A searing, uncomfortable, potent reflection on Australia and race:
So much shocking systemic, venomous behaviour (a disgrace) …
That will leave you reeling.
Then a hopeful / urgent call for healing
And reconciliation: a challenge this country must embrace.
Spectacular, crisp footage as cameras follow
The eleventh mission of the program Apollo.
Spine-tingles as we feel
Those first steps with Neil …
And the universe doesn’t feel so vast or hollow.
Pioneering subway art photography in 70s New York City,
Martha’s insightful pics highlighted graffiti: gorgeously gritty.
Fifty skilled years at the lens
(A world originally only mens’).
A compelling subject, Martha’s wonderfully (dryly) witty.
Goodes: a hero deserving of respect, but copped racists queuing
Up to throw racial slurs and engage in vile booing.
Well beyond just the game,
This scourge is a national shame …
And this excellent film is absolutely compulsive viewing.
Hutchence: the sexy, lanky frontman with charisma to burn.
So much new information here for us to learn
In this doco (with so much heart)
About the iconic man and his art …
And the tragedy that in this world he had a short turn.
A depressing, but necessary investigation
Into our earthly home’s desecration.
A call to arms: Act fast …
If you want it to last.
Majestic imagery of a desperate situation.
Fosse’s unique individual style: the slightest twist
Of a shoulder - or the delicate, sexy turn of a wrist.
Some great archival footage here.
He re-wrote the rules. A true pioneer.
Without him, so much modern dance wouldn’t exist.
We learn that even from the early days, Westwood was iconoclastic.
Her designs evoked the rebellious, the provocative, the fantastic.
Interesting work from Tucker who (in pursuing
Answers during interviewing)
Faced a main subject whose participation was less than enthusiastic.
Young Lee came from working class roots,
Began apprenticing on Savile Row suits.
Along came adulation and fame …
We learn the cost of the game
In this beautiful executed study of McQueen’s pursuits.
Notorious RBG: Associate Justice of the Court (Supreme);
Tireless octogenarian with a round-the-clock work regime.
Excellent portrait of a genius legal mind
Who’s fought for womankind.
After hard-won battles, millions hold her in high esteem.
So up to six months before the wedding ceremony’s kiss,
These young Chinese couples wouldn’t dare miss
Paying huge loot
For an elaborate photo shoot.
A interesting look at this required step towards (pre-) wedded bliss.
The shocking system, where talented female directors find
Themselves systematically shut out or undermined
Is examined in this doco (essential).
Discriminatory obstacles mean potential
Is often unrealised (and the fight for recognition's a cruel grind).
Moving stories of seriously ill patients and their agonising waits
For much-needed donor organs. But tragically, the rates
Of donation are dangerously low.
Hopefully this excellent doco will go
A long way towards more awareness, leading to healthy fates.
Three brothers meet, and it feels like they’re tripping.
Into their backstory director Wardle begins chipping.
They’re an extraordinary triplet gang.
On each development we hang,
As we follow a mind-blowing journey that’s utterly gripping.
Ms Murad’s life changes (devastatingly, and not by choice).
Giving her harrowing testimony, into the limelight she’s hoist.
So unimaginably brave
After sufferings so grave.
A superbly directed film, further elevating a vital voice.
Wilder: Prolific director (arguably one of history's best -
As those who love his eclectic works will attest).
Many enlightening anecdotes here ..
Insights re: the man and his career
(Of genre-hopping versatility that left the viewer blessed).
Judged because of her extraordinary face,
Lamarr's brilliance went unrecognised (a disgrace!) ..
It's so unfair that she was shafted.
This doco's beautifully crafted.
Hedy's own words: full of insight, humour and grace.
Gasping, white-knuckled, each time rock crumbled:
Watching climbers on peaks as they stumbled.
The splendour of landscapes (sublime),
With orchestral music (divine).
Such magnificent sights left me awe-struck and humbled.
Poitras' doco: at times uneven, but with moments of insight. In Assange (in turns, the darling of the left and then the right) We see a man full of (ego and) contradictions Who imposed eleventh hour restrictions. It feels like there's much more waiting to come to light.
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There's no racism here, Land of the Free, and other conceits Be it in halls of power, schools, prisons, or on the streets Are exposed here, through the power Of Baldwin's words: not only of his hour ...
