"Tivo-ifies the web" Paul Kedrosky

Harold Pinter’s Excoriating Nobel Prize Speech

Running time: 46 mins.

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Dawkins TED talk on Atheism

Dawkins infamous call for ‘militant atheism’ in an inspiring talk at TED.

Running time: 31 mins.

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The Thief and the Cobbler

Richard Williams’ (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) unfinished magnum opus, based upon the 1001 nights.

Running time: 1 hour 37 mins

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23 Minutes in Hell

This video looks like a send up, but is apparently not. A deluded suburban realtor describes his imagined visit to hell. He is introduced by a woman who looks like a QVC presenter, who passes on the perfect gag – why god would really choose a realtor to show hell to. Its like having the holocaust introduced to you by a clown.

Running time: 1 hour 37 mins.

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The Mystery of the Human Hobbit

Running time: 49 mins

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Alfred Hitchcock’s Holocaust Documentary

A film the British Government deemed too traumatic for release after World War II – Frontline pieced it together and aired it in its unedited form.

Running time: 53 mins

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Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles

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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Norman Mailer and Marshall Mcluhan

Two intellectual giants debate violence, alienation and the electronic media in 1968.

Running time: 28 mins.

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Everest 1965

Indiana Jones style – complete with retro maps and pictures of prop planes flying over famous landmarks.

Running time: 1 hour 11 mins.

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Jesus Freaks

A documentary about Creationfest, a four-day Christian rock show-cum-revival held every summer in Eastern Washington. Utterly surreal, this couldn’t be more different from Dawkins’ interview with the Bishop of Oxford

“Jesus would have been funnier than any comedian you can think of. Jesus was way cool” etc.

Running time: 25 mins

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