I've decided we should end our subscription to zip.ca . Over the last nine years we've rented over 1600 DVDs from them, and our remaining queue has about 300 titles, but only about 40 of them are now available! This is what happens when discs get lost in the mail or cracked, and only the more popular ones get replaced.
This evening I finally saw the DVD of EVENING PRIMROSE, Stephen Sondheim's one-act musical made for TV in 1967. It's about poet Anthony Perkins hiding in a New York Department Store at night and finding a whole group of other people there, including an object of forbidden love. It's a bit thin but pretty original.
We also saw the documentary YOU'VE BEEN TRUMPED, a real jaw-dropper. It's about Donald Trump's efforts to build a mega-golf resort in rural Scotland and force out the nearby residents. The Aberdeen city council rejected his application, but the Scottish government overruled them, and the local police have been doing his dirty work. It's emerged as an environmental disaster. IMHO Britain's dirty secret is money worship.
I have a few remaining DVDs from zip.ca to see in our last month, including PBS documentaries about whaling and Lake Chataqua, THE FREETHINKER (Peter Watkins' documentary-style film biography of playwright August Strindberg), and a compilation of movie musicals from the golden age in the 1940s.
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