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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Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostLast 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.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...land-with-love
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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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Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostI 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytLCihkMX7U
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Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostI 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytLCihkMX7Ubong ching
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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.
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Originally posted by alywin View PostWell, 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.
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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 ching
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson;791187
[IBingeing through Normal People [/I]on BBC3 last night, about halfway through (12 x 30' episodes via iplayer etc)...... I usually avoid domestic/realistic dramas, especially hetero love stories, even more especially teen/young adult school/college love stories, but..... this one is utterly wonderful - so subtly written, directed and above all acted by the two leads its a very involving and nuanced tale of their on-off intense affair, unusually insightful emotionally.......very highly [I]recommended!
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Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostCharlie 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!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08d55hl
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Originally posted by Stunsworth View PostFor anyone who subscribes to Netflix...
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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