I also just caught the new episode of The Passionate Eye on CBC, The Secret History of Isis. It was pretty much rage inducing to learn how Isis grew and gained power while the west sat back and did nothing until it was much too late. More than a few really stupid decisions from both the Bush and Obama administrations.
I'm assuming that was the same one that aired on Frontline in May, which anyone can watch online here.
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I caught a fantastic documentary on HBO called "Three Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks" it has a lot of footage that wasn't shown here and really goes inside the events that unfolded. It really humanizes the whole situation and goes in depth, which our North American mainstream media did not. Here is a trailer: Three Days of Terror I highly recommended it.
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Watched Audri & Daisy. Very good also very sad but definitely a story that needs to be told.
Yea what a horrible thing to have to go thru. Super sad. Could go in the "I don't want to live on this planet" thread. They should almost show this at high school orientations to make kids think but its pretty graphic(language wise) parents would go crazy...
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Yea what a horrible thing to have to go thru. Super sad. Could go in the "I don't want to live on this planet" thread. They should almost show this at high school orientations to make kids think but its pretty graphic(language wise) parents would go crazy...
I felt so much sympathy for Daisy's brother too, how hard it was for him probably, not to beat those guys to a pulp. And the Sheriff disgusted me.
Unfortunately I think these stories are all too common in high school and continuing on through college. Watch The Hunting Ground if you haven't seen it.
Anyone else been watching 'The Circus'? Follows the presidential candidates, from Bloomberg Media, with a couple of reporters and a political strategist.
Anyone else been watching 'The Circus'? Follows the presidential candidates, from Bloomberg Media, with a couple of reporters and a political strategist.
Yes, it is fantastic and seems completely unbiased.
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I watched 'For the Love of Spock' last night. I liked it a lot. It was created by Leonard Nimoy's son and he did a great job. It's really a doc about Spock but you get a lot of stuff on Nimoy and his struggles and those were the parts that I enjoyed the most. Lots of cast interviews about him. He was well loved.
Soundtrack by Mogwai, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Gustavo Santaolalla comes out tomorrow.
Is this the one where he filmed a bunch of stuff in Alberta and made us look like the mecca of climate change because he didn't know what a Chinook was?
Is this the one where he filmed a bunch of stuff in Alberta and made us look like the mecca of climate change because he didn't know what a Chinook was?
I think that was just him talking about his experience filming the Revenant.
AFAIK he's just a producer.
Fisher Stevens, Chuck from Early Edition and the guy who directed The Cove, is the one who actually made the doc.
Is this the one where he filmed a bunch of stuff in Alberta and made us look like the mecca of climate change because he didn't know what a Chinook was?
Yeah, I have a hard time after that doozy. The part that really got me was:
"The local crew had never seen anything like it before."
Sure Leo...sure they said that. They were either too scared to say something to you or they were pranking you.
The fact that anyone who has been here more than a month in the winter knows about Chinooks, they're a well documented weather event, you can even look them up on these newfangled contraptions like Wikipedia and Google, for whatever that voodoo is worth.
No...seriously though...tell me more about this wacky environment.
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Here is a discussion about her trials at getting funding and a few other subjects... I'm not shocked. Listening to her honesty makes me respect her as a 'feminist'.
Just finished O.J.: Made in America and it blew me away. One of the best documentaries I've seen. The scope, the craftsmanship, the incredible subject matter. I did my very best to ignore the Simpson trial while it was happening because the whole thing was such a circus. So I got to appreciate a lot of the twists and turns of the trial itself with fresh eyes.
The way the narrative was presented by the filmmakers was really effective. They open with Simpson's rapid rise to exalted athlete at USC and welcome into the highest ranks of white society before going back and explaining his childhood in the projects. And we're halfway through the trial, immersed in the racially-charged circus, when we're taken back and walked through the brutal crime itself. The transition is shocking. Remarkable film-making.
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Yeah that documentary was incredible. I wasn't even sure I was interested in watching it, but it was just so well done I couldn't stop.
The Two Escobars and OJ Made in America are my two favourite 30 for 30's, but in terms of pure execution, OJ Made In America might be the best documentary I've ever seen.
Made in America is a masterpiece. There's so much more going on in it than just OJ. It's about racism, social class, the cult of celebrity. It's fascinating. They should study this in sociology classes.
I just lost a big post on the DePalma documentary before I hit 'submit'.
Coles notes- Carrie, The Untouchables, Mission Impossible, Scarface, Casualties of War, Carlito's Way etc. My faves have always been Phantom of the Paradise and Dressed to Kill. Lots of great inside baseball type commentary from him.
Anyway, set aside some time in a quiet setting and watch DePalma. 3.5/5
Super sad. Could go in the "I don't want to live on this planet" thread. They should almost show this at high school orientations to make kids think but its pretty graphic(language wise) parents would go crazy...
