documentary films

luka

luka

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yeah there is a way. i know cos one of the girls that buys coffee of me does it to watch dr who! she pays for it, it give you a temporary uk , actaully i dont know what it does, it didnt understand but yes, you can do it, she said you can do it for free too but it is slower and less reliable.
 
you

you

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BBC2 aint frontin, worth the license fee along for the new adam curtis - All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace it's on BBC2 tonight at 21:00:00, I cant wait. I'm a proper Curtis fan-boy - yeah....

The Louis Theroux documentary about miami county jails was mesmerising too, scary, but engrossing.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
you said:
BBC2 aint frontin, worth the license fee along for the new adam curtis - All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace it's on BBC2 tonight at 21:00:00, I cant wait. I'm a proper Curtis fan-boy - yeah....
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Sweet, thanks for the heads-up! My housemate is watching Glee right now but I'm sure it'll be on iplayer.
 
Sectionfive

Sectionfive

bandwagon house
"The Pipe" that I was harping on about a few pages back is was on more4 last week and up on 4OD now .


In a remote corner of western Ireland sits Broadhaven Bay, a postcard perfect area housing the tiny village of Rossport. It's a unique area of coastline that has sustained generations of farmers and fishermen, and one that has caught the eye of Shell Oil.

On 29 June 2005, five men from Rossport were imprisoned for 94 days after defying a court injunction allowing Shell workers to enter the men's land to lay a high-pressure raw gas pipeline close to their homes.

Many people believe that the Irish state subverted the constitutional rights of its citizens to help Shell 'grab' tracts of farmland against the wishes of the landowners.
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The film is a bit one-sided (the other side being Shell Oil)but its a story thats needs to be told. Well worth a look.
 
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muser

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I've just discovered Les Blank, cant get enough of his films at the moment. Not sure how well known he actually is but heres a bit on the kind of docs he does,

Blank's first independent films began a series of intimate glimpses into the lives and music of passionate people who live at the periphery of American society-- a series that grew to include rural Louisiana French musicians and cooks (Yum,Yum, Yum!; J'aiEte Au Bal-- I Went to the Dance ; Dry Wood; Hot Pepper ; Spend It All; and Marc and Ann); Mexican-Americans (Chulas Fronteras; Del Mero Corazon); New Orleans music and Mardi Gras (Always For Pleasure); chef Alice Waters and other San Francisco Bay Area garlic fanatics (Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers); German filmmaker Werner Herzog (Burden Of Dreams; Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe) and the very unique and inspiring multi-faceted Artiste, Gerald Gaxiola (The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists); Appalachian fiddlers (Sprout Wings and Fly); Polish-American polka dancers (In Heaven There Is No Beer?); rock musicians (Huey Lewis and the News: Be-FORE!; RyCooder and the Moula Banda Rhythm Aces; and A Poem Is a Naked Person, on Leon Russell); Serbian-American music and religion (Ziveli!: Medicine for the Heart); Hawaiian music and family traditions (Puamana); Afro-Cuban drumming and religious tradition (Sworn to the Drum); more East Texas bluesmen (A Well Spent Life), featuring Mance Lipscomb, and Cigarette Blues with Sonny Rhodes; American tourists in Europe (Innocents Abroad) and even gap-toothed women (Gap-Toothed Women. Cigarette Blues His latest work, All In This Tea, follows tea specialist David Lee Hoffman to China in search of the perfect leaf.
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Most are themed on different kinds of music from southern USA but the other ones are great aswell, especially "Burden of Dreams" where he follows Herzog trying to make a film in the middle of the Amazon. Transporting a huge steam boat through the jungle and basically having a mental breakdown as everything goes wrong.

You can get most of them here.







 
pattycakes_

pattycakes_

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nochexxx

nochexxx

harco pronting
thanks man, the opening shot is just incredible. look forward to digesting the thread in more detail - need to get out of this office first and make up for the 2hrs of sleep i had last night before i can go any further.
 
empty mirror

empty mirror

remember the jackalope
Crumb is a riot! I wandered into a cinema when I was 17 or so and watched it without really knowing anything about him. I am a drooling fan now. The doc is terribly good, excellent soundtrack, and you should watch it without delay.
 
Sectionfive

Sectionfive

bandwagon house
Quite a good documentary screened here last night on Bernadette Devlin the Civil rights campaigner and Socialist from Derry.
Elected to Westminster at 21. Almost assassinated (naturally), punched Reggie Maudling in the Commons etc. Great story and footage if you're any way into politics.

It's up on the tg4 player for a few days. Just hit the documentaries tab at the bottom and click "Bernadette".

http://www.tg4.ie/en/tg4-player/tg4-player.html
 
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curten

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i have not seen so much Documentary movies because i am a big fan of action movies but I have Watched A crazy Horse this year it was a good Documentary movie
 
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