Street Movie of Chandigarh

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40 min 31 sec – Mar 20, 2007

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Le Corbusier designed the city of Chandigarh making it one of the few examples of pure modernist urban planning by a celebrated architect and a reference point to assess the validity of ideas that are more difficult to criticize on paper.

Images of Chandigarh, like Brasilia, tend to be stock photos just after it was built, so it is fascinating to see it as it is today, in the flesh, semi-decayed and ultimately something of a testament to the failure and naivity of Le Corbusier as a planner.

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Root of all Evil? – CBC Debate

CBC Television
41 min 13 sec – Jul 20, 2007

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Debate with Richard Dawkins about the TV show, ‘The Root of Evil’ which preceded his book on religion.

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Dracula

Dracula
1 hr 14 min 21 sec – Oct 30, 2006

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Today’s second Dracula movie is the 1931 camp and cozy romp that smacks of Mel Brooks’ ‘Young Frankenstein’.

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Nosferatu

Public Domain Video
1 hr 24 min 19 sec – Jan 10, 2006

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Two versions of Dracula today! This one is the classic German expressionist silent film from 1922: ‘Nosferatu’.

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Sick Humor

24 min 46 sec – Jul 23, 2007
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An examination of why people laugh at sick jokes.

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Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks

50 min 2 sec – Jul 23, 2007
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When the Sex Pistols released Never Mind The Bollocks, the type of music that was as old as the Sex Pistols are now, would have been Noel Coward singing ‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen’. Which pretty much proves how modern and groundbreaking the Pistols were.

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The Lost Pyramids Of Caral

BBC
49 min 3 sec – Jul 16, 2007
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The 5 thousand year old city of Caral, in Peru, is as old as the pyramids of Egypt and a thousands years older than any other civilization in the Americas. Many believe it is the missing link of archeology.

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Titan, A Place Like Home??

BBC
49 min 0 sec – Jul 12, 2007

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Having found life in very extreme geo-thermal environments on earth, scientists think that life could evolve on moons orbiting large planets, due to the action of gravity rather than the sun’s shining. Europa used to be the favorite place to consider looking, but recently, Titan has become the moon that people are more excited about.

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Jeremy Clarkson’s the good the bad and the ugly

1 hr 19 min 16 sec – Jul 11, 2007

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The Inimitable Clarkson makes cars interesting even for people who are not into cars. Here he looks at American cars, which seems like a good precursor for the, soon to be released, US version of Top Gear.

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The Smiths, Southbank Show 1987

50 min 26 sec – Jul 8, 2007

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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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