The lauded patron of the arts and fashion world Daphne Guinness discusses space travel and the transformative power of clothing with celebrated auctioneer Simon de Pury.
Daphne Guinness in “Collecting is a Wonderful Illness” by Johnnie Shand Kydd
The filmmaker captures Daphne Guinness discussing connoisseurship and collecting with the auctioneer and art world impresario Simon de Pury.
Gene Vincent – Rock and Roll Singer (1969 UK Tour Documentary)
To the Last Drop: Canada’s Dirty Oil Sands
Residents of one Canadian town are engaged in a David and Goliath-style battle over the dirtiest oil project ever known. Filmmakers: Niobe Thompson and Tom Radford The small town of Fort Chipewyan […]
Olga Korbut documentary
This is a rare Olga Korbut documentary from the mid 70’s. Contains some great footage. But it’s in Russian, so if anyone can translate, please do!!
Kowloon Walled City documentary
A 1989 German documentary on Hong Kong’s fabled Kowloon Walled City.
Samuel Beckett: Film (1965)
Samuel Beckett’s only cinematic project, a silent film circa 1965. Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/08/16/samuel-beckett-film/ Public domain footage courtesy of the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/busterkeatonfilm
Cities on Speed – Bogotá Change
During the early 1990’s Bogotá was the capital city of Colombia and by far the “worst city in the world”. Doomed by corruption, chaos, poverty and violence, Bogotá was at urban decay. […]
Interview with Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins, 68, was born in Bury St Edmunds and raised in London. Having left school at 15, he worked as a porter, lorry driver and window cleaner. In 1968, he accompanied […]
The Devil In Miss Jones
Although she was named after January Wayne, the prototypical Seventies heroine of Jacqueline Susann’s Once Is Not Enough, January Jones projects the cool but complicated leading ladies (Deneuve!) of the Sixties: gorgeous but […]