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Science Under Attack is a one-hour documentary presented by Sir Paul Nurse, president of the Royal Society, about the current distrust of scientific research in the public and what the scientific community can do to address this.

-- Steve found it fascinating material presented very well.

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Stupidity, a one-hour documentary about, well... what it says on the tin, really. NSFW for swears, occasional glimpses of nudity, and, uh, well, really stupid behaviour.

-- Steve agrees that the field really does need better study.

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Why was I not informed of this earlier? Internets, you have failed me. (Your Agonisers, please...)

At the link, Leah Carroll writes in The Atlantic about Werner Herzog's latest film, a documentary on the 32,000-year-old Chauvet cave paintings. The documentary, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, is shot in digital format and in 3D, by a director who ( Read more... )

I think it was the winter of '88-'89. I was a second year Physics student at the time with a brand new IBM PC clone with an Intel 8088 CPU running at a blistering 11MHz, with its own monochrome monitor and everything. Anyway, the pressures were getting to me so when the Usual Gang called to say they were going to the New Yorker repertory theatre ( Read more... )

... but in this case I'll make an exception. Canada's National Film Board has released a free iPhone app to stream the NFB film library of documentaries, dramas, and its famous animation collection. If you are already a slave to the Turtlenecked One, then you really should take a look ( Read more... )

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Spotted via several sources, I present The Cat Piano; a delightful animated short film well worth watching.

-- Steve loved the superb narration... or would it be more proper to refer to it as an excellent poetry reading?

I'm watching TVO right now, one of their mini-documentaries on the film industry... it's "Edifice Complex", a series of interviews with architects intercut with scenes from The Fountainhead and Manhattan discussing how films approach their profession. Sorry, Objectivists, but Rand's work doesn't come off too well in the comparison; even the most ( Read more... )