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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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		<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>
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		<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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		<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>The Toughest Pubs in Britain</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/06/19/the-toughest-pubs-in-britain/</link>
		<comments>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/06/19/the-toughest-pubs-in-britain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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Sorry for the lack of posting &#8211; I&#8217;ve been on holiday (by mistake), in Provence. A million miles away from the scene of this clip which Hunter Gatherer has once again sifted from the pile of crap that is the reality of the once great British television.
Enjoy
and read Hunter Gatherer&#8217;s analysis, here.
]]></description>
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		<title>The Victors</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/05/28/the-victors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 06:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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For Memorial Day, Hunter Gatherer posted an excellent piece on the 1963 war film, The Victor. I recommend reading what he has to say in full, but here is the snippet that accompanies the clip above:
&#8220;The particularly strong portrayal of the less heroic side of war’s consequences was shocking given the year that the film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alvin Toffler&#8217;s Future Shock, presented by Orson Welles</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/05/01/alvin-tofflers-future-shock-presented-by-orson-welles/</link>
		<comments>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/05/01/alvin-tofflers-future-shock-presented-by-orson-welles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 00:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[nostalgia]]></category>
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Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
This is an absolute gem and an almost forgotten one &#8211;  a documentary version of Alvin Toffler&#8217;s classic 70s book, Future Shock presented by Orson Welles.
The premise of Future Shock was that the pace of human progress had achieved a level which would create a pathological reaction, a metaphorical motion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standard Operating Procedure &#8211; on Demand at Netflix</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/04/21/standard-operating-procedure-on-demand-at-netflix/</link>
		<comments>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/04/21/standard-operating-procedure-on-demand-at-netflix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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Above is the trailer for Errol Morris&#8217; most recent film, Standard Operating Procedure, which is now available as a watch on demand feature at Netflix.
It takes the premise that all that will be remembered of the Iraq war in decades to come will be the photographs of abuse at Abu Ghraib and dissects the role [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Curious World of Frinton-on-Sea</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/03/29/the-curious-world-of-frinton-on-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/03/29/the-curious-world-of-frinton-on-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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Part 1 embedded, Part 2 here.
Total running time: approx 40 mins
This documentary is an absolute gem, in the tradition of Errol Morris it finds the profound in the utterly banal, without resorting to postmodern sneering. The subject is a sleepy English seaside town, one of those places where uptight, keeping up appearances, Edwardian sensibilities hang [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Koyaanisqatsi</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/02/28/koyaanisqatsi/</link>
		<comments>http://smashingtelly.com/2009/02/28/koyaanisqatsi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hulu]]></category>
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When I was working for the architect, Norman Foster he came into the office after having seen Koyaanisqatsi  and raved about it. Every sycophant, like myself, promptly went out and saw it. 
In many ways its an architects film, with architect music by Philip Glass, repetitive and jerky like a Rotring penned plan. But [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>New York Slum Images</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/09/01/new-york-slum-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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Quite often, I hear people complaining that New York has lost its edge and that it has been ruined by gentrification and Yuppies. The people that I hear this from have tended to be middle class white people.
Here are some pictures of New York in the 70s and 80s, when I remember visiting the South [...]]]></description>
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