January 2011
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Rouli-Roulant or The Devil’s Toy (1965) – arguably the first Skate Film ever made. Nice to see little’s changed these past 50 years.
(Kudos Cindybeau)
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Tintin et Moi: the life of Belgian cartoonist, Herge.
(Cautionary note: please ignore filmmaker / filmmaker’s hair. Discounting his Samurai Top-Knot, this film is brilliant.)
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Billy The Kid by Jennifer Venditti – as it stands, we can only find the trailer for this movie. You may have to rent it / buy it the old fashioned way.
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Heart of Darkness
The making of Apocalypse Now
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Jørgen Leth’s seminal, anthropological documentary The Perfect Human.
First Contact: Original footage of the ‘first contact’ between Papuan highlanders and Australian gold prospectors in the 1930’s, together with reflections from surviving participants on their swift introduction to Western colonialism.
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The Hells Angels Take A Mini Break →
This BBC Documentary comes courtesy of Adam Curtis’s excellent blog. click through.
Sadobabies: Runaways in San Francisco →
An excellent documentary about runaways living in an abandoned San Francisco school (click through)
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A Bipolar Expedition
Did you miss this when it aired on Channel 4? If so, I’d give it another go.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/a-bipolar-expedition/4od#3083569
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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow talks about his childhood in Chicago.
http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1146&player=2
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A documentary about a dreary British Biker Gang in the early 1980s