The "Frontline" documentary, which weaves solemn interviews with Iraqi exiles and disgruntled government officials around scenes of the everyday chaos and violence of Baghdad, does not provide new information so much as it richly illustrates the case against the Bush administration -- a prosecution brief enhanced with charts, photographs and a thick leather binder.
Even Hijo del Santo, the most conservative of Mexican males, got that right on his solemn TV interview show, "Experiencias".
This book jumps around between solemn reflection, interviews with the band, personal interpretation and the annals of punk, but none of it is so heavy handed that you feel your concentration drifting.
The answer was not in the solemn, carefully worded interview he gave on "Nightline" on Friday.
Skepta is known to be serious in interviews – solemn, even.
The Tupac Shakur industry takes a giant leap backward with this grotesque hagiography, produced by the late rapper's mother Afeni Shakur - a hotchpotch of existing material, movie clips, sycophantic interviews, solemn glimpses of journals and poems and Shakur's own disembodied voice, creepily presented as if from beyond the grave.
Thus, he dismissed proselytizing as "solemn nonsense," in a recent interview.
Other scenes show the band playing at a prison and at an anti-apartheid benefit; Picciotto and Ian MacKaye giving a thoughtful interview to a solemn eighth-grade girl; and MacKaye, in concert, sermonizing, with the passion that only a punk or a minister can summon, not to beat people up for being gay, or for being black, or for being women, or period.
To make this solemn occasion, I wanted to interview a photographer who has made the Holga truly shine.
She was interviewed by a solemn, elderly official who asked innumberable questions and finally scribbled a word or two on a pad in front of him.
