Showing posts with label Documentary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Documentary. Show all posts
03 July, 2026

There's a Carolina Chocolate Drops documentary!

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It's called  Don’t Get Trouble in Your Mind . Here's the trailer. It looks mighty fine.
04 June, 2026

Song of the day, 4 Juni 2026

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I may watch Errol Morris ' latest documentary,  CHAOS: The Manson Murders , tonight. I have to grill chicken first.
24 January, 2025

SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

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Ooh! There's a documentary coming out next month about Sly and the Family Stone called SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) . Unf...
19 December, 2024

IN DORSET NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM!

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This looks like a fun documentary and I am jealous of folks who got to see the show. Alien On Stage is a Documentary about a unique crew of...
12 December, 2024

Errol Morris & Jacob Soboroff on Separated

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Perhaps our greatest living documentarian (and University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus), Errol Morris , has a new movie out called Separated...
03 December, 2024

The Corona Diaries Vol. 118 - Prelude: Look at the animals - aren't you glad to be one?

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    {Now read more in #118 .}
14 June, 2024

IMAX docs return for the summer

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I heard some good news: our AMC cinema out in Fitchburg with an IMAX screen is bringing back a series of documentaries this summer . While i...
02 February, 2024

The Past Is Not Through With Anselm Kiefer

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Maybe 10 or 15 minutes in, I thought to myself how much I was enjoying a documentary that was stylistically 180 degrees from Ken Burns. Rath...
21 January, 2024

At the movies with Piper

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Piper and I watched Gunda today and she really got into it for a spell.   She was napping by the time that last scene started. My eyes were...
01 November, 2023

The Corona Diaries Vol. 96: She wore a kraanbere beret

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(mid-June 2023) (Watch the prelude .) Leaving Trego after a couple hikes, I headed south to Spooner. I had been there many times but probab...
30 August, 2023

It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here

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Recently there were a couple of screenings of Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd and of course I was in the audie...
15 April, 2023

WFF '23: Zoo Lock Down (and Margie Soudek's Salt and Pepper Shakers)

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After having missed last year's Wisconsin Film Festival due to Covid, I was quite excited for this year's edition. My festival bega...
22 January, 2023

Nosidam - Bizarro World

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I just finished watching a movie that has some old footage of a snowball fight purported to have taken place here in Madison of December 197...
12 January, 2023

The Acid Queen

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Unfortunately, Errol Morris ' latest, My Psychedelic Love Story , never made it to theaters (at least not here) nor is it available on D...
04 January, 2023

A Life in Pictures

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    Stanley Kubrick is one of my favorite directors and 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of my favorite films of all-time. Seeing it on an Ultr...
02 December, 2022

Harvest Time

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I saw the new Neil Young documentary last night. Harvest Time chronicles the recording of what is probably his most popular album, Harvest ...
31 March, 2014

The Search for General Tso

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This looks amusing. Have the filmmakers solved the mystery of General Tso's Chicken? The Search for General Tso - Trailer from Wicke...
01 January, 2014

Frederick Wiseman on At Berkeley

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Frederick Wiseman is an American institution. He's a pioneer of documentary cinema and, at age 84 (Today is his birthday, in fact. Hap...
18 November, 2013

Playing With Fire: Lessons of Darkness by Werner Herzog

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Earlier this month Werner Herzog's Lessons of Darkness from 1992 screened as part of the Tales from Planet Earth film festival which ...
05 November, 2013

More Polish Films

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I noted earlier that the Madison Polish Film Festival has announced dates and films. It was my hope that Aftermath and/or 1939: The Secr...