Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold vs Wonders of the Sea

Wonders of the Sea has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.3/10 for Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold). Wonders of the Sea is the shorter watch at 1h 4m compared with 1h 32m. Wonders of the Sea is the older of the two (1922 against 2017). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold posterJoan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold2017 VS Wonders of the Sea posterWonders of the Sea1922
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not HoldWonders of the Sea
Audience score★ 7.3/10★ 10.0/10
Year20171922
Length1h 32m1h 4m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country–United States of America
DirectorGriffin DunneJ. Ernest Williamson
Main castHarrison Ford, Vanessa Redgrave, Tuesday Weld, Griffin Dunne, Patricia HearstJ. Ernest Williamson

Synopsis

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simultaneously expands and zeroes in, covering a vast stretch of turbulent cultural history with elegance and candor.

Wonders of the Sea

The ocean depths are explored with the aid of a submarine chamber of Williamson's invention and a few hardy souls. The construction of the device is examined; but most of the footage is given to plant and animal life, a girl swimming among the coral growths, and two divers who encounter a moray and an octopus.

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