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.
See also: Grey Gardens, Capturing The Friedmans, Crazy Love, and certainly a few I'm forgetting because this really does seem to be a thing. At the very least, we'll get to see un-self aware documentary subjects from back before reality TV ruined documentaries, so awesome. (Via Golden Fiddle.)
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
I think this is a good argument for the succession of Long Island. Hopefully they'll take Gwennie with them.
Ultra rich navel gazing. Ugh.
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Long Live Long Island! Or did you mean secession?
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whoops! Tthat, yes.
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bonus nerd fact: the wife who reached out to get the movie made is Susan Meiselas. hawt.
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producer:
men.style.com/video/obsessives/obsessives/3000755001/obsessives-alexander-olch/3168436001
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Man, I love the video quality on Vimeo
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Yes, it is a fine video viewing service.
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Yes, but...Bob Balaban...Wallace Shawn...
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