Mockumentaries
This collection goes to 11!
A refreshing palate-cleanser to the generally serious, issue-oriented documentary, there is little doubt that the gold standard of mockumentaries is Christopher Guest's This Is Spinal Tap! (1984), a ground-breaking masterpiece of fakery that paved the way for a bevvy of brilliant but bogus films. Aside from Mr. Guest's continuing development of the genre (Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show, and A Mighty Wind), a number of other names have made the surreal more real. Even cinematic demi-god, Orson Welles, got in on the act as with F is for Fake. Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat begs the question whether we are laughing at Borat or at ourselves? And don't forget the even outré-er sequel, Bruno. Others have taken up the more serious side of faux-filmmaking, some with resounding success (The Blair Witch Project, District 9) but predominantly these films tend toward humor. Forget Harlan County, USA, bring on Best In Show!
Best in Show
$5.95 | 90 minutes
Christopher Guest brings his unique brand of lunacy to the screen with another mockumentary in the tradition of WAITING FOR GUFFMAN. This one, BEST IN SHOW, is about purebred dog owners feverishly competing for their pets to be named Best in Show at the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show. Using many of the same actors who starred in WAITING…
Bruno
$11.95 | 82 minutes
After BORAT took over America in 2006, another Sacha Baron Cohen creation arrives on the big screen. In BRUNO, the gay Austrian model of the title brings his antics to the States…
Fear of a Black Hat
$21.95 | 0 minutes
A hip-hop satire in the mock-documentary style of "This Is Spinal Tap". Filmmaker Nina Blackburn takes her camera and follows popular rap group, NWZ (Niggaz with Hats). The band's 3 members explain their philosophy and reminisce about their many experiences -- which include run-ins with right-wing zealots, battles with rival rappers and…
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
$14.95 | 72 minutes
THE RUTLES is a hilarious send-up of the myth and reality--mostly the myth--of the Beatles. Created by Monty Python's Eric Idle and produced by SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE creator Lorne Michaels, this mockumentary contains cameos from Mick Jagger, Paul Simon, Ron Wood, Bill Murray, and even one of the mocked himself, George Harrison. To make…
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The Blair Witch Project
$7.95 | 87 minutes
Made for $30,000 by two young filmmakers from Florida, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT wowed festival audiences for several months before finding distribution at the 1999 Sundance Festival. It is an ingenious creation which makes effective use of its lack of budget and cast of unknowns. The film is composed entirely of reportedly "found" footage&hellip…
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F For Fake
$34.95 | 87 minutes
Orson Welles has a ball examining the nature of what is real and what is fake in the funny, bizarre F FOR FAKE. Four people stand at the center of this documentary: Elmyr de Hory, who some believe forged more than a thousand masterpieces, many of which hang in some of the world's most famous museums; Clifford Irving, who is not only out&hellip…
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Zelig
$11.95 | 79 minutes
Perhaps the most unique film of his career, Woody Allen's ZELIG not only stands as a technical triumph for a director not often associated with the technological aspect of filmmaking, but also utilizes a documentary aesthetic that Allen has not often used before or since. One of the first major mockumentaries produced (it was released…
District 9
$11.95 | 112 minutes
Director Neill Blomkamp teams with producer Peter Jackson for this tale of extraterrestrial refugees stuck in contemporary South Africa. It's been 28 years since the aliens made first contact, but there was never any attack from the skies, nor any profound technological revelation capable of advancing our society. Instead, the aliens…
Waiting for Guffman
$15.95 | 84 minutes
This mock documentary, set in the fictional town of Blaine, Missouri, chronicles the attempts of its talent-free residents to put on a show celebrating the burg's 150th anniversary. From the fey director Corky St. Clair to the Dairy Queen girl, the cast and crew scream incompetence. Furthermore, St. Claire has invited Guffman -- a Broadway…
This Is Spinal Tap
$11.95 | 83 minutes
A brilliant and hilarious documentary-style satire of a has-been British heavy metal band who never really was on an absurd American comeback tour that never quite gets off the ground, THIS IS SPINAL TAP practically birthed the mockumentary style. Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer are David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel&hellip…