Anybody here ever see "Capturing the Friedmans"?

[XanaDUer]

A very interesting documentary about a nice, middle-class family on Long Island.

I just got the DVD, and I recommend it highly.

[ikojo]

1. Yes, I saw it when it was released.

Good documentary. Another good, but strange one, is Tarnation.

A dark and troubling dream that David Lynch must envy, made all the more unsettling because it's true, Tarnation can only be called at auto-documentary. It's a self-portrait of the family life of Jonathan Caouette, whose mother Renee (a former child model) was forced to undergo electric shock treatment repeatedly in her youth, leading to erratic behavior throughout her life. But though the events of Caouette's life are sad, horrific, or a testament to human resilience, what makes the movie striking is how it was made: Caouette cobbled the movie together from photographs, tape recordings, and home movies that he's shot throughout his life, ranging from footage of himself at 11 years old imitating a battered wife to trashy horror movies he made as an adolescent to the first time he met his father. The unique and fluid result is mesmerizing and eerily intimate, like stepping into someone else's stream of consciousness--though few of our dreams have such a killer indie rock soundtrack. --Bret Fetzer --This text refers to the Theatrical Release edition.

[XanaDUer]

2. Thanks. I will look for that one

I never heard of it until now. I looked it up on the imdd.com, and it looks very interesting.

Capturing the Friedmans was great, too. Do you think he really did anything in the basement, and did Jessie?