Also known as “Brainman”. Daniel Tammet is a young man with “high-functioning autistic savant syndrome”. In other words, he’s smart as hell. We follow him to the States where scientists get baffled at his extraordinary mental abilities. For example, he has a stop-over in Iceland where he learns the language in a week, he does [...]
7 long years. That’s how much time Andrew Wiles spent fighting a mathematical problem to which no one knew if there existed a solution. The film is a beautiful, little gem about human endurance represented by a very modest man. Who knew mathematics could be this exciting? The doc is not available on DVD anywhere, [...]
Before I google the fuck out of this film, let me say a few unresearched words. I wouldn’t be surprised if this “Hearts of Darkness” meets “The Big Blue”-documentary is a total fabrication. Probably Martin Strel never swam a single river, over-weight and over-aged. Never drank a single bottle of whiskey while swimming down the [...]
“Karima”, by Clarisse Hahn, is a film about a young, French dominatrix. We see Karima having dinner, laughing with her family, talking with friends, and – surprise! – fist-fucking her domestic slave and then pissing in his mouth. You don’t just “kinda see”. You see. I didn’t expect that in a cinema full of people. [...]
In the late 90s Swedish, dot-com millionaire O’Casey decided to make a horror/cult/noir film. This doc manages to portray the dot com hype and what it does to the mindset of people caught up in its success. It also attempts to show how group-think (or “mass hypnosis” as Casey calls it) can lead a bunch [...]
A Brazilian documentary about Silvino Santos, an early film-maker. The reconstructed protagonist speaks directly to the camera which can be interesting. The production value is very high, but unfortunately that doesn’t prevent the film from being boring. Silvino Santos just doesn’t seem like a very interesting individual (yikes!). IMDB: 7.5 (17 votes) / 87 minutes [...]
A trip into the mind of David Lynch as he directs “Inland Empire”. david lynch documentary 2007 teaser 2 stars / IMDB: 7.0 (229 votes) / Rotten tomatoes: 58% (19 reviews) / Official site / 84 minutes Directed by: blackANDwhite
Vashti Bunyan is a singer/song-writer with an interesting story. As a young woman she made a beautiful album and was then forgotten for 30 years. Freak-folk artists like Devendra Banhart and Vetiver brought her back from oblivion a few years ago and Bunyan is now making music again. She is very delicate, soft-spoken and gentle [...]
I like Bob Marley and so does the director of this film. The film is a portrait of the album “Exodus” and of the year it was made, 1977. Unfortunately it’s also a weak film – it’s exceptionally difficult to understand Bob’s dialect and with no sub-titles most of the audience lost the central points [...]
We follow the poet-president Vaclav Havel through his career. Filmed over a 13 year period, this documentary seems to have its commitment as being a historical document, rather than a personal view of the Czech republic’s most colorful character. I personally found the film interesting, but also lacking a coherent narrative. 2 stars, form:5, content:6 [...]
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