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Tag Archives: documentary
“Wild France”
Paleo Retiree writes: Six short episodes, which my wife and I watched on Netflix. The show’s writer/producer/host, Roy Mears, is smart, articulate and enthusiastic in a goofy-naturalist kind of way, picking up rocks and smelling tree branches and saying “Wonderful, … Continue reading
Rory Stewart’s “Afghanistan: The Great Game”
Paleo Retiree writes: Really good. This two episode British doc is billed as “a personal view” by Rory Stewart — in other words, it isn’t a wannabe-objective news feature. But it supplies a lot of worthwhile and interesting information anyway. If … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Politics and Economics
Tagged Afghanistan, documentaries, documentary, politics
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“Filthy Cities”
Paleo Retiree writes: I recently enjoyed (if with some reservations) the three-part BBC documentary series “Filthy Cities,” which recently became available on Netflix Instant. Medieval London, revolutionary Paris and industrial-age New York City are the filthy cities covered by the … Continue reading
Posted in Television
Tagged BBC, cities, dan snow, documentary, television, urbanism
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Robert and Nanook
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Robert Flaherty’s “Nanook of the North” is usually discussed as a documentary, but I wonder if the movie isn’t ill-served by that conversation, which is simply too limiting to address the subtleties of Flaherty’s art. In focusing on … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged documentary, eskimoes, Film, movies, Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty, Silent Film
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Looking Back at the ’60s, 1: “The Fog of War”
Paleo Retiree writes: Bugged and annoyed by Errol Morris’s recent movie about Donald Rumsfeld (which Fabrizio dealt with thoroughly here), I just caught up with “The Fog of War,” Morris’ 2003 visit with Robert S. McNamara, the former Ford Motors “whiz kid” … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Politics and Economics
Tagged documentaries, documentary, Donald Rumsfeld, Errol Morris, movies, vietnam war
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Docs About Movies 3: “Pablo”
Paleo Retiree writes: Episode three in my current series of writeups of documentaries-about-movies that I’ve enjoyed recently. Episode one concerned “Free Radicals“; episode two was about “Big Joy.” Today:
Posted in Commercial art, Movies
Tagged documentaries, documentary, jeff bridges, movies, pablo ferro
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Docs About Movies 1: “Free Radicals”
Paleo Retiree writes: Sick and housebound with a cold/flu/something-or-other, I’ve been passing the time with a lot of doc-watching via Netflix Instant. Weird the way that illness makes me lose my appetite for fiction films. Why should that be? Is it as simple as … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged avant-garde movies, documentaries, documentary, movies, pip chodorov, stan brakhage
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“Crazy Wisdom”
Paleo Retiree writes: Doc about Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the Tibetan monk who was mostly responsible for bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the west. He was a big figure in the counterculture from the ’60s through the ’80s (he died in 1987 … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Buddhism, chogyam trungpa rinpoche, documentaries, documentary, gurus, movies, religion, wisdom
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Trans Viewing: “Beautiful Darling” and “Becoming Chaz”
Paleo Retiree writes: For no particular reason, The Question Lady and I spent a couple of recent evenings watching docs that we found on Netflix Instant about trans people. The first one was about a transvestite while the second concerned a female-to-male transsexual.
Posted in Movies, Sex
Tagged candy darling, chaz bono, cher, documentaries, documentary, gender, movies, sex, transgender, transvestite
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Creepshot or Not: Bikinis in the Park
Paleo Retiree writes: When I solicited thoughts and opinions some months ago about whether a snapshot I’d sneaked of a couple of sunbathing cuties in a public park was a Creepshot or not, some visitors concluded A) that it wasn’t, and B) … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Photography
Tagged cheryl dunn, creepshots, documentaries, documentary, movies, photography, robert frank
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