How about a movie thread?

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

A genius, tortured to death under color of law by fascist idiots.

Idiots like genial Mike Pence, keep in mind.

This is true. I just can't wrap my head around why these alleged Christians fill themselves with hate because of other people's love. There's a special place in hell waiting for them.

[bobabode]

Binge watching 'Poldark' on PBS.

[donquixote99]

Do look at Soundbreaker, a series now on PBS. Very cool documentary series delving into the process of making recorded music--starting more or less with Sun Records. Just watched the first episode, which focuses on the role of the producer. Great stories, and great soundtrack!

You get to hear Elvis's first recorded song. It is NOT 'That's Alright Moma,' not in any sense. But Sam Phillips tells the story that Elvis had been doing very boring, 'safe' material in his first studio session until Phillips told him the session 'wasn't working out.' THEN Elvis cut loose with 'That's Alright Moma' and stood everyone on their ear.

[Dondilion]

Colombian Telenovela: La Nina. A young girl, an ex guerrilla, tries to make good after her reintroduction into society.

Some insights into what moves Colombia.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Do look at Soundbreaker, a series now on PBS. Very cool documentary series delving into the process of making recorded music--starting more or less with Sun Records. Just watched the first episode, which focuses on the role of the producer. Great stories, and great soundtrack!

You get to hear Elvis's first recorded song. It is NOT 'That's Alright Moma,' not in any sense. But Sam Phillips tells the story that Elvis had been doing very boring, 'safe' material in his first studio session until Phillips told him the session 'wasn't working out.' THEN Elvis cut loose with 'That's Alright Moma' and stood everyone on their ear.

Great series. We've been enjoying it.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Do look at Soundbreaker, a series now on PBS. Very cool documentary series delving into the process of making recorded music--starting more or less with Sun Records. Just watched the first episode, which focuses on the role of the producer. Great stories, and great soundtrack!

You get to hear Elvis's first recorded song. It is NOT 'That's Alright Moma,' not in any sense. But Sam Phillips tells the story that Elvis had been doing very boring, 'safe' material in his first studio session until Phillips told him the session 'wasn't working out.' THEN Elvis cut loose with 'That's Alright Moma' and stood everyone on their ear.

I watched the whole series and enjoyed it a lot, particularly the earlier episodes.

[Dondilion]

After seeing, in a thread here on Kellyanne, so many references to characters
in Tolkien's Ring series I revisited the DVD.

Started with "Fellowship Of the Ring". An atmosphere of foreboding...impending disaster pervades. Trumpian?

[Tom Joad]

I recently finished "Oliver Stones untold history of the United States" on netflix.

It has a leftist bias but being a leftist myself, I like that.

I always knew the Russians played a big role in Germany's defeat, but I never realized how big. I also never realized the role they played in bringing about the surrender of Japan.

A couple of notes: There are twelve episodes, but, unless this has been corrected, the ones labeled 11 and 12 should be 1 and 2. And episodes 1-10 should be labeled 3-12. Also there are several segments that appear to have been repeated verbatim in more than one episode. It appears to me that this was ch done for emphasis but was rather due to sloppy editing.

[bobabode]

'Amazing Grace' 2006 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Grace_(2006_film)

[icenine]

I just discovered this Japanese director who made some wonderful post-war Japanese dramas that are on the surface love stories and family dramas but also show the complexity of 20th Century Japanese culture. He made many films between the 40s and early 60s. He died at age 60 in 1962. His name was Ozu.