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This tense movie follows the 1996 trek of a group of climbers to the Everest summit. Amazing filming and scenery. You often hear about the dangers and resulting deaths, but that reality is often left out of action documentaries. Not so with this film. As it happens, another group going up to the … |
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Who’s Next fans – and who’s not – will be delighted by this 50 minute documentary. More celebratory than insightful, it also suffers from a few omissions. However it’s all good when Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle marvel at how their benchmark album came into existence. Long…
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Genius at work with his synthesizer
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This documentary profiles the successes and setbacks of a group of guys starting a company in the heat of the mid nineties dot com gold rush. As an entreprenuer myself, it did a good job of capturing many of the milestones a typical startup goes through. The movie is entertaining in that the vi… |
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There are classic albums. Then there’s the original classic album – Elvis Presley – the first Rock-and-Roll album to top the charts and the one that introduced its King to mainstream America. Thus this 49 minute documentary tells much more than the story of an album. It documents a seminal m…
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Classic Album Covers Start Here
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Very interesting movie about the story of the buddhist monks of Tibet. Excellent music, excellent cinematography, good narration. Highly recommend for those interested in Buddhism or World Affairs. |
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Motown rocks ‘cause of the Funk Brothers: snare rhythms, funky bass, tasty guitar, everything percussive, all from the band behind Smokey and Marvin and Diana and Stevie. Need I say more? Didn’t think so. Let’s get it on. The movie informs us right up front that the Funk Brothers "played on …
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More hits than the Beatles, Stones & ...
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Sweet San Francisco – eccentric and accepting – takes wing in Judy Irving and Mark Bittner’s Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. Telegraph Hill – as anyone who’s been there knows – is a wild nubbin overlooking Alcatraz. Fits that it would host a flock of jail-broke cherry-heads with a couple o…
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Sweet San Francisco Takes Wing
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Gripping movie about Simon Yates and Joe Simpson’s climb up Siula Grande in the Andes. But the ascent wasn’t the gripping part. The incredible story was about how Joe breaks his leg and how Simon lowers him down – an incredibly treacherous maneuver, which fails when Joe goes over a ledge forc… |