This was an eerie one to watch due to how accurately it depicts our future over 60 years ago, if for a different reason.

Directed by Val Guest, this is a classic grounded hard sci-fi, like something you'd read out of an Analog Magazine of the era. The dialog is surprisingly snappy and well written, and the special effects are quite well done, if used sparingly. The acting is pretty damn solid as well. It's filmed in a fairly unique style in the way it flows, and while a slow burn with little action, I found the writing and concept compelling.

The story centers around a down-and-out British journalist for the Daily Express, Peter Stenning. Struggling to finish a story and constantly being bailed out by his friend, a new lead on strange happenings by the US and USSR sets him on the path to be able to write the story of a lifetime, certainly front page material, at least.

This was a labor of love by the director, who had to beg and plead to multiple studios before one finally gave him a modest budget to get it made, and I think he did a pretty fantastic job. Rotten Tomatoes seems to agree, as it received a rating of 86% there.

This film covers a pretty broad set of themes, including:

• News Media
• Social Class
• Gender Politics (for the 60's, anyway)
• And a couple other things that would spoil the story :)

If that sounds interesting, I highly recommend it. I came away from it being pretty darn satisfied and impressed.

I'm so damn pleased to have found this on archive. Three Days of The Condor is one of my absolute favorite movies ever.

Condor was originally going to be more of a generic spy film to generate some cash for the director, Sydney Pollack. But after the Watergate scandal, the general mood of the country shifted toward mistrust in government, so they tweaked the screenplay to make it a far more serious film with a message, which resulted in one of the finest thrillers of the 70's.

The acting by everyone involved is superb, the casting excellent, and the story excellently told. If I had to compare it to anything, it really feels like a 1970's prequel to the Bourne Conspiracy.

The story focuses on Joe Turner, a bookish CIA analyst codenamed "Condor" who works at the American Literary Historical Society in New York City, which is actually a clandestine CIA office. The staff members examine books, newspapers, and magazines from around the world to compare them to actual operations or to mine ideas, and things take off from there.

This is, in my opinion, the best movie I've yet posted to thus community, so if you're lookin' for something to watch tonight, I highly recommend grabbing some snacks and getting stuck in! :)

The paper, in a very funny but serious way, makes a strong case for the relative uselessness of the index finger, and it's recommendation for amputation if it's at all damaged and impeding existence.

Hi everyone! I recently migrated the Documentaries community from Lemmy.world to our new home at Lemmy.cafe. There's a longer post as to why here for another community I brought over, but one of the big benefits was the ability for the Beehaw community to join in and participate, as they are defederated from lemmy.world.

The Documentaries community is... Nah yeah it's just documentaries, innit mate? But it's good ones! So if you like a good little doc here and there, in between yer netflix and yer podcasts, well by gosh this might be the community for you!

We've got all kinds; war docs, environmental docs, history docs, science docs, even got some weirder docs that'll make ya scratch your head as your mind absorbs what ya just took in, like a drug, but informational.

If that sounds like something that'd interest you, then be sure to check it out and maybe even subscribe over at:

!Documentaries@lemmy.cafe

Hi everyone! I recently migrated the MealtimeVideos community from Lemmy.world to our new home at Lemmy.cafe. There's a longer post as to why here, but one of the big benefits was the ability for the Beehaw community to join in and participate, as they are defederated from lemmy.world.

If you're familiar with the old MealtimeVideos from reddit, it's quite similar to that. But for those unfamiliar, the main draw of the community is that it collects high-quality vidoes, oftentimes edutainment, and provides the duration of the video in the title, so you can select one that will slot in with your breakfast, lunch, or any other meal!

Of course, you don't have to be eating to enjoy the videos, but meal watchers are the main demographic, I suspect.

If that sounds like something that'd interest you, then be sure to check it out and maybe even subscribe over at:

!MealtimeVideos@lemmy.cafe

Hi everyone! I recently migrated the MealtimeVideos community from Lemmy.world to our new home at Lemmy.cafe. There's a longer post as to why here, but one of the big benefits was the ability for the Beehaw community to join in and participate, as they are defederated from lemmy.world.

If you're familiar with the old MealtimeVideos from reddit, it's quite similar to that. But for those unfamiliar, the main draw of the community is that it collects high-quality vidoes, oftentimes edutainment, and provides the duration of the video in the title, so you can select one that will slot in with your breakfast, lunch, or any other meal!

Of course, you don't have to be eating to enjoy the videos, but meal watchers are the main demographic, I suspect.

If that sounds like something that'd interest you, then be sure to check it out and maybe even subscribe over at:

!MealtimeVideos@lemmy.cafe

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Hey all! Just wanted to let you all know we'll be moving the Documentaries community over to Lemmy.Cafe. If you'd like to continue seeing cool new docs in your home tab, be sure to subscribe to our new community at:

!Documentaries@lemmy.cafe

For more details on why we're doing this move, there's a more detailed post on another community we're transferring, MealtimeVideos.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this community and subscribed, and I hope to see you all over at the Cafe :)

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Combined with Libredirect, which automatically opens youtube links in Freetube, it becomes really slick and effortless to use.