Decades before Michael Moore, Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon and legendary French ... more
'Nouvelle Vague' director of photography Raoul Coutard managed to get a society to condemn itself on camera. In Rocky Road to Dublin (1968), Ireland's patriotic sportsmen, priests, censors and 'brain-washed' children unwittingly convey the truth about a repressed and massively censored Republic. Lennon and Coutard expose the hypocrisy of church, politics and state through a series of seemingly 'innocent' interviews. Unsurprisingly, after one screening in a Dublin cinema in 1968, it was suppressed for more than three decades - never released in Ireland nor ever shown on Irish television.Restored by Loopline films in 2004 and by the Irish Film Board and complemented by a new film (The Making of Rocky Road, dir. Paul Duane) of additional footage featuring Lennon and Coutard revisiting the issues in contemporary context, the ensemble piece tells the complete story of the Rocky Road. In The Making of Rocky Road, Coutard breaks his silence by coming out of retirement to tell his story of the making of this revolutionary film: the La Haine of its day, set against the social and political backdrop of Dublin in the sixties. It features previously unreleased footage of Lennon confronting Godard and Truffaut in a furious debate surrounding the shutting down of Cannes, as well as the Paris Demonstrations that occurred surrounding the screening at the Sorbonne in full 'revolutionary' swing.Peter Lennon, a veteran Guardian journalist working in Paris at the time, had never shot a foot of film in his life. But the zeitgeist of the times - la nouvelle vague - was a revolt against conventional filmmaking, allowing anyone to express him or herself with a camera. Lennon close to question the idea of: 'What do you do with your revolution once you've got it?' A very topical debate indeed.
Advantages: Relaxing story telling music with a bit of heart Disadvantages: Too boring
OK album, with a nice mix of different artist most of which i have never hear of before. As you can probably tell I'm not usually into this kind of music but being someone always looking to expand my musical horizons, I thought i would give it a go but was not too impressed.
Most of the songs featured were not too impressive, many of which sounded very boring and generic for the genre.
Track 15, Green Fields of France - Furey & Davey Arthur was probably one of the most impressive tracks on the album; this song featured delicately sung lyrics and an impressive story which i think is based on world war 2. Some of the other tracks were almost up to this standard but were too boring and didn't catch my attention. ...
Advantages: Loads of Phil Collins songs Disadvantages: Loads of Phil Collins songs messed up
An album of remixed Phil Collins tracks performed by r&b and hip hop artists. Risky, seeing as the man himself as churned out classic after classic and as you can imagine it wasnt well received by, well anyone.
I did however purchase because i like Phil Collins and i like hip hop & r&b so i took a chance. I should have spent my money on buying that indoor ten pin bowling set instead. Saying that there is a couple of decent tunes on here but as a whole, not the greatest ive spent my money on
Tracks
Another Day In Paradise - Ray J & Brandy. The single to come off this album was received quite well, not a bad video and the brother sister duet that everyone wanted to hear. An up to date version but not better than the original. You may find me saying that more often than not
Sussudio - Ol Dirty Bastard. Shocking. No resemblence ...
Advantages: A delicious blend of.... everything! Disadvantages: Extremely unhealthy.
Ok, as a self confessed "pig", I am always more than eager to review products that involve me eating them, this next product was my last tub of "research!".
The product I will now review is "Asda's extra special rockyroad ice-cream".
The tub the ice-cream comes in is a 1 litre plastic tub with the colour scheme being beiges and taupe's, ok sounds boring doesn't it, it in fact gives a very stylish effect to the product and as this is part of the "extra special" range I assume that is the desired effect.
Down the side is the extra special logo, and across the top is the name of the product with a brief description of the ice-cream.
This tub, as with most of the other flavours in this range comes with a lift off plastic lid, the bonus with this is the fact it is resealable, this is not something I usually have to worry about, as ...
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