i lovez talking about films :3
im just going to copy paste my post on the documentary rec thread on intpf here for now bc lazy
ANNA: FROM SIX TILL EIGHTEEN(1993):
Director Nikita Mikhalkov documents the history of Russia from 1980 to 1991 by annually asking his daughter Anna such questions as “What do you love the most?”, “What scares you the most?”, “What do you want above anything” and “What do you hate the most?”
mubi review i like: "child alienation through ideology, emotional direction of the young according to the state agenda. how do you feel when you realize that your daughter is genuinely distraught by the death of the dictator and that she spies on you sniffing the slightest sign of political sabotage ?"
HIGH SCHOOL(1968):
mubi review(not by me): "The mechanisms and institutions of childhood development all conspire to do what society does: to instill deference to authority, suspicion of dissent, intolerance of idiosyncrasy, and an attitude of uniform compliance to accepted norms with the instinct to segregate and deride anyone who deviates from them. Wiseman captures every aspect of this process merely by caring to observe it."
GADAJACE GLOWY(1980):
<this one's a personal fav
15 min long, People of all ages are filmed as they are asked when they were born, what they are, and what they would like the most; the film assembles their responses with straight cuts from youngest to oldest (one to a hundred)
WINGED MIGRATION(2001):
Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents.
SANS SOLEIL(1983):
another favorite
A complex journey into time and memory, Chris Marker’s mind-bending free-form travelogue roams from Africa to Japan, guided by associative editing and an unnamed narrator.
LA SOUFRIÈRE(1977):
In 1976 volcanic scientists believed that the Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe was to about to blow up with the explosive power of five or six atomic bombs. The entire town was evacuated, except one peasant who refused to leave. And of course our intrepid Herzog…
THE HISTORY OF A BUTTERFLY: A ROMANCE OF INSECT LIFE(1910):
A 1910 British short black-and-white silent documentary film showing the life-cycle of the butterfly.
TOUCHING THE VOID(2003):
The true story of two climbers and their perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
THE EMPEROR'S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON(1987):
In this landmark documentary, Kenzo Okuzaki, a veteran of Japan’s WWII campaign in New Guinea, painstakingly tracks down the former military officers responsible for the strange deaths of several of his fellow soldiers.
mubi review(not by me): "like a real-life under the flag of the rising sun, and all the more shocking for that. sometimes okuzaki veered into megalomania, but you have to respect his tenacity. i loved how he would entertain the typical customs of japanese politeness, but eventually blow up when his subjects kept using it as a shield."
