Documentary
FantastiCozzi (2016) TMDB IMDb WikiData
FantastiCozzi
director: Felipe M. Guerra actor: Luigi Cozzi / Caroline Munro
A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.
March 11, 2026 watched
Documentary on Luigi Cozzi, director of #Monsterdon #Fantasy #SciFi #BMovies like Starcrash, Hercules etc

Interesting but would have been more so if they had others (e.g. Argento, actors & producers etc) also speaking about him & his films, not just him.

Full movie:
https://flixhouse.com/video/5793/fantasticozzi
2010s Cinema Documentary Fantasy Horror
The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead (2015) WikiData IMDb
The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead
director: Wes Orshoski actor: Dave Vanian / Captain Sensible
other title: The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead
From Lemmy filmmaker Wes Orshoski comes the story of the long-ignored pioneers of punk: The Damned, the first U.K. punks on wax and the first to cross the Atlantic. This authorized film includes appearances from Chrissie Hynde, Mick Jones (The Clash), Lemmy and members of Pink Floyd, Black Flag, GNR, the Sex Pistols, Blondie, Buzzcocks, and more. Shot around the globe over three years, the film charts the band's complex history and infighting, as it celebrated its 35th anniversary and found its estranged former members striking out on their own anniversary tour, while still others battle cancer.
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
director: Questlove actor: Stevie Wonder / Lin-Manuel Miranda
other title: Summer of Soul (...Ou, Quando a Revolução Não Pôde ser Televisionada) / Summer of Soul (…ou quand la révolution n'a pas pu être télévisée)
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost — until now.
¡Qué Viva México! (1979) IMDb TMDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
Да здравствует Мексика!
director: Sergei Eisenstein actor: Sergey Bondarchuk / Grigori Aleksandrov
other title: ¡Que Viva Mexico! / Да здравствует Мексика!
Lauded Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein spent an extended period of time in Mexico working on an ambitious project that was never realized until much later, when this film was assembled from the largely abandoned footage. Moving from ancient Mayan times to the 1930s, the episodic movie features various dramatic segments, including scenes of a marriage ceremony and of bullfighting, as well as a Day of the Dead celebration and depictions of the Mexican Revolution.
Scala!!! (2024) IMDb
Scala!!!
director: Jane Giles / Ali Catterall actor: John Waters / Adam Buxton
This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired a generation during Britain's turbulent Thatcher years.
Dec. 28, 2025 to watch 1984-1989 the Scala was my local cinema!

Trigger: watching The Ladykillers (1955) & recognizing the Scala as someone leaves King's Cross Station
2020s Cinema Documentary London UK
Cinema of Vengeance (1994) IMDb TMDB
Cinema of Vengeance
director: Toby Russell actor: Cynthia Rothrock / Yuen Biao
other title: Le furie del cinema
A documentary study of martial arts films and their leading protagonists. Included are profiles of such artists as Bruce Lee, Cynthia Rothrock, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme and John Woo favorite Chow Yun-Fat.
Nov. 23, 2025 watched
Fascinating (for us fans) documentary on the history & development of Hong Kong martial arts & action films, featuring interviews with the people who make the magic happen. And lots of great clips from movies! (Which I have put into a collection here:
https://eggplant.place/collection/69ChUBekkGbNHa0VeIGmSz

I'm sure watched this on VHS in the 90s. Rewatched in #KungFuSat #WatchParty on Mastodon.
1990s Action Documentary HongKong MartialArts
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014) IMDb WikiData
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
director: Mark Hartley actor: Molly Ringwald / Dolph Lundgren
other title: The Electric Boogaloo / Electric Boogaloo
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
Nov. 16, 2025 to watch Produced by the same folks who made the excellent 'Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks' (2019) seen in #KungFuSat

Maybe future viewing for #MondayActionMovie ? ;)
2010s CannonFilms Documentary
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks (2019) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
director: Serge Ou actor: Alan Hofmanis / Alien Ness
other title: Pugni d'acciaio e calci kung fu
The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong over the decades, transformed Western action cinema and inspired the birth of cultural movements such as blaxploitation, hip hop music, parkour and Wakaliwood cinema.
Startup.com (2001) NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Startup.com
director: Chris Hegedus / Jehane Noujaim actor: Kaleil Isaza Tuzman / Tom Herman
other title: Startup.com - Vom Aufstieg und Ende eines amerikanischen Traums
Friends since high school, 20-somethings Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman have an idea: a Web site for people to conduct business with municipal governments. This documentary tracks the rise and fall of govWorks.com from May of 1999 to December of 2000, and the trials the business brings to the relationship of these best friends. Kaleil raises the money, Tom's the technical chief. A third partner wants a buy out; girlfriends come and go; Tom's daughter needs attention. And always the need for cash and for improving the site. Venture capital comes in by the millions. Kaleil is on C-SPAN, CNN, and magazine covers. Will the business or the friendship crash first?
Sept. 10, 2025 watched
Fascinating fly-on-the-wall doc showing two best friends starting a web business during the dotcom boom and bust, and what that does to their relationship.

Seen in #VCRparty #WatchParty
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