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Slamdance Co-Founder Masterminds Fake McCain Source, Hoaxes MSNBC
SpoutBlog —
It finally happened: my obsession with MSNBC has dovetailed with legitimate movie news! Sort of!
Tonight the New York Times broke the news that over a year ago, Dan Mirvish (filmmaker and co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival) and Eitan Gorlin (whose directorial debut, The Holy Land, won the Grand Jury Prize at that festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award) made up a fake adviser to John McCain named Martin Eisenstadt. On Monday, MSNBC’s David Schuster reported on air that Martin Eisenstadt had ...
Politics, Documentaries, and Hoaxes
The Chutry Experiment —
Like virtually everyone else, I’ve been fascinated by two or three great news stories related to the 2008 election.
First, I loved the “Fake New York Times” created by the Yes Men, with the famous headline declaring an end to the war in Iraq. I would love to have a hard copy, but the web version is a pretty sophisticated match, and the mock resignation by Thomas “Suck on This” Friedman is pretty terrific. The Gawker’s story about the hoax is pretty solid, as is the story by the real New York Times. According to a press release from the Yes ...
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Politics & Movies Blog-a-Thon.
daily.greencine.com 11/5/2008 —
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 ...
Documentaries That Are More Fun Than Features
empireonline.com 3/9/2009 — For quite a few years now, the best documentaries have been right up there - maybe even better than - the best feature films. They may still be ghettoised every year come Oscar time, stuffed into their own little category where they can't upset any ...
Sundance Documentaries Will Tell You What To Do
blog.spout.com 12/8/2008 — I’ve spent the morning combing the various Sundance line-up overviews, wherein reporters for a variety of publications digest the four competition line-ups announced yesterday in an attempt to find an overarching theme/predictive slant which ...
Slamdance Co-Founder Masterminds Fake McCain Source, Hoaxes MSNBC
blog.spout.com 11/14/2008 —
It finally happened: my obsession with MSNBC has dovetailed with legitimate movie news! Sort of!
Tonight the New York Times broke the news that over a year ago, Dan Mirvish (filmmaker and co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival) and Eitan ...
Politics Is BULLSH1T (video)
youtube.com 10/13/2008 — I remember when I first started paying attention. Back when MTV played music videos, and Ren & Stimpy ruled Nickelodeon, and rock and roll on the radio ...
Eight Short Documentaries Make The AMPAS Shortlist
fataculture.wordpress.com 10/9/2008 — “Tongzhi in Love”
Every year around this time, a whole bunch of Academy shortlists are announced pertaining to a whole bunch of films most of us have never heard of mainly of the “short” filmmaking variety, mostly because the ...
It’s Here: Politics & Movies Blog-a-thon (Nov 4-9)
coolercinema.blogspot.com 11/5/2008 — The Politics & Movies Blog-a-thon rolls on. Read Day 1 posts after the jump. Continue to submit links in the comments section here or within the original blog-a-thon announcement, or e-mail me at coolercinema@gmail.com.
I’ll do my best to add links ...
Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes Of All Time
museumofhoaxes.com 4/1/2009 — There is disagreement about the correct placement of the apostrophe within the phrase "April Fool's Day." The three options are: April Fool's Day, April Fools' Day, or (no apostrophe at all) April Fools Day. The phrase does not actually have a ...
Announcing the Politics & Movies Blog-a-thon!
coolercinema.blogspot.com 10/3/2008 — The 2008 race for the White House has gone on so long that even Barack Obama is starting to look old. And, sure, the whole drawn-out affair has recently gotten a bit more interesting, thanks to a certain hockey mom from Alaska who is so intent on ...
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