February 2012
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WatchPoème électronique, score by Edward Varése, film by Le Corbusier, 1958
January 2012
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WatchGarlic is as Good as Ten Mothers, by Les Blank, 1980 (full)
WatchThe Confessions of Robert Crumb, by Robert Crumb (1987)
WatchCocksucker Blues by Robert Frank Cocksucker Blues follows the Rolling Stones on their 1972 Exile on Main Street tour. Shelved by execs, on ground of obscenity, it remains unreleased (except, apparently, in Russia where this was found).
December 2011
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WatchGeneral Idi Amin Dada: an Auto-Portrait by Barbet Schroeder
A bizzarre and terrifying portrait of the dictator. Schroeder had intimate and unprecedented access to the man who came to be titled ‘His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in...
Greece: The Seven Black Years →
This Adam Curtis blog-post looks at the Greek propensity for civil disobedience and their recent calls for direct democracy. Curtis finds the nascence of today’s social unrest in the collapse of the Greek Military Junta in 1974. He posts a BBC documentary called Greece: The Seven Black Years in its entirety. The film looks at the last days of the regime, the terrible consequences of...
November 2011
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WatchHeartworn Highways, by James Szalapski, 1975-1976 (full movie)
This is arguably the definitive music documentary of its time, and up there among the best documentaries ever made. I’ve never seen it online before, so this is something of an exclusive. Enjoy.
Featuring all the figureheads of the ‘Outlaw Country’ movement: Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, David Allan...
WatchSearching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus by Andrew Douglas
A “journey” through the prisons, dive-bars, churches, swamps and backwaters of the southern states with Jim White.
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WatchBe Here To Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt, by Margaret Brown, 2004
“Townes is the best songwriter in the whole world and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.” Steve Earle
“I’ve met Bob Dylan and his bodyguards, and I don’t think Steve could get anywhere near his coffee table.” Townes Van Zandt
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WatchHooligan, by Ian Stuttard, 1985
A fifty minute documentary on West Ham’s Inter City Firm. Soccer Casuals.
October 2011
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Have A Bleak Halloween →
Short Stories: The Exorcist of Wood Green, by Richard Parry
Looks at the London Eastside Fellowship led by the Rev Paddy Shevlin – alleged to be a reformed gangster who had dealings with the Crays – who regularly conducted exorcisms on his followers, many of whom were suffering from acute mental illness and had been encouraged to stop taking medication. Quite chilling.
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September 2011
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WatchMarcel Duchamp footage
August 2011
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WatchThe War Game, by Peter Watkins, 1967
Watkins’ showpiece movie, which imagines the possible outcomes and aftermath of a nuclear attack on Great Britain, made in his signature docudrama style.
WatchSatanis: The Devil’s Mass, by Ray Laurent, 1970
This doco about about Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan is just plain lolzy.
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