A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Alison Severs / Vice, “Krokodil: Siberia’s Tears” (2011) I stumbled across short video clips made by a documentary channel Vice News which specialises in a form…
Stanley Kubrick, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb” (1964) Notable as the film that features British actor Peter Sellers…
Emma Sutton, “Why are Thin People Not Fat” (2008) This BBC Horizon documentary revolves around an experiment in deliberately overfeeding a group of people for a…
Zdenek Miler, “The Mole and the Robot”(1995) / “The Mole and the Rocket” (1966) / “The Mole as a Gardener” (1969) Let’s turn to a 5-minute…
Zdenek Miler, “The Mole in a Dream / Krtek ve Snu” (1985) Another film episode in the life of Krtek the Mole and this one’s a…
Zdenek Miler, “How the Mole got his Pants / Jak krtek ke kalhotkám prišel” (1957) As it turns out, I’ve stumbled across the famous series of cartoons…
Zdenek Miler, “Krtek a Hodiny” (1995) Found this 28-minute cartoon on Youtube while looking for Latvian animated shorts which compared to the abundance of Estonian animated…
Rob Balsamo, “9/11 Intercepted” (2011) Over a decade has passed since the World Trade Center attacks occurred and we are still no closer to knowing what…
Mirdza Zivere, “Sed uz sliekšna pasacina” (1987) Made for Latvian-language television in the Soviet Union in 1987, this very pretty and surreal animated short has some…
Phil Grabsky, “The Surprising History of Egypt with Terry Jones” (2002) An entertaining trip into the lives and customs of every-day people of ancient Egypt, with…