documentaries

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SiClark

Quote from: online prowler on May 23, 2017, 03:37:51 AM
This have potential I think. Japan idol worship.

Tokyo Idols
This looks great, will have to try and track it down.

online prowler

#571
Quote from: KMusselman on May 23, 2017, 07:16:58 AM
Quote from: online prowler on May 23, 2017, 03:37:51 AM
I made a note about The Keepers some days ago. Trailer is interesting. Will try a couple of episodes before I am convinced.

sorry, i missed it and sorry for the double post...

Not sure if I misunderstand here.... KM... I was referring to a personal note, not a post here in SI.

Si... I agree... haven't found any dvds or torrents yet here. Seems like it's only screening at cinemas for now. Let me know if you find some game though!

online prowler

#572
Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence (BBC, 2017)



A portrait about 'the loudest, rudest' drunk and artist, narrated by: intimates, colleagues and cultural vultures. A bit prone to art-world regeneration hype and over-dramatization, but recommended non-the-less. Visceral color quality on shots of works. Can dig his pimpy fashion sense during in his latter days. A bit decadent, yea? Could maybe pass as obnoxious power electronics vocalist?

full fortune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgrO5za0lSY

y-tube dwnlwd via link insertion here: http://keepvid.com/

Also recommended, via ubuweb (stream & dwnlwd ) is the Bacon docu The South Bank Show (1985) by now ITV. Most of you have most probably seen this. Nevertheless: Mandatory viewing and always worth at least an annual re-watch.

ubu:
http://www.ubu.com/film/bacon_south.html


bitewerksMTB

http://www.pbs.org/show/american-epic/

Interesting docu. series about Victor Records venturing into the rest of America to record music from the mountains, farms, etc. in the '20s. There's lots of footage of how the recordings were made in one take straight to vinyl. The second episode is mostly about Charley Patton (the blues) & the first, is about the Carter Family (country music). The second is the best; seems the reason so many blues musicians had such rough singing voices was from yelling at mules in the field all day.

online prowler

Watched the three first thrills of series THE KEEPERS. Quite good, can recommend it. It keeps getting denser and denser for each running episode.

online prowler

#575
FALLET KEVIN



Swedish true crime 3-part 2017 docu. Four year old Kevin is found murdered. The police's investigation points out his two brothers of 5 and 7 years as suspects.  

https://tv.nrk.no/serie/saken-kevin/KOID22006017/sesong-1/episode-1

online prowler

THE FAMILY.



Anne Hamilton-Byrne was beautiful, charismatic and delusional. She was also incredibly dangerous. Convinced she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, Hamilton-Byrne headed an apocalyptic sect called The Family, which was prominent in Melbourne from the 1960s through to the 1990s. With her husband Bill, she acquired numerous children – some through adoption scams, some born to cult members – and raised them as her own. Isolated from the outside world, the children were dressed in matching outfits, had identical dyed blonde hair, and were allegedly beaten, starved and injected with LSD. Taught that Hamilton-Byrne was both their mother and the messiah, the children were eventually rescued during a police raid in 1987, but their trauma had only just begun.

https://www.thefamilysect.com/

online prowler

I WILL TREASURE YOUR FRIENDSHIP.



A Youtube singer, obsessed by fame, Photoshops himself into the lives of celebrities and an Australian murder victim.

http://www.swagmanfilms.com/iwilltreasureyourfriendship/

tiny_tove

this is one of the best doc ever done on British prostitution.
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online prowler

Thanx for the heads up.

Theodore

Watched 2 docs on TV the last days. Tales Of The Grim Sleeper : Is he the biggest trash fucker ever ? 50-100 photos of whores he fucked and maybe killed and i doubt there were more than 2 with "acceptable" look. Trasher than trash ! What's interesting in the doc is how his friends at first tell "I don't believe it, no way, blah, blah" , and later the only thing they don't say is "Yes, i saw him killing them" ! A lot of interviews with whores too. "Yes, i was there but ... i am not a trash" . I have listened this again lately ! Was it in the Neurotic Force tape ? Don't remember. Anyway, best scene is a short, fat, black whore walking the street without pants. Disgusting. Release him now !

Beuys : I am confused about artists, performers like him and about "modern" , conceptual art in general. Some things i like, most i believe are bullshits. The worst is when the artists or critics try to explain those bullshits, saying bigger bullshits that noone understands haha. Well Beuys has a honest answer when he was told that when he speaks he tries to impress so much that it results to nonsense. "Yes, but my life and work shows i am not only that. I have to try to impress, otherwise noone will care" . Also, he has a good reply when asked what he would tell to someone who doesn't understand his sculpture. "To take a spoon and eat it" . At least seems he wasn't boring character.
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david lloyd jones

Quote from: theotherjohn on July 04, 2017, 11:54:08 AM
Just found on YouTube this incredible BBC documentary series called Sex, Drugs and Murder about the UK's only legalised prostitution area in Holbeck, Leeds. Nine parts long and with a running time of 2 and 1/2 hours! The harsh Northern England accents of some of the subjects might be incomprehensible to some (and the autogenerated subtitles don't help either) but either way, this is definitely worth a watch!

Playlist here in correct running order:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqrkC1T1nQdCQljLL03gPNuACHTaECity

just finished watching.
visually tough and true.
deeply empathic with it's subjects, which, to me reduces this to soap opera, like a lot of recent ' underclass' type documentary.
'benefit street', 'can't pay, we'll take it away', 'love on the dole' etc.
all look at struggle, for cash, for drugs, for dignity etc as fit for watch/comment in a not usually neutral senseto me they quickly go from dispassionate  enquiry into value laden pseudo soap.

cr

Yesterday I got DVDs of Tsurisaki Kiyotaka's Junk Films and The Wasteland.
Will possibly watch them during the weekend, if I'm in the right mood.
On the first glimpse Junk Films looks like moving pictures of the books I have.

online prowler

Quote from: cr on July 14, 2017, 06:07:34 PM
Yesterday I got DVDs of Tsurisaki Kiyotaka's Junk Films and The Wasteland.
Will possibly watch them during the weekend, if I'm in the right mood.
On the first glimpse Junk Films looks like moving pictures of the books I have.

Nice one! Love those!!