Kurt Cobain - Montage Of Heck. Some decent interviews with family and friends with a lot of needless fillers also. 7/10 maybe.
The life of plants is daycant
Summer in Syria.
A Frontline Documentary about the Syria Tourist Board’s campaign to get Syrians and Foreigners to vacation in Syria, by promoting festivals and building new resorts.
This is surreal shit. They visit a newly build resort a couple of miles outside the bombed out city of Homs, and just a few miles from Rebel lines.
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This is incredible.
Blind autistic lad with developmental difficulties who’s a musical savant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cbqjxmTNivQ
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The future is unwritten: Joe Strummer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZxtHJ3DZek
@Fagan_ODowd, @Bandage and @Chucks_Nwoko, @Tassotti, @ironmoth, @KinvarasPassion
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Thanks pal. Got to the premier of that in Dublin at the IFI back in 2007. Julien Temple took questions at the end - I recall his flight was cancelled (possibly due to weather) but they VC’d him in. Great documentary - nice post.
I went to it in the same location, pal…not the premier mind. It was the rating I was after more than anything, you’ve made my day with that.
Ah - maybe not. Was defo there though 
Not too big to admit that I was in tears for parts of it. Strummer was a big influence on me growing up. His music and lyrics, the attitude, and the sense of humour - plus he was a genuinely decent bloke from what I ever saw of him, with principles to boot. Is there anyone around today in music calling people out like he did? “If Adolf Hitler were here today, they’d send the limos anyway”.
Joe Strummer - another dead hero.
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While searching for the Keane / Viera doco the other day (which was complete shite I have to say, the football equivalent of Blur V Oasis, nothing to see here) I came across this, highly enjoyable doco (even if the TV arguments themselves between the main characters were pretty awful). @anon7035031 I think you’d like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzgfQvB2dvA
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Always entertaining listening to intellectuals regardless of their place on the political or ideological spectrum. Hitchens could be annoying and hypocritical at times but he forced you to think.
The more enjoyable ones are full of contradictions and hypocricies, Hitchins in particular. But he was also compelling and challenging and did not fit into the neat holes politics and ideology sometimes dig for people. I loved listening to him and reading his work. Martin Amis is another good example, his book Koba the Dread (as an example) is one of the most disagreeable, mental, unhinged and highly entertaining books I’ve read.
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Have you seen the footage of Buckley threatening to smack Vidal? Funny shit, but you know Vidal was on the right track…
I just watched this, very entertaining… There’s a documentary on Netflix about Gore worth checking out also…both of Irish descent but two very different outlooks.
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Rubble Kings was decent without being spectacular… I would like to have seen more on the music element
Watching 20000 days on earth, doc on nick cave. It’s as mental as he is. Good mental.
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I caught about 20 minutes of this on BBC the other night.
So I found it online and have watched the first two. Interesting stuff.
Give this one a go lads. ‘Paraula de Pep’ (Word of Pep). A documentary following Pep Guardiola in his first year at Barça. The man doesn’t do one on one interviews.
I thought he was gonna knock Eto’o the fuck out at 9:20 on the first video.
‘Electric Boogaloo: The wild, untold story of Cannon’, is about an hour in on Film 4 and it’s very good so far.
Video rental kings of the 80’s.
Such brilliantly shit films.
If Film 4 + 1 is a thing, it’ll be starting on there in 5 minutes.