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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: Apollo 11 (2019)
This year will mark the 50th anniversary since Neil Armstrong and the boys touched down on the Moon in July 1969. Back then, it was an epic event of Star Wars proportions (and I imagine the excitement of seeing the … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo missions, documentary, NASA, Neil Armstrong, space
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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Week: Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
David Munro’s 1979 ITV documentary Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (written by John Pilger) captures the horrors and atrocities of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime (1975-79) firsthand from the front line. While it is a hard watch, it is a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970s, Cambodia, documentary, genocide, Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot
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DVD Pick of the Month: The Call of the Wild (2007)
Ron Lamothe’s film The Call of the Wild (2007) is an extraordinary documentary that primarily focusses on the ill-fated quest of Chris McCandless (also subject of Sean Penn’s film Into the Wild, my favourite film, and Jon Krakauer’s book of the same name), a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska, Chris McCandless, death, documentary, Into the Wild, road trip, survival, wilderness
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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: Joy Division (2007)
Coming out the same year as the excellent fictionalised account Control but enjoying its BBC premiere just now, the 2007 documentary Joy Division is the essential documentary that examines the beginnings, rise, and fall of Ian Curtis and Joy Division. … Continue reading
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Tagged dark, documentary, Joy Division, music, ominous, post-punk
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