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Post by cecilia on Oct 26, 2019 19:22:38 GMT
The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival ends today. I managed to get to 3 screenings. One screening was a series of 6 short films. The theme was "Southern Lens". My favorite short was "Quilt Fever" which is about Paducah KY's quilt festival. 2 directors of movies were there and had a Q&A after the screenings.
The two features I saw were "Bedlam" and "Shooting the Mafia".
Bedlam was about mental illness. The director is a psychiatrist. He has a book out by the same name. He followed subjects for 5 years in LA County. It was interesting to see what had gotten better, or worse, for each person. PBS is supposed to be airing it in the spring.
Bedlam was preceded by a short film called Departing Gestures. It is about a funeral home in MS that gives people who had been disowned by their families a proper burial or cremation.
Shooting the Mafia was the film I saw this morning. Based on the description I read, I thought it was going to be about the mafia, told through a photo journalist's point of view. Turns out, it was about the photo journalist. While it wasn't what I had expected and there was a few scenes that made me uncomfortable, I am glad that I saw it.
I ended up sitting by the same couple for both features. They are the main reason why I am glad I went back today. It seems like meeting them is what I needed right now.
I have signed up to help with screenings for next year's festival. I believe they start taking submissions early next year. I also signed up to volunteer. I think I would enjoy it.
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Post by Baseballmom23 on Oct 26, 2019 19:26:03 GMT
Those sound interesting. I'll have to keep my eye out for them.
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Post by lucyg on Oct 26, 2019 20:55:24 GMT
Thanks for the report. I like Ken Burns but I haven’t watched too many other documentaries. At least, not since the History Channel stopped being an actual history channel.  |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Oct 26, 2019 20:59:55 GMT
they all sound interesting! I like documentaries; I recently started watching some rather random ones, since we have HBO-- there are feature films on Demand, but also documentaries... the Quilt Festival one sounds like it would be really good as well as the one on mental illness.
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Post by Sanibel on Oct 26, 2019 21:32:22 GMT
We love documentaries and my husband is such a Ken Burns fan. Making a Murderer is probably my favorite. I was sucked right in and couldn’t stop watching.
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Post by dewryce on Oct 26, 2019 21:46:36 GMT
Those all sound very interesting to me, especially the one that follows people with mental illness. I hope volunteering works out for you! I love the idea of, and and so many topics of documentaries. But for some reason voiceovers are usually like nails on a chalkboard for me. And not just with documentaries. I also don’t like watching news, I’d much rather read it, and don’t even try to read anything out loud to me. Stand-up comedy also grates. The premise of Dexter is 100% something my DH knew I’d be interested in. The first time I tried it I had to turn it off after a short period of time. A couple of years later DH asked me to try it again, he wanted to watch it with me. I made myself watch a full episode or two and then it stopped bothering me. I couldn’t get past Kevin Spacey’s voice overs to watch House of Cards, also right up my alley. And I can’t stand the TV or radio to be on for background noise. Or talk radio at all. I can listen to sports on the radio though. Sorry to go on, this just made me think. Apparently, I have issues.  |
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Post by janeliz on Oct 26, 2019 22:36:08 GMT
Thanks for sharing! I love documentaries.
I recently watched “Three Identical Strangers” (not a new one, just new to me) and it was phenomenal.
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Post by ntsf on Oct 26, 2019 22:47:13 GMT
my husband went to "reel rock".. last night. a set of documentaries about climbing. he loved it, said I would have loved it too. I love documentaries. a friend just finished one.. called "chinatown rising" about the increase of political action in chinatown in SF in the 1970's and 1980's. it took 4 yrs to make. it is at film festivals and they want to recut it for PBS in the future.
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Post by yivit on Oct 27, 2019 0:26:44 GMT
I love documentaries and film festivals, but I've never been to a documentary film festival. Glad you enjoyed it enough to volunteer and met some interesting people!
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Post by h2ohdog on Oct 27, 2019 1:13:44 GMT
I love love love documentaries on almost anything. I’ll keep my eye out for Bedlam—thanks!
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Oct 27, 2019 1:57:49 GMT
It sounds like you had a fun time! I enjoy documentaries (then again I rarely read fiction), depending on the topic. Quilt Fever sounds right up my alley! I will have to look for that one. Next week I'll be seeing another quilt documentary at the International Quilt Festival. This one is called Pieced Together and tells the story of the American Barn Quilt Trail and the woman who started it. A Barn Quilt is a wood panel painted with a large quilt square and hung on barns across the country.
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Post by Basket1lady on Oct 27, 2019 11:42:04 GMT
It sounds like you had a fun time! I enjoy documentaries (then again I rarely read fiction), depending on the topic. Quilt Fever sounds right up my alley! I will have to look for that one. Next week I'll be seeing another quilt documentary at the International Quilt Festival. This one is called Pieced Together and tells the story of the American Barn Quilt Trail and the woman who started it. A Barn Quilt is a wood panel painted with a large quilt square and hung on barns across the country. I’d love to see the Quilt Fever documentary, too! I think we’ve lost a lot now that women don’t get together to sew. The social interaction is important, and the working together towards a task lightens the load. |
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Post by rickmer on Oct 27, 2019 15:16:26 GMT
At least, not since the History Channel stopped being an actual history channel. i know... ugh.... what happened there?!?! pawn stars and swamp people somehow became history. i love documentaries and pretty much watch them exclusively. lots on youtube - sometimes quality sucks but not always. i have watched everything on netflix that interests me and look at "new this week" all the time to see if there is anything i haven't seen yet. i used to subscribe to a streaming service called "curiosity stream". it was $4.99 a month and all docs (science/nature/history/civilizations/space). being in canada, we didn't have as much content so i cancelled it. but once or twice i logged in and it misdirected me to US site - i was like "OOOH - i wanna watch that and that and that" but as soon as i clicked - i was advised it wasn't available in my area.  |
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