Most of these come from my
Random blog, which is an electronic scrapbook of stuff I thought I might like to view at some time or other. For those who want to view stuff on drugs I've collected the very best links here. Unless otherwise stated these are full-length features, usually an hour or more.
If you have a slow connexion and are unused to viewing multiscreen films on Youtube here's what to do: click the first one and play on mute, stopping and starting as it does. Then, when it's done, click on Repeat Play and you get the full entertainment without interruption. While you watch screen one, do the same to screens 2, 3 and so on. So as each bit finishes, the next part's ready and waiting.
Mexican Black Tar Heroin: "
Dark End"
Khun Sa, whose name meant Prince Prosperous, had been, before his death in the mid 2000s, the world's biggest dealer in China White Heroin: "
Lord of the Golden Triangle"
In-depth portrait of the Afghan heroin trade at its very height. Includes heroin-lab bust. "
Afghanistan's Fateful Harvest"
Classic miniseries whose title became a catchphrase for the misery of life in East Asian prison. Nicole Kidman plays a privileged middle-class girl set up to mule heroin through Thai customs with the inevitable consequences. This is so long it had to be posted in two parts. "
Bangkok Hilton 1" (first 2 hours or so); "
Bangkok Hilton 2" (last couple of hours).
Short film: from tapwater-clear H4 in the USA to murky black Afghan brown in Norway: "
Heroin Addicts Speak"
Before his untimely death this guy kept a video diary. Here's the hour-long highlights as broadcast on BBC TV: "
Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict". Thanks to
Noah for the original link.
Some of the most entertaining scenes from Britain's top soap (as much for the poor research as anything else). Not even Phil Mitchell would go from nought to multi-hundred pound binges this fast: "
Phil Mitchell on Crack" (just over 5 minutes).
Scientist lady shows us how to cook up gear: "
How Much Citric?" Lucky cow: her brown is 70% purity! Oddly we never see her actually do her hit... maybe she got camera shy...
And lastly:
German documentary following a life from teenage addiction to untimely death before the age of 30. The decline in this girl's appearance is truly shocking. "
Süchtig: Protokoll einer Hilflosigkeit". Sorry no subtitles; this is here for anyone learning German who's after practice material a little more gripping than Lindenstraße!
ANYONE SEEN THAT Martin Scorsese film, The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the "eccentric" pilot-cum-airline boss cum film producer?
10 comments:
We saw that movie a few years ago when we were visiting a friend of ours in Bath. Vincent really liked it. I think I fell asleep somewhere in the middle. I just don't like Leornado di Caprio.
Leonardo and Howard don't look anything alike. I'm tired of Hollywood actors, anyway.
Am looking forward to your post tomorrow . . .
Yes, I did see it. Thought it went on too long, to be honest. Look forward to reading you tomorrow on this, Gleds. x
I’ve watched The Aviator several times. Matter of fact, I have the DVD in my computer now.
I think I fell asleep watching it.
I liked it ok, but the Movie "Melvin and Howard" was the one I liked best about a controversial Mormon Will. Jason Robard plays Hughes...did you know Robard was Howard's middle name??
Nicole: Never having seen or met Howard Hughes I can't rate his performance for verisimilitude-type stuff... But my first thought on seeing the guy and one I never satisfactorily resolved to myself: I'm not sure di Caprio had the gravitas of a billionaire
Welshcakes: I thought it was too short! And just finished; stopped... DEAD for no seeming reason... I could have watched at least another 4 hours ... it was only about 2 hours long. Far too SHORT to my mind! I loved the ancient moviestars like Hayworth and Hepburn... and the music, like Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade... I was entranced!
TutTut: I know they don't look anything alike even WITH the best hair, makeup, lighting a £20 million+ production can buy...
I hope my today's post lives up to all these expectations..!!
Nick: don't YOU think it is far too SHORT? Hey are there any jazzy extra bits on the DVDs? Do please tell me!!
Vi: I actually stayed awake the entire time throughout which is Seriously Unlike Me..!!
Tom: never heard of that Melvin and Howard one and no I didn't have a clue about the middle name.... hey but did YOU know that the thicko Michael Jackson took to wearing surgical masks after an associate informated him "you're just like Howard Hughes"
"Who is Howard Hughes. Get me a book on him," said the barely literate Jackson.
"Get me a video on him," said Jackson, soon as the over long and not-in-large-print and without 50%+ illustrations Howard Hughes biography arrived....
... yeah anyway THAT is partly meant to blame for MJ's ridiculous masks, finger-plasters and other deliberate weirdness... all the stuff that backfired so spectacularly against him once those paedophillia allegations took on momentum...
(poor imbecile Michael Jackson... one day someone's gonna make a fantastic life about HIM! that will make a brilliant watch!)
never seen this film myself....
it's well worth seeing. well PERSONALLY i think so ~ but loads of ppl disagree, as you can see~!!
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