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Post by ouroboros on Nov 1, 2016 9:45:03 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/adam-curtis-hypernormalisationOK. I have only done an hour of this. mrs O has done the lot as my reccomendation on a fight and has broken her Curtis virginity and is well pleased by it.I told her it was a Richard Curtis film to get her to watch it btw. A couple of provisos though as with any AC piece. Its about the creation of a narrative to explain the creation of a narrative. Sometimes the dots don't join as well as they should, but a competent storyteller can work with this.View it as an opinion piece set against a sexy montage of image and sound ,rather that a slab delivery of facts and you should be OK.
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Post by sɐǝpı ɟo uoıʇɐɹǝpǝɟ on Nov 2, 2016 16:11:07 GMT
a couple amazing docs that are both connected to the horrors we face today - the crisis in Syria (and elsewhere) and the problem refugees (displaced people) have if they're lucky enough to get out
for example, how Israel continues to only grant 1% of the 600K or so refugees any official status, well it's insanely hypocritical given the history of Jewish refugees
the highs and lows of humanity continue to amaze and disgust me
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Post by sturban on Nov 3, 2016 9:21:33 GMT
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Post by dot on Nov 3, 2016 22:03:04 GMT
Choose ..... Life
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Post by dot on Nov 3, 2016 22:06:37 GMT
Few get the chance check out the hipster doc on bbc2 You'll laugh , you'll cringe , you'll wonder.. Choose life... Not coffee  .. I have drunk the stuff.. I laughed.. ( oh and check out the background visuals and laugh some more... Wtf) |
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Post by sɐǝpı ɟo uoıʇɐɹǝpǝɟ on Nov 27, 2016 14:15:29 GMT
just watched this and it made me really sad.... I wish the Obama administration had made more of an effort to reach out and open a more mature dialogue with the DPRK. The people of North Korea are not the enemy - they're just trying to live their lives the best they know how. There are many aspects of North Korean culture that I find beautiful and moving and maybe we need to make a stronger effort to connect with them
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Post by norbok on Nov 28, 2016 20:36:44 GMT
ha... The Young Pope..really amazing series ..  (...)The two episodes hit these beats at a leisurely pace, with Sorrentino stopping along the way to add generous helpings of mordant wit. He takes advantage of his ready-and-willing leads to sketch characters with sharp inner contrasts. Voiello represents everything corrupt and moribund about the College of Cardinals (he confesses to a priest “all of my sins have to with international banking – you wouldn’t understand”) and genuinely believes in a Francis-like gospel of love and forgiveness. On the other hand, Lenny can throw down on Banksy and Daft Punk like he’s any fortysomething New Yorker, while subscribing to an ultra-exclusionary, ultra-conservative doctrine that, at a bare minimum, predates the Vatican II reforms.(..)  www.indiewire.com/2016/09/venice-film-festival-review-jude-law-the-young-pope-1201722953/ |
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Post by sɐǝpı ɟo uoıʇɐɹǝpǝɟ on Dec 3, 2016 20:05:30 GMT
this just popped up on US Netflix and its great so far... 4+ hour doc series with great archival footage and talking heads with the OG's
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Post by speebe on Dec 3, 2016 22:06:59 GMT
this just popped up on US Netflix and its great so far... 4+ hour doc series with great archival footage and talking heads with the OG's Watched three episodes already and looking forward to the next... great that this story is being documented before we loose too many of the pioneers of HIP HOP. |
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Post by Still Hate Thatcher on Dec 4, 2016 17:17:48 GMT
this just popped up on US Netflix and its great so far... 4+ hour doc series with great archival footage and talking heads with the OG's Watched three episodes already and looking forward to the next... great that this story is being documented before we loose too many of the pioneers of HIP HOP. Yes, this is rather marvellous. It has the usual debatable facts, like any 'history of...', but a great overview. Funny to think that hip hop didn't exist once. |
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Post by sɐǝpı ɟo uoıʇɐɹǝpǝɟ on Dec 27, 2016 2:42:57 GMT
leave it to Werner Herzog to once again shake our perception of reality and humanity .... really a must watch and it makes a great companion to the recently released Alex Gibney Stuxnet doc ZERO DAYS
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Post by IggyWiggy on Jan 20, 2017 14:05:00 GMT
Somehow this 'Stuxnet' thing seems to have passed me by. I found this Storyville documentary on the BBC fascinating. 'Zero Days: Nuclear Cyber Sabotage' 'A Storyville documentary: How the American and Israeli intelligence agencies allegedly unleashed self-replicating computer malware to destroy part of an Iranian nuclear facility.' www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08bcc18/storyville-zero-days-nuclear-cyber-sabotageHere is a trailer: |
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Post by sɐǝpı ɟo uoıʇɐɹǝpǝɟ on Jan 20, 2017 17:14:00 GMT
Somehow this 'Stuxnet' thing seems to have passed me by. I found this Storyville documentary on the BBC fascinating. 'Zero Days: Nuclear Cyber Sabotage' 'A Storyville documentary: How the American and Israeli intelligence agencies allegedly unleashed self-replicating computer malware to destroy part of an Iranian nuclear facility.' www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08bcc18/storyville-zero-days-nuclear-cyber-sabotageHere is a trailer: that movie's as scary as any horror movie I've ever seen. Same with the new Werner Herzog film on the internet |
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Post by IggyWiggy on Jan 20, 2017 19:10:21 GMT
Will definitely give the Herzog one a go on the back of this. Thanks for the recommendation.
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Post by sɐǝpı ɟo uoıʇɐɹǝpǝɟ on Jan 20, 2017 20:14:05 GMT
Will definitely give the Herzog one a go on the back of this. Thanks for the recommendation. its' really fucking good. on Netlflix currently (US at least)  |
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Post by sɐǝpı ɟo uoıʇɐɹǝpǝɟ on Feb 10, 2017 12:28:54 GMT
up now for free on the PBS website... really well done. touches on the white supremacist movement in the 90's, Ruby Ridge, and WACO. the current rise of the extreme right makes it all the more terrifying
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Post by sɐǝpı ɟo uoıʇɐɹǝpǝɟ on Feb 10, 2017 12:32:01 GMT
no offense to Nick Broomfield, but this is the definitive doc on the burders of Biggie & Tupac
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Post by sɐǝpı ɟo uoıʇɐɹǝpǝɟ on Feb 10, 2017 13:20:27 GMT
haven't seen this one yet but it looks fascinating. on Netflix now
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Post by sɐǝpı ɟo uoıʇɐɹǝpǝɟ on Feb 10, 2017 13:22:10 GMT
watched this one last night and it was pretty fuckin great
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Post by Still Hate Thatcher on Feb 10, 2017 16:14:46 GMT
no offense to Nick Broomfield, but this is the definitive doc on the burders of Biggie & Tupac They've been burdered?! Sweet Jesus, why wasn't I told!? |
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Post by slammer on Feb 13, 2017 11:05:41 GMT
HI Everyone. Hope your all good. Have I missed much ?. Just watched '13th' that was the most important documentary I have seen and possibly ever made. About the ways in which slavery has been reinvented/hidden. Prison system etc. Truly brilliant. |
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Post by slammer on Feb 13, 2017 11:07:15 GMT
Anyone got any good streaming sites for The Walking Dead please ?. I am in hospital and I can't access Utorrent fully. Thanks.
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Post by IggyWiggy on Feb 13, 2017 12:31:42 GMT
Good to see you slammer. Have pm'd you. |
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Post by norbok on Feb 13, 2017 21:27:34 GMT
up now for free on the PBS website... really well done. touches on the white supremacist movement in the 90's, Ruby Ridge, and WACO. the current rise of the extreme right makes it all the more terrifying I am The Advocatus Diaboli  DEAR WHITE PEOPLE Season 1 TRAILER (2017) Netflix Series and very interesting comments everywhere .. |
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Post by dot on Feb 17, 2017 16:33:19 GMT
from the past
dark , but light , with a twist of...
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.. I have drunk the stuff.. I laughed..
