Senna: Beautiful and heartbreaking. (Full disclosure: I remember being little and watching Ayrton Senna race on television. I have never really cared about any sports after that.)pic.twitter.com/LLyfqjj3Mk
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Knock Down The House: Just like the RBG documentary, this reminded me that there’s still room for humanity, hope, and integrity in politics. Unexpectedly touching throughout – and particularly at the end.pic.twitter.com/BHusQ5MBdy
The Biggest Little Farm: Cleaned up and tends to be sappy, but it is also really beautifully shot and, as a city boy, I actually learned quite a bit.pic.twitter.com/6uvSDItORS
The Inventor: For me, this worked as sort of a visual companionship to the Carreyrou’s book. Surprised by many shots from company meetings and inside Theranos labs, and likewise many CGI sequences explaining the malfunctioning machines.pic.twitter.com/sdDoe3j0Ml
Chernobyl: Devastating docudrama portraying people working against unknown forces in an utterly broken system. Also, beyond masterful. (I am impatient, and at the same time dreading the remaining two episodes.)pic.twitter.com/8pcF3S7mst
(Also, I have learned so much about storytelling and movie-making from the excellent accompanying podcast where @petersagal talks to the show’s writer about each episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-chernobyl-podcast/id1459712981 …)
What We Left Behind: That this is a weird documentary becomes clear within the first five seconds. But that’s a great thing – and this recent retrospective on Deep Space Nine (best Trek!) is also rather lovely, and *very* lively, and I’m glad I watched it.pic.twitter.com/TFezAXo6Qv
Too Funny To Fail: For some reason, I love the inner workings of comedy, and this was a slice I haven’t been familiar with before (Carell! Colbert!). I hope someone makes a movie about The Chevy Chase Show next. (Yeah, I know, I need to get back to more serious documentaries…)pic.twitter.com/UyLDrG8SvB
General Magic: This was a really frustrating movie. I learned a lot, and it’s an interesting story filled with fascinating people – but I could do without the glamorization of failure and unhealthy work/life balance, and cherry-picking of influence.pic.twitter.com/zEgiabOVYU
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice: I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of Linda Ronstadt before. After watching this movie, I’m quite puzzled – she seems like a really interesting and very talented person, with an amazing musical career filled with so much acclaim.pic.twitter.com/01W8XPRat2
Neon:
I saw this 2014 documentary about Warsaw’s neons at @TLMuseumSF tonight and it was utterly captivating – a rich history of my home country’s capital seen through the lens of one surprising group of artifacts.pic.twitter.com/iBZ2Vsg5RG
Hearts and Minds: A brutal, relentless anti-war movie. Powerful storytelling achieved solely by editing and careful (and sometimes manipulative) juxtapositions.pic.twitter.com/xe975HQZJc
Framing John DeLorean: I had no idea of the wild and complicated twin stories of John DeLorean and his eponymous car – IRA! Margaret Thatcher! FBI! Cocaine! Mostly enjoyable, although making actors participate in storytelling *as actors* felt like a rather weird choice.pic.twitter.com/xftrJZHD2X
Show Me A Hero: Rewatching this underrated docudrama miniseries about racial tensions, public housing, and urban politics of Yonkers, N.Y. 30 years ago. It’s very, very good, in the vein of The Wire – dense, written by David Simon, and with an excellent cast.pic.twitter.com/aLAJ8232UU
When They See Us: I decided to watch this docudrama this weekend as part of my education. It’s about the injustice and entrenched institutional racism underlying the 1989 NYC Central Park Five case, and I would encourage you to watch it, too – it’s on Netflix.pic.twitter.com/59o00vGj8r
Do Not Resist: A 2016 documentary about the militarization of the police in America. Maybe more relevant today than it was then. It weaves through Ferguson, protests in general, some pretty gross glorification of violence, James Comey (oof), and surveillance.pic.twitter.com/ixwmo790re
Selma: Somewhat embarrassed how little I knew about this moment in American civil rights history.pic.twitter.com/4q9DLDNkdV
The Force: A brutal fly-on-the-wall examination of the Oakland Police Department, mired in one awful scandal after another despite being under 13-year-long federal oversight, and having undergone a series of reforms.pic.twitter.com/oFCB4xIsC0
The Way I See It: I wished this documentary about the job of the official photographer of Barack Obama’s presidency went even deeper into the responsibilities of photojournalism, but still: the photos are so incredibly great, and remembering Obama as a president? Heartwarming.pic.twitter.com/liRP8uapbU
Feels Good Man: This is a documentary about Pepe, the infamous mascot. I found the movie surprisingly good and deep: Visually fascinating, surreal, absurd, and wild towards the end, but also with a great amount of humanity throughout.pic.twitter.com/A9s29D8m1G
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