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The Salt of the Earth

2014

★★★★ Liked Watched

as an ex professional photographer, this was my jam.
A quietly shattering humanist film, about bearing witness, through a lens, through a life

from my Fine Arts list

Tokyo-Ga

1985

★★★★ Liked Watched

I watched this as part of my "My Mubi is ending mega binge", and I am very glad I did. Quality, thoughtful, and so full of various treats.

As a sculptor who works with wax, and wax casting, I was legit making this face, during the whole faux food segment
😮

You can watch this legally on The Internet Archive:
archive.org/details/dokumentarfilm-tokyo-ga-0334865372

from my EPK list

Invisible Crimes

2007

★★★½ Watched

Wenders’ segment unfolds with a haunted stillness that mirrors the silence surrounding its subject. A quiet, urgent act of bearing witness

from my docs list

Invisibles

2007

★★★ Watched

The film was produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Médecins Sans Frontières, aka Doctors Without Borders

from my docs list

Room 666

1982

★★★ Rewatched

this was such a wonderful film
a little strange gift
such insights
the ways the different directors interacted with the same space, fascinating. I could not look away from the screen
a sequel please

from my EPK list

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

2018

★★★ Watched

this film was nice and weird at the same time
a puff piece
it also lied about english being the main language
but I am grateful this film exists in the week this Pope died

Paris Is Burning

1990

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

My favourite human, on every rewatch, is the 15-year-old kid,at 2:45am, with no parents. Talking about making a family. And being Queer, and everyone being friends because they are Gay. He gets it.

I took away revelations from this rewatch, that I have not had before.
This time it was the prevalence of capitalism, of consumerism. It's effect on these young Black New Yorkers. A lot of the people were talking about "I want to be rich", "I want to…

Mister Organ

2022

★★ Watched

David if you are reading this do me next, (no, jk don't) 😅

A doc about a pretty typical person from my home suburb, made by a pretty typical person from my home suburb. (don't come here ⚠️)

The Menendez Brothers

2024

★★★½ Liked Watched

Lyle and Erik Menendez are still in prison. They have been in prison for 34 years. They were kept in separate prisons for 22 years.

The LA County DA agreed to consider the new evidence 3 days before this documentary came out. The brothers are also being evaluated for resentencing.
You can watch the entire DA's press statement here.
That hearing is on November 29th 2024.

As someone who has followed the case since the beginning, I am glad for…