Your Favorite Documentary

g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
edited September 2007 in A Moving Train
Here's mine: I KNOW I'M NOT ALONE

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Michael Franti, world-renowned musician and human rights worker, travels to Iraq, Palestine and Israel to explore the human cost of war with a group of friends, some video cameras and his guitar.

"I Know I'm Not Alone" video is a compelling soundtrack, visual and musical montages, and Franti's intimate voiceovers make the film speak to the MTV, X, Y & Z generations, as well as the baby-boomers. A true armchair travel film pulling the audience into these war zones in the company of Michael's guitar, eloquence and wit - you feel the humanity, artistic resilience and sometimes horrific experience of what it's like to live under the bombs and military occupation.

With its guerrilla style footage captured in active war zones, the documentary is unlike the many academic and politically driven pieces in the marketplace, instead offering the audience a sense of intimate travel and the opportunity to hear the voices of everyday people living, creating and surviving under the harsh conditions of war and occupation.

Here's a 10 minute preview of this documentary...Michael Franti - I Know I'm Not Alone


REVIEWS

"Watch this film then insist that Michael Franti becomes President of the United States!"
-Anthony Minghella (Academy Award Winning Director, English Patient, Cold Mountain)

"Michael Franti is the most important artist recording and touring today who has yet to reach the mass audience. The subjects he sings about are totally genuine and derived from personal experiences."
-Chris Blackwell (Founder-Palm Pictures, Island Life)

"Michael's (Franti) a modern minstrel weaving stories of war and occupation into his heart of peace, giving us hope, not just tears. The film is powerful, honest, and touching."
-Serj Tankian (Musician-System Of A Down)

"Michael Franti so easily embodies the kind of artist we must all yearn to be, forever connected to the heart of the people and always giving us something meaningful to dance to, even and especially, in the face of war and despair."
-Saul Williams (Musician, Actor, Poet)

"I Know I'm Not Alone" is an antidote to despair. With soulful music and boyish charm, Michael Franti sings his way through two brutal occupations--Iraq and Palestine, breaking through the hate and revealing the oneness of our human family.
-Medea Benjamin (Founder-Global Exchange)

Rating: 4 stars
NEW INTERNATIONALIST Magazine, UK

Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


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  • stu geestu gee Posts: 1,174
    My favourite documnentary was John's Not Mad, which was about a guy with severe tourette's syndrome. I remember seeing it when i was younger and being in hysterics as id never come across tourette's before, but obviously as i learned more about it i realised how much of a nightmare it must be for people who have it. Although in my opinion it is really difficult NOT to laugh at some of the things he was saying, it was sad to hear him talking of his struggles with things like relationships. John himself actually did say that he accepted that people would laugh at what he said because even he admitted that it was actually quite funny. He didnt mind so long as people were laughing with him and not at him.

    This is a short summary of the documentary which i found very interesting, as well as funny in parts. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=g3cD6RV4Rb8
    People say im paranoid. Well, they dont say it, but i know that's what they are thinking.
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    stu gee wrote:
    My favourite documnentary was John's Not Mad, which was about a guy with severe tourette's syndrome. I remember seeing it when i was younger and being in hysterics as id never come across tourette's before, but obviously as i learned more about it i realised how much of a nightmare it must be for people who have it. Although in my opinion it is really difficult NOT to laugh at some of the things he was saying, it was sad to hear him talking of his struggles with things like relationships. John himself actually did say that he accepted that people would laugh at what he said because even he admitted that it was actually quite funny. He didnt mind so long as people were laughing with him and not at him.

    This is a short summary of the documentary which i found very interesting, as well as funny in parts. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=g3cD6RV4Rb8


    fuckin..peas... fuck sake... i dinnae like peas.. *spits*


    I love Hearts of Darkness about the making of Apocalypse Now :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Decline of Western Civilization, The Metal Years. LOL
    And I'm not living this life without you, I'm selfish and clear
    And you're not leaving here without me, I don't wanna be without
    My best... friend. Wake up, to see you could have it all
  • Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
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  • i cant remember the name...

    there was one i watched recently about an area in africa and how a giant fishing industry ran by russians and middle easterners kept brutally exploited the locals.

    the poor people there lived in horrendous conditions. i never really bought the idea that they lived much better before the fishing guys got there, but it did show how unchecked, unregulated industry can ruin a country.

    does anyone know the name of this?
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    jlew24asu wrote:
    I like this one. seems to be a generational thing with hatred towards the US. the newer (mid 20s or so) seem to like "western" culture but they arent really allowed to

    Which is why war against Iran may be detrimental. If we wait, Iran will look alot different in 20 years. Otherwise, we might just be creating a new generation of haters.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560

    Nihilism is nothing new to me Nietzche.

    This is like that film "What the BLEEP"

    It's hypocritical of it's self within the first 5 minutes.

    "There is no absolute knowledge"

    That sure sounds like a claim of absolute knowledge to me.

    Then, why go on to talk about anything at all? Why mention physics, electromagnetism, or anything else involving knowledge?

    He seems pretty absolute in his claims about electromagnetism.

    "Anyone who claims absolute knowledge is opening the door to trajedy."

    The problem with his entire perpsective is defeatism. It gets you no further ahead, and that is a trajedy.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Nihilism is nothing new to me Nietzche.

    This is like that film "What the BLEEP"

    It's hypocritical of it's self within the first 5 minutes.

    "There is no absolute knowledge"

    That sure sounds like a claim of absolute knowledge to me.

    Then, why go on to talk about anything at all? Why mention physics, electromagnetism, or anything else involving knowledge?

    He seems pretty absolute in his claims about electromagnetism.

    "Anyone who claims absolute knowledge is opening the door to trajedy."

    The problem with his entire perpsective is defeatism. It gets you no further ahead, and that is a trajedy.

    Watch the film. You've long proven yourself to me to be a psuedoscientist, a fake, a fraud, a laughable charlatan with limited knowledge of your subject. How dare you presume to challenge Bronowski? My complaint against you isn't personal, it's academic and professional. You're a con-artist, and a damned poor one outside of this little board.
  • I like shiny things...
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • azwyldcats wrote:
    Decline of Western Civilization, The Metal Years. LOL
    Werd!
    I wish they would release the first one on DVD. I haven't watched it in years.

    I have to add both Paradise Lost docs.
    My husband and I also watched this this weekend. Not that I wasn't aware of most of it, it was still very disturbing.
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    Watch the film. You've long proven yourself to me to be a psuedoscientist, a fake, a fraud, a laughable charlatan with limited knowledge of your subject. How dare you presume to challenge Bronowski? My complaint against you isn't personal, it's academic and professional. You're a con-artist, and a damned poor one outside of this little board.

    Those are some pretty tall words for such a short guy.

    You don't even have a clue what I am Fins. I talk about this stuff over dinner.

    Case-in-point, I had dinner with a physiology major today and we talked about the content of my latest reads "Brain-Wise" and "The Engine of Reason, The Seat of The Soul" by Pat and Paul Churchland respectively, two professors at UCSD.

    My dinner date stated "You need to go to university" and I said "I dunno, then the pressure is on to remember what I read" and she replied "But, you remember it all already and you are basically doing it without the instruction or the degree."

    I even question the textbooks. I'm not afraid to fire off an email to some professor/author of a university/textbook and question something in their book/paper. I do it with a solid enough understanding that they humor me with a reply.

    Go back to twanging your banjo and leave the thinking to the thinkers.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Franti kickin it in Iraq...

    The preview was fuckin A
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Those are some pretty tall words for such a short guy.

    You don't even have a clue what I am Fins. I talk about this stuff over dinner.

    Case-in-point, I had dinner with a physiology major today and we talked about the content of my latest reads "Brain-Wise" and "The Engine of Reason, The Seat of The Soul" by Pat and Paul Churchland respectively, two professors at UCSD.

    My dinner date stated "You need to go to university" and I said "I dunno, then the pressure is on to remember what I read" and she replied "But, you remember it all already and you are basically doing it without the instruction or the degree."

    I even question the textbooks. I'm not afraid to fire off an email to some professor/author of a university/textbook and question something in their book/paper. I do it with a solid enough understanding that they humor me with a reply.

    Go back to twanging your banjo and leave the thinking to the thinkers.


    You're talking to a literary critic. I have three degrees. You have none.
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    You're talking to a literary critic. I have three degrees. You have none.

    Congratulations!

    Perhaps you can tell me the standard delay between a stimulus and a readiness potential then?

    Or maybe you'd like to take a crack at explaining how the V1 striate cortex encodes for projections to V4.

    Or maybe, you are just a literary critic and don't know a damn thing about brains.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    Franti kickin it in Iraq...

    The preview was fuckin A

    Did you checkout the .....Bomb The World video posted from the march in DC? Tell me what ya think of this one? I'm seeing his shows in Times Square, NYC....Norfolk, VA.....Richmond, VA....and Philly, PA.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Congratulations!

    Perhaps you can tell me the standard delay between a stimulus and a readiness potential then?

    Or maybe you'd like to take a crack at explaining how the V1 striate cortex encodes for projections to V4.

    Or maybe, you are just a literary critic and don't know a damn thing about brains.

    I could do what you do, and provide critically inept paraphasings of links:

    http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=65109BEE76D6792CDB3FDAA3471E0FC8.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=85825

    http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=980799422&dok_var=d1&dok_ext=pdf&filename=980799422.pdf

    Get the point?
  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    I'm making a documentary I'm calling, I'm the Smartest Guy Here Except Baraka is Smarter. Coming to a theater near you! :)

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  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560

    I could answer both of those questions I asked without consulting any sources. I know. That is the point.

    You know what you know, which is how to be a literary critic. You got 3 fancy papers to back it up, congratulations. I have knowledge backing up my knowledge and when I talk, it's evident. You have the bug of academia, the holier-than-thou complex all too common.

    "You are a pack of neurons" - Francis Crick (The Astonishing Hypothesis)

    You want to challenge that knowledge, shoot yourself in the brain. Otherwise, stick to what you do know and respect those that know otherwise.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • g under p wrote:
    Did you checkout the .....Bomb The World video posted from the march in DC? Tell me what ya think of this one? I'm seeing his shows in Times Square, NYC....Norfolk, VA.....Richmond, VA....and Philly, PA.

    Peace


    It was good. I like the level of punch his drummer gets dials in on the snare.

    He's got a bit of funk and Caribbean patois going on in there. I can play that kind of stuff quite well so I like to jam to it.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    gue_barium wrote:
    I'm making a documentary I'm calling, I'm the Smartest Guy Here Except Baraka is Smarter. Coming to a theater near you! :)

    I'm pretty sure Baraka is smarter than me or Fins.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • barakabaraka Posts: 1,268
    gue_barium wrote:
    I'm making a documentary I'm calling, I'm the Smartest Guy Here Except Baraka is Smarter. Coming to a theater near you! :)

    I'm pretty average really............I'm just a better 'con-man' than Ahnimus. Ha ha.... Just kidding guys ;)

    Dunkman mentioned the Heart of Darkness doc, I loved that one too.
    The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
    but the illusion of knowledge.
    ~Daniel Boorstin

    Only a life lived for others is worth living.
    ~Albert Einstein
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560

    I actually like the documentary in the end. It doesn't really have anything to do with me though.

    There are a few points I disagree with Bonowsky, but mostly it's on fallacious inferences, such as "Heissenberg's uncertainty princple" I don't think it has a damn thing to do with pattern recognition or human communication skills. That's a straw bridge, IMO. Nor do I agree with his entire interpretation of quantum mechanics.

    But what he says at the end "when people believe they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality"

    Bingo!

    That's what tips the scales in favor of science as the best method for aquiring information about reality. That is the entire point of this documentary.

    In that regard, I am in line with Bonowsky, not against him.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    I would say The Ascent of Man is aimed more at religious dogmatist, or those that claim Aristotle, Aquinas or any philosopher preneuroscience had anything proven about human wills or Gods. The documentary is directly aimed at traditional dogmatism. Be that Hopi prophecy, the pillars of islam or the ideology of the third reich.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • I like the documentary that the 2 french brothers made about the rookie fireman in NY when 9/11 happened. It's sad of course but I like it because it is so raw. It really captures the feelings of the people that were there more than any "news" or reporter could ever provide. I just think it was really well done and very very respectful.

    I also like the Nova special tracking each and every step of pregnancy within the womb. I think Time magazine did an article on the woman that they used within the study. It was really amazing.

    Have a good night.
    Let's Go Red Sox!
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