The Man Booker Prize is the world’s most distinguished literary award for English fiction. Its winners instantly acquire a level of fame and wealth which most writers could only dream of.
To commemorate its 50th birthday, this documentary looks back over the six decades of the prize, exploring how from humble beginnings the Booker quickly went on to revolutionise the sleepy world of literary fiction and become a central part of British cultural life.
We hear the inside story of scandal, gossip and intrigue from a host of former winners, judges and prize administrators. Over the years the prize has changed its rules, its sponsors and its name. But it’s never lost sight of its core purpose: to stimulate debate and encourage the reading of literary fiction. This is a tale of bruised egos, bickering judges, and most importantly of all of - countless brilliant books.
Contributors include Booker winning authors Peter Carey, Penelope Lively and John Banville.

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David Barison 和Daniel Ross拍的一部长达189分钟的纪录片(2004)。Barison生于1972年，澳大利亚墨尔本大学读哲学。Ross是Barison的校友，最初学物理，后来碰到Barison转哲学。因为热衷于海德格尔的警句，想让人们知道海德格尔的理论今天并不过时。So, 他俩03年买了一部DV，从伦敦出发，顺着Danube河流，拍下了这部 公路哲学片子。先八卦这么多，同时承诺，不主动谈电影结构，不拒绝谈获奖情况，对于叙述部分的正误不负任何责任, 接着看：
The Ister是德国诗人Holderlin未完成的一部诗的标题，背景是Danube river。诗的开头是这样的：Now come fire! / Eager are we / to see the day。猜对了，电影也是这样开始的。第一个问题是：荷尔德林是谁。反正最后疯了。第二个问题是：荷尔德林同海德格尔什么关系。我读前者不读后者，所以只能简单的说，海德格尔在1942年开讲座，探讨诗歌的意义，技术的自然性，古希腊同德国当年的联系，政治和生存的本质，正好荷尔德林的《The Ister》正好可以满足海德格尔。
本片子逐句拆开这首诗，穿插进一些当代哲学家随意的观点。当然，不同地点的画面必不可少，最后是海德格尔朗诵这首The Ister, 最后的结尾，同开头一样，一只鸭子向前消失。我的简介这么多已经足够。OK, 接着八卦：片子中找到了三位哲学家，Bernard Stiegler，写过《时间和技术》，当然法国5月革命时做过几年牢。海德格尔的拥趸，同时推进老海的主题。提出Spirit, 片子的后面德国导演Hans-Jurgen Sybergberg有顶他的戏。
Jean-Luc Nancy, 探讨政治和意识形态。10分钟年华老去 里面，他在火车上向他的女学生讲人生的那个人，仔细想想。Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe：因为瞧不起海德格尔当年加入纳粹，同时拒绝道歉。出版过《艺术和政治》，搞政治的不是什么好鸟。不过他是个烟鬼，这点让我有认同感。 他还提到Paul Celane的一首诗，忘记了是那首，兴奋了一下。
Hans-Jurgen Sybergberg老帅哥出场，问，岂不机器也有精神 (spirit)？或许有，但肯定不是那种装在马桶里面，看女人在上面做什么的摄像机。
这些主题很大，探讨自然，技术，时间，存在，政治等等。最绝望的是Stiegler说了这样一句：什么是自然？自然已经沦为一种幻觉（in our time, Nature has become a phantasm）。这样的观点，虽然不怎么淫荡，但是够贱，够贱。
自然真的就是一种幻觉么？那么第一就是高呼原始社会好的艺术家，第二就是工业社会里快乐的淫荡的艺术家。可能还有其他。
电影叙述着当年，也混同当年的记忆，纪录着现在。生活真的可以叙述么？现在 真的就可以记录么？于是怀念那些以最拙劣的步子走着路的人。
这部纪录片帮我整理了一下自己的视角，但是很多难言之隐依然无法洗去，当然也并不幻想这种哲学方式带给我终极的对话。其实，属于自己体内的战争，还要继续扛下去。不过总有一天，这些终究消失，仅仅为自己生存的第二天而战(Tom Waits)。
的确，“我看到的你不过是我自己”。纪录片的故事讲完了，然后呢，刷卡，等地铁，上车，走人。

Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it.

ŽIŽEK! trails the thinker as he crisscrosses the globe, racing from New York City lecture halls, through the streets of Buenos Aires, and even stopping at home in Ljubljana, Slovenia. All the while Žižek obsessively reveals the invisible workings of ideology through his unique blend of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxism, and critique of pop culture.

A vast, timely, and often chilling investigation into the idea and practice of democracy, ranging from Ancient Greece and Renaissance Europe to civil rights, fears of voter fraud, and the spectre of authoritarianism.

导演保罗·托马斯·安德森完成一部纪录片《Junun》。今年早些时候，PTA和他的好友吉他手约翰尼·格林伍德，前往印度贾斯坦邦的Mehrangarh城堡，拍摄纪录以色列作曲家Shye Ben Tzur与当地的杰出音乐家们一起制作音乐专辑的过程，音乐与艺术相互碰撞激发灵感。《Junun》将于十月的纽约电影节首映。

加州打字机是一个其生活与打字机息息相关的人们的故事，电影是对创造力与技术的沉思，由Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, David McCullough等人出演（California Typewriter is a story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. The film is a meditation on creativity and tech nology featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, David McCullough and others.）

这部纪录片包含访谈、见解和档案影像，为我们揭示历史事件是如何塑造了约翰·克特兰的音乐。

A documentary about a jazz trumpeter and his wife.

Directed by the renowned New York City-based actor Mike Rappaport, offered is a sneak peak at his upcoming documentary on one of hip-hop’s most beloved groups of all time, A Tribe Called Quest. The documentary was said to have taken several years to shoot and is almost towards completion. Mike Rappaport has been known to be a hip-hop fan since his early days.

Colorized historical footage in ascending order of World War 1. Not only the relatively known Flanders and France battles, but also the generally unknown Italian-Austrian, German-Polish-Russian, Japanese-German, Ottoman Empire- Allied and African German Colonies, and other unknown or forgotten fronts and battles. Original French production retold in English for National Geographic channel as: World War 1: The Apocalypse

《守护者》由瑞安·怀特 (《审判八号提案》、《披头士女助理》) 执导。这部精彩的 7 集纪录片讲述了巴尔的摩修女被害悬案和其中的恐怖秘密，以及她遇害后近 50 载仍挥之不去的痛楚。
记录片从修女凯茜·切斯尼克的失踪事件展开，她是巴尔的摩一位备受喜爱的修女，也是天主教会高中的教师，她于 1969 年 11 月 7 日失踪。大约两个月后，人们发现了她的尸体，时至今日，她的遇害仍是一桩悬案。
直到 90 年代，修女凯茜·切斯尼克曾经的一位学生 (一位匿名“无名氏”的女性) 说出了自己遭受高中牧师性虐待的可怕经历，这件案子才重新受到人们的关注。令人难以置信的是，该女子透露，在人们发现修女凯茜·切斯尼克的尸体之前，她曾被带到跟前接受警告“看看说别人坏话会有什么下场”。尽管有上述证据以及其他受害者和目击者的证词，但并没有人被追究责任，而且此事在巴尔的摩外鲜有报道。
通过走访数十人，包括修女凯茜的朋友、亲戚、记者、政府官员和决心找出真相巴尔的摩市民，怀特拼凑出事件的大体，不仅涉及受人喜爱的天主教会学校老师之死，还牵涉到神职人员性虐待、被压抑的回忆以及政府和宗教机构，他说：“说得好听点是 (政府和宗教机构) 过去 45 年存在失职，说得难听点就是他们隐瞒了事实真相。”

Series in which intrepid presenter Kate Humble follows the ancient frankincense trade route of Arabia across the amazing modern world of the Middle East. Kate's journey along the 2,000-mile trail that first connected the Arab world with the West takes her on a quest that's steeped in history, searing with desert heat, and full of characters and adventure.
For 3,000 years before the birth of Christ, frankincense was more valuable than gold. Its sweet smelling aromatic smoke was treasured by Pharaohs and Caesars, and their insatiable demand for frankincense created a trade route from the southern coast of Oman to the Holy Lands. Vast camel caravans carried thousands of tonnes of frankincense over tribal lands - known today as Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Israel and Palestine. Following the trail across these seven nations, Kate finds modernity coexisting with ancient traditions as she discovers what it means to be a Western woman in Arabia.
Part 1: Oman ,Yemen and Saudi Arabia
Kate begins her epic journey following high in the hills of southern Oman. With her own supply of the precious resin, she walks with the Al Mahri tribe - the descendants of the ancient traders - and their 300 camels along the original trail through the scorching Empty Quarter desert. Crossing into Yemen, Kate arrives at the world's first skyscraper city, where her frankincense is used at the ritual blessing of a newborn baby. From the modern frankincense trade capital of Aden to an incredible camel-jumping contest, Kate journeys north and enters the mysterious Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Part 2: Saudi Arabia
Kate Humble follows the path of the ancient frankincense trade route through one of the most enigmatic nations on Earth - the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
With unprecedented access, Kate enters the world of the nation's richest man, meets a remote mountain tribe whose ancestors once guarded the trade routes and who live at the fringe of Saudi society today, and discovers the treasures of an untouched shipwreck that once carried frankincense on the crystal-clear waters of the Red Sea. Travelling by camel, glider and boat, she traces the 1,000-mile trail through the Kingdom and discovers the modern nation and its people.
Part 3: Egypt
Kate Humble crosses the Red Sea from Saudi Arabia to Egypt following the frankincense trail of the Pharaohs. Travelling the length of the Nile, Kate enters Karnack, the world's largest religious site. She looks at the mummy of the once beautiful Queen of the Pharaohs, reveals the death rituals of the Pharaohs in the vast tomb of the Pyramids of Giza, jostles with thousands of ecstatic Christians, and in an extraordinary ceremony in the Sinai desert is cleansed of evil spirits.
Part 4: Jordan and Israel
In this final episode, Kate Humble concludes her remarkable frankincense trail from Oman, across seven nations to Jordan, and on to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. She reveals the secrets behind the ancient Jordanian stone city of Petra, flies with a daredevil female pilot over the Sinai desert, travels to the sacred city Jerusalem, and finds out why a small plot of land is the most contested site in the world. Kate ends her extraordinary journey following in the footsteps of the Three Wise Men to Bethlehem

雅典娜是一位母亲，当他们被迫离开他们的水坑时，她会尽她所能保护她的牧群。这一史诗般的旅程，由Chiwetel Ejiofor讲述，带领观众穿越非洲大草原，进入大象家庭的核心。一个关于爱，失去和回家的故事。

The Return is the Movement of Tao
反者道之动 —— 老子《道德经》第四十章
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朱晓玫对巴赫及其作品《哥德堡变奏曲》的体验、思考、解说、演奏。
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Gang of Four
Episode 1 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
Art writer Waldemar Januszczak explores the revolutionary achievements of the Impressionists. In the first episode, Waldemar delves into the back stories of four of the most influential Impressionists - Pissarro, Monet, Renoir and Bazille - who together laid the foundations of the artistic movement. He finds out what social and cultural influences drove them to their style of painting, how they were united and how ultimately they challenged and changed art forever.
Waldemar journeys from the shores of the West Indies, to the progressive city of Paris to the suburbs of South London, where these four artists drew inspiration from the cities and towns in which they lived. Whether it be the infamous spot on the river Seine - La Grenouillere - where Monet and Renoir beautifully captured animated people, iridescent light and undulating water or the minimalist, non-sensationalised illustrations of Pissarro's coarse countryside paintings, Waldemar discovers how the Impressionists broke conventions by depicting every day encounters within the unpredictable and ever changing sights around them.
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Painting outdoors
Episode 2 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
Waldemar Januszczak continues his investigation of the Impressionists by taking us outdoors to their most famous locations. Although Impressionist pictures often look sunny and relaxed, achieving this peaceful air was hard work. Trudging through fog, wind and rain, across treacherous coastal rocks and knee-deep snow, Waldemar shows how the famous spontaneity of the Impressionists is thoroughly misleading.
This episode visits the French riverside locations that Monet loved to paint, and where Renoir captured the bonhomie of modern life. Waldemar also introduces a number of technical and practical developments of the age which completely revolutionised Impressionist painting - the invention of portable easels; the use of hog's hair in paint brushes; as well as the introduction of the railway through France. And a scientific demonstration in a Swedish snowdrift explains just how right the Impressionists were to paint brightly coloured shadows in their winter scenes, despite being accused of 'hallucinating' at the time.
Finally, Januszczak explains Cezanne's part in the Impressionist story from his dark and challenging early work to his first rural landscapes in France, and then his departure from Paris and separation from the Impressionist gang.
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Painting the People
Episode 3 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
Waldemar Januszczak continues his investigation of the Impressionists, focusing this time on the people they painted and in particular the subjects of Degas, Caillebotte and the often forgotten Impressionist women artists. The Impressionists are famous for painting landscape but they were just as determined to paint people.
Looking closely at one of Impressionism's finest painters, Edgar Degas, Waldemar reveals how he consistently challenged traditions and strove to record real life as it appeared in the city, from sculpting the contorted movements of horses in motion at the Longchamp race course in Paris to encapsulating extravagant 3D viewpoints of the ballet dancers at the Paris Opera.
Waldemar also uncovers the intoxicating haziness the pastel produced in Degas' work when visiting his supplier Pastels de Roche. He also reveals the unusual viewpoints and dramatic perspectives of Caillebotte's paintings from the Place de L'Europe and the rebellious and revolutionary art of Morisot, Bracquemond and Cassatt, three impressive female artists who were eagerly embraced by the progressive movement of Impressionism
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Final Flourish
Episode 4 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
This episode takes a closer look at the late years of Impressionism, using the last show these artists did together as a starting point.
Waldemar looks in considerable depth at the work of Georges Seurat, taking into consideration his academic training at the Beaux-Arts School in Paris and the artists that influenced him, such as Piero della Francesca and Puvis de Chavannes.
There is also an insight into the complex but fascinating world of optics and art, and the ways in which the Impressionists were using the new discoveries in light and eyesight to influence their work. A fascinating 'after-image' experiment brings to life the ways in which our own eyes see colour, both in its presence and its absence.
Van Gogh's time in Paris, a period very little is known about, is also covered, charting the incredible journey the artist made from his brown and dull canvases to the splendid colour and light that pervaded his work on the cusp of his departure for the South of France.
The film finishes with a revisiting of Monet and his later waterlily paintings in the Orangerie in Paris. Waldemar investigates how a bad case of cataracts was responsible for a seismic shift in his colour palette and his brushstrokes. Spending time with an ophthalmologist, he finds out how old age and a fairly common ailment of the eyes caused Impressionism to shift and become radical again at the turn of the century and into the 20th century

地球上的天堂在哪里？通过赫尔佐格的镜头，那就是巴赫塔，位于俄罗斯北部叶尼塞河畔的一个村庄，他与导演德米特里.瓦萨科夫捕捉了当地人的生活，砍伐树木，建造渔船，捕鱼，收货食物，漫长的冬季和四季，加上他们分享的观点。

《现代艺术大师》是英国广播公司BBC推出的一档电视系列节目，它由四部分组成，分别详细介绍了20世纪的四位重要的艺术大师：安迪·沃霍尔（Andy Warhol）、马蒂斯（Henri Matisse）、毕加索（Pablo Picasso）和达利（Salvador Dali）的工作与生活。在片中，镜头跟随主持人Alastair Sooke的脚步，走访了四位艺术家们生前的居所、艺廊及博物馆，甚至是他们最爱的餐厅等地，向观众展示了他们伟大的艺术贡献以及惊人的后世影响力。环顾四周，麦当娜的专辑封面、米菲兔的文具、甚至是你家的沙发和电话，也许就来源于这四位大师的创作……

Ways of Seeing is a 1972 BBC four-part television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. Berger's scripts were adapted into a book of the same name. The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images. The series is partially a response to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation series, which represents a more traditionalist view of the Western artistic and cultural canon.

去年社運電影節有套殺死人的六小時影片〔巴黎公社，1871〕，你可以視這片為該片的 making of (製作特輯)，但本片也有本片的意義。Peter Watkins通過呼召集體學習及重新演繹一段被遺忘的草民抗爭歷史（巴黎公社）來追縱現代抗爭的意義，以及讓現代人民參與創造歷的意義，而本片則追縱這個過程，並訪問好多個角色，讓他們以自己的日常生活影像與〔巴黎公社，1871〕中的角度互相映照，並再對照全球媒體如何操作「真實」與「歷史」，最後對比出一幅複雜的「真實」圖像，讓你不能不想想：如果每天看到的影像都比「真實」更「真實」時，你又如何？