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Author Topic: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: FYC and Your Lists  (Read 61692 times)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #60 on: November 11, 2010, 08:24:59 AM »
Maybe my #1...
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #61 on: November 11, 2010, 11:00:29 AM »
Between the Filmspots, Directors, Performances, and everything else, shouldn't this be pushed into '11?  If I happen to watch a documentary in the next month, it's almost assuredly going to be for Filmspot reasons only.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #62 on: November 11, 2010, 12:08:19 PM »
I just want to emphasize this again for clarity. The submission of the ballot is merely provisional. It doesn't determine the rankings. People submitting their list just helps establish a baseline of films. I think people are taking this first part way too seriously and thus feeling overly intimidated by it. My goal is to get the set of 150 (or so) films nailed down and then give people multiple months to catch up on some of them in advance of the more important rating phase once these other lists and the filmspots have been sorted. So just rank some of the documentaries you've seen and loved and don't worry about catching up with those you haven't seen yet for the time being.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #63 on: November 11, 2010, 12:47:08 PM »
I just want to emphasize this again for clarity. The submission of the ballot is merely provisional. It doesn't determine the rankings. People submitting their list just helps establish a baseline of films. I think people are taking this first part way too seriously and thus feeling overly intimidated by it. My goal is to get the set of 150 (or so) films nailed down and then give people multiple months to catch up on some of them in advance of the more important rating phase once these other lists and the filmspots have been sorted. So just rank some of the documentaries you've seen and loved and don't worry about catching up with those you haven't seen yet for the time being.

You should probably emphasize this more in the first post of this thread.  :)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #64 on: November 11, 2010, 12:55:35 PM »
Better?

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« Reply #65 on: November 11, 2010, 12:58:33 PM »
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #66 on: November 11, 2010, 01:48:29 PM »
Taxi to the Dark Side and One Day in September should absolutely be on the main list.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #67 on: November 11, 2010, 03:26:46 PM »
Some good ones not yet on the big board. I'd give all of these at least a 7. That's the standard, right?

24 City (Jia Zhangke, 2008)
A Day in the Death of Donny B (Carl Fick, 1969)
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi, 2008)
Baseball (Ken Burns, 1994)
Children Underground (Edet Belzberg, 2001)
Cocksucker Blues (Robert Frank, 1972)
Frontline: The Age of AIDS (Greg Barker William Cran, 2006)
Frontline: Failure to Protect (Barak Goodman, 2003)
Frontline: The New Asylums (Miri Navasky Karen O'Connor, 2005)
High School (Frederick Wiseman, 1968)
Housing Problems (1935)
Let It Be (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1970)
Living on the River Agano (Sato Makoto, 1992)
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 2004)
A Perfect Candidate (R.J. Cutler and David Van Taylor, 1996)
Primary (Robert Drew, 1960)
Public Housing (Frederick Wiseman, 1997)
Roger & Me (Michael Moore, 1989)
Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984)
The Decline of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris, 1981)
The House Is Black (Forough Farrokhzad, 1962)
The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978)
The New Mayor (Derek Mazur, Ian Elkin, and Bob Lower, 1980)
The Old Believers (John Paskievich, 1988)
The Pinochet Case (Patricio Guzmán, 2002)
The War Room  (Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker, 1993)
Up the Yangtze (Yung Chang, 2007)
Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)
Wattstax (Mel Stuart, 1973)
Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh, 1970)
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #68 on: November 11, 2010, 03:40:13 PM »
Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984)

I know that defining "documentary" is a tricky business, but I have reservations about this.  I'm not sure exactly what line to draw here without excluding things that do fit into the documentary genre IMO (Baraka, The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes, Woodstock) but it just doesn't seem right to have a purely performance-based film in this thing.

And don't get me wrong... I love Stop Making Sense.  It'd probably be my #1 if I thought it fit.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #69 on: November 11, 2010, 03:48:13 PM »
That did occur to me, not yet sure how I feel about it. I'm inclined to consider concert films as a type of documentary, but I'm interested to hear what others think.
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