This is the banksy one with that dude who films everything? I liked the first 2/3 and thought the end, when the filming dude went into art, was incredibly boring.Quote:
Originally Posted by connorislost
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This is the banksy one with that dude who films everything? I liked the first 2/3 and thought the end, when the filming dude went into art, was incredibly boring.Quote:
Originally Posted by connorislost
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Originally Posted by bigred
well, the first 2/3 is exciting but not really very thought provoking. The last third seems to say a lot more about our (consumer) culture and really seems to challenge peoples notions of what art is.
bigred is a pseudo-intellect so the last 1/3 was boring for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by boost
Well, I do if I hook my computer up to my HD TV, or put a DVD on, otherwise you can pay like £5 a night.Quote:
Originally Posted by boost
FWIW, I was an honest to goodness Vegan for 24 hours after watching the first third of Earthlings.
Watched Inside Job finally. Expected it to be excellent, but it was even better than expected. Probably one of the best docs I've seen. Explained the financial collapse too well
I'll be phasing out my use of commercial animal products. The slaughter is okay, but living conditions and treatment is abysmal. I knew it was bad, but not that badQuote:
Originally Posted by BankItDrew
It made me dedicate all of my meat purchases from popular commercial outlets to organic based shopping markets.
I'm not going to watch the final 2/3's of that film either, for reasons mentioned earlier. First time I've ever done that.
Well if it changed your habits then I would say you shouldn't have to watch the last 2/3rds, because that's the whole point of the film being made in the first place
Other than that, it should be mandatory viewing. It angers me that people won't watch something like Earthlings because of how it makes them feel. Uh cows are being chained to the floor and dogs locked in tiny cages like something you'd see in the most sadistic of torture chambers, yet you're worried about how YOU feel?
BTW, I watched this the other night, then saw this thread and was like OMG I have to mention this. I almost turned Vegan too, but even the Food companies have that on the lockdown too.Quote:
Originally Posted by boost
Meh, I lost interest when it started focusing on the camera guy. I understand the concepts they explored in the final 1/3 but meh, I've been to the MOMA. I already know that a lot of art is shite and people just need to be told what good art is. While this was a great example, I didn't enjoy it. Watching them climb buildings and paste a large andre the giant to the wall was much more enjoyable.Quote:
Originally Posted by boost
Earthlings, meh....only watched 1/2 and it was just ok.
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Originally Posted by bigred
You should check out stylewars, its a period piece from the 80's on New York graffiti in its heyday.
Style Wars (1984) - IMDb
FORA.tv - Robert Sapolsky: Are Humans Just Another Primate?
Such an awesome lecture with everybody's favorite neurobiologist. Covers a whole bunch of super interesting stuff centered around what truly makes humans different from other animals
Things are only getting better! Brian Cox's new series, w00t:
BBC - BBC Two Programmes - Wonders of the Universe
don't think this has been posted.. cross post from my ITT Heros post
YouTube - One Man's Dream - The Britten Bike Story
Tribute to a living legend, my hero:
BBC - Science & Nature - Life on Air
On a side note, that Wonders Of The Universe series is probably the best astrophysics docu I've seen, and I've seen many.
I'll have to check out Wonders of the Universe. I heard it was kind of a repeat of other docs, but I'll take your word for it
I honestly have a tough time with cosmology docs since I've kept up on most of the popularized stuff as is.
Robert Newman's History of Oil Comedy Sketch Show
The History of Oil - Robert Newman
Oh it absolutely is a repeat, there hasn't been a single new thing for me in the first 3 episodes. What it is though is very well narrated, makes many of the more difficult and complex matters very easy to understand, very entertaining and Brian Cox is so excited and passionate about this stuff that it's contagious.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
Cox is the most happy, metro, effeminate non-gay guy ever
Not exactly a documentary per-se but I found this pretty fascinating/infuriating.
YouTube - The American Dream By The Provocateur Network
grunching: Super High Me is pretty good.
Wow dude that is extremely goodQuote:
Originally Posted by Donachello
I am only a layman who doesn't understand fractionary banking (as if anybody fully understands it), but I've been gradually becoming convinced that central banking and internal revenue are the kraken.
If the video represents the truth, it's so hard to see because modern economics is based in fractionary banking, and the opposition are mainly conspiracy theorists and pseudo-kooks who are unwittingly co-opted by those very corporatists and banksters. It's almost impossible to support anti-corrupt banking without inadvertently supporting a corporatocracy since that support comes in anti-public governance form.
It's not a coincidence that the Kochs claim to be uber libertarians
Yeah it's pretty crazy. I am taking a media criticism class right now and we have gone pretty heavily into Chomsky's propaganda model and the general state of American media. It's beginning to get to the point where I can't help but feel like the US and probably the whole world is fucked barring some huge public uprising. Either that or the best thing to do is to just ignore pretty much every so-called "legitimate" news source.
Okay so I put some thought into the fractional banking thing and now have it figured out
The mistake people make is confusing fractional banking with inflation. Inflation is good stuff, but the problem is how it's created and filtered. Coming through the privately owned banks, it does exactly what the video and even the Zeitgeist videos claim. The whole scheme is one of inflation and debt on the backs of the non-mega rich/creditor class.
However, if the inflation were directed through things like public services or median rebates, it would work fantastically. For example, since 08, enough money has been spent many times over to fix the problems of the US economy, but nothing has been fixed because that money's flow starts and stops in the wealthy-class bubble.
So the problem is not inflation, but that it is used as a tool for the credit/debt dynamic that enslaves the populace. Cut the banks off, drop the inflation directly into the hands of the consumers, and the economy would be going gangbusters.
This is the basic problem with all things economic, it seems. Houses aren't worth what they were claimed? Give the money to the banks to let them off the hook instead of to the home dwellers to pay it down. It's all just a fucking ponzi scheme. The banks created this problem, made us fix it for them, and we suffer all the consequences
Awesome 3 part docu about the history of experimental psychology:
BBC - BBC Four Programmes - The Brain: A Secret History
Watched this a few nights ago.. was pretty interesting, with some obviously orchestrated scenes of "daily north N Korean life" that were pretty disturbing. But ya, I had no clue that several soldiers had defected to NK in the 60's..
Crossing the Line (2006) - IMDb
BBC iPlayer - Louis Theroux: Louis Theroux: Miami Mega Jail: Part 1
I can't recommend this highly enough, it's completely opened my eyes and scared the shit out of me. It's on Youtube here (YouTube - ‪Louis Theroux Miami Mega Jail E1 P1‬‏) and on all good pirate sites as well.
A quick look through shows two glaring omissions.
Restrepo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrepo_(film)
Guy who made it died in Libya recently. Tim Hetherington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
edit Sebastian Junger Remembers Tim Hetherington | The Magazine | Vanity Fair
And Cosmos. The end all and be all of cosmology docus. 12 hours of Carl Sagan covering everything covered in every other cosmology docu I've seen decades earlier.
"Slavery is over". Bullshit. You'd be luckier born a slave than on the streets. That sounds wrong, but it's notQuote:
Originally Posted by Ash256
What fucks me up the most is that they're all pre-trial. Anyone in FTR could get accused of something and end up in that hellhole where the guards basically say "Yeah, there's rapes and stabbings, no there's nothing we can do about it".
Out of interest wuf did you feel empathy towards the small guy? I both empathised with him for how fucked his situation was and admired his extremely steely inner strength. Regardless of what he's done, you have to respect his badassery in staying in the system for 3 years and not completely cracking up/ending in PC.
I didn't watch the whole thing due to time and I just don't feel like being depressed anymore, but I did catch a bit with the guy you're referencing. I do feel bad for him, as I do with anybody regardless of what they've done. But a couple points: the guy is probably a sociopath and basically admitted to what he's been accused. Internet diagnosis be damned, I would bet a ton of money he's mentally unstable. But keep in mind, mental instability is a product of society, not genetic inheritanceQuote:
Originally Posted by Ash256
Also, his steely resolve is a product of the system. If you're a prison vet, you become a hardass or you die. So everybody there has been broken uncountable times, but the part of them presented on tape is their fighting back from the bottom persona
you mean earthlings, yeah? i did the exact same thing. it's insanely confronting. i do intend to finish it but the whole thing in one (the first) sitting is pretty heavyQuote:
Originally Posted by BankItDrew
Man, this is some heavy shit..Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash256
edit: I agree with wuf, this little guy seems fucking looney...
Bulletproof Salesman (2008) - IMDb
if you have the chance, check this out. i saw it on pay cable tv last night. good stuff. if you have netflix you can get it there....
New adam curtis documentary out on BBC now:
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE
First episode is about Ayn Rand's influence on ALan Greenspan, and thus the world's economy. Scary and eye opening. Surprising to see just how much influence he had over Bill CLinton.
Another great Adam Curtis documentary for those who cant access Iplayer
The century of the self: The Century of the Self - informationliberation
"Adam Curtis' acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty.
To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?
The Freud dynasty is at the heart of this compelling social history. Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis; Edward Bernays, who invented public relations; Anna Freud, Sigmund's devoted daughter; and present-day PR guru and Sigmund's great grandson, Matthew Freud.
Sigmund Freud's work into the bubbling and murky world of the subconscious changed the world. By introducing a technique to probe the unconscious mind, Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the masses. Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society's belief that the pursuit of satisfaction and happiness is man's ultimate goal. "
The Century of the Self:
I downloaded it in four parts one week and watched each one by itself on different nights. As some of you may be aware, I have been struggling with a sleeping problem, essentially its consistency. That week however, was different. Each night that I played the film, I fell asleep quick and easily. I felt refreshed each morning after, too.
Putting my own problems aside, I strongly recommend The Century of the Self. It is very interesting and the best depiction of mass psychology I have ever seen.
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine | Watch Free Documentary Online
You can watch it above, but last time I checked about 2 years ago, you could buy it on Amazon for about £3.
Meant to post this myself but forgot.Quote:
Originally Posted by SaulPaul
Seriously FTR, you will love this.
Saw Waste Land on netflix streaming, really good
Waste Land (2010) - IMDb
watched Earthlings. Wept, first full of shock, then sadness, finally rage.
Between the Folds - on Netflix streaming.
The only thing that I didn't like about this documentary was the female narrator whose voice tries too hard to sound deep, fading, and interesting. It's just not natural, but purposefully trailing off from the labour of the words.
Other than that, the subject matter was beyond interesting.
On Netflix streaming - Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.
We're not even through it, as it's over 3 hrs long, but this is beyond quality stuff.
Netflix has delivered to me golden diamonds of entertainment and they need to be shared with you.
Between the Folds/Unforgivable Blackness. Watch 'em. Also, Happy belated Canada Day!
"If and suppose, two small words, but nobody has ever been able to explain them; one man falls out of bed and is killed; another falls from a 50 foot scafold and lives; one man gets shot in the leg and is killed; another gets a bullet in the brain and lives... I always take a chance on my pledges." - Jack Johnson.
"What is it about black men that attracts white women?" "We eat cold eels and think distant thoughts." - Jack Johnson.
+1 for century of the selfQuote:
Originally Posted by kevster
Wow! Just watched part of the Louix Therough prison doc, that's horrific. I would die in there. Please god don't ever let me get caught for any of the dodgy shit I do.
White people are generally safe from prison if they don't traffic or steal from other white people
I watched some past videos of me on vacation. They were very good. I would recommend trying to get videos of me.
The Story of Stuff.
Sorry if reposted.
i watched Hot Coffee (| HOT COFFEE, a documentary feature film) this evening, screening at a local film festival. I recommend it if you're interested in the US judicial and lobby systems.
The Bridge
About the Golden Gate bridge and the people who jump off of it.
America: Freedom to Fascism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I really liked this one and forgot about it until recently. I also saw an Alex Jones interview with Aaron Russo that reminded me of it.
The Doctor, The Tornado, and The Kentucky Kid
doc about moto gp coming back to the USA, to the famed Leguna Seca, after almost a decade long hiatus. Not sure how this will fair with those who aren't into Motorcycles, and specifically motorcycle racing... but I thought it was well done and being into the subject matter, I really enjoyed it.
IMDb - The Doctor, the Tornado and the Kentucky Kid (Video 2006)
Horizon's latest season again delivering the goods.
BBC - BBC Two Programmes - Horizon, 2011-2012, Are You Good or Evil?
This is pretty interesting
Dan Kahan: Cultural Cognition and the Challenge of Science Communication
i liked Senna (2010) - IMDb - docu about 3x f1 champion in lates 80s and 90s
Catfish (2010) - IMDb was strange and kinda figured out the jist of it pretty fast; idk what deeper meaning i got after watching it, i guess none
+1 to Senna. It popped up on Netflix rated 5 stars and it def measured up.
I also really enjoyed the docu Bhutto about the Pakistani-Kennedy-ish family the Bhuttos but mainly about Benazir Bhutto, the first and two-time female Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Bhutto (2010) - IMDb
I liked this one.
Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead (2010) - IMDb
I did the juice thing for ten days, I felt like a million bucks everyday. I have incorporated alot more fruits and veggies in my diet. I have lost over 10lbs, need to lose another 30. gogogo
Horizon is again banging out the goodies:
BBC Two - Horizon, 2011-2012, Playing God
BBC Two - Horizon, 2011-2012, Out of Control?
The are you good or evil one... fuck man.
TV review: Horizon: Eat, Fast and Live Longer; Britain's High Street Gamble | Television & radio | The Guardian
Worth a watch for anyone curious about dietary health.
Just watched this. Pretty astounding how right Brett Easton Ellis got it in American Psycho. The entire part about corporate America was like, "lol, you guys were already beat to the punch on this one by 20 years."Quote:
Originally Posted by CoccoBill
Searching for Sugar Man is really good
Searching for Sugar Man (2012) - IMDb
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In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career with only two well received but non-selling albums. Unknown to Rodriguez, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon and inspiration for generations. Long rumored there to be dead by suicide, a few fans in the 1990s decided to seek out the truth of their hero's fate. What follows is a bizarrely heartening story in which they found far more in their quest than they ever hoped, while a Detroit construction laborer discovered that his lost artistic dreams came true after all.
Food, Inc. (2008) - IMDb
A little bit preachy but I found it to be a very interesting watch.
i've heard that doco about rodriguez is really good as well. will have to check it out.
has anyone watched any of the "culture in decline" series? if so, what think?
Film - Indie Game: The Movie - A Video Game Documentary
Documentary about indie games and their creators. It's extremely well done and I guarantee if you're into games, especially indie games, you'll love this.
Phil Fish (creator of Fez) is so insane. It's intriguing and unsettling. And also really hilarious. (I say that with love, I like the guy. But he needs to get a grip.)
They also have the two dudes that made The Binding of Isaac (although in this docu they talk about Super Meat Boy), and they're cool too. Binding of Isaac is a fantastic game.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772925/?ref_=sr_1
This is on Netflix. Completely captivating to me for some reason.
^I'm def gonna watch this seeing how many times it pops up as a recommendation.
Take one, leave one. Crucible of Civilization is a 3 part PBS special about the rise, fall and legacy of Athens, Greece. Super legit. Liam Neeson lays down the tracks. Also on Netflix.
Watched first 2 parts, and you are correct in information and entertainment. I really like when they tell you whose writing they are getting bits of the story from. I find it a bit frustrating when they talk about details as if they are absolute truths, when anything from that long ago, typically only has one surviving account of what happened, or potentially conflicting stories. I like it best when it's just honest about any lack of clarity.Quote:
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This flick is sane.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingnat
A man who is wholly mindful of the task at hand and all that feeds into it.
Genuinely worth the watch.
The world needs more people like Jiro imo.
The world doesn't allow for people to be wholly focused on one end. It's too varied, too demanding.Quote:
Originally Posted by pocketfours
You can see this in his kids. Each try to follow in his way, but neither is going to become what he is.
He's a weaponized form of focus. One in a many.
I'm just glad he found his way.
It's alwys hard for the kids when dad is an overachiever.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/first_position_2011/
was really interesting and well done.Quote:
First Position (2011)
Every year, thousands of aspiring dancers enter one of the world's most prestigious ballet competitions, the Youth America Grand Prix, where lifelong dreams are at stake. In the final round, with hundreds competing for only a handful of elite scholarships and contracts, practice and discipline are paramount, and nothing short of perfection is expected. Bess Kargman's award-winning documentary, First Position, follows six young dancers as they prepare for a chance to enter the world of professional ballet, struggling through bloodied feet, near exhaustion and debilitating injuries, all while navigating the drama of adolescence. A showcase of awe-inspiring talent, tenacity and passion, First Position paints a thrilling and moving portrait of the most gifted young ballet stars of tomorrow.
heard that sushi docu being tossed around everywhere, gonna check it out tn if i can find the time.
A nice short, effective documentary:
http://www.upworthy.com/some-strange...g-to-earth?g=3
The Imposter
Amazing!
(Available via Canadian Netflix)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.
Have you ever wondered where the idiom "the great white hope" comes from?
https://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/U...7?locale=en-US
Solid watch. Plus it's a bit contemporary http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id...n-jack-johnson
Jack be nimble. Jack be quick.
Brian Cox is at it again, this time with a 5-part biology docu investigating life on earth from a scientific perspective. A must-see IMO.
BBC2 - Wonders of Life
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia.
I was 'cabin-ing' in West Virginia recently and we watched this.
For nothing else, it's fully entertaining. But there's much more else.
Came here to say the same thing. Crazy story that seems believable and unbelievable at the same timeQuote:
Originally Posted by BankItDrew
Into the Abyss Werner Herzog interviews Death Row inmates and those involved. Beautifully done. Herzog has an uncanny way of finding the right questions.
This is pretty much an extended episode of On Death Row - you can catch all the episodes of that on Youtube.
The early VICE docu's by the heroically stupid Shane Smith are all worth your time.
Inside North Korea
The Cannibal Warlords of Liberia
Front Lines of the Lybian Revolution
The later VICE stuff... not so much
Into the Abyss was good but not my fav. Herzog.
This right here.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
America Freedom is the best
It sure is, fellow Patriot.
Caught Skatopia on nextflix instant a few nights ago. Can't say it was an amazing piece, but it was pretty crazy to get a look into this hidden world of a punk rock dystopian skater commune.
The Act of Killing (2013)
Former indonesian executioners are given creative control to reenect their killings.
Louis Theroux has a new mini series. The second one On Life and Death, I can highly recommend.
Yeah, Louis Theroux's stuff is pretty awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigPapi