Good Documentaries
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Harry would turn up at your door, at 4 o'clock in the morning, and you kind of knew that the next three days of your life were going to be an adventure.
Understatement of the century (let's go with last century). Brilliant man; if he and Buk had gotten together, critical mass would have ensued.
Understatement of the century (let's go with last century). Brilliant man; if he and Buk had gotten together, critical mass would have ensued.
just watched Grey Gardens again. Sooo good.
and if you have 20 million dollars lying around it could be yours -
https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2017/02/09/famous-grey-gardens-home-hits-the-market-for-19-95-million/21710842/
https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2017/02/09/famous-grey-gardens-home-hits-the-market-for-19-95-million/21710842/
Oh, right on. I have 20 stacks lyin' around. Damn. It's mine!
audio doc of dylan's early period - it's worth it just to hear all the great tunes.
https://beta.prx.org/stories/54035
https://beta.prx.org/stories/54035
Excellent, David! I have never heard that.
https://vimeo.com/migrantmedia/injustice (The site isn't allowing the video to be embeded hence the link)
I only discovered this documentary recently after hearing the news of yet another young black man, Rashan Charles, dying at the hands of the police. He was chased into a shop and restrained "for his own safety" after being seen to deposit something into his mouth. It was later found to be a paracetamol/caffeine mixture.
I only discovered this documentary recently after hearing the news of yet another young black man, Rashan Charles, dying at the hands of the police. He was chased into a shop and restrained "for his own safety" after being seen to deposit something into his mouth. It was later found to be a paracetamol/caffeine mixture.
I was just looking at "verified" Twitter accounts that follow @bukowski_net, and look who showed up:
A verified Twitter account is supposed to mean you're notable or famous. But of the 54 verified accounts that follow @bukowski_net, I only recognize about half a dozen of the names.
The Misfits is an underrated movie. It gets more attention bc it's both Gable & Monroe's last movie, not because it's exceptional. This is pretty good.
Although not incredibly enlightening to big fans like myself the footage and manner in which it was put together is enjoyable. At some point u begin to wonder when there's going to be a Bukowski mention. The folks who did the doc did not bring him up but Tom did briefly mention Buk. Whether one like Tom's work or not I think it's fair to say that thematically Tom & Buk mined the same L.A. vein, at least in the first part of Tom's career. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LVy_-lBUUg&feature=youtu.be
Just watched Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond with Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman. I was not always a fan of Jim but he was brilliant as Andy. I also liked his thoughts on the subject of acting. He truly took the whole film crew on the ride of their lives, refusing to be Jim most of the time. https://youtu.be/kB15UFO5ebA
I love the movie and Tony Clifton persona, so much that I had been using Tony as an avatar (on another forum) for many years.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/electric-boogaloo-the-wild-untold-story
The story of Barbet Schroeder threatening to decapitate himself if the movie Barfly didn't go ahead is recounted here. That's the one time I looked up. I wasn't aware Cannon produced such trash.
The story of Barbet Schroeder threatening to decapitate himself if the movie Barfly didn't go ahead is recounted here. That's the one time I looked up. I wasn't aware Cannon produced such trash.
"Read about your band in some local page/ Didn't mention your name, didn't mention your name "
I didn't know if I should post this in the "listening to" thread or the doc thread but here you go. And I swear mjp I was not surfing the web for Minneapolis 80's footage. Just by co-incidence I've always loved music from there. This landed on my fb wall courtesy of Dangerous Minds. It's a 1988 public television doc about "the scene".
‘THE MINNEAPOLIS SOUND,’ LOCAL TV REPORT FROM 1988 ON PRINCE, HÜSKER DÜ AND THE REPLACEMENTS
I didn't know if I should post this in the "listening to" thread or the doc thread but here you go. And I swear mjp I was not surfing the web for Minneapolis 80's footage. Just by co-incidence I've always loved music from there. This landed on my fb wall courtesy of Dangerous Minds. It's a 1988 public television doc about "the scene".
‘THE MINNEAPOLIS SOUND,’ LOCAL TV REPORT FROM 1988 ON PRINCE, HÜSKER DÜ AND THE REPLACEMENTS
"Muscle Shoals" is one of the best music documentaries (and one of the best docs, period) that I've ever seen. I deeply regret that I was born in the Deep South of the U.S.A., and lived there for over 20 years, and yet, still never got to check out, in person, the great, soulful musical culture in the Muscle Shoals area of Alabama!! Who knew that so many of the musicians on a large number of classic '60s/'70s soul records were Southern white guys?! This Southern white guy definitely didn't know, until I saw this great movie!
I've been meaning to watch that one. Thanks for the reminder!
"I am not your negro", Raoul Peck's brilliant documentary about James Baldwin
views and accounts on racism in America
James Baldwin:
"The world is not white. It never was white. Can't be white. White is a metaphor for power and that is simply ...
Anyone read anything that he has published?
Plan to buy something that he has written.
views and accounts on racism in America
James Baldwin:
"The world is not white. It never was white. Can't be white. White is a metaphor for power and that is simply ...
Anyone read anything that he has published?
Plan to buy something that he has written.
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I saw the first thirty minutes or so of that documentary two nights ago on U.S. public television but had to (reluctantly) go to sleep and missed the rest. I will watch all of it soon though.
Several years ago, I read part of Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son, and based on what I can remember, I would definitely recommend it (actually, I should buy it and finally read the whole thing myself!). He was a formidable intellect and had the kind of visible moral authority which could quietly, but firmly and powerfully, call people to account for their bad actions (or lack of good actions). How we need his witness, in many ways, in these times!
I read Notes of a Native Son as a youngster, about 40 years ago. Right around the same time that I read Dick Gregory's Nigger, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X and became radicalized. ;)
Seriously though, living in a city that had very (very) few black people in it, those books really blew my still-developing mind.
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Rammellezee. Who knew? Not I. This is the jawn. This is like his doc/movie.
This is a doc.
This is a doc.
L7: Pretend We're Dead
It's on Amazon Prime if you go that way. A great little slice of rock and roll documentary-ness reminding us that "minor success" is really failure with a prettier name, but that even failure can have its great moments.
It's on Amazon Prime if you go that way. A great little slice of rock and roll documentary-ness reminding us that "minor success" is really failure with a prettier name, but that even failure can have its great moments.