Last night BBC Scotland showed the excellent 'From Scotland with Love' from 2014, which explores 'love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play' made entirely from clips from the Scottish Film Archive. King Creosote composed a soundtrack, which fits in nicely. Such wonderful images weaved together beautifully. Well worth having a look if you haven't seen it. Mrs C and I have watched it three or four times over the years and will watch it again some other time, I have no doubt.
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I saw it at the Edinburgh Festival where King Creosote accompanied it live. Excellent! Highly recommended, you don’t need to be Scottish.Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
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I saw this on 'Talking Pictures' the other week, Lez, and last night recognised some of the images in 'Scotland on Film' from it. This was made in 1948. Great wee half hour film weaving together stories against the Edinburgh backdrop.Originally posted by LezLee View PostI saw it at the Edinburgh Festival where King Creosote accompanied it live. Excellent! Highly recommended, you don’t need to be Scottish.
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Thanks John. I enjoyed that. Lots of English accents though!Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostComment
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....Really very very fabulous....great music and lyrics (worth seeing subtitles)....Marvellously put together and kept the interest going.....excellent....Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
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Well, I don't know about "recommended", but I've been enjoying The Beauty of Books on BBC4 at 7.30 this week, on mediaeval illuminated manuscripts. The disconcerting thing, though, is wondering what on earth possessed the producers to make the musical selection they have: I can't see any relation between the subject-matter and the Scherzo, I think it was, from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night Dream, for example.Comment
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Yes I found that odd - it's not even as if the 'feel' of the music matched the subject matter.Originally posted by alywin View PostComment
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And to me it's the equivalent of people not knowing where to find Australia on the map.Originally posted by oddoneout View PostComment
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....For those of a certain age, whe BBB OBs did Old Man of Hoy, Matterhorn, Jungfrau climbs in misty live reality....This is a marvellous programme about Hamish McInnes the cameraman on many of those climbs (carrying 40kg more and soloing to get above actual climbers){an enigma]....Now 87, and recently out off hosp after a spell of insanity.....Great Prog'....https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...amish-macinnesLast edited by eighthobstruction; 13-05-20, 12:44.bong chingComment
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Just begun to watch this, after hearing so much praise for it. Totally agree with Jayne's comments. (If there could be more like this from BBC3, that might compensate to some extent for the likely closure of BBC4.)Originally posted by jayne lee wilson;791187
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Thanks for this recommendation.Originally posted by Stunsworth View Post
It made a change from Vera or Montalbano.Comment
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Charlie Booker's 'Antiviral Swipe' on BBC2 this evening - highly entertaining and insightful from the Lockdown...a nice wee potted history of the madness...so far!
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Very funny - but I have to admit the today's "humour" is getting a bit near the knuckle, isn't it? Or is this just a sign of ageing and approaching time to sign off? People say our parent's generation had to cope with rock 'n' roll and Doctor films getting an A certificate. But that's the sum total of the changes they had to adjust to... OK then, television... and colour television... and LPs replacing 78s... and motorways.Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostComment
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Originally posted by Stunsworth View Post
The race is on here to complete Mad Men before the seven seasons are removed from Netflix on 9 June. Season 4 completed last night.
Consistently-engaging (indeed, addictive) drama set in the world of advertising executives on Madison Avenue - hence the title - in 1960s New York. The personal drama of the central character (played by the charismatic Jon Hamm) includes a historic secret that weaves its way throughout. Very good to see Jared Harris (son of the late Richard) join the regulars in season 3. And all against the expertly styled and beautifully shot backdrop of the 60s, with contemporary reality (the Kennedy assassination, the Beatles) bound up in the story. Great stuff."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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'The Salisbury Poisonings' (BBC1 and iPlayer, 3 successive nights starting yesterday) Absolutely riveting from the start.Comment
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