Quote Originally Posted by LivetoRide View Post
Hey, thanks for the recommendation; I watched The Parking Lot Movie tonight and really liked it--even though I'm usually one who greatly favors tv series over movies (perhaps because they're ongoing). Do you have any other recommendations for movies--perhaps like this one?
By "like this one," do you mean documentaries? Did you get the Parking Lot Movie from Netflix? If so, just browse their other documentary offerings, many of which you can watch instantly. The ones currently in my queue are The Cove, Exit Through the Gift Shop, The Smartest Guys in the Room (which I've watched before but would like to see again), and Restrepo, but there any number of others worth watching. Some I've particularly liked in the past are Murder on a Sunday Morning, Sound and Fury, To Be and to Have (French), Half Past Autumn, Born into Brothels, A Thin Blue Line, Spellbound and The Fog of War.

For as bad as Hollywood's offering sometimes are, documentarians have been doing some truly wonderful work on any number of subjects--some arcane or extremely personal and some on well known subjects. A lot of what I like to watch in terms of documentaries are objectively pretty depressing and/or disturbing. There's one documentary, The Last Days, that I have probably watched at least five times, and every time I end up with a pile of spent tissues because it makes me bawl so badly. It's about Hungarian Jews and the Holocaust. As you might guess, it's extremely sad, but there's also something incredibly life affirming about it, too.

You might want to look at the list of Oscar-nominated documentaries, too, for some great suggestions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy...entary_Feature