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Terry Jones’ Medieval Lives: The Monk
Here’s another excerpt from Terry Jones’ BBC documentary series, Medieval Lives. This one deals with that problematic figure, the monk. Problematic? Oh yes. As Jones explains, the monastic system (in addition to giving us Benedictine and other yummy things–there’s even one in Italy that still makes cologne) was at the heart of the corruption that [...]
Continue reading...Terry Jones’ Medieval Lives: The Peasant
Friday, April 30, 2010
This documentary is the first segment of a multi-part series hosted by Monty Python’s resident medievalist, Terry Jones. It discusses the lot of the peasant in the Middle Ages and finds that, surprisingly, it wasn’t all that bad.
Continue reading...Albert Goldman and Hunter Davies on Beatles Biographies
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
This is a two-part news program from 1989, where the author of the muckraking “The Lives of John Lennon” (just released at that time) debates Hunter Davies, the author of “The Beatles” authorized biography from 1968. Davies is very charming, and makes some very good points about Goldman’s tendency to veer off into—well, the nicest [...]
Continue reading...42 Ways To Kill Hitler
Thursday, April 15, 2010
I’m still watching this—it being Tax Day and all—but I was powerless not to post it. Overheated, loaded with cliché (“the Germans are a proud people,” “the dustbin of history”—and that’s just in the first segment), the doc is great fun for twelve-year-olds of all ages. “One planned to give der Fuhrer a bouquet designed [...]
Continue reading...Epicurus on Happiness
Friday, April 9, 2010
I somehow trundled through one of the best educations money can buy without taking a lick of philosophy—which casts the first part of the statement slightly in doubt, doesn’t it? Let’s just say my schooling was expensive, and draw a discreet curtain over the rest. Luckily, I’ve stumbled upon several documentaries that are helping me [...]
Continue reading...Look at My Penis and Everybody Else’s
Friday, April 2, 2010
You can’t say I don’t TRY to get people’s attention. ‘Course now the site stats are personal; will I get a proud, firm spike? or a humiliating drop? But I’m talking, of course, about “My Penis and Everybody Else’s,” Lawrence Barraclough’s excellent 2007 documentary. Lawrence—I feel that I can use his first name, now that [...]
Continue reading...Fri Doc: Terry Jones’ Ancient Inventions
Friday, March 26, 2010
Oh, this hits me where I live: Monty Python and ancient civilizations? Did they talk to my parents or something? “And what type of documentary would Michael like?” I’m having trouble typing this post because I can’t stop watching the film! There, switched it off for a second. “Ancient Inventions” is a three-part documentary hosted [...]
Continue reading...Documentary: John and Yoko’s Year of Peace
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
I can’t figure out how to embed it, but you can watch the documentary here. I’ve always felt that John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s activities for peace were a bit cringeworthy—a misapplication of solution to problem, as if human aggression were the product of people being merely petulant, or distracted or forgetful. While I’m not [...]
Continue reading...Do YOU remember Three Mile Island?
Monday, March 22, 2010
I sure as hell do. It was a prominent ingredient in the Anxiety Stew that was me as a nine-going-on-forty-seven-year-old. For those of you who don’t remember, or have an odd idea of fun, Frontline has made an excellent documentary about the event that doomed nuclear power in the US for a generation, and spoiled [...]
Continue reading...Fri Doc: “The Second Gun”
Friday, March 19, 2010
Everybody agrees that Robert Kennedy was shot on June 4, 1968, in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel here in Los Angeles. Everybody also agrees that Sirhan Sirhan was in the pantry firing a gun at the Senator. But after that, nobody agrees on much—not witnesses, not coroner Thomas Noguchi, and not the LAPD. A [...]
Continue reading...At last! It's here!
For 30 years, Ravin fans wondered: What if Tom Larkin had survived? Now, the story can be told.
Mixing alternative history, hardboiled noir, parody and satire, Life After Death for Beginners is a must-read for every Beatles fan. "A cross between The Rutles and Three Days of the Condor. I loved it."—Jonathan Schwarz
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