DVD: Privilege “You can lead them into a better way of life, a fruitful conformity.” Director Peter Watkins probably deserves his own category. Watkins was behind the previously reviewed BBC sponsored film The War Game, which was ironically banned by the BBC!
Archive for June, 2009
Privilege (1967)
Posted: June 26, 2009 in Joe GiambroneTags: dark comedy, documentary, mockumentary, narrative, Peter Watkins, satire, Standing Up To Fascism
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Katyn – Directed by Andrzej Wajda (2007)
Posted: June 18, 2009 in Binoy KampmarkTags: atrocities, omission, Poland, propaganda, Soviets, war, World War II
DVD: Katyn The Struggle Against Forgetting Analysis by Binoy Kampmark The Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz writes somewhere that history has taught the Poles what it means to not exist. ‘Deprived of a state, they lived for over a century on death row.’ The nature of this historical erasure, this perennial placement in a purgatory seemingly [...]
The War Game (1965)
Posted: June 17, 2009 in Joe GiambroneTags: academy awards, Britain, documentary, mockumentary, narrative, nuclear weapons, Peter Watkins, war
The War Game Some films have the power to change the world. The War Game is one such film. At the height of the Cold War, the filmmaker created a realistic glimpse into what actual nuclear war would look like to the British public, its consequences. He has thought the “unthinkable” and put it on [...]
Stealing America: Vote by Vote (2008) (free online)
Posted: June 17, 2009 in Joe GiambroneTags: documentary, elections, free online
2004: “It wasn’t just in one state or one city or one location. It was a national phenomenon. In state after state exit polls showed a totally different outcome than vote counts. It’s such an enormous disparity between exit polls, which have always been reliable, and vote count.” –Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant Treasury Secretary [...]
Blu-ray: Baraka DVD: Baraka (2-Disc Special Edition) Baraka (“blessing”) is a glorious accomplishment of a film. This is a cinematographer’s film, and that’s where it was recommended to me, hanging out on Cinematography forums. The source material was shot on 65mm, and the filmmakers traveled the world “three times” making this non-verbal film. It’s an [...]
The TRUTH about the SAG Ultra Low Budget Agreement
Posted: June 14, 2009 in John G. ThomasTags: budget, independent filmmaking, producing, SAG
by John G. Thomas / easy-budget.com We independent producers are the future of film and video entertainment. We break new ground every time we go to work while the major studios turn out yet another Spiderman or Ironman with wall-to-wall effects and no discernable story. So, like many filmmakers I was excited when I first [...]
DVD: War, Inc. Blu-ray: War, Inc. REVIEW: War Inc. is a strange bird of a film. It’s a dark comedy, absurdist and surreal. Yet, it has very grounded story elements, such as a war theater that looks remarkably like Iraq. I wanted to like this film more than I did. There is very little coming [...]
