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Made for $218 on an Apple iMac, Jonathan Caouette's TARNATION is a spellbinding and heartbreaking documentary self-portrait that re-imagines the whole idea of what a documentary can be. The film chronicles Caouette's chaotic upbringing in a dysfunctional Texas family and the unexpected relationship that develops with his .. 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

  

  Running With Scissors

  • 29 Jan 2007

  Augusten Burroughs' memoir has been at or near the top of the New York Times best seller list for non-fiction these past 127 weeks. Call me crazy, but I wonder if it would pass the Oprah veracity test if it had been published in the post-James Frey era. This tale of a camp 13-year-old boy adopted by his divorced mother's blithely uninhibited therapist, Dr Finch (Brian Cox) makes the traumatic childhood in Tarnation look like Little House on the Prairie. The cast of loonier-than-life characters Read more

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