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A documentary horror film about the environmental devastation left in the wake of the giant toads’ unstoppable march across Australia. Cane Toads: The Conquest [85 min] is a comic yet provocative account of Australia’s most notorious environmental blunder from filmmaker Mark Lewis. Shot against the harsh and beautiful landscape of northern Australia, Cane Toads: The Conquest tracks […] 
•→ Nine astonishing ways David Attenborough shaped your world ⇐ ⇒ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears ⇐ ¤ The Tree of Life ↓ Sir David Attenborough gives credit to Darwin & Mendel, and comments on evolution and DNA from a modern perspective… ∇ 5 David Attenborough moments ⇓ enero 18th, 2015 | Tags: doc, England | Category: Interviews, Film-makers | One comment 
→http://www.wernerherzog.com ← ♦ ♦ Lessons of Darkness ↓ (1992) Shot in documentary style on 16mm film from the perspective of an alien observer, the film is an exploration of the ravaged oil fields of post-Gulf War Kuwait, decontextualised and characterised in such a way as to emphasise the terrain’s cataclysmic strangeness. […] 
Pioneering filmmakers that have expanded the image vocabulary of documentaries, Mark Magidson and Ron Fricke join BYOD to discuss Chronos, Baraka, and their new creation, Samsara. Discussing the difficulties of capturing stunning images in remote locations, and the signature filming techniques that have blown millions of minds, Ron and Mark key us into […] 
Adapted from James Dickey’s popular novel, John Boorman‘s 1972 movie recounts the grueling psychological and physical journey taken by four city slickers down a river in the backwoods of Georgia. At the behest of Iron John-esque Lewis (Burt Reynolds), the less adventuresome Ed (Jon Voight), Bobby (Ned Beatty), and Drew (Ronny Cox) agree […] 
♦ ‘Gadjo Dilo’ ↓ [1998] In this comedy-drama, Stephane (Romain Duris), a young man from France («Payo loco» = ‘The Crazy Stranger’), travels to Romania on a mission; his father has recently passed away, and since the old man’s favorite singer was an unrecorded gypsy vocalist from Romania, he has […] 
Winner of the Silver Bear at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival, The Road to Guantanamo, directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, uses interviews, news footage, and reenactments to tell the story of the Tipton Three, young British men of Pakistani descent who were detained for over two years without charges at […] 
¤ Robert Burns ⇐ [1759-1796] ⇒ The Peoples Poet ⇐[BBC doc] «When death’s dark stream I ferry o’er, A time that surely shall come; In Heaven itself, I’ll ask no more, Than just a Highland welcome.» ◊→ «A RED, RED ROSE» ⇓ O, my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung […] 
¤ John Steinbeck [1902 – 1968] A leading writer of novels about the working class and a major spokesman for the victims of the Great Depression, John Steinbeck worked as a laboratory assistant and farm laborer to support himself through six years of study at Stanford University, where he took only those […] 
«The world is wide, no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.» → John Constable (1776 – 1837) […] 
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People try to put us d-down (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation) Just because we get around (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation) Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation) I hope I die before I get old (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation) This is my generation – This is my […] 
Baba Zula, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Burhan Öcal, Erkan Ogur, Mercan Dede, Kudsi Erguner . . . ¤ Baba Zula is a Turkish group that draws on traditional Turkish music, electronica, and rock to create a sound they call «Oriental Dub.» The music captures a unique vision of their hometown of Istanbul. […] 
♦ Finding Fela! ⇓ Official Trailer (2014) – Documentary
Φ Music Is The Weapon ⇒ ♦ Filmed in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1982, this 53-minute documentary mixes footage of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti (1938-1997) performing at his Shrine nightclub, interviews with the controversial musician, […] 
There are very few examples of art forms which combine extremes in such a compelling way: joy and grief, life and death, discipline and spontaneity, the inner self and the gregarious mass . . . The thing about flamenco is that even though it’s very popular music, […] 
The flamenco guitar differs from the classical guitar in the instrument itself and in the technique used to play it. The role of the guitar in flamenco was originally a rhythmic accompaniment to give the song an organized structure and a driving force. Today however the solo flamenco guitarist uses […] 
∴ Hailing from southern Spain’s outcast populations, flamenco dance and music drew early influences from Greek and Roman and later from Indian, Moorish, and Jewish cultures. With the arrival of the Moorish and Jewish populations to the Iberian peninsula centuries ago, Andalusia’s already thriving music and dance inadvertently […] 
⇔ ¤ An anthem of Hungarian Beas Roma ⇓ ‘ Zöld az erdő’← The wood is green, so is the hill. Luck comes and goes. The knife of worries cuts into our flesh, The world has gone hypocrite. The whole world is our enemy, We live as […] 
¤ Arlo Guthrie
City of New Orleans is a folk song written by →Steve Goodman, describing a train ride from Chicago to New Orleans via the Illinois Central Railroad in bittersweet and nostalgic terms. Goodman got the idea while traveling on the eponymous train for a visit to his wife’s […] 
•→Charlie Christian: Swing to Bop [1941] ¤ Pat Metheny first burst onto the international jazz scene in 1974. Over the course of his three-year stint with vibraphone great Gary Burton, the young Missouri native already displayed his soon-to-become trademarked playing style, which blended the loose and flexible articulation customarily reserved for […] 
«Don’t call me a legend. Call me Miles Davis.» Trumpeter-bandleader Miles Davis (1926-1991) was a catalyst for the major innovations in post-bop, cool jazz, hard-bop, and jazz-fusion, and his wispy and emotional trumpet tones were some of the most evocative sounds ever heard. He was also one of the most identifiable and […] |
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