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  1. 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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  2. A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.

    The sides of No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

    • Bob Dylan from 1961 to 1966
    • Greenwich Village folk clubs
    • Fans booing when he goes electric

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear Dylan's songs as they were first played.
    • you like the sixties, from the folk scene to the protest years.
    • you like a life story told by the people who were there.

    Bad for you if

    • three and a half hours is too much for you.
    • you find black and white footage from the sixties dated.

    About: reinvention · fame · the voice of a generation

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 78/52 2017

    Documentary

    The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the story of the man behind the curtain and his greatest obsession.

    The sides of 78/52

    • The shower scene of Psycho
    • 78 camera setups and 52 cuts
    • Filmmakers and editors on Hitchcock

    Good for you if

    • you like learning how one scene from 1960 changed horror films.
    • you like seeing how a single scene is built shot by shot.
    • you like details you only catch frame by frame.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch the same stabbing scene over and over.
    • you want a story with people, not one scene taken apart.

    About: filmmaking · fear · craft

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  6. Jodorowsky's Dune 2013

    Documentary

    In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influential novel Dune (1969) for the big screen. After investing two years, and millions of dollars, the gigantic project ended in failure; but the artists Jodorowsky brought together to carry it out continued to work together, and ended up laying the foundations for modern science fiction cinema.

    The sides of Jodorowsky's Dune

    • A director preparing Dune in 1974
    • A book of storyboards for a film nobody shot
    • Dalí and Mick Jagger in the cast

    Good for you if

    • you want the man himself telling you how he lost the film.
    • you like pages of Moebius drawings and Giger designs on screen.
    • you like the feeling of a film too big to exist.

    Bad for you if

    • you want something happening on screen and not people remembering a project.
    • you can't take a man casting Salvador Dalí as a galactic emperor.

    About: ambition · failure · cinema

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  7. Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

    The sides of The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

    • Film editors talking about their craft
    • Clips from a century of movies
    • The cut that changes a scene

    Good for you if

    • you like seeing how silent films and classics were put together.
    • you like hearing real editors like Thelma Schoonmaker explain cuts you never noticed.
    • you like going back to your favorite films to spot the cuts.

    Bad for you if

    • you want a documentary that grips like a thriller.
    • you want to follow one person's story, not a parade of interviews.

    About: filmmaking · craft · invisible work

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  8. Hitchcock/Truffaut 2015

    Documentary

    Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.

    The sides of Hitchcock/Truffaut

    • Recordings of Hitchcock talking with Truffaut
    • Scorsese, Fincher and others on Hitchcock
    • Clips from Vertigo and Psycho

    Good for you if

    • you love Hitchcock's classics and want to see them again.
    • you like two directors talking shop about how a scene works.
    • you like hearing filmmakers explain what they learned from one book.

    Bad for you if

    • you want the private life of Hitchcock the man. This is about how he built his scenes.
    • you'd rather feel the suspense of Psycho than hear how it was made.

    About: filmmaking · suspense · influence

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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. Hitler: A Career 1977

    Documentary

    A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.

    The sides of Hitler: A Career

    • Archive footage of Hitler's rise
    • Crowds at Nazi rallies
    • The Weimar Republic sliding into dictatorship

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how the Weimar Republic fell to the Nazis.
    • you're interested in how crowds are swayed by propaganda.
    • you want the story told through footage from the time.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours of archive footage is too much for you.
    • you can't sit through so many images of Nazi crowds and war.

    About: propaganda · mass psychology · dictatorship

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  11. 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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  12. The Century of the Self 2002

    Documentary

    The legacy of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud informs the lives of people throughout the world even to this day, though it's a phenomenon to which most are unaware. The film is an exhaustive examination of his theories on human desire, and how they're applied to platforms such as advertising, consumerism and politics.

    The sides of The Century of the Self

    • Freud's nephew inventing public relations
    • Advertising that sells to our desires
    • Politicians governing by focus group

    Good for you if

    • you like learning how Freud's ideas shaped advertising and politics.
    • you like the true story of Edward Bernays turning his uncle's theories into marketing.
    • you like a century of history told through archive footage.

    Bad for you if

    • four hours of archive and interviews is too much for you.
    • you find grainy old archive footage dated.

    About: consumerism · desire · democracy

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  13. The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

    The sides of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

    • A Hollywood star who was also an inventor
    • A wartime patent for radio frequency hopping
    • Her own voice on rediscovered tapes

    Good for you if

    • you like learning that a Hollywood star co-invented frequency hopping.
    • you like a life that crosses Vienna in the 1930s and Hollywood in the 1940s.
    • you like a portrait of a woman nobody took seriously beyond her face.

    Bad for you if

    • you need more than interviews and archive clips.
    • you find old Hollywood archive footage dated.

    About: genius · beauty · recognition

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  14. The Crown 2016

    Series

    The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

    The sides of The Crown

    • Elizabeth II from her young reign to old age
    • Weekly meetings with her Prime Ministers
    • A royal family torn between duty and love

    Good for you if

    • you like the second half of the 20th century seen from inside Buckingham Palace.
    • you like a family drama where a sister, a husband and children all come second to the Crown.
    • you like who really decides things between the palace and Downing Street.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, and many episodes are quiet conversations in palace rooms.
    • six seasons of royal life is too much for you.

    About: duty · family · the monarchy

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  15. An intense portrait of the iconic filmmaker, writer, actor, comedian and musician Woody Allen: his life, family and friends; his writing and directing habits, and his relationship with performers.

    The sides of Woody Allen: A Documentary

    • Woody Allen at his typewriter
    • His stand-up years in New York
    • Actors who worked with him

    Good for you if

    • you like seeing how Woody Allen writes and directs.
    • you like his old stand-up jokes and TV clips.
    • you like going back to Annie Hall and Manhattan through clips and stories from the set.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit through three hours on one filmmaker.
    • you want more than interviews and film clips.

    About: creativity · work · comedy

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  16. Documentary on the legendary martial artist Bruce Lee, with a focus on the production of his unfinished film Game of Death. Using interviews and behind-the-scenes footage, Lee aficionado John Little paints a portrait of the world's most famous action hero, concluding with a new cut of Game of Death's action finale, reconstructed from Lee's notes and recently-recovered footage.

    The sides of Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey

    • Bruce Lee's own notes for Game of Death
    • Footage recovered from the unfinished film
    • The final fights recut by John Little

    Good for you if

    • you want to see Bruce Lee's last fight scenes put back together.
    • you like hearing how Bruce Lee thought about fighting and philosophy.
    • you like seventies martial arts footage.

    Bad for you if

    • you want Bruce Lee's family and private life. This one stays with his work on Game of Death.
    • you want polished images. Much of this is grainy outtakes and raw footage.

    About: martial arts · philosophy · legacy

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  17. 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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  18. The first documentary feature to explore the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer.

    The sides of Bobby Fischer Against the World

    • A Brooklyn chess prodigy
    • The 1972 match against Spassky in Reykjavik
    • A champion who vanishes into paranoia

    Good for you if

    • you like the true story of a genius who never fit in.
    • you like the Cold War played out on a chessboard.
    • you're drawn to an obsessive mind, brilliant and troubled.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't bear to watch a man's mental decline.
    • you need more movement than archive footage of chess games.

    About: obsession · genius · isolation

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  19. As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before. In "The Future Is Unwritten", from British film director Julien Temple, Joe Strummer is revealed not just as a legend or musician, but as a true communicator of our times. Drawing on both a shared punk history and the close personal friendship which developed over the last years of Joe's life, Julien Temple's film is a celebration of Joe Strummer - before, during and after the Clash.

    The sides of Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

    • The frontman of the Clash
    • Punk in late 1970s Britain
    • Friends remembering him around campfires

    Good for you if

    • you love the Clash and punk.
    • you want Joe Strummer's whole life, before and after the band.
    • you like a portrait of a man more than a list of hits.

    Bad for you if

    • two hours is a lot for you for one musician.
    • you need momentum. The film keeps stopping at campfires where friends trade memories.

    About: punk · rebellion · friendship

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  20. Spielberg 2017

    Documentary

    A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.

    The sides of Spielberg

    • Steven Spielberg telling his own story
    • From Jaws to Lincoln
    • His parents and his childhood

    Good for you if

    • you want Steven Spielberg telling his own story, film by film.
    • you like hearing how his parents' divorce runs through his films.
    • you like fifty years of Hollywood seen through one career.

    Bad for you if

    • you find two and a half hours of interviews too much.
    • you roll your eyes at filmmakers praising each other.

    About: childhood · ambition · cinema

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