Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac (1973) [mondo Macabro] [reup 2017]

Memoirs by former prisoners of war of the Japanese invariably make for moving reading but Colonel Owtrams account of his years of captivity has a special significance.

Liedcyclus op het grensvlak van pop, jazz en klassiek van Morris Kliphuis en Lucky Fonz III – ‘The Secret Diary of Nora Plain’ vertelt op het grensvlak van pop, jazz en klassiek het hartverscheurende verhaal van de jonge Nora Plain, wier diepste gedachten en gevoelens steeds meer worden beïnvloed door de opdringerige wereld om haar heen. Deze liedcyclus, omgeven door de broeierige strijkkwartetklanken van het Ragazze Quartet en de onvoorspelbare ritmiek van jazzdrummer Remco Menting, wordt vertolkt door zangeres Nora Fischer. De teksten zijn van singer-songwriter Lucky Fonz III, Morris Kliphuis tekende voor de muziek.

For the BBC series ‘The Secret Life of Elephants’ we’ve revealed the elephant’s hidden world – the depth of their emotions, their remarkable intelligence, and the intimate complexities of their family life. We spent three months in Kenya, filming the elephants and following the work of Iain Douglas-Hamilton and the Save the Elephants research team. We wanted to tell the stories of individual elephants, which meant we spent every hour from dawn till dusk finding and following our stars across the Samburu reserve. We focussed on the most dramatic moments in their lives – a calf from the day of her birth, a bull using tactics to win a mate, a matriarch making decisions to protect her family. We followed the research team on missions across northern Kenya to protect the elephants; we see them helping a community terrorised by crop raiding bulls, uncovering an outbreak of poaching which killed two of their best known elephants, and tracing the new dangers on ancient elephant migration routes.
After weeks of hard work, we were rewarded with astonishing glimpses into the elephant’s lives. But we couldn’t have imagined that we’d become so directly involved in a life or death operation to save a baby elephant’s life.