Originally Posted by
OldPhiKap
Great idea for a thread, JNort.
I'll answer the full range of questions over the weekend, but wanted to name three odd ones that are well worth watching:
Jiro Dreams of Sushi -- about a sushi master who has a three-star Michelin restaurant in a Tokyo subway station which only seats ten people, and his relationship with his two sons. Really fascinating and oddly touching.
The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man -- a documentary that tracks random and crazy Bill Murray pop-up sightings that seem like trying to follow stories of a mythical and absurd-acting yeti. Interesting, funny, off-beat.
Dying Laughing -- interviews with stand-up comics, famous and not, about the life of a stand-up comic. The highs, the lows, the road, the hecklers, the mental strain. Interviews include Jerry Seinfeld, Gary Shandling, Sarah Silverman, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart, Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, Jerry Lewis, and a bunch of folks you may or may not have heard of but who tell great stories. Funny, sad, interesting, eye-opening.
Of course, right now my favorite is They Shall Not Grow Old and the featurette describing how it was made. Not sure it is a true documentary, but more a broad painting of an experience in time.