Obligatory preface: (a) I searched for this first and came up with Batman Begins (b) if this is in the wrong section move it.
I'm looking for a list of fake documentaries, for example This Is Spinal Tap or Blair Witch Project. Yes, I know you think Moore's stuff is destined for this category but this isn't what I'm looking for. Help is appreciated as always.
A Mighty Wind
Best in Show
Incident at Loch Ness
The Rutles
The Rutles 2
The best is Man Bites Dog.
oh yeah, i forgot about that one. you're right though. i loved it.
Quote from: Gamblor Posts DrunkThe best is Man Bites Dog.
that movie is so overrated.
The Office
#1 Fan: A Darkomentary
Quote from: dufresneQuote from: Gamblor Posts DrunkThe best is Man Bites Dog.
that movie is so overrated.
Nah
Zelig
Husbands And Wives
Bob Roberts
David Holzman's Diary
And God Spoke...
Fear Of A Black Hat
the idiots (?)
fuckland (another really good dogme95)
strass - another dogme film
war games
incident at loch ness (mockumentary of a documentary of a mockumentary)
This Is... Spinal Tap
Blair Witch Project
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Even though they're already listed...
Man Bites Dog and Bob Roberts, they're two of my favorites.
Quote from: Gamblor Posts DrunkQuote from: dufresneQuote from: Gamblor Posts DrunkThe best is Man Bites Dog.
that movie is so overrated.
Nah
Yeah.
FEAR OF A BLACK HAT
Thank you to almost everyone here for your contributions.
Forgotten Silver.
Mockumentary
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Mockumentary (portmanteau of mock documentary. Also, fictional documentary, false documentary) names a film and TV genre, or a single work of the genre. The mockumentary is presented as if it were a documentary, though it is not factual. It is a commonly used medium for parody and satire.
Mockumentaries are often presented as historical documentaries with b roll and talking heads discussing past events or as cinema verite pieces following people as they go through various events. Examples of this type of satire date back at least to the 1950s (a very early example was a short piece on the "Swiss Spaghetti Harvest" that appeared as an April fool's joke on the British television program Panorama in 1957), though the term "mockumentary" is thought to have first appeared in the mid-1980s when This is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner used it in interviews to describe that film.
The false documentary form has also been used for some dramatic productions (and precursors to this approach date back to the radio days and Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds.)
I remember that spaghetti harvest thing! I thought it was like an 80s thing made to look like the 50s.
who woulda thought people in the 50s were capable of sarcasm?
I heard somewhere that Fellini invented the mockumentary. False??
Charlie Kaufman invented the Mockumentary.
hardcore logo (not a mockumentary, but fake doc)