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Awesome thread. Been meaning to have this conversation with many. Thanks!

May I recommend : This Is Free : Maxwell StreetA great little documentary about Maxwell Street, with a short follow-up I think someone did in the 90's or something.TONS of vintage footage, and most of the damn thing is music.

It's frighteningly similar to the documentary about Shane McGowan, as they're both immensely talented dudes who live their lives in a drug and booze induced haze. Andre is barely functional as he bounces between tours, the hospital and seedy motel rooms. And it's amazing how many pretty young hipster girls throw themselves at a foul-mouthed 70 year old man. His life serves as either an inspiration or warning depending upon your perspective.

Frances Farmer's last filmThe Party Crashers (1958)

Lots of great, classic Westerns, if you're into that sort thing. For me they are like the cinematic equivalent of comfort food. Lots of Attenborough on there as well, always (well, mostly) good.Firstly, do yourself a favor and match this:These are both great tragic adventure docs:

offal wrote:Saw the documentary "The Captains" last night on Netflix. I'm not a Star Trek fan at all, but as a documentary junkie, I decided to give it a try. Wow. The movie, written and directed by Shatner, is so pathologically self-absorbed that it gets pretty hilarious at times. Found myself squirming and wincing on his behalf more than once. Can't really say it's good, but parts are so-bad-it's-good.I love Star Trek and I had to shut it off after about 20 minutes.Watching Jericho and The League right now. Neither is horrible. Jericho is kind of a poor man's BSG.

Just watched a documentary on The Rock-Afire Explosion. It might be called the same. Kind of amusing, kind of depressing.

The Great Silence on Prime. Maybe my favorite spaghetti western.

VaticanShotglass wrote:cneutron wrote:HBO recently reran the entire series, and I caught about 1/3 of it. I was blown away by how demonstrably monstrous some of the characters you root for are, ESPECIALLY Tony. Maybe I had rose colored glasses on about the narrative. It hit in the same way, and the balance between lionization and villainy is WAY more on the villain side than I remember. Maybe i'm just older and have less interest in male aggression these days. It actually made me appreciate the show more, in the same way that I do Breaking Bad. You are still rooting for Walter, even as he's as he's turned into a complete dark hat. Very interesting. I really need to see The Sopranos again as it has been too long. I'll likely experience it, like you did, differently with older eyes. I really want to watch it the same time as my kid brother watches it for the first time. He and I may have to get that HBO streaming service for this experiment alone.to be fair, although the morality was still very much less in question... holy crap. It's held up wonderfully. I wish I had had time to watch the whole thing beginning to end. I was stunned by how much I had forgotten about the last season.like: Steve Buscemi