The Holy Show
Terrific documentary about an Irish Catholic priest with a secret. The anchor for the story is the 16mm footage taken by student film maker Alison Millar years before the secret was revealed. The story has drama, pathos, humour and some truth about Irish society. The film is a BBC Northern Ireland/RTE co-production.
Sacred Music
Palestrina sounds like planets. To me anyway. When I think of moving in space it’s never to 2001-type Strauss or Ligeti. Nor to the sucking, clanging sound effects of most scientifically illiterate movies. The grace, the slowness of space sounds, to me, like Palestrina. (It’s probably to do with some BBC2 astronomy programme from the [...]
White Gospel
Beautiful, moving Southern voices, two-hundred year-old harmonies, fire-and-brimstone (including a sixteen-foot wooden Satan), racial harmony (and disharmony)… and Elvis. Absolutely lovely middle-of-the-night music doc from BBC4.
