Tag: film
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RC 345: How To Survive A Plague Part 2: We Will Survive
Second part of How To Survive A Plague, and we cover the period 1989-2000 and beyond as the fight for drugs, money and action for the AIDS crisis comes to a crunch, and as Hollywood starts to pay attention (although no straight Oscar-baiting tragic gay tropes here – Peter’s Friends/Philadelphia *cough*). It’s not all doom…
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RC 341: How To Survive A Plague Part 1: It Couldn’t Happen Here
February is LGBTQ* History month in the UK, and with the recent TV series ‘It’s A Sin’ it seemed time to post this musical podcast series about the last pandemic, the HIV/AIDS ‘plague’. I started this last April during the first lockdown as I could see parallels between what I lived through in the ’80s…
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There Will Be Numbers
Love the golden mean, thirds and Phi and all the maths behind it – what I understand anyway – and this is a look on how they inform a film like ‘There Will Be Blood’. I’ve not seen the film, but could watch hours of this…although I think some of the spirals are a little…
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Spaghetti Western Lasagne
https://soundcloud.com/djhdd/djhdd-the-spaghetti-western Digging this mix from DJ Hickory Dickory Dock – a mix of Spaghetti Western (Sergio Leone and the like) film soundtracks and related tracks with some great samples and re-edits. Love to see Negativland’s Guns in there too…I’ll have some parmesan and a little black pepper with that! Thanks!
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Up, up and away for this Disney pre-make
What if Pixar’s Up was made in the 1960s live action movie – the era of Love Bug and Mary Poppins? Love the editing in this, and makes me wonder if Carl Frederickson was indeed based on Spencer Tracy and whether ‘Russell’ was modelled on the old film here…the similarity is uncanny! Also if you…