Forgot what I logged in for. Fillum recommendation: McCullin

Somebody else recommended this, earlier this year, tho I can't remember whom. It's excellent. it's not a film, it's a patial biography documentary, interviewing and looking at the work of the photographer Donald McCullin. I didn't remember the name, but did recall the face and, more to the point, I did remember a lot of the photos. You probably will, too, and even if you're too young to remember the wars he covered you'll probably have seen some of his more famous shots. The man has a gift.

It's a riveting watch. You see him recalling taking this photo, and that photo, and you watch him remembering the circumstances, and most of all you hear him reminisce. And this is a man who has lived a hell of a life, in hells indeed, tho that part of it became his addiction (almost).

And the final few minutes, spent discussing what's happened to your Sunday paper, that hit home, too. I hadn't really noticed, but, when I was a kid, your paper was full of news and the magazine full of comment, in-depth analyses and photos. After Murdoch, and the search for advertisers, your magazine has become (for many of us, I suspect) the wad of lifestyle tat that you chuck in the recycling as soon as you get home. This may be part of the reason we've stopped being interested in things, as a nation.

anyway: it's a marvelous fillum and I don't think you'd be bored, even if I haven't done it justice.

Posted By: Sugbad The Bad, Oct 8, 21:32:00