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Maltin on Movies

39 Stranger Than Fiction

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2662 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week Leonard and Baron discuss three documentaries that are well worth your time and will make you cry: Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters, Crips and Bloods: Made in America, and an inspiring film about two remarkable people separated in age by more than 60 years.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, hi, everybody. This is Leonard Malton, and you're listening to Malton on movies with

0:09.7

Baron Vaughn, which means you're also listening to...

0:12.0

Baron Vaughn. Yeah. That's me. The other guy.

0:14.6

We're both here and happy to be. And we're going to do something a little different today

0:20.1

because we're discussing three documentaries. Right. And when're going to do something a little different today because we're discussing three

0:21.8

documentaries. Right. And when it comes to documentaries, you don't want to spend too much time

0:26.8

dwelling on the bad ones. No, it seems not only pointless, literally pointless, when there's

0:34.0

so many good documentaries out there. I mean, we've really been blessed.

0:39.1

Yeah.

0:39.4

There's been a flood of worthwhile, provocative, interesting, compelling documentaries in recent years.

0:48.0

I guess some of that has to do with the new channels of distribution.

0:52.5

Absolutely.

0:54.0

Especially when it comes to streaming services.

0:56.1

Exactly.

0:56.7

People are hungry for documentaries.

0:59.1

Mm-hmm.

0:59.8

And the fact that it now is feasible to make a documentary on a modest budget, I mean, you can and people have made them on their iPhones, for goodness sake.

1:10.6

I mean, and you can edit on your Final Cut Pro at home, you know, on your laptop.

1:15.3

Now, that doesn't mean that they're necessarily good.

1:20.1

It just means that it's a simpler means of the production of a documentary is simple in terms of filmmaking.

1:26.4

Yes.

1:26.8

In terms of organizing everything and what you're going to do a documentary about, that's...

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