Movies, Documentary
In the tradition of pre-modern pharmacists who would test remedies on their own body, Morgan Spurlock decides to eat at McDonalds three times a day for a month and let a battery of doctors keep track of how his body would react to such a diet. I knew that McDonaldSupersize Me!
Movies, Documentary
Timothy Treadwell lived for 13 summers with grizzly bears as if they were tame and loving creatures before he was killed by one them. Treadwell created in total 100 hours of film footage that Werner Herzog has woven into an arresting documentary. The film is the most original piece of work that I have seen in a long time. It deserves to be seen by any serious student of the cinematographic art. Treadwell tells us that he is unable to live in “the peopleGrizzly Man
Movies, Documentary
Robert McNamara was a cold warrior with a soft heart. He led the Pentagon under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson until the disagreements between Johnson and McNamara over Vietnam became too large. This film is one long interview with McNamara. The subtitle of the documentary is “Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara.” The lessons he has to offer are profound and some of them you have never heard before. I don’t want to give away some of the amazing things that he reports. Anyone living in the 21 century should see what McNamara has witnessed in his lifetime.The Fog of War
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