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  • Revenge of the Sith parallels current events: Corrupt Senate gives away freedoms to wannabe dictator
    16 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "This is how liberty dies — to thunderous applause."
    So observes Queen Amidala of Naboo as the galactic senate grants dictator-to-be Palpatine sweeping new powers in his crusade against the Jedi in the final "Star Wars" movie opening this week.
    It’s just one of several lines in "Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith," that reveal the movie to be more than just a sci-fi blockbuster and gargantuan cultural phenomenon.
    "Revenge of the Sith," it turns out, can also be seen as a (…)

  • The film US TV networks dare not show
    13 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Adam Curtis has recut his explosive war on terror documentary The Power of Nightmares into a feature film - and is taking it to the festival.
    By Stuart Jeffries
    05/12/05 "The Guardian" - - There will be no red carpet for Adam Curtis when his film The Power of Nightmares receives its gala screening at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. There would be no point: his film has no leading ladies who could disport themselves in backless numbers or lantern-jawed himbos to vogue fatuously (…)

  • Howard Zinn: "To Be Neutral,To Be Passive In A Situation Is To Collaborate With Whatever Is Going On
    30 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AMY GOODMAN: He is an historian and author of one of the most popular books on American history, A People’s History of the United States. But before we go to him, we’re turning to an excerpt of a new film that chronicles his life. It’s titled, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, which is also the title of his autobiography. The film is produced by First Run Features. It’s narrated by Howard Zinn’s next door neighbor, actor Matt Damon.
    HOWARD ZINN: We grow up in a controlled society. (…)

  • “Howard and Bush are war criminals" ‘They are afraid of you’
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The following remarks were made by independent journalist John Pilger to a March 20 anti-war rally in Sydney.
    The other day, the Aboriginal filmmaker Richard Frankland said this: “When you’ve got a voice, you’ve got freedom, and when you’ve got freedom, you’ve got responsibility. Negotiating with politicians doesn’t work. You’ve got to change attitudes.” That’s the task for all of us here today. It’s not an easy one. In fact, many good people in Australia and other countries believe their (…)

  • Running Red Lights
    14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Matthew Scott Kelemen
    The children featured in Born into Brothels are growing up fast. Filmmakers Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman hope to give them some tools to navigate with.
    Was anybody expecting Million Dollar Baby to sweep the Academy Awards? Once Clint Eastwood’s euthanasia drama won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, a consensus began to emerge in the media that Academy voters went sentimental this year. It was even suggested in some (…)

  • Bush Inauguration Protest Video
    29 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Check Point "Dubya" is a clip from "Mandate?" a half hour documentary of the 2005 Inauguration protests.
    Check Point "Dubya" focuses on constitutional violations by security forces and the brutal over use of pepper spray at the 14th & Penn. parade route check point.
    – http://fluxview.com/v/Fluxview-News...
    "MANDATE?" PREMIERES AT THE TIME’S UP BIKE SPACE
    On Thursday, February 3rd at 7 PM, "Mandate" will make its New York City
    premiere at the Time’s Up Bike Space at 49 East (…)

  • "Machuca" an Andrés Wood’s film
    18 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Another masterpiece of Latin American cinema
    The director André Wood signs one of the most beautiful Chilean film, I do not hesitate to say it, "Machuca" is one of the masterpiece of Latin American cinema, I just hesitate to say "of Latin American cinema"!
    Striking actors, fabulous images, formidable music, deeply moving scenario, the words are missing and we get lost in cliché to qualify this film.
    The coolness and the spontaneity of the first part of the film, contrast with the pain (…)

  • Alarcón: The Five have been the victims of various forms of torture
    20 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD -Special for Granma International-
    "WHEN he saw Gerardo, he was naked, locked up in what they called the "box," that is to say a "hole" within the "hole", with no clothes and with absolutely no contact with the outside world. When they took him out, they removed all the other prisoners who were in the "hole" because he was not allowed to be seen, or hear another human voice or see another human being," explained Ricardo Alarcón, recalling how New York lawyer Leonard (…)

  • Indiana Jones and the battle for Fallujah
    20 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hollywood has joined the war. Universal Pictures announced on Thursday that it is to make The Battle for Fallujah. To prove it is serious, it has enlisted Indiana Jones himself, actor Harrison Ford, to help defeat the insurgency.
    The film — Hollywood’s first foray into the second Iraq conflict — is due to go into production next year and will be based on a yet-to-be-finished book, No True Glory: The Battle for Fallujah by Bing West, a former marine, politician and now war correspondent. (…)

  • Weapons of Mass Deception: Documentary
    9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Weapons of Mass Deception The Film that the Major Media Companies DO NOT want you to see
    There were two wars going on in Iraq - one was fought with armies of soldiers, bombs and a fearsome military force. The other was fought alongside it with cameras, satellites, armies of journalists and propaganda techniques. One war was rationalized as an effort to find and disarm WMDs - Weapons of Mass Destruction; the other was carried out by even more powerful WMDs, Weapons of Mass Deception.
    The (…)