Hey, I was wondering if anyone knew of any good documentaries similar to this one. By this I mean, not the biographical or educational kind of documentaries, but the more artsy, unique, and interesting ones, like The Five Obstructions. Any suggestions would be awesome.
shareYeah, check out F for Fake, a film by Orson Welles. It is just as metatextual and very much as twisted and crazy. Plus you don't have to be a Welles fan to understand it. Crumb perhaps is another good one, but it does not have as much of that interaction between film-maker and his subject. But there is a little bit of that in there since the director and Crumb are friends and the latter mentions this point a few times.
sharef is for fake, good recommendation. crumb, bad recommendation
sharetry 24 Hour Party People by Michael Winterbottom
share24 hour party people isnt even remotely a documentary.
shareHow about 'Tarnation'? While it is autobiographical, it is also VERY "artsy, unique, and interesting" . . .
Amazon reccomends La Jette (I've not seen it - don't think it's a documentary) which I think was the inspiration for Gilliam's 12 Monkeys . . .
Le Jette is not a documentary. It is a brilliant film though, so you should watch it anyway.
shareTry American Splendor. It's not really a documentary either, but it's an interesting interspersal of the real and the acted -- it's a movie about comic writer Harvey Pekar, and Pekar himself appears throughout the movie, commenting on the actor who plays him and on his memories of the actual events that the movie is based on.
shareI think the simple answer is NO - there aren't any other documentaries like this lol . . .
shareSymbiopsychotaxiplasm is pretty interesting. It's a film within a film within a film... sort of.
Three cameras all capturing different things. It's an old 60s documentary, but very interesting.
"The sexual awakening of a Yiddish plumber " is similar in cinematographic elliptical construct.
"And three hard-boiled eggs"
try The Pervert's Guide to Cinema.
shareOh and you should really see the Errol Morris film
Fast, Cheap and Out of control.
Cosmically poetic and unconventional.
Oh and as a sort of Musical equivalent to the five Obstructions, 'It might get loud' was interesting, though they don't actually make much music together it has that same 'great minds meet' premise.
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