Good Documentaries

[mjp]

This one is even better. So deep and metaphoric.

Imagine you're the singer and the lyricist for the group hands this to you with a straight face and you have to sing it. Life must suck at moments like those, even when you're a millionaire.

There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas

The trouble with the maples
(And they're quite convinced they're right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade

There is trouble in the forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the maples scream 'Oppression!'
And the oaks just shake their heads

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
'The oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light'
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe and saw

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

I think I've learned more about, and have heard more of, Rush in the last couple years than in the previous 35. CBC Radio One changed their format and are on various bandwagons not previously thought about. I'd given up on FM programming in the late 1970s after getting a nasty letter from the local station (they didn't like my list of 1977 punk bands, big wow!). CBC was the alternative and Rush (or that band from Ontario, what's their name?) wasn't being played. Until now.

Recently rewatched the 1973 Hendrix documentary. Saw it in the theatre back in the 1970s.

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[d gray]

CBC was the alternative and Rush (or that band from Ontario, what's their name?) wasn't being played. Until now.

the tragically hip?

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

Yeah, the tragically gimped. Took me a few minutes to remember Gord Downie's name and then I could search for the band he played with.

 

[Stavrogin]

You think this forum is so powerful and mind-altering that it can make people type things they don't believe?

Heh. No, not really, but the music threads aren't exactly inundated with affection for bands like Rush.

 

[desertlizard]

or heavy metal for that matter

 

[d gray]

well worth a viewing. great live stuff.

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

I Put a Spell on Me. About Screamin' Jay Hawkins.

 

[bospress.net]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrect_Dead:_The_Mystery_of_the_Toynbee_Tiles

This is a good one....

 

[bluemoon]

I've got a fine one for you - searched through the pages of this thread and nobody seemed to have mention it.
It's called Big River Man. I copied part of a summary from a user review on IMDB, since I couldn't have written it better myself:

Martin Strel is one of those rare individuals that is larger than life. He's an overweight world record holding athlete that is also an alcoholic, chronic gambler and occasional action movie star. He is a national celebrity in his home country Slovenia where he enjoys benefits such as free club memberships, being allowed to drive drunk and park wherever he likes and also access to a secluded cave where he inputs a special code given to him by the government to meditate in peace and prepare for his upcoming challenge.

(The challenge is that he attempts to swim 3,375 miles of the Amazon River.)

I watched this documentary twice and have so much to say about it, but don't want to spoil it for anyone.
It's not about swimming, really.

Anyway, look it up!

Watched Man On Wire last week, as someone already recommended in the beginning of this thread. Entirely different from my first choice, but inspirational in the you-can-do-anything kind of way. The sky is the limit.

 

[d gray]

a nightmare on film.

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[Black Swan]

One on Robert Crumb, The Confessions of Robert Crumb.
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[mjp]

The Joy of the Single. Really good one here.

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[Digney in Burnaby]

Because it was from the UK the joy of the single documentary didn't recognize the art of the "big hole". And what to fill it with.

 

[hank solo]

We have 'big hole' 45s here too. And even coffee now :cool:

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

I actually thought the UK was far superior with their little holes. Sorry to learn of the deterioration of the 45's interior. o_0o

 

[d gray]

wow, those are a flashback!

they'd make great logo designs.

 

[Ralph]

Really enjoyed "Pickaxe" and "If a Tree Falls" - both docs about environmental protesters in the pacific northwest, the latter about the ELF.

 

[Cowboy]

Fine , a documentary over Les Paul in German TV ! So I sit with my "Junior " and a bottle of beer , smoke some American Spirit cigarettes....have a good time , yeah !

 

[Ponder]

Really enjoyed "Pickaxe"

 

[toiletrolltube]

Found this on someones Listal favourites and watched recently. It seems quite rare, but not impossible to find.
Hands on a Hard Body

 

[toiletrolltube]

Thanks for this, I'm going to watch it later. I also wonder if this is related to the attached file. I used to download ebooks on Winmx from The Cascadia Public Library.

 

[justine]

anyone seen "dreams of a life"? i don't think the doc itself is particularly great but the subject is heartwrenching and fascinating and extremely sad.

 

[bospress.net]

I'm gonna watch it now on Netflix..
Thanks!

 

[toiletrolltube]

anyone seen "dreams of a life"? i don't think the doc itself is particularly great but the subject is heartwrenching and fascinating and extremely sad.

Thanks justine, I haven't but will be watching that soon. For some reason the song Harriet Brown by Opal comes to my mind.

I did a search and this one doesn't seem to have been posted. Graphic Sexual Horror http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1326224/

 

[toiletrolltube]

anyone seen "dreams of a life"?

Just me, but I thought this doc' was exceptionally brilliant. Very moving, beautiful and thought provoking - to be cliched etc. Loved it.

 

[james]

watchin' the screamin' jay doc...thanks Digney!!!

 

[Short Bus]

There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas

Ha i remember a guy in English class brought this is for his poetry piece.
Cause for poetry we were allowed to bring in lyrics-well-since thats was a poem according to my teacher.

I brought in Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. We both got a B-there is no justice.

 

[james]

thought all you musicians on here would especially dig this...looks pretty interesting! Sound City, about a famed recording studio in LA:

http://www.belcourt.org/events/sound-city.548298


O! this looks good as well; about the drummer for Cream, Ginger Baker...

http://www.belcourt.org/events/beware-of-mr-baker.538505

 

[mjp]

Sound City, about a famed recording studio in LA...

I'll see that. I'm a sucker for documentaries about Neve recording consoles.