Favorite Director Documentaries?
 

There's so many, so I'll have to think about it before answering. I just saw one, a guy who isn't my favorite director, but it was still good (Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron).

Here's a few..
John Cassavetes - A Constant Forge, I'm Almost Not Crazy
Stanley Kubrick - A Life In Pictures
Orson Welles - Making of "The Trial" (talks a lot about other things)

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Two from last year:

Hitchcock/Truffaut
Sembene!

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I don't think i've ever watched one actually. I've been planning on watching the Kubrick one since it turned up on the Docs Countdown.

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Not a documentary, but an interview - still interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quT0SLvqQLY

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It's about several directors as well as writers and actors in the B-movie industry, but Some Nudity Required was great!

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The newly released documentary film De Palma has received positive reviews.

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Here's a new one posted a week ago.. Interview with Robert Altman by Charlie Rose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGZGilleCM8

And another one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-S4WtLEk0E

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I Don't Just Want You To Love Me

https://youtu.be/4gPqgGoqdLQ

I liked De Palma too...I think the Steven Spielberg and Robert Altman documentaries were a little too protective of their subjects. They concentrated too much on the director's triumphs. Not sure why, but when I watch a director documentary, I want to hear more about the director's failures, why the documentarians felt they failed and why the directors feel the films failed. That's a lot more interesting to me than just heaping praise on the directors' greatest hits.

The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera, which is about Samuel Fuller, is a good one.

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Lost in LaMancha was a good one about Gilliam's first attempt to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

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Cave of Forgotten Dreams is absolutely astonishing.

It is indeed. But the post is looking for documentaries about filmmakers.

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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse and Burden of Dreams remain the gold standard for behind-the-scenes looks at obsessive directors and their processes (specifically Coppola making Apocalypse Now and Herzog making Fitzcarraldo) while the must-see mirror of that pair is Lost in LaMancha and Jodorowsky's Dune, two epic un-making-ofs (Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote and Alejandro Jodorowsky's crack at adapting Dune).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlyx_lPtcgQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbAk8IZrWmc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-elMvdIhjE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0cJNR8HEw0

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Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story (2013) http://youtu.be/7hkKXVPbeys

I might check it out... Here it is in full


https://youtu.be/sy03L7iSy0U

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I don't know if this fits what you want, but I've really enjoyed watching The Movies That Made Us on Netflix. It's not about one specific director, nor is it about one solitary film. It's a neat look at how some movies came to be. Granted I've only seen the first three episodes, but I think it's awesome and engaging.

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Howard Hawks on Howard Hawks

https://youtu.be/G0th4ZNU49Q

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Elia Kazan & The Blacklist

https://youtu.be/S0LbRPeSgcY

'Vietnam' by Ken Burns. If you've never seen it I highly recommend it. I think it's a 10-part series. Definitely worth every minute.