Imagine..Rio..

[not-bono-ever]

on Beeb one at the minute

check it out if itd not too late - very good!

 

[8115]

Yeah, I'm watching it, it's a good doc. I wish I could speak Portuguese.

 

[8115]

Also City of Men is right after. I've set it to record on my new Tivo box.

 

[Fez909]

City of Men was great

 

[8115]

 

[8115]

I'm gonna learn Portuguese.

 

[OneStrike]

This is good stuff, i'd love to spend some time there.

 

[toblerone3]

Stunning documentary full length 105 minutes. Have watched it twice now. Especially good on music. Would've been interesting to hear more about the politics, although there was some in there. A little mention of Getulio Vargas; the coup of 1964; the dictatorship and favela politics. Nothing about the decision to demote Rio as the capital of Brazil and build Brazillia in the mid 1950s though.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b044jg7d/imagine-summer-2014-1-rio-50-degrees-carry-on-carioca

 

[girasol]

Rio 50 degrees: Difficult to cover such a vast subject, but really enjoyed it from that angle. Great music, and even one of my teenage idols, from Legiao Urbana, and my generation anthem's, Geracao Coca-Cola, were present. They were from Brasilia though, no Rio.