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In Reply to: The fifth spot nomination posted by Victor Khomenko on November 23, 2002 at 09:27:17:
Choosing the five best films is an impossible task... your original post proves this. But your challenge of leaving five great films in a time capsule is a simply wonderful idea, one I've never heard of before.In the interest of journalistic correctness I would have to leave five documentries:
1. Shoah (interviews with holocaust victims)
2. Through the Wire (story of US govt's inhumane treatment of female political prisoners - yes, we have some)
3. Olympia - The Olympic Games of Berlin 1936 (by Leni Riefenstahl)
4. The Wonderful, horrible life of Leni Riefenstahl (just to balance the above)
5. Hoop Dreams (story of two basketball hopefuls)Bonus nominees: Microcosmos (the real "bugs life"), Theremin (the weird get weirder), Crumb (and even weirder again).
Follow Ups:
your list doesn't make room for the maysles brothers (salesman), errol morris (heaven's gate), michael moore (roger and me), koyaanitqatsi and woodstock. :-(the first three are big markers on the timeline of documentary filmmaking. land of no bread and nanook of the north are cornerstones as well, but i think the others remain very "watchable" for a contemporary audience.
koyaanitqatsi spawned its own genre of non-fiction films. woodstock's there because it's just us music lovers here.
i think we're gonna need a bigger time capsule.
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I am familiar with numbers 4 and 5 on your list, 4 is tremendous 5 left me somewhat cold. I have seen scenes from #3. I have probably seen the $1, but not sure about the title. You are right, a film about the Holocaust is a must on a list like that. I have several I loved, would need to recall their titles.Perhaps the documentaries should get their own time capsule?
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