Friday, September 2, 2011

Roy Orbison on Austin City Limits in 1982...

Orbison's appearance was a milestone in the 25-year history of AUSTIN CITY LIMITS. He became the first bona fide legend to step onto their stage. His performance took the show to a new level...this proved to be the catalyst that brought Orbison back to the forefront of the popular music scene. This live version from the August 5, 1982, telecast has been digitally remastered and edited...Saturday at 10pm

Then POV brings us "Armadillo"...In 2009, Janus Metz and cameraman Lars Skree accompanied a platoon of Danish soldiers to Armadillo, a combat operations base in southern Afghanistan. For six months, often while under fire, they captured the lives of the young soldiers fighting the Taliban in a hostile and confusing environment, where official rhetoric about helping civilians too often met the unforgiving reality of being a foreign occupier. Winner of the Critics' Week Grand Prix at Cannes, "Armadillo" is one of the most dramatic and candid accounts of combat to come out of Afghanistan...Saturday at 11pm

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