The relatively WTF career of Joe Berlinger, Director

left out the upcoming stuff, so if u wanted to vote in anticipation of Untitled Paul Simon Documentary or Raising Hell: The Visions of Clive Barker (or i guess Paradise Lost 3) too bad 4 u.

I am still holding good will towards this dude despite him helming that absolutely fucking terrible self-reacharound congratulatory iconclasts show.

I think you're reaching a bit far if you want to argue for him as some kind of "auteur". This looks like the career of a committed documentary filmmaker who more frequently has to take other jobs to make a living. I'm sure there are many similar filmmakers with careers like this.

I've seen like six of these. Paradise Lost or Brother's Keeper are probably the best of his stuff. I don't hold the crap against him. Even Errol Morris made that Lou Diamond Phillips movie for a paycheck.

Another example of admrl's phenomenon is Apted whose non-Up career is so littered with "other jobs to make a living" it makes Beringer's work for hire seem practically saintly by comparison.

Michael Apted has got to be close to 20 years older than this guy though

and there's nothing un-"saintly" about taking money for work you don't care about. That describes many people I know!

voted iconoclasts cause i thought it would take me to all 20 episodes

dude im not talking about him being an auteur or calling him unsaintly w/e that means, i am saying that this is a super odd list of films

is "Crude" watchable? its gonna be on sundance channel idk if i should even bother

Saintly was maybe the wrong word. Artistically consistent? Either way I don't fault any of these dudes for taking/making money where/how they can.

It's totally watchable.

"dude im not talking about him being an auteur or calling him unsaintly w/e that means, i am saying that this is a super odd list of films"

...that you want us to vote for?

this whole thing came up because people were talking about bwp2 on the horror thread and shakey mo was getting confused about why paradise lost came up and i thought "oh yeah i bet most people dont know about this" and then found the untitled paul simon doc and iconoclasts and went oh huh

like tbf brothers keeper/paradise lost doesnt exactly mesh with crude/grey matter and it gets even odder when you throw in some kind of monster and this clive barker thing, and thats just docs

xpost uh. yes? that is what polls do?

wait are you defending iconoclasts, because that whole series was one steaming pile of shit - i'm not taking him to task on it because of some sell out vibe, i just think its garbage

well okay then

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oh this is the asshole who masterminded that Iconoclasts bullshit

^glad I am not alone

I was going to add Barbara Kopple to this list, but it looks like the only paycheck movie she's really done is Havoc, and that had Anne Hathaway's best/worst acting to date.

BWP2 >>>>> BWP, for the record

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what even is 2011 Oprah Presents: Master Class (TV series documentary) 2

Crude was good. pretty surprised the texaco chief environmental officer was allowed 2 be in this, tho she stuck 2 the company line obv

also a lot of the outtakes were or are being subpoenaed for hte trial?

I missed this poll. Paradise Lost and Brother's Keeper were both life-changingly awesome for me.

Blair Witch 2... yeah. Didn't it get majorly fuxxored by studio editors after Berlinger finished it? I'll say one thing for it, it has a cool score (Carter Burwell).

^yah berlinger sez the studio put his cut of BW2 in a blender

huh he did this look back @ the financial crisis thing

yeah i saw him and hank paulson, etc. interviewed on charlie rose.

his career isn't very WTF--he does a lot of projects of his own devising, and a bunch of more commercial stuff to pay the bills, no?

blair witch 2 is the wild card, but of course, if you owned that property, wouldn't you seek a filmmaker with documentary experience to make the sequel?

has a new series on starz called 'wrong man' abt a possibly wrongly convicted dude in washington state