Tag: documentary
Buena Vista Social Club
All rockumentaries should be like this: memorable film on the great cultural discovery of the late 90s.
Bus 174 (Ônibus 174)
A fascinating documentary tracing the circumstances that led one young streetkid to take hostages on a Rio bus.
Looking for Richard
Al Pacino gets behind and in front of the camera to tell us how much Shakespeare moves him.
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The Royal Tenenbaums
No small feat: Anderson the director who breathed new life into Gene Hackman.
- Originally published: 5 Feb 2007 in Film
Casablanca
Play it as many times as you want, Sam. I’ll not get tired of it!
- Originally published: 22 Feb 2007 in Film
Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
A smash-and-grab of awards for a film that feels rather rushed.
- Originally published: 7 Sep 2006 in Film
The Yellow Cross
After they scattered into the Pyrenees, the Cathars were hard to trace. So was the thread of this book.
- Originally published: 22 Aug 2008 in Books
The Waterloo battlefield
A walk around the 1815 battlefield near Waterloo with a commentary on the key locations.
- Originally published: 6 Jun 2010 in Walking
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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
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Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.