Hands On A Hardbody: The Musical • Well that is a curious idea. Buy a used copy of the original documentary here. Listen to the relevant This American Life episode here.

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I Don't Care About Anna Wintour

Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue, was on the Late Show with David Letterman last night. Who cares? Someone probably cares. I don't care. She's the editor of a magazine. About clothes. What? It's 2009, you guys. It's fun to play dress up, and everyone deserves the confidence that comes with looking your best, but people are literally dying out there. And what is a "magazine"?

Anna Wintour was on Letterman to promote a documentary about her and Vogue called the September Issue, which will be in theaters (in New York and Los Angeles) this Friday. Fair enough. I like documentaries. Although, documentaries in which the subject of the documentary is also the person promoting the documentary strike me as suspect. You mean Anna Wintour, a woman who is notoriously cold and obsessed with her own self-image, is totally on-board with the Anna Wintour documentary? Well then I am sure it gives us a shocking look into how great Anna Wintour is and what a fabulous and important life she leads. Kill me.

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Posted by Gabe at 5:00 PM in Documentaries, Late Night
Tags: Anna Wintour | David Letterman | Fashion | The September Issue | Vogue

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A Round Of Applause For Michael Moore • Michael Moore has come up with a title for his documentary. Capitalism: A Love Story. See, that wasn't so hard. Congratulations, Michael Moore, YOU DID IT!

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Kanye West Makes A Short Documentary About His Life

Kanye West appeared at the Los Angeles Film Festival yesterday to premiere a short film called We Were Once A Fairytale, directed by Spike Jonze. Supposedly it was originally going to be a music video for 808's & Heartbreak, but then it basically became a portrait of a typical day in the life for Kanye. From Nah Right:

In the film, Kanye plays himself drunk at a club acting belligerent and boastful, telling starstruck club-goers that the song playing in the club is his. He wanders into a side room where he encounters a beautiful woman. They start having sex and then he passes out on her leopard print dress. When he comes to, he finds himself in the VIP room with his pants down - he was hallucinating and fucking the pillow. The realization startles him and he rushes to the bathroom where he vomits what look like rose petals.

Then it gets weird.

Kanye finds a bowie knife in the bathroom and cuts into his stomach, spilling a torrent of more petals. He digs in the knife deeper and then with his hand rips out a small furry rodent, like a demon, only its quite cute. When Kanye realizes it's connected to him with an umbilical cord, he pulls it hard, ripping it out of him for good. He then puts the demon on the sink and hands him a tiny bowie knife to fit the critter's scale who then uses it to commit hari kari.

I don't really understand what Michel Gondry Spike Jonze had to do with it. Sounds like Kanye just picked up a camera and went to the club. Lazy.

Posted by Gabe at 2:15 PM in Documentaries
Tags: Kanye West | Los Angeles Film Festival | Spike Jonze

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Cat Ladies: "When Cats Mean 'Meow' To You Than People"

I can't decide whether that (official) tagline is tongue-in-cheek or not (probably), but there's a new Canadian documentary making the festival rounds that will surely end up on TV soon. Cat Ladies explores one of our society's most joked-about and feared archetypes: the crazy cat lady. The filmmakers wisely included cat ladies of all stripes, who seem surprisingly self-aware. "I think I'm a lot more sane than the people who can handle leaving a cat out in the middle of winter to freeze to death." But the normal-seeming youngish one still freaks me out a little! (She has 16 cats now, but agrees that if she had 30 she would graduate to crazy cat lady status.)

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Posted by Lindsay at 12:30 PM in Animals On Film, Documentaries, Trailer
Tags: Cats

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The Windmill Movie: Another Self-Indulgent Documentary About The Hamptons (Yay)

I've spent, like, thirty total minutes trying to contemplate the seemingly everlasting appeal of documentaries spliced together from real footage of wealthy and/or glamorous people being self-indulgent and/or tragic in the place known as Long Island, but I'm totally stumped as to why this very specific genre is so ubiquitous. It's probably all the time and money they have on their hands over there. The Windmill Movie is another one, and it opens this weekend, and it has Wallace Shawn in it (!), and I'll be first in line even though I'm still not even sure what it's about from this trailer.

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Posted by Lindsay at 1:15 PM in Documentaries, Trailer
Tags: Bob Balaban | Capturing The Friedmans | Crazy Love | Grey Gardens | The Windmill Movie | Wallace Shawn

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Paris Hilton, Like, Has Feelings Too, Or Whatever

The trailer for Paris, Not France, the 68-minute documentary that followed Paris Hilton around the world in a quest to try to make her seem interesting hit the internet this weekend. The movie has been criticized for not being no-holds-barred enough, but judging from the trailer, maybe we should be easier on the director. At this point, the Occam's Razor on Paris Hilton is that she really IS as boring as she seems.

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Posted by Lindsay at 9:30 AM in Documentaries
Tags: Paris Hilton | Paris Not France

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Someone Should Make A Documentary About Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson talking about the Chris Brown/Rihanna scandal (FINALLY!), you guys:

Well played, Mr. Tyson. This is the single most effective marketing tool for the upcoming movie about your life that you-slash-the VP of Northeastern Distribution could ask for. I didn't understand half the words that you said, but I knew that they were insane. Leave them wanting more! I'm pretty sure the ultimate message is that the society we live in forces people to think they are being cool when a mind-invading girl breaks up with them, but with the downside that you can't just kill the girl no matter how much you might want to because passion? Did I get that right? Admittedly, I am just a baby. I am just a little baby!

Mike Tyson could incomprehensibly explain his opinion on the phone book and I would watch.

Posted by Gabe at 11:00 AM in Documentaries, Free Advertising
Tags: Mike Tyson | Tyson

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