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Showdown: Documentary Now!

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With This Is Spinal Tap’s 4K restoration opening in select US theatres, this week’s Showdown asks you to crank up a list of the eleven (sorry, make that TEN) mockumentaries that you feel deserve Best in Show. Films must depict fictional events through a satirical, pseudo-documentary format—talking heads, archival footage, fourth-wall breaks, the works—to be eligible for your consideration. Instead of cinéma vérité, think cinéma faux.

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  • Man Bites Dog
  • The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
  • What We Do in the Shadows
  • This Is Spinal Tap
  • District 9
  • The Medium
  • A Hard Day's Night
  • The Blair Witch Project
  • Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
  • Four Lions