Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:54 am  

WIZEB wrote: Watched the documentary on the great British war photojournalist Don McCullin last night on BBC1. From Cyprus to Nam to Biafra to NI to the Lebanon. This bloke has seen the horror of what man can do to other man, been there and seen it all. Even so he spoke in a very moving, poignant and humanitarian way about the suffering he had personally witnessed. Recommended viewing if available on Iplayer. Just found a trailer for anyone interested. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jan/06/mccullin-review-documentary-don-mccullin Fantastic program, watched it last night on a tablet with headphones on, totally ignored the rest of the family in the room even though I could see them trying to talk to me This documentary should be shown as part of the national history curriculum along with examples of his work - also highlighted Andrew Neil and Rupert Murdoch as destroyers of a fine tradition of sunday newspaper campaigning and informing in favour of pandering to frivolous advertisers who didn't want nasty foreign war, famine and death pictures in the same magazines as their products - so a double bonus.

WIZEB wrote: Watched the documentary on the great British war photojournalist Don McCullin last night on BBC1. From Cyprus to Nam to Biafra to NI to the Lebanon. This bloke has seen the horror of what man can do to other man, been there and seen it all. Even so he spoke in a very moving, poignant and humanitarian way about the suffering he had personally witnessed. Recommended viewing if available on Iplayer. Just found a trailer for anyone interested. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jan/06/mccullin-review-documentary-don-mccullin Fantastic program, watched it last night on a tablet with headphones on, totally ignored the rest of the family in the room even though I could see them trying to talk to me This documentary should be shown as part of the national history curriculum along with examples of his work - also highlighted Andrew Neil and Rupert Murdoch as destroyers of a fine tradition of sunday newspaper campaigning and informing in favour of pandering to frivolous advertisers who didn't want nasty foreign war, famine and death pictures in the same magazines as their products - so a double bonus.

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Thu Jul 04, 2013 10:09 am  

JerryChicken wrote:

Fantastic program, watched it last night on a tablet with headphones on, totally ignored the rest of the family in the room even though I could see them trying to talk to me

This documentary should be shown as part of the national history curriculum along with examples of his work - also highlighted Andrew Neil and Rupert Murdoch as destroyers of a fine tradition of sunday newspaper campaigning and informing in favour of pandering to frivolous advertisers who didn't want nasty foreign war, famine and death pictures in the same magazines as their products - so a double bonus.

Glad you enjoyed it JC, and that you are going to EB.
Not a great connoisseur of photography, although some of his photos definitely resonated.
None more so for me than the shell-shocked soldier in Vietnam which is particulary haunting.

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Thu Jul 04, 2013 10:25 am  

WIZEB wrote:

Glad you enjoyed it JC, and that you are going to EB.
Not a great connoisseur of photography, although some of his photos definitely resonated.
None more so for me than the shell-shocked soldier in Vietnam which is particulary haunting.

He took several single shots of the same face- and the soldier never blinked or moved, when the documentary makers called the Major who is now well-retired and who was in charge of the marines that day he said that they have reunions every year and is still in contact with many of his soldiers but no-one has found any trace of that particular one since.

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Thu Jul 04, 2013 10:35 am  

''Why are you doing this to me?'' http://www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/going-out/who-what-where/best-of-don-mccullin-3#slide-9

''Why are you doing this to me?'' http://www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/going-out/who-what-where/best-of-don-mccullin-3#slide-9

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Thu Jul 04, 2013 10:38 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

Never watched it, the trailers were enough to put me off.

I once had to sit through a whole episode at my parents' house. Never again.

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Thu Jul 04, 2013 11:10 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

I think he must be a "Marmite" performer because whilst I loved his various Radio 4 series and would roar with laughter at them, La Senora would be looking at me totally mystified, she simply just didn't "get" him.

Harry Worth was just a gentle blunderer, whereas Arthur Strong has a snobbily inflated sense of self-importance.

I'll give the TV a go but, as with many other transfers, it might not work.

I always envisage him as the product of an unnatural relationship between Harry Worth and Nellie Pledge

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Thu Jul 04, 2013 11:23 am  

Rock God X wrote:

I once had to sit through a whole episode at my parents' house. Never again.

Had the same experience two Xmas's ago.
Staying at my mates in Manchester and he insisted we watched the Xmas special ( managed to avoid the series).
What a load of fooking tripe.
Garbage!

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Thu Jul 04, 2013 11:36 am  

WIZEB wrote:

Had the same experience two Xmas's ago.
Staying at my mates in Manchester and he insisted we watched the Xmas special ( managed to avoid the series).
What a load of fooking tripe.
Garbage!

It's not even that good.

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Thu Jul 04, 2013 11:41 am  

Rock God X wrote:

It's not even that good.

Whoever is responsible for it must've thought no one was old enough to remember Old Mother Riley

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Thu Jul 04, 2013 11:44 am  

cod'ead wrote:

Whoever is responsible for it must've thought no one was old enough to remember Old Mother Riley

I'm not.