What is this documentary? I must see it now!
This lovely 3 disk set makes me drunk with glee every time I watch it. Marty loves movies like nobody else loves movies.
He talks about his influences, the indigineous American movie genres (gangster, western, musical), shows clips from things I'd never heard of and many I have...talks about the various roles of directors (smuggler, iconoclast, etc.)
I must warn you, though, the Ford interview is extremely short, and a meer speck in the joy.
I'd absolutely love to hear what you thought of it.
I have to say, I love documentaries...well made docs...for a lot of reasons.
Here is another that sends me into fits of joy. It has also been released as "2.
Out of Ireland - The Hit Songs & Artists of Irish Music (From a Whisper to a Scream) " Much less interesting than the original, but whatev.
The jousting between Bono and Geldof is charming and the progressive history of modern Irish music (50s forward) is delightful.
I see now that I should write a doc recommendation column or something because I'm suddenly flooded with "And THIS one is great because..." thoughts.
I'm off to pet my copy of 1 Giant Leap. Awesome music, stunning visuals, great thinkers...
Marty loves movies like nobody else loves movies.
I've seen parts of this documentary and it really made me want to see more.
This lovely 3 disk set makes me drunk with glee every time I watch it.
How come the details at Amazon say it's a
2
disk set?
How come the details at Amazon say it's a 2 disk set?
Because I'm addlebrained.
It is a 3 part series on 2 disks.
See? Drunk!
In whatever form you can find it, it's fan-tas-teek.
In whatever form you can find it, it's fan-tas-teek.
Oh, I know (at least the bits I saw of it). I meant to tape it. I memfault why I didn't, but something frelled up that plan. Once I'd completely missed the first episode, I decided, after seeing bits of the second (I think) that I'd justwait for the inevitable DVD.
Then I forgot about it.
smacks own forehead
When I first rented it, before the desperate flight to Amazon to acquire it now, now, now...I had relatively low expectations. Hm. Nice idea. Marty talks about movies. Neat.
But, I didn't know that Marty taught film...which of course he would...and the end result left me feeling so incredibly edified and satiated in my cinemania.
Thanks for the link! I finally saw the Deadwood finale, and am among the baffled.
