A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.— Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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A Spy Among Friends
The Ipcress File (2022 TV)
(Channel 4 (UK), 2013) Superb series, fast becoming a cult classic. Oozes cool, quirky, and jarring! How did they know..?!(C19)
Utopia
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Patrick Melrose
Cumberbatch's darkly engrossing portrayal of the horribly burdened, yawing self-destuctive Patrick Melrose. Based on the books by St John XXX.
The Last Tycoon
1930s America is booming, so is Hollywood. Witness the power games, romance, glamour, and grit as jobbing writers, dazzling actresses, and wonderboy producers battle over making movies. Kelsey Grammer (Frasier) grandly plays the studio don., naturally. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's (Gatzby) unfinished novel.
First Light
Geoffrey Wellum narrates this drama documentary which adapts his autobiography of a Spitfire pilot. Poignant and movingly told.
Sharp Objects
A superb performance from Amy Adams, gritty and realist (from the same pen as Gone Girl).
The Worricker Trilogy
Band of Brothers
The West Wing
I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.- Massenet
Documentaries.
Roger Scruton, Of Beauty and Consolation
Endurance
Still
Very moving and highly recommended film-doc by Michael J Fox about his life with Parkinson's. Previously we were oblivious to his condition, thinking his excellent performance in The Good Wife was acting. Thank you for your perseverance to share your talent, Mr Fox.
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The Sorrow and The Pity
Ophuls's documentary of a French town under German occupation, told by participants on all sides. Banned by the French government for a decade following filming for airing discomforting attitudes. (1969) (Wikipedia)
The Vietnam War
Unmissable, another hit from seasoned documentary maker Ken Burns (The American Civil War; The Roosevelts). Highlighting the limits of centralized power, political folly, and information obscurity.
TrailerMay my son study history, for it is the only true psychology, and the only true philosophy.- Napoleon
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