Topic: Documentality #1 - Foreword

So, we're trying a thing! This is the pilot episode / mission statement / introduction / foreword to a new show from the brain of Eddie Doty.

Let us know what ya think!

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2 (edited by Doctor Submarine 2013-05-19 19:52:22)

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"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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3 (edited by Owen_Ward 2013-05-19 20:40:57)

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Only twenty minutes in, but I'm totally down with this already.

EDIT: Just finished, damn I wanna listen to 'em all now!

What's the release schedule gonna be with these? Will it just be alternating each week between WAYDM, Intermission and this, or will it be much more loose?

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Nothing formal.  Basically whenever I can get people together for them.  Glad you like it thus far.

Eddie Doty

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6 (edited by Malak 2013-05-20 03:28:53)

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Eddie, good work mate.

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I'm a bit hard of hearing so the first few seconds with the talking over the music (fortunately, it doesn't last long) was quite difficult to make out, just saying.

Great ep otherwise!

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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This was very interesting, and I'm excited to hear more. Curious to hear what the panel thought of Searching for Sugar Man. I found it pretty underwhelming. The story was kind of interesting, but the movie itself really didn't have a point. At the end I was wondering why they had bothered to make the movie in the first place, and what everyone else seemed to see in it. There was too much focus on Rodriguez himself and not enough on the impact his music had on South Africans, which to me was the really interesting part of the story.

"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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"Life is about movies; anything else is a bonus!"- Me   cool

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"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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I'd like to hear television documentaries, like Louis Theroux's, covered too.

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Would you guys be interested in doing an episode on behind the scenes docs like Hearts of Darkness ? What makes the good ones stand out from the crowd?

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not long to go now...

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That is a goo subject.  I think the ones that work as narratives into their own are the best.  The ones that come to mind are:

Hearts of Darkness
Killing Priscilla
Overnight
Gimme Shelter (sort of)
Lost in La Mancha

All of those have stories an messages of their own to convey.  As much as I love the LOTR BTS features, they're purely informational and dot necessarily pass the Lecture Test for me.

Eddie Doty

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I loved that you brought up the propaganda tactics of so many documentaries, especially political / social ones.

I imagine you don't want to get too political in this show, but I'm pretty sure that people will be fine with you not only criticizing the 'form' of certain documentaries but the content as well —I mean, I imagine you don't have many "Loose Change" fans around here. It'd be fun to hear a heavy critique on one of those conspiracy films —they have almost as many propaganda tricks as logical fallacies.

PS. Hi to everyone BTW. This is my first proper post, apart from the one in the introduction thread smile

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22 (edited by drewjmore 2013-05-22 11:15:34)

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Welcome to Luka, and hit tip to Mr. Doty. In case you were wondering, we are all interested in seeing this podcast continued, developed and otherwise realized. You have a unique voice, both literally and figuratively, and I look forward to listening to more of it.

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Great to have you back, guys!

Also, it appeared on iTunes on the old stream, so that's good.

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"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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Yeah, I read that yesterday.  Nothing majorly surprising there.  Again, part of th point of this podcast is to help dispel the notion that Documentary=Journalism. 

Also, Paulou and I recently saw "The Act of Killing," and we'll be doing an entire episode just on that.  Additionally, my buddy Geoff LaTulippe and I will be doing an episode comparing West of Memphis and the Paradise Lost Trilogy.

Eddie Doty

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