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My Fellow Americans: Reaching Across The Aisle
Strange Culture —
This post is part of the Politics and Movie blog-a-thon hosted by The Cooler, running Nov. 4-9. In the film My Fellow American James Garner and Jack Lemmon play former presidents who fought each other in two consecutive elections with a very bitter rivalry. Jack Lemmon plays the thrifty Republic former president and James Garner plays the promiscuous democratic former president. In the film these two bitter rivals are forced to work together. Essentially enemies on two different sides of the political spectrum are forced to work together ...
11/4: Here and Elsewhere
Only The Cinema —
[This post is a contribution to the Politics & Movies Blog-a-thon, running from November 4-9 at The Cooler.] As with so many of Jean-Luc Godard's films, Here and Elsewhere is an intensely mediated, indirect examination of reality (or, as Godard would probably prefer, realities). It is not so much a political film as it is about political films, about the ways in which images, sounds, and their combinations can contribute to or impede understanding. It is also a study in contrasts, with the title's dual concepts the ...
Links for the Day (November 5th, 2008)
The House Next Door —
... the Studs Turkel-led Links for the Day for an update to his comment there) responds to the outcome. The page for Proposition 8 results (looking likely to eliminate same-sex marriage, though Andrew Sullivan has some sobering words). This MSNBC article reports on most of the social initiatives at play in the election. Jason Bellamy offers a day-before/day-after reaction. (Jason, you should also note, has just commenced the Politics & Movies Blog-a-thon.) A transcript of Obama's victory speech is here. McCain's ...
Politics & Movies Blog-a-Thon.
GreenCine Daily —
Jeremy Bellamy is hosting the Politics & Movies Blog-a-Thon, which runs through Sunday - and you're invited to join in. As he wrote in his announcement, "The parameters are these: Your post must deal with politics and movies. Simple as that. If that means you write an appreciation of a political-themed drama like The Candidate, perfect! If that means you analyze a documentary like No End in Sight, that's great, too. If instead you want to dive into the deeper political themes of a blockbuster like The ...
Politics and Movies Blogathon
The Moviezzz Blog —
What's that? You haven't had enough of Politics? Well head on over to The Cooler for a blogathon on politics and cinema. A lot of great stuff. If you have any contributions, it runs until November 9th.
11/5: Society of the Spectacle
Only The Cinema —
[This post is a contribution to the Politics & Movies Blog-a-thon, running from November 4-9 at The Cooler.] The arguments of the Situationist Guy Debord, as radical as they were at the time he first made them, might today seem somewhat familiar and even blasé, on their surface at least: culture is a distraction from material reality; it is in the interests of societal elites to keep the masses docile; workers are alienated from the results of their labor in industrial society. To some extent, these ideas have been thoroughly absorbed ...
The Day After
The Listening Ear —
Still feeling pretty giddy about last night... I'm sure there will be plenty of political talk in the coming months - there's hope in politics again - something good might happen - we might have some political goals based on something other than pretending to be tough for a change... It's fun. Meanwhile - to transition back to movies - check out the Jason Bellamy's Poltics and Movies blogathon, already in progress.
Screenwriting News & Links! 11/6/08
Mystery Man on Film —
... Dominique Othenin-Gerard, and Shem Bitterman Max Payne - August 24, 2007, draft script by Beau Michael Thorne The Dragons of Krull – Nov, 1980, draft script by Stanford Sherman (leaked) Prince of Persia – June 15, 2006, draft by Jeffrey Nachmanoff -------------------------------------- Politics & Movies Blog-a-Thon Tyler Perry ...
"W." - Dir. Oliver Stone
Bohemian Cinema —
... NOTE: This review is also a contribution to the Politics & Movies Blog-a-Thon at The Cooler. ...
In Other Blogs: Electoral Collage
The Screengrab —
... This week’s edition of In Other Blogs is heavily indebted to The Cooler, host of the ongoing Politics & Movies Blog-a-thon (Nov. 4-9), including ...
More thoughts on the Society of the Spectacle
Only The Cinema —
[This post is a contribution to the Politics & Movies Blog-a-thon, running from November 4-9 at The Cooler.] As a follow-up to my recent post on Guy Debord's film Society of the Spectacle, I have been reading Debord's 1988 essay "Comments on the Society of the Spectacle," an extension to the earlier book and film, as well as an update which amends Debord's ideas in relation to changing social conditions. In general, this later essay is much more pessimistic than the earlier works, as Debord seems to have concluded that by this point the spectacle ...
11/7: Meantime
Only The Cinema —
[This post is a contribution to the Politics & Movies Blog-a-thon, running from November 4-9 at The Cooler.] Mike Leigh's Meantime is a brutish, nasty movie about brutish, nasty people, a thoroughly unpleasant cinema of abjection that burrows deep into the unpleasant, aimless lives of its protagonists like a maggot digging its way into rotted flesh. The film centers on a family who live an entirely government-supported existence: terminally unemployed, accepting the dole week after week, living in squalor, doing nothing all ...
A Very Special FtY Retread: The Neocon Country
Forward to Yesterday —
... Though, among other things, real-life politics — and the fact I didn’t even know about it until Election Day — have made it difficult for me to craft a proper entry for The Film and Politics Blogathon being held over at Jason Bellamy’s ...
