Posts Tagged ‘documentary’

Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011)

Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011)
“If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself.” That seems to be one of Roger Corman’s many mottos, as this documentary amply clarifies. Roger Corman was a rebel from the beginning, never bowing down to authority. He started as a script analyst for 20th Century Fox, and when he finally...
April 22nd, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Aung San Suu Kyi (2010)

Aung San Suu Kyi (2010)
Aung San Suu Kyi is a remarkable woman, a woman who has endured many years under house arrest while she protested against the unfairness of the political system in her homeland of Burma. As if house arrest and being left pretty much incommunicado wasn’t bad enough, this also meant that she spent...
April 10th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Summer Pasture (2010)

Summer Pasture (2010)
Many Tibetans in the Kham region live as nomads, moving with the yak cattle through the pastures of summer and winter. This film documents the life of a nomad family, living much like the people of this culture have done for thousands of years. The lifestyle is one of effective symbiosis between humans...
April 10th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Tulku (2009)

Tulku (2009)
A lot of (counter-)cultural changes were brewing in the late 1960s. One aspect of that era may be said to constitute a Western spiritual awakening, with interest in eastern philosophy and religion suddenly surging. Well, the east responded to this. Tibetan Buddhist monks started finding Western boys...
April 10th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Crazy Wisdom (2011)

Crazy Wisdom (2011)
AKA Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times Of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Well, many people who already know plenty about me will be well aware that I’m not religious in any way. I’m a proud aetheist nowadays but I also like to think that I am respectful to others when it comes to personal beliefs...
April 10th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

KanZeOn (2011)

KanZeOn (2011)
KanZeOn consists of a series of interrelated short films – so-called “Indications” – which form a kind of introduction to various aspects of Japanese Buddhism. The style of presentation is that of a documentary, but with only small amounts of narration and dialogue (mostly in the form...
April 10th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Nightmare Factory (2011)

Nightmare Factory (2011)
What could, and indeed should, have been a fine tribute to the art of practical make up effects and the body of work created by KNB EFX Group is brought down a few notches by one major failing – it instead turns into Greg Nicotero: The Movie. Now I’m not going to say that Greg [...]
April 5th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Lake Mungo (2008)

Lake Mungo (2008)
If you want to find out how to make a movie absolutely drenched in a dark, foreboding atmosphere then you could do a hell of a lot worse than using Lake Mungo as your study guide. Written and directed by Joel Anderson, this faux-documentary has one or two jump scares in the mix but tends [...]
March 18th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey (2000)

Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey (2000)
Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey has been called the definitive documentary on Bruce Lee, and it is a description I find it hard to argue with. From his street-fighting Hong Kong beginnings and to his final vision for his uncompleted fifth movie, Game of Death, this documentary takes us through most...
March 12th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Bruce Lee: In Pursuit of the Dragon (2011)

Bruce Lee: In Pursuit of the Dragon (2011)
Documentary writer/director John Little, who also gave us the longer Bruce Lee documentary, Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey (2000), decided to follow that project up with a one-hour feature about the current status of the locations where Bruce Lee’s legendary movies were filmed in the early...
March 12th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More
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