documentaries ahoy

seriously fucked.

ok. Might not be everyones cup of tea.

watched the fantastic mr dahl on iView. recomended

Here's a whole load of really great doco's to watch for free online

Does anyone happen to have a copy of the 1960 Robert Drew doco 'Primary' I could borrow?

Interesting documentary about meth on SBS2 right now.

Nope. Sorry.

Has anyone seen Last Train Home?

Last Train Home

Following Sean is a 2005 documentary film directed by Ralph Arlyck, and a follow-up to his 1969 student short ''Sean,'' which features four-year-old Sean Farrell's thoughts on marijuana, police presence, and freewheeling lifestyles. The film's notoriety landed a screening in the White House and a variety of predictions regarding the outcome of Sean's life - whether he could grow up to embody the hippy philosophy, or whether he would turn out a drug dealer or stock broker.[1]

Following Sean picks up in the mid-1990s and turns Sean's story into a meditation on generational changes and legacies that are handed down as a result of choices made in heated political climates.

Has anyone seen Last Train Home? Yep, highly recommended

Heart Of The Angel

Great doco they showed on the ABC a few years ago. In four parts on youtube.

Just watched Gasland on SBS, apart from the actual content some interesting music choices from Tim Heckler, Keith Fullerton Whitman and some Dirty Three I think.

Yeah, great doco, great music.

Lately I have watched two exceptional doco series:

The Century of the Self: Great 4-parter on in influence of freudian psychoanalysis (and later theorems by reich and maslow) on advertising, politics, and the individualisation of society.

The Story of Film: An Odyssey: 14 hours of a start-to finish coverage of the movements, techniques and eras of film worldwide. Based on a book of the same name. A semester at film school couldn't cover this much. Well worth taking notes and discovering some amazing stuff.

re Century of the Self, I've just discovered Adam Curtis myself. Did you know loads of his stuff is on archive.org? The Story of Film looks like a very decent film-studies-in-film-form sorta thing.

You just reminded me I never did finish all of The Story Of Film. Thanks.

You're welcome Lax. I ripped through the second half in a few days. So many films to check out now.

that's awesome ocelotl!!!

Yes...the breadth of it is extraordinary...I dunno maybe the films are accepted classics amongst film buffs but when discussing it with my gals brother who has seen and can discuss at length EVERYTHING he talked this series up for not taking such obvious steps especially with bringing cinema around into a global thing...yeah I've left it that long between viewings maybe I'll take it from the start again. I was watching it as I was starting to make my way through 1001 Films You Must See Before You Die

For the old-school free-to-air watchers... The Story Of Film just started on SBS couple of nights ago, they're ripping through it four nights a week. Catch up from here. Great stuff so far, I'm enjoying the personal, discursive approach. The guy's lilting narration grated at first, but soon became kind of mesmerising. Woolfat, where are ya lately? You'd enjoy this, probably. Maybe.

PS - Episode guide, and interview with the series maker.

loving the story of film

Tonight on abc 1

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/abc1/201301/programs/IP1018D001D2013-01-14T213002.htm

Coniston
Synopsis

More than 80 years after the brutal slaughter of 100 or more Aboriginal people in Central Australia, their descendants relate their story.

Known as 'the last massacre', expeditions set out in August 1928 to mow down innocent people across the traditional lands of the Warlpiri people and their neighbours to avenge the killing of dingo trapper Fred Brooks at the hands of a Warlpiri man, Bullfrog, for taking liberties with Brook's wife.

It is also the tragic tale of Australian contact history: dispossession by pastoralists and the struggle over resources in a drought-afflicted land.

These are often painful and violent stories. The last survivor tells of his father's brutal slaying, and son of the tracker and horse 'tailer' Alex Wilson who accompanied Constable George Murray on the killing raids, tells of his father's involvement. The memories of those times are so disturbing that they've never been able to return to where the killings took place.

But there are also stories of survival and resilience, and of an underlying pride in the ongoing strength of Warlpiri culture and traditions.

Bullfrog's son gives an animated account of his father's escape and others recall Bullfrog's use of powerful magic to elude capture.

Using re-enactments, historical images and footage of the community preparing to make the film, and shooting it, Coniston builds movingly to its conclusion that the injustices of the past must be acknowledged as part of the healing process.

Coniston is a recent winner of an Atom Award.

ABC2 are running Sunday night weekly docos for 10 weeks. Count down of the top ten. Last night was American - Bill Hicks story. Next week is hoop dreams. Check that one out, it;s about a few African American kids trying to make it to the NBA. The scholarships, the dreams, the drugs, the poverty allllll that. It's a good one.

The West of Memphis doco is available now.

hoop dreams is great.

for a while i constantly said of the show ''Breaking Bad'' that i had never heard some one use that expression. then i watched hoop dreams for about the fourth time and one someone says ''he's worried his dad's gonna break bad...'' and i was proven oh so wrong.

Fuck. I taped King of Kong, then forgot all about Sunday Best. Dammit.

Watching Kong now. Fuck, Billy's toadie is a punchable little cnut.

Also: Doug Martsch IS Walter Day.

ocelotl said 8 days ago:

For the old-school free-to-air watchers... The Story Of Film just started on SBS couple of nights ago, they're ripping through it four nights a week. Catch up from here. Great stuff so far, I'm enjoying the personal, discursive approach. The guy's lilting narration grated at first, but soon became kind of mesmerising. Woolfat, where are ya lately? You'd enjoy this, probably. Maybe.

do you think the manufacturers of roof handles also have a stake in those roof mounted L plates too.

this one is great

http://www.thegitsmovie.com/

The story of the promising, underground Seattle band, The Gits. Fronted by charismatic vocalist, Mia Zapata, and poised to explode onto the national music scene, a stranger came in and took it all away. A decade later, the legacy lives on.

cool. I saw a doco about Mia Zapata a few years ago which focussed mainly on how hey caught the murderer. It was done in an 'unsolved mysteries' style. Nice to see they have made a proper doco about the band.

do you think the manufacturers of roof handles also have a stake in those roof mounted L plates too.

Yeah that's some strange ad placement! Not sure too many viewers of this series would be planning to walk on their roof (unless it's in tribute to Irma Vep or something).