Suggest a documentary...

[sarahh]

My husband and I watched Super Size Me this summer and really enjoyed it. We would like to add some documentaries to our Netflix cue but don't really know of any besides Murder Ball and March of the Penguins. Anyone have any suggestions?

[southerner]

have you seen Farenheit 911?
Bowling for Columbine?

[alisong]

Born into Brothels

[southerner]

I want to see Paperclips.

[WestieMomma]

Mad, Hot Ballroom

It's about the program they have in NYC public schools to teach 5th graders ballroom dancing...it great! I laughed and cried! You must rent it!

[Sevilla]

Balseros. It's about Cuban refugees. I showed it to my high school Spanish classes at the end of last year and they really liked it. It's a really interesting look at immigration, politics, and how one's expectations affect your adjustment to a new culture.

Spellbound is another one that was pretty interesting.

[WestieMomma]

Spellbound is another good one! Good suggestion Sevilla!

[maggieb]

Buena Vista Social Club
DH recommends The Smashing Machine

[sublime311]

I've heard really wonderful things about Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.

[doradora]

I definitely second Born into Brothels and SpellBound! And also want to add My Architect -- one of my favorite movies of all from last year.

[KarenS]

I'll second Born Into Brothels and Paperclips. Also check out:

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
Hotel Rwanda
War Photographer
The Magdalen Sisters (not strictly documentary, but based on the real lives of the women involved)
When We Were Kings
Children Underground

[ausi2b]

I'll second Mad Hot Ballroom. The kids were so cute!!

[Rosebud]

Another big thumbs up for Spellbound. Loved it.

Murderball is the best movie I've seen this year. I'm hoping it wins the best docu Oscar.

Some more recommended documentaries:

Capturing the Friedmans
Roger & Me (my favorite Michael Moore docu)
Harlan County, USA (the movie that first got me into docus in college-- excellent!)
Trekkies
Riding Giants
Lost in La Mancha
Grizzly Man
Control Room
The Fog of War

Enjoy!

[craftyT]

I love documentaries too - I actually think it's one category of the Oscars that I know, if nominated, I should see it...

Here's a "short" list of nominations from 1990-2004 - It may spark some reviews from our fellow CCers :)

1990 (63rd)
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
* American Dream -- Barbara Kopple and Arthur Cohn, Producers
Berkeley in the Sixties -- Mark Kitchell, Producer
Building Bombs -- Mark Mori and Susan Robinson, Producers
Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade -- Judith Montell, Producer
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey -- Robert Hillmann and Eugene Corr, Producers


1991 (64th)
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
Death on the Job -- Vince DiPersio and William Guttentag, Producers
Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House -- Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond, Producers
* In the Shadow of the Stars -- Allie Light and Irving Saraf, Producers
The Restless Conscience -- Hava Kohav Beller, Producer
Wild by Law -- Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey, Producers


1992 (65th)
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker -- David Haugland, Producer
Fires of Kuwait -- Sally Dundas, Producer
Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II -- William Miles and Nina Rosenblum, Producers
Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann -- Margaret Smilow and Roma Baran, Producers
* The Panama Deception -- Barbara Trent and David Kasper, Producers


1993 (66th)
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter -- David Paperny, Arthur Ginsberg
Children of Fate -- Susan Todd, Andrew Young
For Better or For Worse -- David Collier, Betsy Thompson
* I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School -- Susan Raymond, Alan Raymond
The War Room -- D. A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus


1994 (67th)
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter -- Deborah Hoffmann
D-Day Remembered -- Charles Guggenheim
Freedom on My Mind -- Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford
A Great Day in Harlem -- Jean Bach
* Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision -- Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders


1995 (68th)
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
* Anne Frank Remembered -- Jon Blair
The Battle over Citizen Kane -- Thomas Lennon, Michael Epstein
Fiddlefest--Roberta Tzavaras and Her East Harlem Violin Program -- Allan Miller, Walter Scheuer
Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream -- Mike Tollin, Fredric Golding
Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern -- Jeanne Jordan, Steven Ascher


1996 (69th)
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story -- Susan W. Dryfoos
Mandela -- Jo Menell, Angus Gibson
Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse -- Anne Belle, Deborah Dickson
Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press -- Rick Goldsmith
* When We Were Kings -- Leon Gast, David Sonenberg


1997 (70th)
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life -- Michael Paxton
Colors Straight Up -- Michèle Ohayon, Julia Schachter
4 Little Girls -- Spike Lee, Sam Pollard
* The Long Way Home -- Rabbi Marvin Hier, Richard Trank
Waco: The Rules of Engagement -- Dan Gifford, William Gazecki


1998 (71st)
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
Dancemaker -- Matthew Diamond, Jerry Kupfer
The Farm: Angola, U.S.A. -- Jonathan Stack, Liz Garbus
* The Last Days -- James Moll, Ken Lipper
Lenny Bruce: Swear To Tell the Truth -- Robert B. Weide
Regret to Inform -- Barbara Sonneborn, Janet Cole


1999 (72nd)
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
Buena Vista Social Club -- Wim Wenders, Ulrich Felsberg
Genghis Blues -- Roko Belic, Adrian Belic
On the Ropes -- Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen
* One Day in September -- Arthur Cohn, Kevin Macdonald
Speaking in Strings -- Paola di Florio, Lilibet Foster


2000 (73rd)
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
* Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport -- Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer
Legacy -- Tod Lending
Long Night's Journey into Day -- Frances Reid, Deborah Hoffmann
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy -- Barak Goodman, Daniel Anker
Sound and Fury -- Josh Aronson, Roger Weisberg


2001 (74th)
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
Children Underground -- Edet Belzberg
LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton -- Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson
* Murder on a Sunday Morning -- Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Denis Poncet
Promises -- Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg
War Photographer -- Christian Frei


2002 (75th)
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
* Bowling for Columbine -- Michael Moore, Michael Donovan
Daughter from Danang -- Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco
Prisoner of Paradise -- Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender
Spellbound -- Jeffrey Blitz, Sean Welch
Winged Migration -- Jacques Perrin


2003 (76th)
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
Balseros -- Carlos Bosch and Josep Maria Domenech
Capturing the Friedmans -- Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling
* The Fog of War -- Errol Morris and Michael Williams
My Architect -- Nathaniel Kahn and Susan R. Behr
The Weather Underground -- Sam Green and Bill Siegel


2004 (77th)
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
* Born into Brothels -- Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski
The Story of the Weeping Camel -- Luigi Falorni and Byambasuren Davaa
Super Size Me -- Morgan Spurlock
Tupac: Resurrection -- Lauren Lazin and Karolyn Ali
Twist of Faith -- Kirby Dick and Eddie Schmidt

[stochasticgirl]

I can't believe no one's mentioned "Fast, Cheap & Out of Control"! What a GREAT documentary. It takes my breath away just thinking about it. An Amazon reviewer puts it quite nicely: Fast, Cheap and Out of Control is an engagingly intertwined documentary of how a topiary gardener, lion tamer, mole rat biologist and robot scientist attempt to interact with and understand the natural world around them. Errol Morris weaves the different stories together, both narratively and visually, in a manner that at first seems chaotic. Ultimately, however, the film makes broad and deep connections between these very different endeavors.

[sarahh]

Wow...thanks for all of these great suggestions! I have already added most of them to my Netflix queue!

[southerner]

teresa2mike, nice find!

[craftyT]

I now have documentaries on the brain... :D

Last night I saw that the Sundance channel has a docu day (from what I gather, I think it's every Monday night). Next Monday they are showing The Corporation (http://www.thecorporation.com/index.php)... I've heard great things about this book and imagine the film will be just as interesting.

Here's an excerpt:
SYNOPSIS
THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda, illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, The Corporation includes forty interviews with corporate insiders and critics - including Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.

Winner of 24 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS, 10 of them AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS including the AUDIENCE AWARD for DOCUMENTARY in WORLD CINEMA at the 2004 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. The long-awaited DVD, available now in Australia and coming in March to North America, contains over 8 hour of additional footage.

The film is based on the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan.

[thelittlebabu]

IMAX films/documentaries are released on DVD and are very interesting, albeit shorter than your average running time. The filming is usually breathtaking. "Everest" is a really good one and is a must-see if you then read "Into Thin Air".

[Phen]

A wonderful, wonderful documentary is Best Boy (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001GWAU6/qid=1134534250/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-8605005-7376100?s=dvd&v=glance&n=130/). It won an Oscar in 1980.

~ Phen

[jnettie]

Not stictly a documentary, but "Winged Migration" is a beautiful film.

I'm a huge Michael Moore fan myself and would certainly suggest in addition to "Roger and Me", "The Big One", and second "Bowling for Columbine." I think "Roger and Me" is the best, since it was his first and is the closest to his heart.

Just saw "March of the Penguins" this weekend - so good! Penguins are my favorite wild animal!

Then there's all those PBS 10 hour documentaries. If you can get any of the "American Experience" ones, those are great. There's the Ken Burns "New York" doc which is excelent.

There's one about modern dance choreographer Paul Taylor, but I can't remember what it's called. A friend of mine helped work on this - she was the Taylor Company's archivist at the time.

[kam]

I second Capturing the Friedmans. Chilling film and it seems that everyone comes out of it thinking differently on whether they were guilty or not.

[coloradogrl]

Capturing the Friedmans was really good but it really did mess with your head alittle bit! I still dont know what I think?
I say a movie called Stevie on Thanksgiving and it was good but sad. It was about a guy who was a big brother to this young boy and then goes back several years later....Stevie is an adult. He just goes back to see how his life is but when he gets there all hell breaks lose over a course of 5 years. I rented it from Hollywood video

I also like some docs. that HBO put out!

[LyLMyssChaos]

One word of caution, having seen Roger & Me several times and lived in Flint before, during and after the filming of that documentary, although it is entertaining, and filmed in documentary style. I would be hesitant to say it is truly a documentary. A lot of the "facts" are very innacurrate and twisted around to make the film more interesting. I even know of two people that were in the film and after having seen it, they said admitted that how what they said was portrayed was not how they said it. If that makes any sense? I am not a Michael Moore fan, I will admit it, but I did enjoy Roger & Me for entertainment, I just wouldn't watch it for anything more than entertainment without investigating the "facts" yourself.

[littlemia]

Devil's Playground- about the Amish rite of passage, Rumspringa.

[amd218]

Some of my faves are:

Dogtown and Z Boys (NOT to be confused with the feature Lords of Dogtown).

Dark Days - about the homeless in NYC living underneath in an abandoned train tunnel. It was very haunting.

Mad Hot Ballroom - I just adore this movie

Control Room - a interesting look into the Al Jazeera network. Just shows you that there are always two sides to the story.

March of the Penguins - how can you NOT like this movie!!!

[amd218]

Jnettie -- I LOVE Ken Burns!!! He's amazing!!!

[LyLMyssChaos]

For those of you that have seen March of the Penguins....do you think it can hold the attention of a 2 1/2 year old?? I think my daughter would like it, but I'm not sure.

[Rosebud]

We just watched Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and it was really interesting. I definitely recommend it.

[Rosebud]

Also wanted to recommend Why We Fight. DH and I found it really compelling. There are some really interesting interviews in there, including a lot of feedback from John McCain.

IMDB synopsis:
He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests. Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.

[Rico'sAlice]

The Future of Food.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427276/
THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade. From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca, Mexico, this film gives a voice to farmers whose lives and livelihoods have been negatively impacted by this new technology. The health implications, government policies and push towards globalization are all part of the reason why many people are alarmed about the introduction of genetically altered crops into our food supply. Shot on location in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, The Future of Food examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world's food system. The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing organic and sustainable agriculture as real solutions to the farm crisis today. The Future of Food reveals that there is a revolution going on in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America, a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat.
Quote disturbing but excellent.

[Jessica]

I really liked Wordplay about Will Shortz, who edits the NY Times crossword puzzles. It was interesting to see how crazy people get about them.

[LoveYouKisses]

I actually just rented Wordplay as well, and I really enjoyed it. I was completely amazed by the people who did the crosswords, and how the crosswords are created.

[Rosebud]

The Future of Food.

Quote disturbing but excellent.

My DH has been raving about this movie as well. I've really got to see it!

[nylons73]

I went to Blockbuster yesterday and was thrilled to find all 4 acts of "Why the Levees Broke," Spike Lee's documentary on Katrina. I had heard nothing but great things about it. I brought them all home and we started to watch. Sadly, I could only make it halfway through the first of the four discs. It was so powerful and moving that I just started bawling and DH convinced me to turn it off. Maybe, with more time, I will summon up the courage to watch it, but I just couldn't go any longer this time. :( I highly recommend it, well, what I saw of it, but be prepared to be incredibly moved.

[Rosebud]

We just watched Wordplay, the documentary about the crossword puzzle championship. I thought it was fairly good, but a little lacking in depth/emotion. Certainly not as good as Spellbound, which is sort of a similar story (about the National Spelling Bee).

[JamBray]

I really liked:

Spellbound
Dark Days
Paperclips (very moving)
Born into Brothels
Super Size Me

[HeatherFL]

Not sure if it's okay to post this here or not, so mods just let me know. I filmed a documentary quite awhile ago (I am a very different person, inside and out.) It is about growing up the child of someone in the military. It's not on Netflix, but they are touring the country and they do have a DVD. I think it's particularly of interest for military brats or people in relationships with them.

BRATS: Our Journey Home (www.bratsourjourneyhome.com).

Screening Schedule (http://www.bratsourjourneyhome.com/screenings.htm)

~H.

[pocahontas]

OMG! I just saw Super Size Me (yes, I know I'm late) and I was pretty horrified! My DH made me watch it and as a teacher I could sadly identify with those kids' meals in the lunchrooms. Geez...I am stunned to say the least, but glad I watched before our kids get here.

I agree with whomever said "Bowling for Columbine". An ex and I watched that a few years ago and it was brilliant.

[Rico'sAlice]

I want to second the recs for "The Corporation" and "Why We Fight."

Also to add "Who Killed the Electric Car?"
http://www.evconfidential.com/ http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com

From Amazon
Tagline: In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline...........Ten years later, these cars were destroyed.
Plot Outline A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.
Plot Synopsis: With gasoline prices approaching $4/gallon, fossil fuel shortages, unrest in oil producing regions around the globe and mainstream consumer adoption and adoption of the hybrid electric car (more than 140,000 Prius' sold this year), this story couldn't be more relevant or important. The foremost goal in making this movie is to educate and enlighten audiences with the story of this car, its place in history and in the larger story of our car culture and how it enables our continuing addiction to foreign oil. This is an important film with an important message that not only calls to task the officials who squelched the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, but all of the other accomplices, government, the car companies, Big Oil, even Eco-darling Hydrogen as well as consumers, who turned their backs on the car and embrace embracing instead the SUV. Our documentary investigates the death and resurrection of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in our country's future; issues which affect everyone from progressive liberals to the neo-conservative right.

[mgrace]

Wellstone (http://www.carryitforward.org/). Great documentary about Paul Wellstone.

[phoenics]

I went to Blockbuster yesterday and was thrilled to find all 4 acts of "Why the Levees Broke," Spike Lee's documentary on Katrina. I had heard nothing but great things about it. I brought them all home and we started to watch. Sadly, I could only make it halfway through the first of the four discs. It was so powerful and moving that I just started bawling and DH convinced me to turn it off. Maybe, with more time, I will summon up the courage to watch it, but I just couldn't go any longer this time. :( I highly recommend it, well, what I saw of it, but be prepared to be incredibly moved.

I've seen this documentary. Cried all the way through... raged, cried, screamed... it was a moving documentary... but it was hard to get all the way through.

[ginad724]

Just watched Heart of the Game about the Roosevelt High School Girls Basketball Team. I definitely recommend it.

[yby1]

I haven't seen this, don't know if I can handle the morbidity, but wanted to put this out there in case anyone was interested.

My co-worker saw this recently and was talking about it and thought it was pretty powerful.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c309/mjasonov/thebridge.jpg

plot summary from IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799954/plotsummary)
People suffer largely unnoticed while the rest of the world goes about its business. This is a documentary exploration of the mythic beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge, the most popular suicide destination in the world, and those drawn by its call. Steel and his crew filmed the bridge during daylight hours from two separate locations for all of 2004, recording most of the two dozen deaths in that year (and preventing several others). They also taped interviews with friends, families and witnesses, who recount in sorrowful detail stories of struggles with depression, substance abuse and mental illness. Raises questions about suicide, mental illness and civic responsibility as well as the filmmaker's relationship to his fraught and complicated material.

[hockeybrat]

I saw The Bridge, it was a little morbid but it really captured my attention.

Other documentaries I liked:

When the Levees Broke
Who Killed the Electric Car
Born into Brothels

[myshel]

This one's a bit old, but I caught it on HBO OnDemand one night: Telling Nicholas (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324195/). It's the story on one family trying to tell a young child (7 years old... maybe?) that his mother died in the 9/11 attacks. The director is the same guy who did the documentary Just Melvin: Just Evil (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240641/).

[mgrace]

Black Gold (http://www.blackgoldmovie.com/) is a fabulous documentary.

[lawyerlee]

This one's a bit old, but I caught it on HBO OnDemand one night: Telling Nicholas (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324195/). It's the story on one family trying to tell a young child (7 years old... maybe?) that his mother died in the 9/11 attacks.
Wasn't that awesome? It broke my heart, but I thought it was really well done.

[myshel]

Wasn't that awesome? It broke my heart, but I thought it was really well done.

I really liked it too.

I just caught another documentary on HBO OnDemand called Run Granny Run (http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/rungrannyrun/index.html), which is about a 94 year-old woman who ran for senate in her home state in 2004 against Republican Judd Greg. I guess it won the SXSW Film Fesitval Audience Award in 2007. It was sad and inspiring at the same time.

[SMgal]

I really enjoyed 49 and Up. It's a documentary that started in England in the the early 50's. This man interviewed about ten people and then followed their lives every seven years. They also have the documentary at age 42 and every seven years previous. It's fascinating to see these people as young children, teenagers etc. and what they thought would come of thier lives, then what ended up happening.

[HeatherFL]

Well, not that I am biased or anything...but Sharkwater (http://sharkwater.com/) is supposed to be absolutely phenomenal. It opened in Florida back in October, and then opened nationwide on November 2nd. I've been waiting to see it for when Gio gets here for Thanksgiving. The film is about sharks and a man who wants to find out how to help the slaughter and finning of sharks. The reviews are wonderful, and the film has a lot of action. It's not just a bunch of people sitting around talking. I cannot wait to see this! We're going on Tuesday night straight from the airport! :D

~H.

[amberfiddles]

i just watch 2 docs recently that i thought were very well done.


to die in jerusalem (http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/todieinjerusalem/index.html)---i only caught snippets and then the very end of this but it was so interesting about the conflict in israel.

one of the most inspiring docs i've seen is run granny run (http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/rungrannyrun/index.html). i know it is a political, but whatever side you're on this lady will just make you laugh and be in awe of her!

[LeslieR]

We watched "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" last week and both really enjoyed it.

[HeatherFL]

We'll be seeing The Rape of Europa (http://therapeofeuropa.com/videosTheTrailer.aspx) just after Christmas at Tampa Theatre. It is about the art that was saved during Nazi Germany. The trailer looks fascinating!

~H.

[HeatherFL]

I just wanted to update on the The Rape of Europa. We saw it last night. It was a longer film, and if you do not like art or history, I wouldn't recommend it. It was quite good, and there were so many things about WWII and the Nazis I did not know, as well as the orders American troops received not to destroy certain buildings housing art pieces, and how this sometimes endangered their lives. Gio is pretty schooled in art, and he was also telling me how he didn't know about so much that had gone on. If you are an art or history lover, I'd definitely say to see this film!

~H.

[Rosebud]

Saw a GREAT documentary the other day: God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan (http://imdb.com/title/tt0301555/).

Basic plot summary: In the midst of civil war in 1987, Sudan's Muslim government pronounces death to all Christian males in the country. 27,000 boys flee to Ethiopia on foot through the desert. In 1991 further conflict forces them to again flee, this time to Kenya where 12,000 survive in a U.N. refugee camp. These "Lost Boys" are a close knit family, as they have no one else but the other refugees. The film follows five of the boys (in their early to late twenties) who are chosen to relocate to America with a special refugee program. It follows them over a series of years as they try to adjust to life in a totally foreign place (these are guys who have never had electricity, don't know what a refrigerator is...). They get jobs, send money back to the camp in Kenya and struggle to build new identities for themselves with varying degrees of success.

It took me forever to get around to watching this because I was convinced that it was going to be depressing... but it wasn't at all. I mean, there are heavy moments, but a lot of it is really heartwarming and optimistic. I really cared about the guys they were profiling and fell in love with their positive attitudes. It's really just such an amazing story. I highly recommend it!

[yby1]

Rosebud - I have God Grew Tired of Us on my netflix queue. I keep moving it dow because of the depressing factor, but I won't do that now. Thanks!

This documentary looks fun and I can't wait until it's released:

Young@Heart (http://www.foxsearchlight.com/youngatheart/)

About Young@Heart
With an average age of 80, their renditions of songs from the likes of OutKast, Jimi Hendrix, Talking Heads and Radiohead have won them sensational reviews wherever they perform, all over the world.
link (http://www.channel4.com/more4/documentaries/doc-feature.jsp?id=102)

[LTJC]

My Kid Could Paint That - amazing on so many different levels.

DH and I went to a screening locally and had the opportunity to hear the director and newspaper journalist (who first "broke" the story) speak about the film.

[Rosebud]

My Kid Could Paint That - amazing on so many different levels.

I really wanted to see that when it was first in theatres and somehow never got out to see it. Will have to look around and see if it's still showing.

[myshel]

I just watched Hear and Now (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0912587/) on HBO tonight. It's the story of a deaf couple, both 65 years old, that decide to get cochlear implants. There were parts that made me cry; my own mother is hearing impaired, though not completely deaf. It gave me so much insight into her world.

[myshel]

DH and I downloaded King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/) last night. It's about these two guys who vie for the World Championship score in the old arcade version of Donkey Kong. DH is gamer, so of course, he loved it. I'm not much of a gamer, but I loved the movie. It was funny in many parts (some of them were unintentional comedy bits), but it was also pretty touching in oher parts. I'd definitely recommend it.

[Rosebud]

DH and I downloaded King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/) last night. It's about these two guys who vie for the World Championship score in the old arcade version of Donkey Kong. DH is gamer, so of course, he loved it. I'm not much of a gamer, but I loved the movie. It was funny in many parts (some of them were unintentional comedy bits), but it was also pretty touching in oher parts. I'd definitely recommend it.

That was my favorite movie of last year. Another big recommendation from me. It's absolutely hilarious and very smart.