Let's stay in and watch our favorites!
It's cold in much of the world and who wants to go out when its like that? Wowenthusiast certainly doesn't and is asking for your most favoritest documentaries to watch while avoiding winter weather.
It's cold in much of the world and who wants to go out when its like that? Wowenthusiast certainly doesn't and is asking for your most favoritest documentaries to watch while avoiding winter weather.
"The Animators Who've Spent 40 Years on a Single Film": Rufous-headed Towhee heehee posts about the beautiful, unfinished stop-motion film that has taken the record for longest animation production of all time. (and trig links to the fantastic "Hedgehog in the Fog" by the same duo in the comments)
"If you think you aren't interested in or have no connection to this, you're probably mistaken": hippybear posted the 2020 documentary The Ventures: Stars On Guitars, the story of the most famous instrumental rock and roll band in the world.
"a newly remastered version of my original post from 2011": kirkaracha's super juicy post on the newly remastered Stop Making Sense, 2023 now in our beautiful house.
Tiny Japanese restaurants in 4K. "... there's a whole channel of these wholesome, calming and hunger-inducing videos"
How fake is fake in nature documentaries? sciatrix on why scientists stage photos of their mice, and ChuraChura reveals that butterflies love pee.
What should I watch, from a huge archive of Russian films? gusottertrout recommends some movies: "One of the great pleasures of watching Soviet cinema is seeing the differences in attitude towards common film tropes."
The real work of fake tears - pseudostrabismus tells us what it takes to film a movie scene with two actors crying: "Frankly it's a wonder actors can cry at all."
Where do tv chyrons come from? Jahaza explains who decides which words appear on screen during news broadcasts.
Support films made by and about people of color!
Jaguar has compiled a great linked list in the Run Time: 8 Seconds thread.
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