passersby in Paris asked if they are happy
    • Workers, students and friends talking about their lives
    • Paris and Saint-Tropez in the summer of 1960

    Good for you if

    • you like black and white films that invented a way of filming.
    • you like long, honest conversations with ordinary people.
    • you want to feel France in 1960, with the Algerian war in the background.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles.
    • you need momentum more than long conversations.

    About: happiness · work · friendship · the human condition

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  14. Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I?'

    The sides of Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself

    • A magician alone on a small stage
    • Audience members choosing who they are
    • Card tricks that turn into confessions

    Good for you if

    • you like magic that leaves you quiet rather than clapping.
    • you can watch one man hold a room with stories and cards for ninety minutes.
    • you'd rather keep a question like "who am I" than get it answered.

    Bad for you if

    • you roll your eyes at a stage show that asks you to be moved.
    • you need momentum. Most of it is one man speaking softly on a small stage.

    About: identity · illusion · being seen

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  15. The Leftovers 2014

    Series

    When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.

    The sides of The Leftovers

    • Two percent of the world vanishing at once
    • A police chief holding his family together
    • A silent cult dressed in white

    Good for you if

    • you like grief so raw it moves you to tears.
    • you can live with never learning where the vanished went.
    • you like Kevin and Nora, two broken people trying to go on.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take grief, suicide and despair on screen.
    • you need a story that moves fast, not three seasons of mourning.

    About: grief · faith · loss

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  16. Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.

    The sides of Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

    • Werner Herzog asking what the internet is doing to us
    • The first message sent between two computers
    • Robots, hackers and dreams of Mars

    Good for you if

    • you like hearing the people who built the internet tell how it began.
    • you like Herzog asking whether the internet dreams of itself.
    • you like odd detours to people who flee all radio waves.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't face a family harassed online after their daughter's death.
    • you need momentum more than ten loose chapters of musing.

    About: technology · the future · human connection

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  17. When Steve Jobs died the world wept. But what accounted for the grief of millions of people who didn’t know him? This evocative film navigates Jobs' path from a small house in the suburbs, to zen temples in Japan, to the CEO's office of the world's richest company, exploring how Jobs’ life and work shaped our relationship with the computer. The Man in the Machine is a provocative and sometimes startling re-evaluation of the legacy of an icon.

    The sides of Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

    • Steve Jobs from the suburbs to Apple
    • Former colleagues speaking on camera
    • The grief of millions who never met him

    Good for you if

    • you like a documentary that questions the legend of Steve Jobs.
    • you like seeing how one man ran the world's richest company.
    • you like a portrait of a man full of contradictions.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not hear about worker suicides at the factories that build iPhones.
    • you can't spend two hours with a man who denied his own daughter.

    About: ambition · technology · legacy

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  18. Lost in La Mancha 2002

    Documentary

    Fulton and Pepe's 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam's attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote off the ground. Back injuries, freakish storms, and more zoom in to sabotage the project.

    The sides of Lost in La Mancha

    • Terry Gilliam shooting Don Quixote in Spain
    • A flash flood on the set
    • A lead actor too injured to ride

    Good for you if

    • you like watching a real film shoot fall apart day by day.
    • you can laugh when storms, jets overhead and bad luck all pile up.
    • you like Terry Gilliam holding on to a dream he can't let go.

    Bad for you if

    • you need some hope, and can't watch a man's dream project crumble around him.
    • you need momentum. Much of the film is meetings, fittings and waiting for actors before the cameras roll.

    About: ambition · failure · filmmaking

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  19. The Five Obstructions 2003

    Documentary

    In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starring a man and women sitting in a box while a narrator poses questions about their relationship and humanity. Years later, Danish director Lars von Trier made a deal with Leth to remake his film five times, each under a different set of circumstances and with von Trier's strictly prescribed rules. As Leth completes each challenge, von Trier creates increasingly further elaborate stipulations.

    The sides of The Five Obstructions

    • Jørgen Leth remaking his own short film
    • Lars von Trier inventing the rules
    • One remake made as a cartoon

    Good for you if

    • you like a game between two directors that keeps getting stranger.
    • you're fascinated by Lars von Trier trying to break his mentor.
    • you enjoy two filmmakers sparring across a table.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles for the Danish parts.
    • you need to know at the end who won the game between the two men.

    About: creativity · constraints · mentorship

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  20. 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

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