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grizzleb

grizzleb

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Centru of The Self just about blew my mind when I first seen it a good few years ago now. Hadn't seen anything like it at the time.

His blog is amazing too - he does loads of essay type shit interspersed with documentary footage from the bbc vaults. Some great shit on Afghanistan.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/
 
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muser

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nochexxx said:
no probs. i'm intrigued by that one expat who works there. wonder what her life story was about?!?
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yea that was mental, wanted to hear more from her to be honest, and without the confusing austran overdub. It was hard to tell if she wasnt more of a kind of hypnotist posing as a healer maybe or inadverntantly, how the fuck she ended up there was definitely a big question in my mind.
 
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nochexxx

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muser said:
how the fuck she ended up there was definitely a big question in my mind.
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stephenk

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muser said:
amazing thanks for that
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wow...yes, thanks. it's like something out of burroughs, i can hardly believe a place like that existed.

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looks so crazy, like some kind of cubed vortex. and then inside...definitely an eye opening documentary.
 
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muser

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great just got it for 1p Amazon, im expecting some evanglism but still should be interesting.
 
grizzleb

grizzleb

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People should watch Wang Bing's 'West of the Tracks'. 9 hour doc about an industrial city in China that undergoes a period of economic and social change over the course of a year. Pretty amazing watch, gives you an amazing sense of the reality/banality of life there.
 
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mistersloane

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That Kowloon doc is horrible though, it's such a piece of German 'look at how these poor people live, and aren't we superior'. Anthropology masking as social darwinism.

And if I ever meet that Jackie Pullinger I'm gonna punch her in the face. Fucking spiritual healing for heroin addiction. My fucking arse.
 
grizzleb

grizzleb

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mistersloane said:
That Kowloon doc is horrible though, it's such a piece of German 'look at how these poor people live, and aren't we superior'. Anthropology masking as social darwinism.

And if I ever meet that Jackie Pullinger I'm gonna punch her in the face. Fucking spiritual healing for heroin addiction. My fucking arse.
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Think I'll give it a miss... You should check out the Wang Bing doc though. Done with empathy and simplicity.
 
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muser

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mistersloane said:
And if I ever meet that Jackie Pullinger I'm gonna punch her in the face. Fucking spiritual healing for heroin addiction. My fucking arse.
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That might be a little harsh maybe.

Regardless of the angle of the narrative, which was fairly shallow anyway, I think its good it got caught on film. A pretty amazing thing to have come into existance.
 
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wonk_vitesse

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Gustav Holst - In the bleak mid winter

Only available in the UK

2hrs 20mins of Holst. Long overdue reappraisal , lots of his music as opposed to too many talking heads. A true democratic socialist he is shown to have had a lasting impact on British music and his music echoes in so many film scores ever since.
 
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Phaedo

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Secret Lives of Waves - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y5jhx (BBC 4)

Watched this earlier, really enjoyed it. Explains the science and theory behind waves very well then goes onto discuss the philosophical/metaphorical importance of them. Presenter slightly annoying at times but still really worth a watch.
 
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