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The Parking Lot Movie – Documentary Film of the Week

Posted in Documentary, tagged on February 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Parking Lot Movie: Often described as the documentary version of Clerks, The Parking Lot Movie follows a select group of parking lot attendants who work at The Corner Parking Lot in Charlottesville, Virginia. The eccentric brotherhood of attendants consist of grad students, overeducated philosophers, surly artists, middle-age slackers and more. Located nearby the University [...]

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The King of Kong – Documentary Film of the Week

Posted in Documentary, tagged , , , , on January 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The King of Kong – Fistful of Quarters: A middle-school science teacher and a hot sauce mogul vie for the Guinness World Record on the arcade classic, Donkey Kong. Steve and Billy engaged in a cross-country duel to see who could set the high score and become The King of Kong. Along the way, both [...]

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The Philosopher Kings – Document Film of the Week

Posted in Documentary, tagged , on January 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Philosopher Kings: In search of wisdom found in unlikely places, The Philosopher Kings takes us on a journey through the halls of the most prestigious colleges and universities in America to learn from the staff members who see it all and have been through it all: the custodians. This thought-provoking, feature-length documentary interweaves the [...]

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Restrepo – Documentary film of the Week

Posted in Documentary, tagged , on December 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

A feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, “Restrepo,” named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: [...]

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Skid Row – Documentary Film of the Week

Posted in Documentary, tagged , , , , on December 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

  SYNOPSIS: A documentary tracing Fugee’s celebrity rap star Prakazrel ‘Pras’ Michel’s experience living homeless on the streets of LA’s notorious Skid Row. Filmed by undercover crews and hidden cameras Pras, with no money in his pockets, experiences first hand the violent crime, hard drugs, discomfort and hunger of homelessness, putting a face and giving [...]

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Bomb IT – Documentary Film of the Week

Posted in Documentary, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

  Bomb IT: An raw and rough documentary from award-winning director Jon Reiss investigating the most subversive and controversial art form currently shaping international youth culture: graffiti. Through interviews and guerilla footage of graffiti writers in action on 5 continents, BOMB IT tells the story of graffiti from its origins in prehistoric cave paintings thru [...]

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Exit Through The Gift Shop – Documentary Film of the Week

Posted in Documentary, tagged , , , on December 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Exit Through The Gift Shop: The first film by renowned graffiti artist Banksy, became the hottest ticket at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival where it made its world debut. Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post—hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the [...]

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Between The Folds – Documentary Film of the Week

Posted in Documentary, tagged on October 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Between The Folds (From Independent Lens): Chronicles 10 of their stories. Featuring interviews with and insights into the practice of these intrepid paper folders, the film opens with three of the world’s foremost origami artists: a former sculptor in France who folds caricatures in paper rivaling the figures of Daumier and Picasso; a hyper-realist who [...]

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Born into Brothels – Documentary Film of the Week

Posted in Documentary, tagged , , on October 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Born into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids is a 2004 American documentary film about the children of prostitutes in Sonagachi, Kolkata’s red light district. Briski, a documentary photographer, went to Kolkata (Calcutta) to photograph prostitutes. While there, she befriended their children and offered to teach the children photography to reciprocate being allowed to photograph their [...]

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Waiting for Superman – Documentary Film of the Week

Posted in Documentary, tagged , , , on October 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

SYNOPSIS of Waiting for Superman: Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education “statistics” have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of WAITING FOR SUPERMAN. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review [...]

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