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48 min 2 sec - Aug 29, 2007
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A few years back, a portable jukebox that had once belonged to John Lennon, in the 60’s was discovered. On it were Lennon’s hand written labels for his favorite 40 songs. This documentary is about those songs. Perfect.
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50 min 26 sec - Jul 8, 2007
It might be just so effing po faced to have ‘Lord Bragg’ pontificate about the gritty Northern realism of the Smiths as being so, er, real, so true. But then again, they actually were. In the vast wasteland of crimped-hair, musical dross that was the eighties, Manchester and the Smiths were a cultural beacon. La Lala-La…
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1 hr 24 min 10 sec - Jul 11, 2007
The story of Live Aid - the worlds biggest concert. Seeing this in an age where people don’t seem to give-a-shit, almost brings tears to my eyes. In fact, it almost brought tears to my eyes then, because I couldn’t go, on account of being somewhere in the middle of Hungary, where I crashed a party after hearing ‘do they know its Christmas’ from the window.
Journalists have been trying for years to track down the girl that Bono picks out of the audience making her globally famous for 15 minutes. I know who she is, but I’m not telling!
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There are two places in the world that rank high in the importance of 60’s and early 70’s Soul: the North of the Midwest, where it was made and the North of England where the blue-collar, black American art form was truly appreciated by their white English counterpart.
This is a great documentary about the Wigan Casino an unlikely and forgotten cultural Mecca.
Running time: 26 mins.
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A classic documentary from one of the greatest architecture critics. This film was made in the same year as Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour wrote ‘Learning from Las Vegas’, heralding the birth of the Post Modern architecture movement. Its a better legacy than the buildings that were subsequently produced.
Running time: 52 mins.
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