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living in dvd/video land...
hotel rwanda: i don't know...i glad teh film was made and the narrative was interesting--but the movie music they used everywhere because they wanted to make it a "mass market" film was intrusive and horrific. the dvd as a whole is interesting--the documentaries featuring the actual paul are good, and the footage of his visit to a memorial to victims of the genocide really pretty horrifying.
east side story: a compilation of east german/soviet musical comedy films. how could you not want to watch this?
i when you do, i suspect that you will also want to find every last one of the east german films--they are too cool.
realm of the unreal: henry darger is fascinating. even this kind of crappy documentary with unnecessary animation of darger's stuff does not wreck anything about how cool his work is. fortunately there is alot of it in the film...though it kinda sucks to notice that his landlady now owns the rights to his lifetime of work. an argument for some kind of public trust, she is. o yeah--watch it a second time with the sound off. much better with substitute sound.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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