Permies Movie Night!

"We were hit by a kamikaze tomato!" "Tomatoes can't fly!" "Yeah? Well, they can't eat people, either, but they're doing one hell of a job of that!"

Coydon Wallham wrote:Does "publicly available" mean streaming for free?

Dc Stewart wrote:I nominate the 1978 classic Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes, watchable on YouTube:

Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes

"We were hit by a kamikaze tomato!" "Tomatoes can't fly!" "Yeah? Well, they can't eat people, either, but they're doing one hell of a job of that!"

The audience can do a sing-along with the smash hit Puberty Love!

HANDS is a unique, multi-award winning series of thirty-seven documentaries on Irish crafts. Made by the renowned filmmaking team, David and Sally Shaw-Smith, it was originally produced for Irish television (RTÉ). Imbued by a sense of urgency, the Shaw-Smiths travelled the length and breadth of Ireland during the 1970s and ’80s, capturing on film the final years of traditional rural and urban life. These intimate portraits are as much about the life of the individuals as the crafts they practised. The films capture the essence of Irish heritage, creating a unique archive of life in Ireland at the end of the 20th century.

jordan barton wrote:Here is my suggestion. Hands

Here are some episodes I liked
Clay Pipe Works
Wexford Thatcher
Donegal Weaver

Thekla McDaniels wrote:  Loess Plateau,  .

Edward Lye wrote:

Thekla McDaniels wrote:  Loess Plateau,  .

Didya mean this?


Regreening the desert with John D. Liu | VPRO Documentary | 2012
4,507,662 views  8 May 2017  For more than 15 years, cameraman and ecologist John D. Liu has been working on his worldwide mission to green deserts and to restore biodiversity.

It all started in 1995 when Liu filmed the Loess-plateau in China. He witnessed a local population who turned an area of almost the same size as The Netherlands from a dry, exhausted wasteland into one green oasis. This experience changed his life. From that moment on, Liu has been travelling all over the world to convince and inspire government leaders, policy-makers and farmers with his film material and knowledge. Liu diligently spreads the message that restoration of ecosystems is not only possible, but also economically very meaningful.
Backlight accompanies Liu on his mission in Jordan and shows on the basis of Liu’s own film material that a green future is possible worldwide.

Originally broadcasted by VPRO in 2012.
© VPRO Backlight April 2012

Let's vote on a movie via a little poor man's poll in the comments below, and then I'll update this thread with a link to the publicly available film of our choosing.

Then comes the fun part - we all get to come back to the movie thread and talk about the movie!  Kinda like a book club, but one where you don't have to read.  (Except then you do have to read to participate in the discussion part on the forum, but I digress . . .)

Now, technically speaking, one could watch the movie at any time.  And I guess that's okay too, but there's something kinda magical about the thought of all of us popping our own popcorn, firing up our own viewing accouterments, and letting 'er rip . . . together.

Thekla McDaniels wrote:  David Liu documentary on land restoration, on a piece of land the size of Belgium.