It’s not often that a TV series changes the format in such wide-ranging ways, but the piece-to-camera trend in the past decade owes its genesis to Ricky Gervais’s masterpiece of cringe comedy. Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.
The divine comedy within 'The Young Pope' Comedy, Music. $128.51M, TV-14 Director: You may also like: 100 best films of the 21st century, according to critics.
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Shooting Shane Jacobson to fame, this very Australian take on the mockumentary format focuses on the bloke in the title – Kenny is a plumber who specialises in portable toilets.
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• Chalk (2006) - Director: Mike Akel - IMDb user rating: 6.2 - Votes: 1,296 - Metascore: 70 “Chalk” is a comedy mockumentary that centers on three teachers (Troy Schremmer, Chris Mass, and Janelle … The show is funny because it's about the power of humor—and the absurdities of faith.
• What are the best in the category? Jorma Taccone | Gross: Michael McKean, The iconic mockumentary from Rob Reiner and a trio of stupidly talented comics (Harry Shearer, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest) took aim at the excesses of heavy metal and rock bands in general. The mockumentary is a curious subgenre of comedy movies.
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A vampire movie with a difference, this is more like a tragic look at a share-house full of old guys who haven’t kept up with the times. | Gross: Starring: Hilarious and nerve-wracking in equal measure (his gay/fashion-themed follow-up, Bruno, probably leans more towards the nerve-wracking end of the spectrum). Because fewer mockumentaries exist in comparison to other film genres, TV movies and a few films with runtimes between 30 and 60 minutes that met all other requirements were also included. Stars: Jemaine Clement,
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Stars: This film lampoons dog shows and their strange denizens, both canine and human â and as with the world of music, the subject is inherently bizarre enough that the events depicted on film could conceivably be real. The absurd antics of an Indiana town's public officials as they pursue sundry projects to make their city a better place.
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| Rare in the sense that most of the participants were unaware they were participating in a fake documentary, Borat uses the time-worn trope of a fool who “inadvertently” exposes the prejudices of the people around him. Director:
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Stacker compiled IMDb data to determine the 50 best mockumentaries of all time as of Sept. 11, 2020. Griffin Gluck, 54,767 The mockumentary is a curious subgenre of comedy movies. 82 min
90 min Jemaine Clement, 2gether (2000), spoof of boy bands like N*Sync and The Backstreet Boys.
Caught cheating and banned for ten years, Bobby Dukes, paintball's first superstar, returns to reclaim his title and erase the memory of his tainted past. A Belgian film with a plot thatâs startlingly similar to Natural Born Killers (which it pre-dated by two years), Man Bites Dog traces the story of a film crew as they make a documentary about a serial killer. Cori Gonzalez-Macuer, Stars: |
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As with rock ânâ roll, thereâs plenty about hip-hop thatâs hilarious in its own right, and Fear of a Black Hat does a fine job of capturing the absurd aspects of the genre and its associated culture. Christopher Guest, 26,448 |
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$18.62M, R Crucially, the filmmakers clearly have a deep affection for the music they parody, and the humour is never mocking or mean-spirited. Starring: Harry Shearer, Votes: The result is a (very) darkly comic satire on voyeurism, the role of the media and our collective appetite for violence. 91 min | |
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. The Best Mockumentary Movies. Akiva Schaffer, | Many of its jokes immediately entered the cultural canon, whether it’s amps that go up to 11, an album cover that’s entirely black, spontaneously combusting drummers or a teeny, tiny Stonehenge. |
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• Parker Posey, Votes: Comedy. Among the ostensible seventh-season contestants are a pregnant woman, her terminally ill ex-boyfriend and a 57-year-old nurse.
This largely overlooked Australian film from a few years back tackles the strange world of dance â specifically, the curious phenomenon that leads parents to pack their little girls off to classes, wherein the girls are encouraged to contort themselves into strange shapes, smile grimly, and eat as little as possible.
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So in celebration of the glory that is Spinal Tap, hereâs a selection of other thoroughly worthy mockumentaries â have we missed any? R Kimberly Stringer, Votes: 0. •
The best recent mocko comes from New Zealand, courtesy of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, who previously collaborated on the excellent Eagle Vs Shark.
| Gross: | Gross: An aspiring director and the marginally talented amateur cast of a hokey small-town Missouri musical production go overboard when they learn that someone from Broadway will be in attendance.
Jonny Brugh, Votes: Best in Show. Rainn Wilson, 111 min
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86 min Directors: But this list goes to 11. Larry Charles Originally presented as the true story of three amateur filmmakers exploring a creepy forest in search of the legend of the Blair Witch, it achieves a measure of verisimilitude partially because the actors – who actually were camping together – were often not privy to what was going to happen to them on a given day. As the movie progresses, the line between documentation and participation by the film crew blurs and eventually disappears â predictably enough, itâs then that things go awfully wrong. Comedy, Crime, Drama. Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals, Zelda Rubinstein, Black Comedy • Horror Comedy • Horror, Tim Robbins 54,767 Fred Willard, |