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Re: FYC: Best Documentary
« Reply #70 on: April 21, 2010, 06:25:04 PM »










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Re: FYC: Best Documentary
« Reply #71 on: April 23, 2010, 04:51:44 PM »
For obvious reasons I will not be voting in this category.

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Re: FYC: Best Documentary
« Reply #72 on: April 26, 2010, 09:36:22 AM »
Submitted:

The Aristocrats
Bowling for Columbine
Dear Zachary
Fahrenheit 9/11
The Gleaners and I
Helvetica
An Inconvenient Truth
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Man on Wire
Spellbound
Waltz with Bashir
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Wordplay
Every Little Step
The Order of Myths

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Re: FYC: Best Documentary
« Reply #73 on: April 26, 2010, 06:16:36 PM »

Anvil! The Story of Anvil


Autism: The Musical


The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)


Bigger Stronger Faster*


Capturing the Friedmans


The Cove


Dave Chappelle’s Block Party


Deliver Us From Evil


Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room


Jesus Camp


The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters


Lost in La Mancha


Man on Wire


Murderball


My Kid Could Paint That


Sicko


Spellbound


Taxi to the Dark Side


Waltz With Bashir


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Re: FYC: Best Documentary
« Reply #74 on: April 26, 2010, 06:25:07 PM »
I love seeing Anvil, My Kid CPT and Young@Heart on that ballot!
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Re: FYC: Best Documentary
« Reply #75 on: April 26, 2010, 06:33:53 PM »

24 City (Jia Zhangke, 2008)


Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi, 2008)


Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003)


Children Underground (Edet Belzberg, 2001)


Dark Days (Marc Singer, 2000)


Domestic Violence (Frederick Wiseman, 2001)


Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)


Lake of Fire (Tony Kaye, 2006)


Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)


Mad Hot Ballroom (Marilyn Agrelo, 2005)


Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 2004)


No Direction Home (Martin Scorsese, 2005)


State Legislature (Frederick Wiseman, 2006)


Stevie (Steve James, 2002)


The Fog of War (Errol Morris, 2003)


The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon, 2007)


The Pinochet Case (Patricio Guzmán, 2002)


Up the Yangtze (Yung Chang, 2007)


Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)
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Re: FYC: Best Documentary
« Reply #76 on: April 26, 2010, 06:34:52 PM »
Here's my DOCUMENTARY ballot


Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Arctic Tale
Bowling For Columbine
Cove, The
Encounters at the End of the World
Fog of War, The
Food Inc.
Grizzly Man
In the Shadow of the Moon
It Might Get Loud
King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, The
March of the Penguins
Man on Wire
My Kid Could Paint That
Phantom Menace Review, The
Super Size Me
Touching The Void
Why We Fight
Winged Migration
Young@Heart

(the new ones for the index are bolded)
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Re: FYC: Best Documentary
« Reply #77 on: April 26, 2010, 06:43:31 PM »

24 City (Jia Zhangke, 2008)


Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)

It's a great list but these made me particularly happy :).

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Re: FYC: Best Documentary
« Reply #78 on: April 29, 2010, 03:02:46 PM »
I do not see many documentaries, so here is my short list of best:

A Complete History of My Sexual Failures
Aristocrats, The
Bowling For Columbine
Earth
Not Quite Hollywood
The Five Obstructions

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Re: FYC: Best Documentary
« Reply #79 on: May 05, 2010, 06:51:02 AM »
My list for Best Documentary:

Beaches of Agnes, The
Bright Leaves
Bus 174
Case of the Grinning Cat, The
Children Underground
Domestic Violence
Forever (2006, dir. Heddy Honigmann)
Gaea Girls
Helvetica
Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
Of Time and the City
Order of Myths, The
Runaway (2001, dir. Kim Longinotto)
Scratch
State Legislature
Up the Yangtze
West of the Tracks - Part 1: Rust
West of the Tracks - Part 2: Remnants
West of the Tracks - Part 3: Rails
When the Levees Broke
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