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		<title>Paris is Burning</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/07/28/paris-is-burning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a documentary about vogueing, and the extremely refined and detailed aesthetic sensibilities it reflects, shot in New York City around Chelsea and the Meatpacking District in the late 80s.  The city has changed in dramatic ways since then, to say the least.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/07/26/he-hit-me-and-it-felt-like-a-kiss/</link>
		<comments>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/07/26/he-hit-me-and-it-felt-like-a-kiss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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The Crystal&#8217;s &#8220;He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)&#8220;, caused a storm of protest when it was released in 1962, and its ambiguous sentiment underlies &#8216;It Felt Like a Kiss&#8217;, Adam Curtis&#8217; new film. It is a portrait of America between 1958 and 1965, a period when radical individualism emerged with superficial freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cyclists Special</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/07/22/cyclists-special/</link>
		<comments>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/07/22/cyclists-special/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This film is from 1955.  It depicts, or appears to (I have no idea if it's all a fantasy), a cycling idyll, during a postwar period in England when the bicycle was a working man's (and woman's?) transportation, without intended symbolism or activism.  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>3rd Avenue El</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/07/21/3rd-avenue-el/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short film made in the 1950s about the <a href="http://www.nycsubway.org/lines/3rdave-el.html">elevated rail line</a> that travelled from the base of Manhattan, up the Bowery and 3rd Avenue, up to Gun Hill Road in the Bronx.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ape Man</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/11/27/ape-man/</link>
		<comments>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/11/27/ape-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Trying to find out about our ancestors. Don&#8217;t be put off by the self-hypnosis hokum at the beginning.
First in a 5 part series. Running time 45 mins.
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Civil Rights Movement</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/11/05/americas-civil-rights-movement/</link>
		<comments>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/11/05/americas-civil-rights-movement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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The first episode from the mammoth 14 hour documentary about America&#8217;s Civil Rights Movement. Further parts here.
I don&#8217;t like politics, patriotism or politicians, but just once in a while something happens that renders me cynicismless. 
Who would have thought that less than a lifetime after American apartheid, less than a decade after someone called [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>I.O.U.S.A</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/11/04/iousa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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This film is interesting because it has all the superficial appeal of FEBL conspiracy theory junk, but is actually pretty good. The charts are genuinely illustrative and the infomation density reasonable and logical. The premise &#8211; that debt is America&#8217;s biggest problem is plausible, and logically argued.
It took me ages to figure out what the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Living Dead</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/10/30/the-living-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/10/30/the-living-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Running time: 1 hour
Part 2 (1 hour)
Part 3 (1 hour)
I have previously posted links to almost all of Adam Curtis&#8217; superlative documentary series apart from this, which examines how the memory of the Second World War was manipulated and changed during the Cold War, in various countries and to suit political ends.
Curtis&#8217; documentaries are [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Keynes&#8217; Begging Trip to America</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/10/25/keynes-begging-trip-to-america/</link>
		<comments>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/10/25/keynes-begging-trip-to-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
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After WWII, which Britain had fought with American weapons while being supplied with American food, the UK was heavily in debt and on the brink of bankruptcy while the US economy was booming. The US demanded repayment for the wartime loans and so John Maynard Keynes went to Washington to ask for an $8billion bailout. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blue Monday</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/09/15/blue-monday/</link>
		<comments>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/09/15/blue-monday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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Watch the top video from 6:00. 
I live two hundred yards or so from the New York Stock Exchange, and use the gym next door. Since last October, there have periodically been camera crews outside, recording the slow motion implosion of the financial sector. But this morning, a bright sunny day with a clear blue [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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