I see the Living With Lions doc from 1997 was uploaded in full(in 12 parts) onto youtube yesterday…After watching the first three parts there this evening…well worth a watch
“Lions… Lions… Lions… Lions…”
+1!!
Elementary spelling mistake there Dunph.
Rob Newman’s “History of Oil” is well worth a watch, it’s all on Youtube. It’s kind of half comedy, half polemic about how oil has played a big part in many of the big conflicts in the world over the last 100 years and how the world’s over dependence of oil may trigger a food crisis and the ultimate decline of industrial society at some point in the not that distant future.
Just after watching this, very well put together
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/bodysnatchers-of-new-york/4od#3141278
Reacquainted myself with The Last Waltz recently, hard to think of a better ‘rockumentary’.
Every cunt with a computer has seen this
If you want to learn something about the world, watch this.
These are cool
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Harlan County is superb. Miles ahead of their time from a filming and interviewing perspective.
Anyone seen the Tillman Story about Pat Tillman?
Downloaded it last week but haven’t gotten around to watching it yet.
:rolleyes:
Replying to your own posts.
You sad cunt.
watched one about graham taylor’s time in charge of england at the weekend. its on youtube in many parts. before my time really but the access the cameras got would be unheard of today. To be honest its a cracking documentary. Merson running into the dressingroom after backing Ian Wright to score against Poland was quality. Des Walker looked to be having an absolute nightmare at the time and whoever was in goal.
fuck off anglophile
Phil Neal was priceless during that programme.
No, noooo, PLAAAATTTTAAAYYYYY!!!
The Guardian did a column on football documentaries recently. This was their bit on Taylor’s show.
Graham: John! JOHN!!!
Phil: John!
Graham: Barnsey! Tuck in more!
Lawrie: Ten yards in!
Graham: Tuck in more!
Phil: In to go out!
Graham: Tuck inside more!
Phil: In to go out!
Lawrie: Tony … Tony …
Graham: That’s better.
Lawrie: That’s better.
Phil: That’s better!
When this snatch of in-depth tactical tuition from England’s top managerial talent was first broadcast in 1994, so many pennies dropped across the nation that it was small wonder the country didn’t go into immediate recession. Graham Taylor had infamously failed to lead England to that year’s World Cup finals, and here, presented in the sitcom format for our high amusement, were the shambolic reasons for failure.
An Impossible Job was immediately hailed as a comic masterpiece. Taylor and the other two stooges, footballing lyrebird Phil Neal and retired golf club captain Lawrie McMenemy, never gave the impression of being in control of their situation. England’s campaign started badly with a home draw against Norway – Paul Gascoigne, debating what was going wrong, settled on the fact that “the ball is shit” – and never recovered momentum.
Taylor’s subsequent troubled touchline performances were the stuff of instant legend. “Do I not like that” and “Can we not knock it?!” from the trip to Poland we know all too well, though perhaps the comedy connoisseur’s choice came during the following game. With England 2-0 down in Norway and running through their slapstick repertoire of misplaced passes, Taylor can be heard crumbling off-screen, a couple of resigned “aw fucking hells” as near as you’ll ever get to perfect comic timing.
Taylor was as unconsciously entertaining away from the pitch, whether confessing to regularly waking up from stressful slumber with “pyjamas wet through”, or holding court on the subject of pitch sizes for kids in front of a bored audience of prison inmates, a scene now reminiscent of Alan Partridge discussing the pedestrianisation of Norwich city centre during his one-man show at the travel tavern.
Yet the ludicrousness of Taylor’s catchphrases distorts the memory. Watch it today, and Taylor actually comes out of it very well, despite his gauche clumsiness and occasional rank ineptitude. He’s a true, if slightly bruised, gentleman, trying his damnedest for everyone. The genuine hurt in his eyes seconds after the infamous “do I not like that” outburst. Visiting David Platt in Italy to ensure the player is OK with his captaincy being handed to Stuart Pearce. (“I wanted it, and it’s nice to have had it,” smiled Platt, genuinely, “but in terms of the morale of the squad, I think it’s the right thing to do.” Take notes, big John.) The gentle chiding of his journalistic aggressors. (He famously skins and fillets Rob Shepherd during one press conference, but his quips are gentle, showing a respect for a profession he was well within his rights to detest).
He also deals with his impending sacking, after those ludicrous decisions in Holland, in a more dignified manner than any of us could surely ever manage. “I’m just saying to your colleague, the referee has got me the sack,” he whispers to the linesman, an old-school British gent, diplomacy taking precedence over righteous rage. “Thank him ever so much for that, won’t you?”
And for a man destined to be remembered for silly, snappy soundbites, his longer oration before that crucial Holland encounter is surprisingly touching. “In life there’s so many opportunities, and they’re always round about you. And there’s too many people in life that never see them. And then there are those people who see the opportunities and don’t wanna grasp them. And then there’s the other people who generally are life’s winners, and they see the opportunities and they go looking for them, and when they see them they grasp them. And that’s what you’re facing now on the football field, in’t it? Go fucking take the opportunity. It’s there for you. Wring every little bit out of it.” OK, so it’s not quite up there with Kipling’s If. But it didn’t half get an unfortunate England playing well that night.
Also reminded me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obixCOVTVwY
Full version’s up on youtube now as well
I see in the Irish Times that Peter Lennon died there yesterday or so.
This is well worth watching…
This is from a series on the Great Depression and focuses on the greatest boxer of all time Joe Louis, well worth watching
The Great Depression Part 6, To be somebody