Anyone else catch the 6-hour Frontline doc Country Boys? Any thoughts? I missed the first night, caught most of the 2nd night. Depressing and really well done… Makes me remember growing up in Southern Illinois a little too closely again – as did Stevie.
PBS’ website is currently down, but I think they are using the web as a kind of dynamic “extras” feature to the program, with lots of different expanded topics. Good idea (as long as your website is working).
Also recently saw the first half of Channel Z – a documentary about an early cable channel in L.A. that ran good movies, including the restored Heaven’s Gate a few years after it came out. I was really enjoying it when the DVD i had of it crapped out (Dayna thinks it was b/c I kept using the rewind button to see who was fronting Black Flag…It was Ron Reyes I guess, not Keith Morris) But I’ll rent another copy and try again; I really liked what I saw of both of these films. More and more, I am impressed more by docs than by “scripted” films.