Eltron Hubbard
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I like movies about forests, and living in forests, and building treehouses, cabins, and all types of stuff like that.
Does anyone have any recommendations for movies and documentaries about building stuff in nature?
Or about old timey living? People pouring water from buckets.
Or stuff with cooking. Preferrably stews.
I like to watch people hanging around the house and eating. I watched all the Sopranos and The Wire a while back and I really enjoyed when they got lunches brought to them. It was nice to see them eating.
Here's a good documentary I saw on PBS a while back and finally tracked down, about this diesel old man who spent 30 years in the Alaskan wilderness, building a great cabin, chopping wood, making spicy ram stews, just kicking it.
Here's the torrent-
http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/3801085/Alone_In_The_Wilderness_AVI.3801085.TPB.torrent
And here's a youtube preview-
Rustic domesticity. That's what I like.
I was watching Howl's Moving Castle with a ladyfriend one day and when Sophie began the "clean up of Howl's messy castle montage", she remarked to me that she really liked the "character sets out to clean up a messy house sequence" in movies. I knew exactly what she meant, and in that moment I felt very close to her! |
Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:28 pm |
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Lusid
http://youtube.com/watch?v=skCV2L0c6K0
Joined: 02 Apr 2007
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It's very obvious that you're in on Captiv8 & kounterKlocKwise's murder plot.
An ol' timey wilderness hind out. eating wild game. boiling water. sharing stories of cleaning up murder scenes around a warm hand chopped log fire.
cute. real cute.
But beware, and beware: you will inevitably start scheming to kill one another once the cold harsh winter sets in and never ending cabin fever induces the schizophrenic demons.
If you're not part of their murder plot, my bad homie.
I enjoy a good Robert Frost inspired film myself. |
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Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:58 pm |
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R. Kamidees
Joined: 15 Sep 2003
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Location: where the wild things are |
is Walden your favorite book?
You may want to see a doc about artist Andy Goldsworthy called Rivers and Tides. Goldsworthy works with organic material and allows his pieces to decay naturally.
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Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:00 pm |
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Bandini
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Joined: 01 Jul 2002
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I really like watching people cross the street, making some eggs or coffee and sitting at a table looking out a window. the little pleasures and daily tasks that make up most of our lifetimes. films should focus more on this stuff instead of spending all their resources on narrative. this isn't really what you're looking for I dont think, but check out The Same River Twice if you havent. of course there's Rivers and Tides, which is a wonderful film. |
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Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:01 pm |
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kounterklockwise
Joined: 18 Sep 2005
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Location: Cali-lina |
I know this isn't exactly what you're looking for, Eltron, but onebigtorrent.org sometimes has some interesting documentaries. Presently they have a lot of political stuff, but I remember seeing an old wilderness doc on there last year I think. They have a handful of Chomsky interviews too (again, unrelated to what you're asking for).
From their ABOUT page:
"OneBigTorrent.org is a new place for sharing material that deals with or is relevant to issues of social justice, progressive and radical politics, independent media, ecology." |
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Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:03 pm |
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Lusid
http://youtube.com/watch?v=skCV2L0c6K0
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Well then, you're in luck!
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Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:05 pm |
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breakfast
Joined: 04 Oct 2006
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Does this count?
Probably no... |
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Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:55 pm |
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Lusid
http://youtube.com/watch?v=skCV2L0c6K0
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My favorite scene from any C&C movie:
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Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:10 am |
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Windom
Joined: 04 May 2007
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Ata Whenua- Shadowlands ....
is a nonverbal film featuring the landscapes of New Zealand. Shot in the south west corner of New Zealand, known as Fiordland. Ata Whenua contains images of the landscapes and animals of the region, through a range of seasons and extremes. The images are beautiful, crystal clear, and set to an impressive soundtrack.
Ata Whenua was created to bring to viewers a rare glimpse of the wilderness of the Fiordland National Park. Few people get to see this beautiful but remote national park. The film takes you on a journey, showing you sights you would never normally see.
The images from Ata Whenua are stunning. The moody dawn shots of misty fiords, shot from a helicopter as it glides along show a region of the world few have seen or will visit. Many scenes are shot above the cloud base, giving a lovely effect. The use of natural light in Ata Whenua is out standing. The glow of the dawn sun reflecting on the show covered mountains is just amazing.
There are several time-lapse scenes, with the clouds whisping over and around the mountainsides. The film has clearly taken time to shoot. As well as the snow covered landscapes, the sun glistens off the summer still lakes and rivers. At ground level, amongst the forests, we see a world of green vegetation, untouched my human hand. The animals of Fiordland are shown close-up and from a distance. We also see rock climbers tackling the sheer sides of the regions mountains.
The Name, Ata Whenua, is a Maori term, used to describe the tortuous terrain of the Fiordland region.
Fiordland, the south west region of New Zealand, is 1.2 million hectares of virgin rainforest. 14 fiords carve their way into over 200 kilometres of coastline. Sheer granite mountains rise from the sea level to over 2700 metres. In 1986 the Fiordland National Park was awarded World Heritage Status.
Ata Whenua is shown daily in the Fiordland Cinema, in Te Anau, New Zealand. The cinema was especially constructed to show the film. The cinema has a large curved screen and Dolby surround sound. All films are projected in 35mm.
Ata Whenua - Shadowland (2005)
Ata Whenua was directed by Dave Comer, who has lived in the region for more than two decades. Dave worked as a location scout on the Lord of The Rings movies. The film, and the cinema, were made possible by helicopter pilot Kim Hollows. With over 25 years of experience of flying in the region, it had long been his dream to bring the region to the big screen.
Download Links:
http://rapidshare.com/files/151119931/Shadowland.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/151120183/Shadowland.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/151120413/Shadowland.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/151120669/Shadowland.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/151120981/Shadowland.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/151121538/Shadowland.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/151121770/Shadowland.part7.rar
Rar Password: www.surrealmoviez.info
You could also try some Ray Mears. He does documentaries on outdoors survival - building shelters, making various tools. One episode showed him taking a week to build a birchbark canoe - was awesome.[/img] |
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Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:30 am |
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Eltron Hubbard
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I do love Andy Goldsworthy. I'm going to watch Rivers and Tides tomorrrow, it looks good.
Watching that latticework collapse is minor level heartbreaking.
I grew up walking distance from woods and streams and seeing him actually build that stuff now hits me on my childhood of turning grass into miniature rope bridges and molding moss into GI Joe easy chairs and bunkbeds- type level. Crust of bark became ewok style treehouse lilypads and the North Cakalaki clay was superb for wattle and daub action figure chill spots.
Does anyone from down south remember the gooey algae that formed on drainage ditches mid-summer that looked like Dr. Suessian edible gloop? I would rubber band a film canister around Snake Eye's back and stuff it with the algae. -It was his spinach rations. |
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Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:29 am |
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Eltron Hubbard
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Lusid wrote:
Well then, you're in luck!
It's like watching an alien who has just yesterday observed humans putting little cakes of meat into their mouth and now wants to check it out for himself.
The functions of the body were an affront to that crazy polski! |
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Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:34 am |
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Eltron Hubbard
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Bandini wrote:
I really like watching people cross the street, making some eggs or coffee and sitting at a table looking out a window. the little pleasures and daily tasks that make up most of our lifetimes. films should focus more on this stuff instead of spending all their resources on narrative.
I agree very much so.
I think there should be a channel that's just about rural Chinese families making noodles and cutting down bamboo, watching TV, and shooting the shit.
Or, Russkies driving cabs and reading by the incandescent lights of their apartment fixtures, Cabrini Green Chicagoans eating chicken nuggets or lake trout after school, what have you...
http://www.menzelphoto.com/
Peter Menzel is a guy who made a great couple of books one of which-
Material World: A Global Family Portrait - I flipped the bejeezus out of in my teens.
He stays a while with a families from all over the world and gets the hang of their daily routines and living, etc. Each family has a big spread where they haul all their belongings out of the house and lay them out for a group shot. It breaks down their yearly living expenses, their favored possessions, all types of stuff.
He made another book just recently that focuses more on food. Hungry Planet it's called and it's also very fun to look at and read. |
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Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:57 am |
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breakfast
Joined: 04 Oct 2006
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Hey I read that.
If I get a position as some sort of environmental assessment character in the Taiga, you want I should film it for you? |
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Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:27 pm |
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