Itâs a slow documentary with beautiful footage that doesnât demand too much from you. But itâs also about the lives of the filmmakers and what stood out to me was their bloody mindedness about finding the snow leopard and not knowing if they would. So itâs also a film about vulnerability, hopelessness, and uncertainty. It doesnât sugar coat at the end. I think in its way itâs a really good representation of what life is actually like, even though practically no one is a wildlife photographer.
Oct 23, 2024
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Hale County This Morning, This Evening â Definitely an acquired taste, but imo one of the best documentaries out there. Beautiful, slow, immersive. RaMell Ross took years worth of footage and curated a 76 minute work of art. Lots of discourse out there on it. HUGE rec.
Paris is Burning â basic rec but worth it if youâve never seen. House/ballroom scene of the mid/late â80s NYC. I sob consistently every time.
Roger & Me â Love or hate Michael Moore, this doc is amazing. Covers US deindustrialization & the consequences for the midwest, specifically focusing on Flint, Michigan.
All That Breathes â Another breathtakingly beautiful doc. Follows two brothers in Delhi who run a bird hospital for injured black kites. Hindu nationalism, interspecies connection, ecological collapse. Nominated for an oscar. So good.
Jun 22, 2025
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Very immersive doc about a naturalist who lives on a tiny remote strip of sand off the coast of Nova Scotia and follows her 40+ year dedication to the animals that inhabit the island with her. Some really cool experimental elements, like a soundtrack made by bugs and film developed in the seawater surrounding the island
May 17, 2024
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Maybe some unorthodox choices but Iâve always been into non-narrative, experimental documentaries. Some of the best I know are âAs I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beautyâ, âKoyaanisqatsiâ, âSans Soleilâ. These were some of the purest, most powerful cinematic experiences Iâve had in my life, so Iâd suggest you peep them.
On a (slightly) more conventional note, literally any documentary made by Herzog
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Iâm on the wrong side of 33 and i can tell you with utmost certainty that your 20s is the most chaotic time of your life and itâs amazing that anyone actually gets anything done during them. If youâre a type a planning type personality however I would recommend:
- if youâre the sort of person who cares about diet and fitness, establish those routines in your 20s
- live where you wanna live. Donât live somewhere you hate because you think youâll have more fun later cos you wonât
- get a job that makes reliable money that you can tolerate and go back to if your dreams fall through. It doesnât have to be a dream job it just has to pay the rent and not make you sad
- don't smoke cigarettes
- use sunscreen
- be as cringe as you want. People expect it from you anyway. They wonât have as much patience in your 30s.
Nov 25, 2024
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Walking into a formal celebration and taking in everyone looking and smelling good. The smell always stays with me the mostâcologne, soap, hair product, cigarettes, leather, shoe polish. Everyone so clean and proud and a little bit shy. So special.
Dec 7, 2024