Intense documentary about the Jonestown massacre.
Lots of original footage, both sound and video.
Thursday, 20 June 2024
Casefile 60 - Jonestown massacre
Listened to this years ago, must be the one because of the Australian accent.
Blood-curling description of the Jonestown massacre.
Yelena Moskovich - "Virtuoso"
different perspectives, Hungary, girls, mamka, papka, I don't always get it
I got into the high school specializing in languages and impressed everyone by doing nothing but studying, all the time, big books gasping open all around me. My mamka started calling me "the Scholar" and bragged openly about my skills in French and English and German and Russian, all the while I was in my room, learning more and more. My papka was a bit different about it- a layer of discomfort, like coarse hair in a comb, at having a bookish daughter who could only spit only proverbs. He always echoed my mother, "Good job, Janinka!" But something in the way his pupils rolled away when he pushed a smile at me made me want to disappear forever. He observed me the way you look at people who do small tasks with too much passion and precision.
Drop the Dead Donkey
Saw it in the Richmond Theatre, which might have played a role....
Fun to watch, even as I didn't know the original show.
Fun to hear the family-guy-father to the right of me guffaw, while fancy pearls-cladded woman to the left of me was yawning, checking her phone....
"My Neighbour Totoro" - the play
Very sceptical at first, because a) I don't care that much for this film and b) how to translate this to a stage...
but it worked surprisingly well!
(date is incorrect, I watched this a few months ago)
Spirited Away
Not nearly as good as the "My Neighbour Totoro" play, and I like that film a lot less!
boring, to be honest.
It tried to be the film. It failed.
Monday, 17 June 2024
Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History: Twilight of the Aesir"
So good. I need to find the earlier versions.
Inside Out 2
fun sequel, though not as original.
Although "sar-CHASM" made me laugh. And "stream of conscience", and "brain storm"
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Luc Besson, following a French comic.
Very Besson like in its visuals, and story-like it's ok, bit meh. Enjoyable if you're tired.
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