I am fan of these types of film, but I find it hard to think of many. I liked this one. Others that I can think of are.......
Punishment Park
The Last Broadcast
Blair Witch Project
Spinal Tap
The Office
84 Charlie MoPic
The Hellstrom Chronical
I havn't seen 'best in show' or 'a mighty wind'. Can anyone add to my list or give me any reccomendations about other ones to watch?
Thanks
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-arrested development
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This film is not a mocumentary!
That critic created catch phrazhis e applies to satrye and comedy using the narrative device of documentry. This is a film based on an event that makes reference and recreates different interpretations of that event.
This is a very ambitious project. Although the film has its problems it is a huge disservice to call it a "Mocumentary"
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I think 'Wolf Creek' trumps 'Blair Witch' any day of the week.
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"David Holzman's Diary" by Jim McBride
It's a good one in addition to the rob reiner/christopher guest mocks.
also:
"The Man of Aran" by Robert Flaherty is pretty set up,
the family members are not actually related.....
"Forgotten Silver" by Peter Jackson is well worth a watch if you're interested in the history of cinema. It's a short 50 minute film he made for TV which caused mini waves of excitement through New Zealand's film studies people. And then anger when it was "revealed" to all be fake...
And as you've mentioned "The Office" I'll also mention the fantastic mockumentary comedy series "People Like Us", which was just plain fantastic and sadly now forgotten in the shadow of the later (and lesser) The Office.
(Though so saying, I love the US remake of The Office...)
F For Fake (Vérités et mensonges) by great Orson Welles! It`s the first and the best! It`s the beginning of all genrue!
shareF for Fake is great, but it's not the first.
Check out "David Holzman's Diary" (1967). Brilliant -- and even a few years ahead of Welles!
Woody Allen also beat Welles to the mockumentary punch with "Take the Money and Run" in 1969.
And F for Fake is difficult to categorize as mockumentary filmmaking, really. It's mostly actual documentary filmmaking, with some fiction thrown in to make a point...a point which supports the basic premise of the documentary itself. So I wouldn't call it a mockumentary, personally. It's just a very Wellesian documentary. The fact that it's essentially about liars and frauds pretty much permits some lying and fraud on the part of the filmmaker without calling into question the overall integrity of the documentary work.
Zelig by Woody Allen
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