For Episode 088 of Considering the Cinema, the 14th installment of The Weekly Watchlist, your hosts Jason Pyles, Mack Robins, and Dave Becker broke their own rules for this format in order to bring you a special about documentaries! Although Mack has a deep love and appreciation of all film genres, Dave and Jason took it upon themselves to recommend some excellent documentaries to Mack in hopes of enriching and enhancing Mack’s appreciation for documentary films! Will they succeed? Join us to find out! Thanks for listening!

Note: This episode was recorded on December 17, 2024, and it released on August 2, 2025!

THE WEEKLY WATCHLIST is the type of episode where we simply talk about whatever we’ve been watching lately from our own, personal watchlists. Here’s how it works: Jay, Mack and Dave have zero “movie-watching homework.” We are completely free each week to watch whatever we want from any era, year, genre, country, etc! We can finally go through our own personal watchlists and catch up with the films we’ve been meaning to see. So, every week will be vastly different. Let us know what you think of this format.

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SHOW NOTES: Considering the Cinema Ep. 088: The Weekly Watchlist

[ 00:00:01 ] – Introduction

[ 00:12:18 ] – Mack’s Top 3 All-Time Favorite Documentaries:

Apollo 11 (2019)

Special Witnesses of Christ (2000)

– Mack’s 24-hour movies challenge

The White Stripes Under the Great White Northern Lights (2009)

– The CTC hosts recommend the “Up” Documentary Series

[ 00:24:00 ] – Jason’s 3 Documentaries That Mack Might Not Have Seen (and Would Love):

American Movie (1999)

Burden of Dreams (1982)

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

BONUS Movie! – Doc and Jay recommend Lost in La Mancha (2002)

[ 00:40:19 ] – Dave’s 3 Documentaries That Mack Might Not Have Seen (and Would Love):

Grizzly Man (2005)

General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (1974)

Grey Gardens (1975)

BONUS Documentary Recommendations:

Jason’s Bonuses:

Dave’s Bonuses:

Wrap-Up

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