Doco on Hunter s far less interesting than it should have been. McGovern bits good, but despite everyone relevant being there for interview, it feels very by the numbers.
Unborn in the USA. About pro life group in states. Scary. I think it's actually made by a pro life group, but man, counter-productive.
Also finished "no no, a dockumentary" about dock Ellis. Famous for Throwing a no hitter on Lsd. But more importantly, did great work post career on life coaching. Very good.
The Look of Silence, the "sequel" to The Act of Killing comes out next month. (Though I suspect it won't be on anywhere near me.) The first film was incredible - recreating atrocities in Indonesia, by asking the perpetrators to make their own movies of them. This one sounds a bit more straightforward - the brother of one of the victims interviews the killers - but I suspect every bit as harrowing:
Here's the trailer for the original film too, as I couldn't see it previously in the thread, and it's very good indeed:
Russell Brand's doc about bankers. Not good.
"Champs" about boxing. I was hoping it would be about boxing but it's actually about a handful of very famous boxers.
"The Kill Team" about those soldiers in Afghanistan that killed a few civilians. Good. Harrowing.
"Point and Shoot" about a borderline asbergers guy that filmed himself travelling around the world and joining in with the war in Libya. Good, not great, but worth a watch.
"Finding Vivian Maier" about a great photographer discovered after she died. I really enjoyed it.
Swedish news and doco crews were all over the black power movement in the late 60s early 70s. This doco puts it all together, with a great soundtrack. Mix of interviews and speeches at the time, and vo from now, talib kweli, Angela Davis (then and now) questlove, and many others.
Thanks for this, that was fascinating from a professional point of view to see the mistakes that people used to make on site through poor supervision and lack of understanding of non-traditional methods of construction basically still exist today, except through legislation and the dawn of computers the errors now mainly occur through poor supervision and lack of of understanding of the software being used to design buildings.
"Let me tell you, when yung Rouj had his Senna and Mansell Scalextric, Frank was the goddamn Professor X of F1."
Watched the housing crisis last night- good to know contractors have always been half-arsed and it's not a fad.
Best contracting gig ever, is cheffing. No one can actually die, if you're actually capable and you don't have to think of profit margins while you fan that MTV W-DJ strawbs, lad.
"Better than a tech demo. But mostly a tech demo for now. Exactly what we expected, crashes less and less. No multiplayer." - BnB NMS review, PS4, PC
There was something on a John Oliver segment about over worked public defenders being in such a shit position that they're left simply negotiating plea bargains for innocent people because they've no time to learn the cases they take on...its worth digging out.
"Better than a tech demo. But mostly a tech demo for now. Exactly what we expected, crashes less and less. No multiplayer." - BnB NMS review, PS4, PC
From this and the Avery case it appears to me that the system is being driven by the absolute shit the police give or fabricate for the state to prosecute.
I'm surprised the state went ahead with that one. I mean, there was zero evidence and one extremely dodgy witness and that's it.
Spoiler:
The husband withholding the fact that the wife threw coffee at the shooter is just sickening. The guy has lost his wife in a horrible incident but for fucks sake, punishing someone, anyone, is not the answer.
In response your second point the amazing defence lawyer stated at one point that because of the type of murder and the victim being a tourist, the popo would have been under pressure for a swift result.
Spoiler 3, aye, what a cunt.
"Let me tell you, when yung Rouj had his Senna and Mansell Scalextric, Frank was the goddamn Professor X of F1."
Targets. Innit.
One of them Curtis docos touched in the fact that EVERY time people have to work within a target driven workplace, they without fail cheat and fudge the targets.
I know the US police, especially homicide, work with solving murders per year based on targets - The Wire told me.