Videogum » Billy The Kid http://videogum.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:45:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Billy The Kid Finally Came Out On DVD Today http://videogum.com/30991/guess_what_finally_comes_out_t/documentaries/ http://videogum.com/30991/guess_what_finally_comes_out_t/documentaries/#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:42:24 +0000 Lindsay Robertson I missed the acclaimed documentary Billy The Kid during its short run in theaters, thinking that, like most indie docs, it would be on Netflix in a few weeks. But then it wasn’t, for a really really long time (with the dreaded-yet-rare “unknown” under “release date”), and all my fellow documentary-geek friends kept talking about it, and giving me fake-sad/actually-smug looks when I complained about missing the movie that’s been called the best documentary since The King Of Kong. The movie follows a unique teenager from Maine named Billy whom the director, Jennifer Venditti, met by chance while working on another project. I finally saw it (it had a short run on Cinemax), and I can add my praise to the cacophony: Billy The Kid is like Freaks And Geeks meets 14 Up, and I loved it.

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