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2004

In this hilarious yet informative documentary, début director Morgan Spurlock makes himself the victim of a cruel experiment: he puts himself on a 30-day diet of nothing but McDonald's food. Eating three meals a day exclusively from McDonald's, Spurlock's health quickly deteriorates. The film documents the process from .. Read more

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  Docs Rock

  • 04 Mar 2009

  Inspired by the release of “American Teen”, we’ve compiled own playlist of must-see twenty first century documentaries. It’s been quite a decade for non-fiction filmmakers. Once synonymous with earnest and boring, the genre has undergone a radical facelift and enjoyed the kind of box-office success that would have been beyond the wildest dreams of the old guard of fly-on-the-wall practitioners. If Michael Apted had been charting the life cycle of the documentary film... Read more

  

  Redford opens "festival of dissent"

  • 21 Jan 2005

  Veteran actor and director Robert Redford has opened the 2005 Sundance Film Festival in Utah calling for filmmakers to "speak their minds". The festival's founder said he liked to think of Sundance as a "festival of dissent" in which diverse directors and producers could put forward their views. "This is really a festival about different voices in film that really reflect, a little more accurately, the world we live in," he said. This year's festival opened with... Read more

  

  Open water swims to the top

  • 15 Sep 2004

  Open Water, the low budget shark-fest, has chomped its way to the top of the UK box office charts after a strong opening weekend in which it took over £1.9 million. Based a true story the film which shows the terror of a scuba-diving couple accidentally left out at sea with bull sharks for company has proven a surprise hit at the global box office. Open Water revels in its budget limitations, employing grainy digital camera and actual shots of real life sharks, rather than CGI renditions.... Read more

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