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There’s something extremely fascinating about those rare individuals who function on a higher plane, however dysfunctional or detached from the rest of society. The art world, as any other, knows its prodigies and outsiders alike. Here a few good documentaries that cover a wide range of such people.

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“Whatever happened to the trailer roundups,” you ask? That’s what I’d like to know.

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I suppose the comparison was inevitable, if not obvious. The new documentary Protagonist by Jessica Yu finds a good template in Errol Morris’ opus Fast, Cheap & Out of Control.

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A few weekends ago, I drove up into the mountains of Colorado. Was I going camping, you ask?

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This is a film I put together for my sister…
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If we culturally allow our young girls to pierce their ears, then it would be hypocritical of us to disallow those same girls to pierce their belly buttons or noses.
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I was about to turn 20 years old. It was 1994 and my grandparents would be celebrating their golden wedding anniversary on my birthday. Flying to Orange, California, to visit them for a week would be a momentous occasion. Afterall, I was leaving my teens and they were entering their retirement.
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“In America” is the best film I’ve seen this year. And to be fair, I’ve seen some truly great films so that comment is no small task.
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The obsessive compulsive in me can’t help but organize things in pointless lists. Ever make a mental note of things that share some obscure relational similarity? I do. I can’t quit. Here’s an example: movies with numerical film titles.
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Director Mark Lewis is described in his short festival biography as “a master of the eccentric animal documentary.”
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What started out as counter-culture basement bands in Seattle quickly became mainstream.
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Berlinger should stick to his roots.
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Never having been to a festival before, I only knew as much about indie movies as the local Blockbuster would rent me.
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