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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: Apollo 11 (2019)

Posted on May 5, 2019 by curtisrunstedler

This year will mark the 50th anniversary since Neil Armstrong and the boys touched down on the Moon in July 1969. Back then, it was an epic event of Star Wars proportions (and I imagine the excitement of seeing the … Continue reading →

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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Week: Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

Posted on January 13, 2018 by curtisrunstedler

David Munro’s 1979 ITV documentary Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (written by John Pilger) captures the horrors and atrocities of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime (1975-79) firsthand from the front line. While it is a hard watch, it is a … Continue reading →

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DVD Pick of the Month: The Call of the Wild (2007)

Posted on April 5, 2016 by curtisrunstedler

Ron Lamothe’s film The Call of the Wild (2007) is an extraordinary documentary that primarily focusses on the ill-fated quest of Chris McCandless (also subject of Sean Penn’s film Into the Wild, my favourite film, and Jon Krakauer’s book of the same name), a … Continue reading →

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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: Joy Division (2007)

Posted on March 6, 2015 by curtisrunstedler

Coming out the same year as the excellent fictionalised account Control but enjoying its BBC premiere just now, the 2007 documentary Joy Division is the essential documentary that examines the beginnings, rise, and fall of Ian Curtis and Joy Division. … Continue reading →

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