bigdog5994
Lady Day
i watched it and i thought it was ********
does Penn&Teller BS count as a documentary?
does Penn&Teller BS count as a documentary?
Which documentary have you seen lately?
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Homie
Anti-Lefty
How about a link to the documentary?
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
I saw it at the theater, not online.
Panorama on BBC1 last night: The truth about Happy Hour
How one town in the north of England is trying to counteract the problems caused by binge drinking with innovative changes to licensing, minimum prices per unit of alcohol and ensuring that bars pay part of the cost of policing the problem areas.
One of the big gaps though is that they cannot enforce controls on supermarkets who sell really cheap drink but who don't have the drink consumed there.
How one town in the north of England is trying to counteract the problems caused by binge drinking with innovative changes to licensing, minimum prices per unit of alcohol and ensuring that bars pay part of the cost of policing the problem areas.
One of the big gaps though is that they cannot enforce controls on supermarkets who sell really cheap drink but who don't have the drink consumed there.
Homie
Anti-Lefty
No, I wanna watch it, not read about it.
Enkidu Warrior
Ultramagnetic
I just randomly watched an old interview with Bruce Lee. There's something really magnetic about this interview. I get the feeling that I would enjoy these two speaking whatever they were talking about. It's hard not to like Bruce Lee.
http://video.voila.fr/video/iLyROoaftWsc.html
EDIT: Oh and try this for fun:
Link to video.
http://video.voila.fr/video/iLyROoaftWsc.html
EDIT: Oh and try this for fun:
Link to video.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
At least you watched it before deciding it was '********', apparently solely because it disagreed with your own opinions.
Yeah. I would say so. They discuss some non-fictional issue from a particular POV. Do you think they are '********' as well?
Yep. He was in a class by himself, although Jackie Chan comes close.
Saw a doc on Megalodon on NatGeo tonight (think of Great White's bigger brother). Examination of a vertebra suggests the modern Great White shark may be related to this species that became extinct at least 1.2 million years ago. Sharks ofcourse are around some 600 million years. Couldn't find a link, so this'll have to do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalodon (with further links).
Watched these three in the past week:
Bernie Madoff explained
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/madoff/view/
Schizophrenics, crazies, the truly insane, and how we deal with them
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/released/view/
Chesepeake bay and Puget Sound are focused on here, big concern about nitrates and phosphates causing massive dead zones, as well as endocrine disruptors and PCBs. Quite alarming 2 hour documentary
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/poisonedwaters/view/
Richard Gage's 2 hour lecture on why towers 1, 2 and 7 show massive amounts of evidence of demolition
http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...architects+and+engineers+for+9+11+truth&hl=en
Bernie Madoff explained
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/madoff/view/
Schizophrenics, crazies, the truly insane, and how we deal with them
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/released/view/
Chesepeake bay and Puget Sound are focused on here, big concern about nitrates and phosphates causing massive dead zones, as well as endocrine disruptors and PCBs. Quite alarming 2 hour documentary
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/poisonedwaters/view/
Richard Gage's 2 hour lecture on why towers 1, 2 and 7 show massive amounts of evidence of demolition
http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...architects+and+engineers+for+9+11+truth&hl=en
We are at about 4:00 of part 4/6 right now.
Disappointing, this did not touch the Depression at all, really, and failed to mention Hoover's attempts at intervention.
It also fails to mention the great crash and recession of 1920, which Harding did nothing about, and the market rebounded for 10 years. This would be forgivable, except it starts its narration at 1919.
I simply cant stomach knowing about any more of the Bush administration crimes. My hatred/anger meter is already shattered.
Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi
http://www.fixerdoc.com/
Ajmal was hired by foreign journalists to help gather news stories about the Taliban.
Ian Olds, the filmmaker who shot and directed Fixer, says he learned for the first time that Naqshbandi had been kidnapped along with an Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo through Taliban footage.
Olds had been in Afghanistan six months earlier, researching a feature film about the relationships among journalists, fixers and Afghans. He joined Christian Parenti, a reporter for The Nation, and Naqshbandi, his longtime fixer, for interviews and chats over lunch.
The next one I plan to see is "The Cove".
It's a story about the slaughter of dolphins in Taijii, Japan. Ric O'Barry, the trainer of Flipper, who is now devoted to rescuing the same mammals he once trained is one of the people involved in the flim. He said in an interview on NPR:
How did your ideas about captivity turn around?
Cathy (one of the Flippers) died in my arms, of suicide.
How do you know it was suicide?
You have to understand, dolphins are not automatic air breathers like we are. Every breath for them is a conscious effort. She looked me right in the eye, took a breath, held it — and she didn’t take another one. She just sank to the bottom of the water. That had a profound effect on me.
Personally, listening to the dolphins screaming as they played some audio on NPR had a profound impact on me.
http://thecovemovie.com/
http://www.fixerdoc.com/
Ajmal was hired by foreign journalists to help gather news stories about the Taliban.
Ian Olds, the filmmaker who shot and directed Fixer, says he learned for the first time that Naqshbandi had been kidnapped along with an Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo through Taliban footage.
Olds had been in Afghanistan six months earlier, researching a feature film about the relationships among journalists, fixers and Afghans. He joined Christian Parenti, a reporter for The Nation, and Naqshbandi, his longtime fixer, for interviews and chats over lunch.
The next one I plan to see is "The Cove".
It's a story about the slaughter of dolphins in Taijii, Japan. Ric O'Barry, the trainer of Flipper, who is now devoted to rescuing the same mammals he once trained is one of the people involved in the flim. He said in an interview on NPR:
How did your ideas about captivity turn around?
Cathy (one of the Flippers) died in my arms, of suicide.
How do you know it was suicide?
You have to understand, dolphins are not automatic air breathers like we are. Every breath for them is a conscious effort. She looked me right in the eye, took a breath, held it — and she didn’t take another one. She just sank to the bottom of the water. That had a profound effect on me.
Personally, listening to the dolphins screaming as they played some audio on NPR had a profound impact on me.
http://thecovemovie.com/
bigdog5994
Lady Day
no i agree with most of what they have to say
i saw Which Way Home on HBO yesterday its about children migrants trying to get to the US it was pretty sad
Saw a doc on Pink Floyd last night on Dutch national tv (which is terrible when looking for things no longer on the program schedule; there's like no archive to speak of). Attention span dropped below zero after Live Aid in the storyline (actually named Live 8 in the subtitles). One fact I didn't know about: Pink Floyd performed live during the BBC broadcast of the moonlanding expedition. It was a BBC doc, but a search left me with no link to the program I saw.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
The Times of Harvey Milk.
Where else but the US can someone assassinate two elected officials and only serve 5 years in prison?
Winner of the 1985 Oscar for best documentary.
Where else but the US can someone assassinate two elected officials and only serve 5 years in prison?
Winner of the 1985 Oscar for best documentary.
I've been watching Louis Theroux's documents lately.
First I liked how he seemed to try to understand and believe all the weirdos.
Then I became annoyed, when it started to look like he was actually joking with them.
Now I don't know what to think of his style, but the topics and people are surely interesting.
It would be interesting to know if he's partly Jewish, some of the scenes would be quite different from that point of view.
First I liked how he seemed to try to understand and believe all the weirdos.
Then I became annoyed, when it started to look like he was actually joking with them.
Now I don't know what to think of his style, but the topics and people are surely interesting.
It would be interesting to know if he's partly Jewish, some of the scenes would be quite different from that point of view.
Olav
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Saw Aguirre a while ago, and I was impressed with Herzog's/Kinski's work. So I had to see Mein liebster Feind, and I liked it alot. The opening scene surely sets the mood. I will recommend it to anyone who have seen one or more of the Herzog/Kinski films. Herzog is a great story-teller.
Also saw Grizzly Man earlier this autumn. It's about a guy who lived ten summers or so along with grizzly bears in Alaska, before he was eaten. Didn't get much sympathy for him, but it was interesting to watch his recordings.
Also saw Grizzly Man earlier this autumn. It's about a guy who lived ten summers or so along with grizzly bears in Alaska, before he was eaten. Didn't get much sympathy for him, but it was interesting to watch his recordings.
Narz
keeping it real
Last one I saw was called "Noam Chomsky & the Media" IIRC. It actually made me cry at one part (and I very, very rarely cry, only about five or six times in my adult life).
Before that I think the most recent was The Disappearing Male which, IMO, everyone should see, especially people considering having children.
Before that I think the most recent was The Disappearing Male which, IMO, everyone should see, especially people considering having children.
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