Tag Archives: documentary

“Wild France”

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Six short episodes, which my wife and I watched on Netflix. The show’s writer/producer/host, Roy Mears, is smart, articulate and enthusiastic in a goofy-naturalist kind of way, picking up rocks and smelling tree branches and saying “Wonderful, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Television | Tagged documentary, France, nature, Roy Mears | 4 Comments

Rory Stewart’s “Afghanistan: The Great Game”

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Really good. This two episode British doc is billed as “a personal view” by Rory Stewart — in other words, it isn’t a wannabe-objective news feature. But it supplies a lot of worthwhile and interesting information anyway. If … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Politics and Economics | Tagged Afghanistan, documentaries, documentary, politics | 1 Comment

“Filthy Cities”

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: I recently enjoyed (if with some reservations) the three-part BBC documentary series “Filthy Cities,” which recently became available on Netflix Instant. Medieval London, revolutionary Paris and industrial-age New York City are the filthy cities covered by the … Continue reading →

Posted in Television | Tagged BBC, cities, dan snow, documentary, television, urbanism | Leave a comment

Robert and Nanook

Posted on December 15, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Robert Flaherty’s “Nanook of the North” is usually discussed as a documentary, but I wonder if the movie isn’t ill-served by that conversation, which is simply too limiting to address the subtleties of Flaherty’s art. In focusing on … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged documentary, eskimoes, Film, movies, Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty, Silent Film | 6 Comments

Looking Back at the ’60s, 1: “The Fog of War”

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Bugged and annoyed by Errol Morris’s recent movie about Donald Rumsfeld (which Fabrizio dealt with thoroughly here), I just caught up with “The Fog of War,” Morris’ 2003 visit with Robert S. McNamara, the former Ford Motors “whiz kid” … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Politics and Economics | Tagged documentaries, documentary, Donald Rumsfeld, Errol Morris, movies, vietnam war | 13 Comments

Docs About Movies 3: “Pablo”

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Episode three in my current series of writeups of documentaries-about-movies that I’ve enjoyed recently. Episode one concerned “Free Radicals“; episode two was about “Big Joy.” Today:

Posted in Commercial art, Movies | Tagged documentaries, documentary, jeff bridges, movies, pablo ferro | 1 Comment

Docs About Movies 1: “Free Radicals”

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Sick and housebound with a cold/flu/something-or-other, I’ve been passing the time with a lot of doc-watching via Netflix Instant. Weird the way that illness makes me lose my appetite for fiction films. Why should that be? Is it as simple as … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged avant-garde movies, documentaries, documentary, movies, pip chodorov, stan brakhage | 5 Comments

“Crazy Wisdom”

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Doc about Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the Tibetan monk who was mostly responsible for bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the west. He was a big figure in the counterculture from the ’60s through the ’80s (he died in 1987 … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged Buddhism, chogyam trungpa rinpoche, documentaries, documentary, gurus, movies, religion, wisdom | 3 Comments

Trans Viewing: “Beautiful Darling” and “Becoming Chaz”

Posted on August 3, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: For no particular reason, The Question Lady and I spent a couple of recent evenings watching docs that we found on Netflix Instant about trans people. The first one was about a transvestite while the second concerned a female-to-male transsexual.

Posted in Movies, Sex | Tagged candy darling, chaz bono, cher, documentaries, documentary, gender, movies, sex, transgender, transvestite | 27 Comments

Creepshot or Not: Bikinis in the Park

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: When I solicited thoughts and opinions some months ago about whether a snapshot I’d sneaked of a couple of sunbathing cuties in a public park was a Creepshot or not, some visitors concluded A) that it wasn’t, and B) … Continue reading →