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Skygazer

Skygazer

And in the end...
Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds; A Tale of Three Cities. Covering three cities in pivotal years; Vienna 1908, Paris 1928 and New York 1951.
Could have done with 3 episodes for each.Didn't agree with his view of Klimt's The Kiss in the Vienna episode though.
PS Sorry about first episode! a bit weird and not in synch, just noticed. They were all on BBC iplayer for rpts earlier this year, now gone.
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I saw "Little White Lie" which is now streaming on Netflix. They are a local Woodstock family (although I did not know that when I put it on.) Really pretty amazing doc...
 
number6horse

number6horse

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Judging from this NYT review, the new Amy Winehouse doc sounds worth a look. The filmmaker had the co-operation of her two best childhood friends and her manager, plus access to home movies and concert footage. I've heard Tony Bennett was especially kind to her during their recording sessions and helped her get a grip - at least temporarily. There is footage of those sessions as well. Looking forward to this.
 
BukFan Brad

BukFan Brad

Was that doc film the one that her father had issues with, or was that a feature film made about her?

I was never really able to get into her music. Whenever I heard her voice, it made me keep thinking of Shirley Bassey for some reason.
 
mjp

mjp

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Just watched Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in Pyongyang. Rodman is still a nut and North Korea is still weird, so all is as you would expect here.

 
d gray

d gray

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wow. what is that guys problem...

why is he always making himself cry? is he that blown away by himself?

what a retarded jackass.
 
mjp

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He tends to overimbibe and it makes him emotional. It's an interesting documentary whether you think he's a clown or not. And he is a clown, I think he'd admit that. But he isn't the most self-aware guy on the face of the earth, so sometimes it seems like he's just breezing through everything like a goofball.

But it's such an unlikely scenario, The Worm paling around with a dictator. There isn't another American who goes and hangs out with Kim Jong-un. There isn't another American who even tries to talk to him, so it's just a crazy story. And it really shows the whole enemy mindset that we take sometimes for how ridiculous it can be.

Not that I think we should say, "Hey, North Korea, it's cool, what you're doing," but how do you change a place like that? How do you open the door? What if we still ignored Germany or Japan or Russia because they had (or have) some fucked up leaders? If we hated our enemies forever we'd be as isolated as North Korea is.

Greatest Rodman line from the movie is when he's giving a toast to Kim Jong-un and he says, "Your father and your grandfather did some fucked up shit, but you're trying to change things, and I like that." How's that for diplomacy? Ha.
 
d gray

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was it on netflix?

i'd give it a try if i didn't have to pay...
 
mjp

mjp

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It was on the DVR so it must have been on HBO or something. Yeah, it's probably not something you'd want to pay $7 to watch.

I just checked, it's on Showtime on demand right now.
 
d gray

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mjp said:
Greatest Rodman line from the movie is when he's giving a toast to Kim Jong-un and he says, "Your father and your grandfather did some fucked up shit, but you're trying to change things, and I like that."
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okay, now i have to see it! :DD
 
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BukFan Brad

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For anyone in Los Angeles who's interested, it's showing on Sunday at the Arclight in Hollywood and there's a Q&A with the director afterward.
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Yeah! Okay! I'll watch it! If I can watch it for free, I'll watch it.

It must have been her beehive or something that's got me ... kind of ... quasi-interested!

I still think she sings too much like Shirley Bassey, for me to consider her UNIQUE!
 
d gray

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don't know what to say about this. beyond fucked. tom cruise is an alien. god help us...

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Skygazer

Skygazer

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School kids in 1967 California.
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Doesn't take us long to land up in Chapter 5 of Lord of the Flies does it - 4 days!
During my training, we had to work 3 months in a psychiatric hospital (the rationale being,we would encounter patients with mental health problems in general hospitals).
We did 6 weeks in an acute ward and 6 weeks in a long term ward. While still in the classroom, as well as proper text books we were requested to read One Flew over the Cukoo's Nest (watched the film too) Confessions of an English Opium Eater,Junky and some excerpts from Diary of a Dope Fiend. ( a lot of drug related stuff in the acute setting).

We also had to watch the full footage of Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiment's from the early 60's at Yale University, done around the time of Adolf Eichmann's trial and hanging for war crimes in Israel.The motive was to see how easily we will follow authority figures and commit inhumane acts.The results were depressing although the experiment has been challenged on many valid grounds, but it still stands up as a reminder of how easily led we are, especially if the responsibility is moved upwards.Perhaps everyone is aware of his work, but if you aren't, here is a bit of footage:
 
Digney in Burnaby

Digney in Burnaby

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A few years ago a French t.v. Game show, based around the Milgram experiments, made the news. I recognized the basis for the game show from reading about the Milgram experiments but it is frightening how easily we can become something that later generations shake their heads at and wonder why and think "I'd never do that."
 
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