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The thesis that gives Bowling for Columbine<\/em> its title is striking: is there a connection, somehow, between bowling and school shooters? Really, though, that\u2019s just a fragment of Michael Moore\u2019s sprawling doc, unpacking America\u2019s fetishistic obsession with guns, from free hunting rifles given away by banks to the suburban arms factories that facilitate violence. Moore\u2019s conspiratorial Fahrenheit 9\/11<\/em><\/a> (2004) \u2014 still the highest-grossing doc of all time, for now \u2014 is better known, but also falls victim to Moore\u2019s salacious truth-stretching. Bowling for Columbine<\/em>, while also controversial for a level of inaccuracy, balances hyperbole and stranger-than-truth reality \u2014 and, in an America still ravaged by gun violence, is more loaded than ever.<\/p>\n Close-Up<\/em> (1990)<\/strong><\/p>\n The first sign that Close-Up<\/em> isn\u2019t like other docs: it\u2019s still unrated in the UK. But if you can get your hands on a copy, it’s well worth the hassle. This cult Iranian classic follows Hossein Sabzian, a beleaguered cinephile who impersonates a well-known filmmaker, Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Conning Makhmalbaf\u2019s family, he\u2019s charged with fraud. In a bizarre coup, Close Up<\/em>\u2019s director Abbas Kiarostami gains access to the trial and encourages those involved to re-enact the events in a sort of meta-play. You\u2019ll have to put down your phone for this one \u2014 it\u2019s a head-scrambler. But as the tantalisingly cryptic tagline puts it: \u201cA real-life situation. Based on a real incident. In actual locations. With actual people involved.\u201d What’s true and what’s not? And can we really see everything?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n