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		<title>Tarkovsky&#8217;s Cinema</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/08/03/tarkovskys-cinema/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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I have low tolerance for self indulgent artsyness and Tarkovsky films look superficially like they might be in this category, which is a shame because, as Tony the Tiger might say, they&#8217;re great. Nothing comes as close to a moving painting as a Tarkovsky film. 
Here is a documentary where the director recounts his life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/04/07/the-boy-whose-skin-fell-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Total time: approx. 50 mins.
Jonny Kennedy lived 4 decades with a dreadful illness that causes unimaginable pain, before contracting terminal cancer. But he was not scared or bitter. For him this mortal coil was a burden that  once lifted by death would set him free for an afterlife which would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Dawkins &#8211; The Genius of Charles Darwin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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There should be plenty of things to watch about Darwin this year, as we mark 200 years since his birth, and 50 since the law (in the traditional sense) of Evolution by Natural Selection was first presented. 
This is the first in a 3 part series, presented by Dawkins, with the following parts being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s Boxes</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/07/18/stanley-kubricks-boxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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Jon Ronson&#8217;s Documentary about Kubrick. What the hell is he talking about at the start?
If an artist painted each picture she did in a different style, we would think her a fraud, or at least derivative. One way of showing you meant something and to demonstrate a style is to repeat it. A single [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ian Shaw &#8211; A Life Less Ordinary</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/04/21/ian-shaw-a-life-less-ordinary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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A touching documentary about Ian Shaw, whose daughter died on the Swiss Air flight 111 from New York to Geneva in 1998. Shaw, a very successful Geneva business man, moved on his own to the site of the crash in Novia Scotia, where he bought a diner.
My wife, who is from near Geneva, had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Born Rich</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/03/23/born-rich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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A refreshingly candid and fascinating view into what its like to be born rich, most specifically, to be born rich in America.
1 hr 7 min 49 sec Oct 25, 2006
&#8220;Born Rich&#8221;

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		<title>Shane MacGowan: The Great Hunger</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/03/06/shane-macgowan-the-great-hunger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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bbc59 min 54 sec Mar 1, 2008 myspace.com
I&#8217;ll just repeat what I said about MacGowan in the Nick Cave post:
&#8220;The Pogues front man, although Irish, is a once preppy schoolboy from one of the most exclusive private schools in England, who created a fake persona of an Irish drunk, in the name of authenticity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biography of  Nick Cave</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/02/28/biography-of-nick-cave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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On the one hand, I have always liked Nick Cave, as one of the more cerebral pop stars, on the other I can&#8217;t help thinking that he fits the mould of self inflicted misery that is ultimately a pose. 
In broad strokes, but not in the details, Nick Cave shares something with Shane MacGowan. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tristram Cary &#8211; Pioneering Electronic Composer</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/02/13/tristram-cary-pioneering-electronic-composer/</link>
		<comments>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/02/13/tristram-cary-pioneering-electronic-composer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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A Smashing viewer suggested this great documentary about seminal electronic music composer, Tristram Cary. 
Cary was involved in the design of a pre-Moog synth, created the distinctive Hammer House of Horror sound and composed music running the gamut of the UK film and TV industry from Ealing Comedies to Dr Who.
part 2 here
and part 3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Hammond Meets Evel Knievel</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/01/16/richard-hammond-meets-evel-knievel/</link>
		<comments>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/01/16/richard-hammond-meets-evel-knievel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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When Evel Knievel died last year it felt like Elvis had died, finally. Knievel wore the same satin flared outfits as late period, paunched and side-burned Presley.
He was representative of a peculiarly American Maverick adventurer culture that I remember from childhood, where conservatives like John Wayne seemed cool to us would-be liberals. Unfortunately these [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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