Is This The Real Life? Documentaries You Love

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Jan 28, 2021 9:39:03 GMT -4 eclair said:

We have a Roku channel called Kanopy which is a library channel. Not sure if it's only in Colorado or not. It has a lot of good movies. We watched The Booksellers a documentary about antiquarian book dealers, mostly in NYC. It's narrated by Parker Posy. We also watched Faces Places, another documentary. Agnes Varda, an 89 year old film maker, one of the French New Wave ones, travels around with a 33 year old artist who pastes large black and white photos on building, train cars, silos, etc. They meet some wonderful and unusual people and install some of the large photos. Very touching. Both of these were excellent. If you can find them through the library or in your cable packages I really recommend them. We've also been watching a PBS series with Henry Louis Gates, called African Civilizations. I know very little about the history of Africa, so I learn a lot. Not exactly documentaries, but good.

I started watching The Booksellers, and am really liking it!

[kanding]

Thanks for the suggestions! I'm going to be driving with my husband and dogs cross country in a few weeks and I'm looking for stuff to relax with at night.


ETA: I watched The Miami Show and Massacre last night. Incredible. A paramilitary group targets an Irish band popular with both Protestants and Catholics killing three members. The reasoning behind the murders and the attempts to paint the band members as bomb smugglers were insane.

[sjankis630]

I have access to the Kanopy channel thru a local library. I get 10 free streams per month. I am usually the artsy fartsy type but they have some really obscure looking stuff there. I may have to give it a try sometime.

[sjankis630]

Has anyone watched the new HBO documentary about Qanon called Q Into The Storm ? They are releasing it two episodes each week for a total of 6. The early reviews make it seem like three would have sufficed and that while overlong it seems to focus too much on finding out who Q turned out to be vs the complete unrest the movement has created.
I may try to watch a few of the episodes this weekend to see if it is worth it.

[mrspickles]

Mar 25, 2021 23:54:03 GMT -4 sjankis630 said:

Has anyone watched the new HBO documentary about Qanon called Q Into The Storm ? They are releasing it two episodes each week for a total of 6. The early reviews make it seem like three would have sufficed and that while overlong it seems to focus too much on finding out who Q turned out to be vs the complete unrest the movement has created.
I may try to watch a few of the episodes this weekend to see if it is worth it.

I have a client who is very into it and I had NO IDEA how nutsy cuckoo banana pants crazy that shit is. I just want to shake her and say 'can you HEAR what you're saying?' And she's been taking money out of her retirement plan to invest in gold, silver and BTC because something is supposed to happen 'after Passover' and I want to cry when she calls. She's always been a bit paranoid and suggestable but Holy Wow.

[prisma]

I don't know if I can watch it. I have really dialed back the amount of political podcasts I listen to because they just aggravate my anxiety. I feel like a deep dive into QAnon would be the same.

[eclair]

I found a documentary called Mucho Mucho Amor, I think on Netflix, maybe Kanopy? The description said it was about an astrologer who disappeared. I was intrigued. Walter Mercado was a flamboyant Puerto Rican astrologer active from the 60s to the 90s. He disappeared from public view, not literally as I had first thought. I really enjoyed this! And I just stumbled across it. Many Latinos grew up watching his daily horoscope readings, many watching with their grandmothers. Lin-Manuel Miranda is thrilled to meet Walter and get a reading. I highly recommend this! Made last year, check it out if you can find it.

[prisma]

I remember reading good things about this when it came out--thanks for the reminder!

[magazinewhore]

Prisma, your new avatar cracks me up.

[prisma]

I’m glad—it makes me laugh, too. I was wanting to update it for a little while now but was waiting for the right thing to come along. And it did!