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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2014 16:53:38 GMT
Oh thanks for this!!! I am able to get Vimeo thanks to a friend of mine recently guiding me.
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Post by mossie on Sept 12, 2014 19:06:22 GMT
I found that very depressing, with just a ray of hope at the very end.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 12, 2014 20:05:06 GMT
I agree with you about how depressing it is, Mossie And the hopeful bit only pointed up how utterly impossible it will be for most of them to escape. The enormity of the problem is almost too much to take in. It is chastening to see people maintaining standards of hygiene and cheer in circumstances that to me seem insurmountable
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2014 6:04:28 GMT
While the numbers are higher in certain countries than others, I think that all of our countries have people living like this. Of course the winter temperature in Russia makes it even worse there.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2014 11:15:47 GMT
I watched a movie based on true life events. Galapogas:Satan Comes to Paradise
A group of Europeans relocate to one of the tiny islands that make up the archipelago. Disaster and scary events result.
It was very well done.
Somewhere I've always longed to go.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2014 11:49:33 GMT
Today I went to see the documentary Flore, about the director's mother who suffers from Alzheimer's. The mother used to be a painter, but as the disease progressed, her paintings became more and more primitive until she stopped altogether. She was extremely aggressive at the nursing home, would ransack her room and go walking around at all hours of the day and night. They had to change establishments, and she was given more and more medication. She stopped walking and stopped talking because she was totally doped up on the sort of drugs generally given to the criminally insane in a penitentiary. And yet these were very high end places because the family clearly did not lack money. The son decided to take her to live with him in Corsica because it was becoming too unbearable to think of her wasting away in Paris. The house was adapted for a handicapped person and a wooden fence was built all around the property. They hired two carers in addition to regular nurses who would make visits. (Gee, if only I could have done things like that...) One of the carers was a Tibetan woman who decorated the garden with Tibetan prayer banners (WTF?) and the other one was a muscular physical therapist who would take her outdoors to "do stuff." Anyway, as the months went by, they stopped all of the drugs and after 3 months she began to walk again. After a year she was walking totally normally and even scrambling up and down rocky paths, sometimes alone. She started talking again, but it was just her own incomprehensible babbling -- you can't have it all. But she clearly enjoys life again and was starting to swim again by the end of the movie. (She is 77 years old, just for the record.) Jeez, if there was only a way that the rest of us did not have to park our loved ones in institutions where all they have the time or budget to do is line up the wheelchairs in front of the television...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2014 12:40:28 GMT
How heartwarming a saga. Yes, if only. It brought back memories of the work I tried doing with a geriatric population, mostly dementia, Alzheimer patients and how stymied I was by the system. It was my last job in Social Work.
I watched Codebreaker, a biopic of WWII codebreaker Alan Turing. Turing was a genius. His work with code-breaking and mathematics were the basis for today's computers and every other electronic device we now know. He fell victim to England's harsh laws regarding homosexuality and was treated abominably. One of the most horrible miscarriages of justice I have ever heard of. Shamed by the government he almost single-handedly saved from the Germans he never received any recognition for the work he had done and the contributions to science. It wasn't until 2009 that the British issued a public apology. A very fascinating and very sad story of one of the great geniuses of our time.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 1, 2014 18:43:21 GMT
I saw reviews of Codebreaker & was tempted, but felt it would be too sad & infuriating.
There could be endless discussions on the issues raised by Flore. Don't get me started on what the administrators decide how "time & budget" should be used.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 1, 2014 18:51:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 19:24:47 GMT
Yes, Ken Russell made tons of documentaries before he moved on to his weird movies (which I mostly loved).
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 1, 2014 21:05:39 GMT
I remember seeing the Isadora Duncan & the Dante Gabriel Rosetti(sp?) ones back in the early seventies, not realizing then that they'd been made in the 60s. He'd moved on from sedate in those!
This one has a link in the sidebar to other full-length Russell documentaries:
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 2, 2014 5:03:41 GMT
This 26 minute long film on the Kenyan national cycling team is charming & interesting, plus the landscape views are fabulous ~~ Baisikeli
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 20, 2014 18:49:30 GMT
Just found out about this film via this elegant review -- in the form of a poem! -- from the Smithsonian. The great flood of 1927 feels very immediate to me, as it's something I heard about all my life from people who experienced it. But now it is rapidly exiting the realm of living memory. My mother, now 87, was born that year, but in the early autumn, after the Spring flood waters had receded. And of course the generation before her are all gone now. So the fact that Bill Morrison has used archival footage to record the event in much the way that memory itself records events, is compelling and appropriate. It is available to stream for pay from various venues, as here, and also available for purchase. And just a bit more info here: billmorrisonfilm.com/feature-length-films/-the-great-flood----/2
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 12:07:18 GMT
Oh!! I would love to see this and know T. would even more as he has read several books on the topic. Thank you for posting this Bixa.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 22, 2014 17:07:32 GMT
Please, if you find a reliable source for it, would you post it here? Even if I can't access it, my mother has Netflix & she'd love to see this. Bayou Sara, the town at the river's edge in St. Francisville, was pretty much killed by this flood.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 18:11:34 GMT
Those images are fascinating.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2014 11:43:25 GMT
Please, if you find a reliable source for it, would you post it here? Even if I can't access it, my mother has Netflix & she'd love to see this. Bayou Sara, the town at the river's edge in St. Francisville, was pretty much killed by this flood. I will Bixa. There are a number of people I know who could give me some good leads.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2015 15:59:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2015 13:33:23 GMT
Today I went to see the Canadian documentary The Price We Pay. Naturally it has you seething with indignation within 5 minutes and you stay that way for the next hour and a half.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2015 17:06:30 GMT
That looks good, Kerouac, but I'm going to be depressed for the rest of the day just looking at the trailer, let alone watching the whole documentary.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2015 18:25:22 GMT
The French trailer is just a bit different.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2015 11:41:54 GMT
I saw Citizenfour this morning, the documentary about Edward Snowden. More stressful than any fictional thriller.
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Post by lugg on Apr 12, 2015 7:04:14 GMT
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Post by questa on Apr 12, 2015 8:18:57 GMT
I can't believe how my son's family treat flights like a bus ride. They have friends in Sydney...90 minute flight, but they 'pop' over there for kids birthday parties, friends anniversaries and clothes buying trips with 'the girls'. They fly on the discount flights...usually Virgin.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 15, 2015 0:11:10 GMT
Questa, they must live conveniently close to an airport, right? Boy, I would take advantage of flights like that if I could! My sister & I used to live 90 minutes from each other via interstate & drive that pretty regularly. In 90 minutes on a plane, I could go somewhere @700 miles away.
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Post by questa on Apr 15, 2015 2:39:42 GMT
Bixa,They live about 25 minutes drive BUT my son, being a senior fireman is able to drive to the airport and leave their car in the corner of the firey's car park for free. My grand-daughter (10) can do the safety speech with the cabin crew, complete with actions.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 15, 2015 2:56:14 GMT
Ha ha! I'd love to see her do those stiff arm movements. I particularly like that double arm swing with pointing.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2015 20:14:58 GMT
I went to see Beyond Clueless today. It is a rather shallow but fascinating piece of fluff with clips from 200 "teen" movies divided into categories like "first day of high school," "cool kids vs. nerds," "puberty," etc. For some reason, the trailer does not show a single scene from the movie, possibly due to copyright laws.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2015 19:40:54 GMT
Tonight I watched the extraordinary documentary Algérie vue du ciel on television. With Ramadan starting in just 2 days, I presume that it was an early gift by French public television to the Maghrebi audiences on both sides of the Mediterranean.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 16, 2015 22:27:07 GMT
Oooo ~ just watched it full screen. It's dazzling.
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