Showing posts with label documentary films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label documentary films. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Albania's last trains.

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  For the past 40 years, maybe even earlier if childhood stamp collecting is taken into account, I've been fascinated by the country of ...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Union City Blue.

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A very good 45-minute documentary film about Belarus; Dutch with subtitles, early 2019, probably filmed in 2018. As for the song, ha...
Thursday, November 07, 2019

"Michael Moore is finally being vindicated. He hasn’t changed his tune. The political culture’s just catching up with him."

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I exceedingly appreciate the spirit in which the morning paper referred to me today. Several years ago, they did not write so well of me. ...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

A brief but solid video overview of France's "yellow vest rebellion."

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Courtesy of Deutsche Welle's documentary series (in English). --- France's yellow vest rebellion - a movement against Macron...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Belated R.I.P. Kenny Stewart, who revealed the trick to escape a straitjacket.

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We finished dinner tonight and were talking about people who collect things. For the first time in a while I thought about Kenny Stewart, ...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

The Crusades, a video series about medieval holy warriors.

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That dreaded word “journey” appears to have been banned: instead, we have proper, old-fashioned narrative history of the sort that TV has al...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

Apocalypse: Never-Ending War: "A film about the years of fragile peace that followed the Fist World War, the collapse of empires, and the fateful rise of totalitarianism."

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It comes as no surprise when two more documentaries about the Great War come through the YouTube pipeline and fascinate me. The f...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

Flight documentaries: An indispensable documentary about Mick Ronson, the under-appreciated guitarist and arranger for David Bowie.

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Flight documentaries happen when we're flying home after a European sojourn. Eastbound flights are for sleeping, westbound for readin...
Friday, November 09, 2018

Flight documentaries: Inside the mind of Robin Williams.

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It's a fine overview, and as one reviewer wrote, "tantalizingly incomplete." The basic challenge isn't hard to pinpoint...

Flight documentaries: Mister Rogers and Won't You Be My Neighbor?

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For what it's worth, I can't recall watching Mister Rogers when I was a kid, not even once. But this documentary is well worth yo...
Friday, October 19, 2018

Michael Moore interview: "The director’s latest film, Fahrenheit 11/9, is a broadside against both the president and the Democratic establishment that failed to defeat him."

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Moore's documentary film didn't last long locally. Michael Moore's  Fahrenheit 11/9 : "The film is as much about how ...
Monday, September 17, 2018

How I learned to stop worrying and appreciate Mark Twain.

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Mark Twain Part I Ken Burns from LYNN MADSEN'S VIDEOS on Vimeo . Mark Twain Part II Ken Burns from LYNN MADSEN'S VIDEOS ...
Monday, August 06, 2018

A worthwhile documentary: "Eva Braun: Life and Death with the Führer."

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There's not much to be said about Adolf Hitler that hasn't been said before, and hundreds of thousands of times. However, Eva ...
Monday, April 02, 2018

"Cologne Cathedral marks the zenith of cathedral architecture and at the same time its culmination."

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Been there, seen that -- and it's amazing. This is another fascinating Deutsche Welle documentary, and a companion piece of sorts ...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

LIVE TO EAT: Two tasty documentaries about street food the world over.

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I appreciate the sedate, measured pace of these two documentaries, as opposed to some of the more frantic Food Network extravaganzas. Thi...
Monday, December 25, 2017

An excellent four-part documentary film about recent Russian history called Moscow's Empire.

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It has been only 26 years since the Soviet Union dissolved, which is a blip in the overall timeline of history. Absent context, little can b...
Friday, December 15, 2017

"The End of the Sublime Porte" and other recommended documentaries at Deutsche Welle.

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Deutsche Welle is Germany's public international broadcaster. The DW archives are a treasure trove of viewing (in English) for histo...
Thursday, December 07, 2017

"Life Behind the Berlin Wall" and other documentaries about East Germany, all of them ideal for history obsessives like me.

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At some point this winter, the next stage of Roger's three-decades-too-late slide film digitalization will begin. The photos will be ...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Video documentary: The Dubliners -- Live in Germany, circa 1995.

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Five Beards on the Road (2005; re-released in 2007 as On The Road - Live In Germany ) -- originally filmed for release in Germany in 199...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

"Remembering Harry Nilsson: American Beatle, filthy drunk, and the great lost music genius of the 1970s."

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The video is available at various for-pay portals. It's inexpensive and worth the time. Older readers may recall Harry Nilsson's h...