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)
Jan 28th
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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.)
Jan 28th
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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.
Jan 20th
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Jan 18th
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Heart of Darkness The making of Apocalypse Now
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Jan 17th
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Jørgen Leth’s seminal, anthropological documentary The Perfect Human.
Jan 17th
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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.
Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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The Hells Angels Take A Mini Break →
This BBC Documentary comes courtesy of Adam Curtis’s excellent blog. click through.
Jan 16th
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Sadobabies: Runaways in San Francisco →
An excellent documentary about runaways living in an abandoned San Francisco school (click through)
Jan 15th
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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
Jan 14th
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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow talks about his childhood in Chicago. http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1146&player=2
Jan 14th
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A documentary about a dreary British Biker Gang in the early 1980s
Jan 14th
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