tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:276434 The meandering words of Mari Ness mariness 2013-10-12T04:35:32Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:276434:343023 2013-10-12T04:35:32Z 2013-10-12T04:35:32Z public 0 So my brother and I just finished watching <em>Salinger</em>, the 2013 documentary about J.D. Salinger. As I watched, I felt a growing irritation.<br /><br />Oh, not with Salinger. Sure, based on the limited information in this documentary and from other sources he appears to have been a complete jerk to friends and editors and had a serious taste for very, very much younger women whom he then proceeded to treat very very badly. So, yeah, not my favorite guy.<br /><br />But no, my chief irritation was with the damn documentary, which, finding it had about 20, maybe 30 minutes of actual information, footage, and so on, decides to stretch this into 120 minutes. One hundred and twenty very very long minutes. My brother fell asleep. <br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://mariness.dreamwidth.org/343023.html#cutid1">Here's why</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mariness&ditemid=343023" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:276434:311367 2013-02-19T15:52:02Z 2013-02-19T15:52:02Z public 0 As a recovering, or perhaps recovered, historian, I don't tend to watch that many documentaries. But recently two caught my attention for entirely different reasons, so I thought I'd blog a bit about both here. My comments got a bit long, so, cuts!<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://mariness.dreamwidth.org/311367.html#cutid1">The Queen of Versailles</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://mariness.dreamwidth.org/311367.html#cutid2">The Captains – William Shatner's Star Trek documentary</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mariness&ditemid=311367" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments