Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory is the final film in a trilogy that has gone on for almost 20 years by Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger. Paradise Lost – The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
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Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory is the final film in a trilogy that has gone on for almost 20 years by Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger. Paradise Lost – The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop is a documentary following the late night host as he decides to quit The Tonight Show and sets out on a nationwide tour with his old late night band while he’s legally prohibited from being on television due to his deal with NBC. This documentary shows the man at a low point in his life warts and all and really how he can’t stop.
When you think of music and film, particularly rock music, the first name you probably think of is Cameron Crowe. His films capture musical moments and how important it is in our lives in a very special way. So when it came time to celebrate Pearl Jam, a band that appeared in one of his early movies (Singles), he was the perfect person to put a documentary about them together. And that’s what he did with Pearl Jam Twenty. The 2 hour long documentary is comprised of modern day interviews with the band and ultra rare footage from throughout their 20 year career together.
Foo Fighters: Back and Forth is a documentary from James Moll following the band from their creation all the way up to the recording of their latest album, Wasting Light. It uses both current interviews and archival footage as well as newer footage to tell the story of the band and the drama that’s often surrounded them.
Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel is a documentary about rock drummer Patty Schemel’s battle with addiction and her rise to fame with the band Hole and her consequent fall. It’s told using a lot of archival footage Patty herself shot on Hi-8 (it’s what they used to use in video cameras, kids) or had shot for her during her time with Hole and includes things like never before seen footage of her and close friend Kurt Cobain. The film is fleshed out using modern day interviews with people who know Patty, including all of her former Hole band mates.
Who Took The Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour is a documentary chronicling the band’s final world tour in 2004-2005. It gives viewers an exclusive look behind the scenes of these final shows with a band that meant a lot to a lot of people. Who Took The Bomp? is filled with high quality live performance footage, tales from the tour, and current interviews with the band’s 3 members, Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman, and JD Samson.
Double Dare is a documentary about 2 stuntwomen and just how crazy life as a girl in a male dominated field can be. It’s subjects are the young New Zealander Zoe Bell who’s just starting out and has spent her entire career up to this point working on Xena: Warrior Princess as Lucy Lawless’ double, and the old groundbreaking Jeannie Epper who was Lynda Carter’s double on Wonder Woman and went on to do countless other classic films and tv shows.
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work follows the iconic comedian as she turns 75 and alternates between telling stories of her past and what her life is currently like as she still struggles for a paycheck and respect. It brings you inside her world to see what she’s really like when the lights go down.
Waiting For Superman is an exploration of K-12 education in the United States and how it is failing, leaving students unprepared for the rest of their lives. It’s from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim. It takes us into the lives of students from all over the country who want to learn but who aren’t allowed to by the schooling available to them. It also explores the reasons for the educational failure alongside some societal problems it’s caused.
Winnebago Man is a documentary that explores what happens after a video goes “viral” using one famous video as a sort of case study. The video in question is of the Winnebago Man. It’s a bunch of outtakes spliced together from an old Winnebago industrial film where the spokesman is basically throwing a huge fit. It’s been parodied and referenced everywhere and made its way into popular culture. But the filmmaker wanted to know what happened to this angry man?