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  1. With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films. Director Jan Harlan, Kubrick's brother-in-law and sometime collaborator, interviews heavyweights like Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen and Sydney Pollack, who explain the influence of Kubrick classics like "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," and how he absorbed visual clues from disposable culture such as television commercials.

    The sides of Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film

    • Stanley Kubrick's life and films
    • Interviews with Jack Nicholson and others who worked with him
    • Home footage from his family

    Good for you if

    • you love Dr. Strangelove, 2001 and the films around them.
    • you want to know the man behind the legend from people who knew him.
    • you care about how every Kubrick frame was built.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit through almost two and a half hours of documentary.
    • you need a story, not a career told in interviews.

    About: obsession · creation · cinema

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  2. Cave of Forgotten Dreams 2010

    Documentary

    Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

    The sides of Cave of Forgotten Dreams

    • The Chauvet cave in southern France
    • The oldest known paintings by humans
    • Werner Herzog's voice in the dark

    Good for you if

    • you feel awe before horses painted more than thirty thousand years ago.
    • you want to see a prehistoric cave few people will ever enter.
    • you like rock walls lit by torchlight, filmed up close.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, not long silent shots of cave walls.
    • you roll your eyes at Herzog's strange musings and albino crocodiles.

    About: prehistory · art · time

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  3. The Velvet Underground 2021

    Documentary

    Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage.

    The sides of The Velvet Underground

    • Lou Reed, John Cale and the birth of a band
    • Andy Warhol's Factory in 1960s New York
    • Split screens full of archive footage

    Good for you if

    • you love the drone and noise of the Velvet Underground.
    • you like Todd Haynes cutting archive footage into split screens.
    • you want to be dropped into the New York avant-garde of the sixties.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand experimental films and art-school strangeness.
    • you find two hours of interviews and archives too much.

    About: art · rebellion · New York

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  4. Moonage Daydream 2022

    Documentary

    A cinematic odyssey featuring never-before-seen footage exploring David Bowie's creative and musical journey.

    The sides of Moonage Daydream

    • David Bowie in his own words
    • A collage of concerts, films and paintings
    • Ziggy Stardust to Berlin and beyond

    Good for you if

    • you like Bowie's songs loud and woven through the whole film.
    • you want a documentary that feels like a trip.
    • you like the strange, shape-shifting side of Bowie.

    Bad for you if

    • two hours and fifteen minutes of collage is too much for you.
    • you want a life explained. Bowie's thoughts on art and change come in fragments, with no narrator to sum up.

    About: reinvention · art · time

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  5. An intimate journey through the formative years of David Lynch's life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces the events that have helped to shape one of cinema's most enigmatic directors.

    The sides of David Lynch: The Art Life

    • David Lynch talking while he paints
    • A childhood in small town America
    • Art school in a dark Philadelphia

    Good for you if

    • you love Lynch and want to see where his strangeness comes from.
    • you like watching paintings take shape in his studio.
    • you like a portrait of an artist before he became famous.

    Bad for you if

    • you want answers. Lynch tells his memories and leaves them unexplained.
    • you need momentum, and long quiet shots of painting bore you.

    About: art · childhood · becoming yourself

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  6. For All Mankind 1989

    Documentary

    A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the missions and astronaut interviews, the documentary offers the viewpoint of the individuals who braved the remarkable journey to the moon and back.

    The sides of For All Mankind

    • NASA footage of the Apollo missions
    • Astronauts remembering in their own voices
    • A Brian Eno score

    Good for you if

    • you like the trip to the Moon told by the astronauts who made it.
    • you like seeing Earth from the Moon in real footage.
    • you like Brian Eno's ambient music over space images.

    Bad for you if

    • you need more drama than a calm, floating journey.
    • you find 1960s footage dated.

    About: exploration · awe · history

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  7. The Wild Blue Yonder 2005

    Documentary

    An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visitations to Earth and Earth's self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.

    The sides of The Wild Blue Yonder

    • An alien narrator from a dying planet
    • Real astronauts in orbit
    • Footage from under the Antarctic ice

    Good for you if

    • you like Werner Herzog turning real footage into a science fiction tale.
    • you like the feeling of drifting through space and ice.
    • you love dreamlike images of divers under the ice.

    Bad for you if

    • you need science fiction where the science holds up.
    • you need momentum. Herzog lingers for minutes on astronauts floating in orbit.

    About: exile · the end of a world · the search for a home

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  8. Nostalgia for the Light 2010

    Documentary

    In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.

    The sides of Nostalgia for the Light

    • Astronomers in Chile's Atacama Desert
    • Women searching the sand for their dead
    • Pinochet's political prisoners

    Good for you if

    • you like looking at the stars and thinking about where we come from.
    • you like a quiet, patient film that leaves room to think.
    • you want to understand how Chile lives with the Pinochet years.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't face mothers still searching for the remains of their children.

    About: memory · grief · the cosmos · justice

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  9. Burden of Dreams 1982

    Documentary

    The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.

    The sides of Burden of Dreams

    • Werner Herzog shooting Fitzcarraldo in the Amazon
    • A steamboat pulled over a mountain
    • A film crew facing accidents and delays

    Good for you if

    • you like watching a real film shoot slowly fall apart.
    • you like the Peruvian jungle filmed up close.
    • you like the sight of a whole steamboat hauled up a hill.

    Bad for you if

    • you find early 1980s footage dated.
    • you need a film that moves faster than a jungle shoot.

    About: obsession · filmmaking · nature

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  10. 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

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  11. Tim's Vermeer 2013

    Documentary

    Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning a decade, Jenison's adventure takes him to Holland, on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artista David Hockney, and eventually even to Buckingham Palace. The epic research project Jenison embarques on is as extraordinary as what he discovers.

    The sides of Tim's Vermeer

    • An inventor who has never painted
    • A room in Texas rebuilt like Vermeer's
    • Mirrors, lenses and years of patience

    Good for you if

    • you like a theory tested with real lenses and mirrors.
    • you like a centuries old question about how Vermeer painted.
    • you like Dutch painting from the 1600s.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, and months of painting wear you out.
    • you want Penn and Teller's stage comedy. Here they mostly watch a friend paint.

    About: art · obsession · patience

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  12. Finding Vivian Maier 2014

    Documentary

    Vivian Maier's photos were seemingly destined for obscurity, lost among the clutter of the countless objects she'd collected throughout her life. Instead these images have shaken the world of street photography and irrevocably changed the life of the man who brought them to the public eye. This film brings to life the interesting turns and travails of the improbable saga of John Maloof's discovery of Vivian Maier, unravelling this mysterious tale through her documentary films, photographs, odd collections and personal accounts from the people that knew her. What started as a blog to show her work quickly became a viral sensation in the photography world. Photos destined for the trash heap now line gallery exhibitions, a forthcoming book and this documentary film.

    The sides of Finding Vivian Maier

    • A nanny who secretly took thousands of photos
    • Boxes of negatives bought at an auction
    • The families she worked for remembering her

    Good for you if

    • you like piecing together who a secretive woman really was.
    • you love street photography of the American city in the fifties and sixties.
    • you like a real discovery told by the man who made it.

    Bad for you if

    • you want every question about her life answered.
    • you need more happening on screen than people talking about photos.

    About: art · privacy · recognition

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  13. As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.

    The sides of They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

    • Orson Welles making his last film
    • The Other Side of the Wind
    • Years of chaotic shooting and money troubles

    Good for you if

    • you want the real story behind a film shot over years and left unfinished.
    • you like a portrait of a stubborn filmmaker late in life.
    • you love old Hollywood and the era of Welles.

    Bad for you if

    • you need a story told in order, without a flood of archive footage.
    • you want a warm, easy watch rather than a chaotic shoot.

    About: ambition · legacy · art

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  14. The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O'Bannon and H.R. Giger. A contemplation on the symbiotic collaborative process of movie-making, the power of myth, and our collective unconscious.

    The sides of Memory: The Origins of Alien

    • The making of Ridley Scott's Alien
    • H.R. Giger's dark art
    • Dan O'Bannon's script and old myths

    Good for you if

    • you like studying the art of H.R. Giger and Francis Bacon.
    • you want to know how the chestburster scene came to be.
    • you like digging into myths and nightmares behind a monster.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather watch Alien itself than an essay about it.
    • you want a light, fun behind the scenes film.

    About: creation · myth · fear

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  15. The Salt of the Earth 2014

    Documentary

    During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes: a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty. Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last journeys, and by Wim Wenders, a photographer himself.

    The sides of The Salt of the Earth

    • Forty years of photographs by one man
    • A gold mine crowded with thousands of workers
    • A dead family farm replanted into a forest

    Good for you if

    • you can look at black and white photographs for nearly two hours.
    • you want the man who took the pictures to tell you where he was standing.
    • you like whales, glaciers and a forest growing back.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't look at photographs of famine and massacre.
    • you won't read subtitles while the photographer speaks his own language.

    About: humanity · despair · renewal

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  16. Lessons of Darkness 1992

    Documentary

    Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.

    The sides of Lessons of Darkness

    • Kuwait's oil fields burning after the Gulf War
    • Firefighters capping the wells
    • Werner Herzog filming Earth like another planet

    Good for you if

    • you like burning oil fields filmed like an alien world.
    • you like images carried by Wagner and Verdi.
    • you like Werner Herzog's strange, poetic way of seeing.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum. Long shots of burning wells glide by with barely a word.
    • you want things explained. Herzog never lays out the war and narrates it like science fiction.

    About: war · apocalypse · landscape

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  17. Ghosts of the Abyss 2003

    Documentary

    With a team of the world's foremost historic and marine experts as well as friend Bill Paxton, James Cameron embarks on an unscripted adventure back to the wreck of the Titanic where nearly 1,500 souls lost their lives almost a century ago.

    The sides of Ghosts of the Abyss

    • James Cameron diving back to the Titanic
    • Small robots exploring inside the wreck
    • Bill Paxton seeing it for the first time

    Good for you if

    • you like the sight of the Titanic lit up in the deep dark.
    • you want to see the grand staircase and cabins where real passengers lived.
    • you like real dives and real submarines, not a reconstruction.

    Bad for you if

    • you need more happening than slow passes along a wreck.
    • you can't think about the 1,500 people who died there.

    About: memory · exploration · the sea

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  18. This documentary explores the mystery surrounding the death of movie icon Marilyn Monroe through previously unheard interviews with her inner circle.

    The sides of The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes

    • Unheard interviews with Marilyn's inner circle
    • The night of her death in 1962
    • Hollywood stardom and its price

    Good for you if

    • you like hearing the people who actually knew Marilyn Monroe.
    • you want to go back over the questions around her death.
    • you like old Hollywood told through archive footage.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not dwell on a lonely death and a troubled life.
    • you need a clear answer, not theories.

    About: fame · loneliness · secrets

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  19. This remarkable journey across our planet and universe explores how meteorites, shooting stars, and deep impacts have awoken our wonder about other realms—and make us rethink our destinies.

    The sides of Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

    • Werner Herzog chasing meteorites
    • Craters from Mexico to Australia
    • Scientists and believers who read the sky

    Good for you if

    • you like Herzog in awe before giant craters and the night sky.
    • you like hearing where shooting stars come from.
    • you like the odd people and rituals that gather around meteorites.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, and Herzog takes his time.
    • you want explosions, not crater visits.

    About: the cosmos · belief · curiosity

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  20. Side by Side 2012

    Documentary

    Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.

    The sides of Side by Side

    • Keanu Reeves interviewing directors
    • Film stock against digital cameras
    • Nolan, Lynch and Cameron on how they shoot

    Good for you if

    • you care about how every frame is shot.
    • you like hearing Nolan, Lynch and Scorsese argue film versus digital.
    • you want to know how cinema changed when the cameras did.

    Bad for you if

    • you need things to happen, not an hour and a half of camera talk.
    • you want people and their story, not a debate about sensors.

    About: craft · change · cinema

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