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[mellowboy]

What is your favorite independent films?

What is your favorite documentary films?



My favorite independent films are :

City of God

Last Life in the Universe

Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow film)

Kung Fu (Stephen Chow film)

Lost in Translation

Requiem for a Dream

Crash

Kids

Motorcycle Diaries

As for the Documentary :

Crusades

Eternal Enemies ( yeh i'm animal lover so what?)

500 years Later

Inside Islam

Islam Empire of Faith

Huey Long (1987)

Al Capone the Rise and Fall of Chi-town's Most Notorious Gangster

Theres many more but I want to see what everyone else's favorite and give us some recommendations

[2.2 Straight six]

City of God is definitely my favourite independant film.

Li'l Ze is mean..

my favourite imdependant documentary was called 6 Degrees of Seperation (i think) and it was about none other than 6 Degrees of Serperation. it was this girl who got people to apply to be the person she found, and then set about finding them through 5 intermediaries. i think she made it in 7. he was a mongolian goat farmer or something.

[mellowboy]

Originally Posted by 2.2 Straight six

City of God is definitely my favourite independant film.

Li'l Ze is mean..

my favourite imdependant documentary was called 6 Degrees of Seperation (i think) and it was about none other than 6 Degrees of Serperation. it was this girl who got people to apply to be the person she found, and then set about finding them through 5 intermediaries. i think she made it in 7. he was a mongolian goat farmer or something.

I found it. I had to look through three different titles and one of them matched your description...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457478/

Seems interesting. I'm goin to check that one out.

[00accord44]

I like small films. One of my more recent favorites is Rabbit Proof Fence

Documentaries are teh shizz. History Chanel always has good stuff on. Documentatires and otherwise. Its tied for my favorite channel (with Discovery Channel).

Some of my favorties

Al Capone documentary
St Valentines Day Massacre
The Titanic
Any war documentary
There was a documentary about some sailors that were in Antarctica and were stranded in the ice and wrecked out. I wish I could remember the name... ? Mellow you're good at this kinda thing

[2.2 Straight six]

Originally Posted by mellowboy

I found it. I had to look through three different titles and one of them matched your description...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457478/

Seems interesting. I'm goin to check that one out.

wow! thanks!

i looked everywhere and couldn't find it, there were other independant films made about it. this one was really good though, the girl would film herself explaining who she was going to meet and who she was contacting them through, it was made more interesting because it was "pure". as in, it wasn't glamourised or anything, it was a girl testing the theory without spending lots of money or anything.

it was on at like 3am when i saw it, pretty obscure film.

[drunken monkey]

I wouldn't call stephen chow films independent film-making.

[mellowboy]

Originally Posted by drunken monkey

I wouldn't call stephen chow films independent film-making.

Well...foreign films.

[mellowboy]

Originally Posted by 00accord44

There was a documentary about some sailors that were in Antarctica and were stranded in the ice and wrecked out. I wish I could remember the name... ? Mellow you're good at this kinda thing

I'll see if I can find it.

[2.2 Straight six]

if we're talking foreign films, The Science of Sleep is good.

it's about this guy who's mexican and he moves to france. he's fascinated by dreams and does things to try and control them, and it's all about his dreams and his inventions and stuff. it's a bit confusing at first, but it's really really funny. definitely worth a watch, i got to see it for free and it was great.

[drunken monkey]

they're not really independent films either but a lot of things that Film 4 produce seem to hit the spot for me.
I mean, a lot of my favourite films have come from Film 4.

[lakwo]

I'm learning to like independent films. My boyfriend is a huge independent film fan. He even has gone as far as to start his own independent film organization with hopes of having a local independent film festival someday soon. I normally only watch the ones that he's seen at the film festivals he attends. I normally only watch documentaries when someone makes a suggestion.