I have to say, I love documentaries...well made docs...for a lot of reasons.
Here is another that sends me into fits of joy. It has also been released as "2.
Out of Ireland - The Hit Songs & Artists of Irish Music (From a Whisper to a Scream) " Much less interesting than the original, but whatev.
The jousting between Bono and Geldof is charming and the progressive history of modern Irish music (50s forward) is delightful.
I see now that I should write a doc recommendation column or something because I'm suddenly flooded with "And THIS one is great because..." thoughts.
I'm off to pet my copy of 1 Giant Leap. Awesome music, stunning visuals, great thinkers...
Marty loves movies like nobody else loves movies.
I've seen parts of this documentary and it really made me want to see more.
This lovely 3 disk set makes me drunk with glee every time I watch it.
How come the details at Amazon say it's a
2
disk set?
How come the details at Amazon say it's a 2 disk set?
Because I'm addlebrained.
It is a 3 part series on 2 disks.
See? Drunk!
In whatever form you can find it, it's fan-tas-teek.
In whatever form you can find it, it's fan-tas-teek.
Oh, I know (at least the bits I saw of it). I meant to tape it. I memfault why I didn't, but something frelled up that plan. Once I'd completely missed the first episode, I decided, after seeing bits of the second (I think) that I'd justwait for the inevitable DVD.
Then I forgot about it.
smacks own forehead
When I first rented it, before the desperate flight to Amazon to acquire it now, now, now...I had relatively low expectations. Hm. Nice idea. Marty talks about movies. Neat.
But, I didn't know that Marty taught film...which of course he would...and the end result left me feeling so incredibly edified and satiated in my cinemania.
Thanks for the link! I finally saw the Deadwood finale, and am among the baffled.
The more I think about the Deadwood finale, the braver it seems to me. After asking us to sympathize with the citizens of the town, it turns the most transitional character - the guy they'd converted from outright villain to an anti-hero of sorts - back into a cold-hearted murderer, killing the most innocent character yet to die deliberately, and then showed us that the outright good guys of the show would simply accept this sacrifice with the barest glimmer of revulsion. My god! I've been writing an article about the way Deadwood rejects the Hobbesian view of life in favor of Locke's neutral democracy, but this subverted my whole thesis. The characters never turned away from Hobbes' state of nature, all nasty, brutish, and short, but instead constructed a Lockean facade about it. When the chips were down, they were all - every single goddamn one of them - ready to sacrifice everything they claimed to hold dear just to save their skins. Deadwood isn't about the progressive force of civilization; it's about the adaptability of people to different aspects of brutality.
I may change my mind about all this again.
