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Best Filmmaking Documentaries

Robino_J said:
That's right he was shooting 65mm film at 60fps. This guy is completely delusional.
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Loved Audience of One. It was great! Thank you!

Sort creeped me out at times as I've had a couple clients like that guy. Had them, like past tense.
 
Ben Scott said:
Jack Cardiff: Camerman is brilliant, and a real insight. As is the classic Visions of Light.

Lost in La Mancha is great, as is 'The Hamster Factor' which was the same guys doing behind the scenes on 12 Monkeys.
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I'm definitely going to check these out.

Paul Lee said:
Loved Audience of One. It was great! Thank you!

Sort creeped me out at times as I've had a couple clients like that guy. Had them, like past tense.
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Just saw Audience of One. The end where he lays out his master plan is just amazing... :) I found the guy on Twitter actually: https://twitter.com/WYSI
 
American Movie is definately a good one.

For everyone loving Lost in La Mancha, to be honest, I was more of a fan of 'The Hamster Factor'. It's the making of from 12 Monkeys, another Terry Gilliam movie, by the same documentary makers as Lost in La Mancha.
It shows the grittyness of making a Gilliam-movie inside the Hollywood system. Really rewarding documentary, going trough test-viewings, having blockbuster actors on your crazy non-blockbuster set, ...
It's on the dvd.

The Story of Film looks great too, but Netflix isn't available in Belgium :-(
 
If you can, track down copies of "Project Greenlight" seasons one and two. Both show a lot of great and terrible things about filmmaking. There's bound to be moments of "Hey, that's just like that time when..."

"The Snowball Effect: The Story of Clerks" was a really great documentary on how Kevin Smith made "Clerks".

The documentary stuff on both "Evil Dead" and "Evil Dead 2" were particularly inspiring for me.

The BTS on "Legend" was interesting to watch and it goes over the beginning of the original concept idea and what the film ultimately ended up being for a variety of reasons.
 
Shut Up and Play the Hits, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Man on Wire... just to name a few
 
The Making of the Shining doc (youtube it) is half an hour made by Stanley Kubrick's daughter Vivian. Very interesting. The only publicly available footage of him directing (aside from a few glimpses on Full Metal Jacket).

For more on the man, 'A Life in Pictures'.

Another FANTASTIC making-of from Peter Jackson (who I think is the undisputed champ of making-of documentaries) is found on the Special Features of the special edition of the Frighteners.

It's 3 hours long, there's a 25 minute 'fly on the wall' section of main unit production. You get to see the nascent Weta Digital facility. I believe it was one of the highest VFX pictures at the time.
 
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