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Post by rikita on Mar 27, 2017 10:30:05 GMT
after watching a ted talk by deeyah khan i decided to watch some of her documentaries, so i saw this one today:
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2017 5:30:15 GMT
L'Opéra is a magnificent presentation of all of the work that goes into the staging of performances at 'Garnier' and 'Bastille.' After seeing it, I won't even begrudge the fact that tickets cost 150 euros to go to the opera.
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 7, 2017 15:02:20 GMT
After seeing it, I won't even begrudge the fact that tickets costs 150 euros to go to the opera. Nothing cheaper than that? The Royal Opera House and the English National Opera have some tickets as cheap as £10, and reasonable seats around £30.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2017 15:49:11 GMT
Actually 150 euros is the top price.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 7, 2017 17:41:31 GMT
The Royal Opera House and the English National Opera have some tickets as cheap as £10, and reasonable seats around £30. Thanks for the heads-up. Guess what I'm planning to do now!
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Post by bixaorellana on May 7, 2017 3:36:31 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 11, 2017 18:36:14 GMT
This is what I'm currently watching ~ history presented in a coherent, easy to assimilate manner: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_Britain_(TV_series)ok.ru/video/329125726812Note that the first video (which is available elsewhere on the web) starts off garbled, but does straighten out. My only gripe with the series is that the background music, particularly the solo vocal, competes with the narration.
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Post by patricklondon on May 13, 2017 7:01:41 GMT
Simon Schama has done a number of interesting documentary series. And you're not alone in complaining about intrusive music in documentaries. Before the BBC closed down its messageboards, there was a constant stream of complaint, including my own. What's worse is when it's some off-the-peg vamp-till-ready hack work that has no relevance to the subject matter and does nothing to support the narrative. </rant> My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by onlyMark on May 13, 2017 9:25:54 GMT
I've actually got that series on DVD. What I can't understand is with some of these that do have intrusive music, why isn't it obvious to the people who made it? It's like with the mumbling in some TV series.
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Post by patricklondon on May 13, 2017 11:20:43 GMT
I've actually got that series on DVD. What I can't understand is with some of these that do have intrusive music, why isn't it obvious to the people who made it? It's like with the mumbling in some TV series. My grouchy theory is that it's the multitasking, can't do anything without background music, generation. I remember a discussion of Lucy Worsley's series on the art and culture of the Regency period, where a segment on the eclectic architect and collector Sir John Soane was introduced with a shot of her walking through his house stuffed full of ancient art with a crashing overlay of some piece by Pink Floyd. Someone on the messageboard said it was cleverly appropriate because the title of the music referred to some aspect of the art in the picture. I said that in that case you might as well introduce a discussion of George Stubbs's Whistlejacket with Father Ted singing My Lovely Horse: My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by mickthecactus on May 13, 2017 11:58:19 GMT
I've actually got that series on DVD. What I can't understand is with some of these that do have intrusive music, why isn't it obvious to the people who made it? It's like with the mumbling in some TV series. My grouchy theory is that it's the multitasking, can't do anything without background music, generation. I remember a discussion of Lucy Worsley's series on the art and culture of the Regency period, where a segment on the eclectic architect and collector Sir John Soane was introduced with a shot of her walking through his house stuffed full of ancient art with a crashing overlay of some piece by Pink Floyd. Someone on the messageboard said it was cleverly appropriate because the title of the music referred to some aspect of the art in the picture. I said that in that case you might as well introduce a discussion of George Stubbs's Whistlejacket with Father Ted singing My Lovely Horse: My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam" That is funny!
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Post by bixaorellana on May 13, 2017 15:08:25 GMT
Oh gawwwd ~ Father Ted destroys me every time and that song is brilliant. And you're not alone in complaining about intrusive music in documentaries. Before the BBC closed down its messageboards, there was a constant stream of complaint, including my own. Thanks -- I am glad to know that I'm not the only one. That was a nice response to complaint by the the BBC. What I can't understand is with some of these that do have intrusive music, why isn't it obvious to the people who made it? I thought about that while watching the credits roll. The sound person is included in the credits, proving that there is one and not just somebody's kid flipping on a tape at intervals. No one in a production team is capable of saying that the music is too loud?
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Post by lagatta on May 14, 2017 17:41:12 GMT
It is also VERY unfair to people who are hard of hearing. Funny, when there is so much more attention than before to the needs of people with disabilities. Not everyone who is a bit hard of hearing needs closed captions.
Oh yes, Father Ted...
And Bixa, how wonderful that there are affordable opera tickets in London, a storied but notoriously expensive city.
There are sometimes free or very cheap tickets at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. I was so happy that a colleague told me about them.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2017 17:55:13 GMT
At the Palais Garnier in Paris, the cheapest tickets cost 10 euros, available starting at 11 a.m. on the day of the performance. At the Opéra Bastille, the cheapest tickets cost 5 euros, available to the lucky out of the automatic ticket machines 1h30 before the performance.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 14, 2017 18:06:04 GMT
Wow -- that automatic machine for the Opéra Bastille must have lines around the block a couple of hours before the performance. I would just like to say how amused I am that the conversation on this page is about attending the opera and about a solid historical documentary series. Not a peep about the investigation into a scandalous story covered by the tabloid press. We're a cultured bunch, yes indeed!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 2, 2017 15:04:48 GMT
You gotta check out this collection. Yes, some of it is homemade loonyness, but that's interesting in its own right. But there are all kinds of interesting mainstream documentaries and jewels such as ~ Born Rich (2003) – Jamie Johnson, heir to Johnson&Johnson wealth made a doc about the impact of multi-generational wealth on his and others like him lives. Featuring Ivanka Trump!trendingdocs.com/
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 6, 2017 5:06:26 GMT
The other day I went to see the new documentary by Agnès Varda Visages Villages. She made it with JR, the collage artist who sticks his huge photos on walls all over the world. It's just a gentle delightful trip through France meeting village people and immortalising them in their setting. Of course the only thing immortal is the film itself, because the paper photos often wash away in the first rainstorm. It is all the more poignant because Agnès Varda is going blind little by little...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 6, 2017 8:43:25 GMT
That looks absolutely delightful and must have been dazzling on the big screen.
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Post by rikita on Jul 17, 2017 23:30:06 GMT
sorry just the title my lovely horse made me think of this song:
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 16, 2017 5:45:00 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2017 14:40:14 GMT
WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO WATCH ABOVE MENTIONED DOCUMENTARY (REPLY 199) MY COMPUTER BECAME INFECTED WITH TWO MAJOR VIRUSES
I have to take the computer to the computer store to fix.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 7, 2017 2:35:52 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 25, 2017 16:39:52 GMT
Documentary on Fats Domino. It's been divided into three parts on youtube:
Walkin' Back to New Orleans
Part One:
Part Two:
Part Three:
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 25, 2017 16:51:55 GMT
A few weeks ago I went to see Intelligent Trees at the cinema. The main thing that came to mind was how such a film affects vegans, who savagely eat all sorts of vegetable matter without any consideration to the pain and suffering they are causing.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 2, 2017 3:44:18 GMT
The new French documentary We Blew It certainly seems destined/designed to depress boomers.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 25, 2017 20:02:58 GMT
Earlier in the week I giggled my way through Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley's documentary Absolutely Champers on BBC2 it's on iPlayer if you can get it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 28, 2017 10:27:09 GMT
They finally released Kedi, the Turkish documentary about alley cats of Istanbul here, so I went to see it. I liked the way that most of it was filmed at cat level.
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Post by rikita on Jan 21, 2018 10:21:53 GMT
currently living my more voyeuristic side with the series "menschen hautnah" (people at close range - hautnah means something like close to the skin), a documentary series about personal life stories of people - sometimes the people involved in better known stories (like about the berlin school class that got caught in the nizza attack, or about the a couple who imprisoned and tortured women in their house), sometimes unknown people (like people living with a rare disease, families that lost a child, also nice stories, like love stories between very different people) ... most recent one is a three part series about a center for rare diseases, where the doctors figure out what is wrong with people who often have tried to get a diagnosis for their problems for years, often weren't believed by their regular doctor, and once those doctors find out what they have, the disease in some cases is so unknown that they have to come up with a treatment themselves, too ...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2018 17:58:19 GMT
oh, I'm glad you liked KEDI Kerouac. I thoroughly enjoyed it and it was cool to recognize many of the locales in Istanbul.
I watched a documentary about Nina Simone last night. Knocked my socks off. Rare footage of her as a child prodigy pianist, rejected from Julliard because of color and her struggle up the ladder to fame as a singer which she was forced into doing to make a living. Stellar movie!!!!
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Post by breeze on Mar 20, 2018 15:10:05 GMT
We saw Faces Places (Visages Villages) last week, thanks for Netflix, and it's still on my mind every day. Agnes Varda is a treasure. Now that I know about JR I've been checking Instagram every few days for his latest.
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