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"Do you think I'll ever get to see an inflight Fellini movie?"
Favorite Directors:
John Waters
Hal Ashby
Stanley Kubrick
Tim Burton
Terry Gilliam
Joel Coen
Jean Cocteau
Gus Van Sant
Benardo Bertolucci
John Frankenheimer
David Lynch
Federico Fellini
Roman Polanski
Julian Schnabel
Terrence Malick
Wim Wenders
Robert Wise
Sidney Lumet
Billy Wilder
Peter Bogdanovich
Wes Anderson
Michel Gondry
Luis Buñuel
Richard Linklater
Quentin Tarantino
Brothers Quay
Stephen Frears
John Huston
Sydney Pollack
Richard Brooks
Alan J Pakula
John Schlesinger
Jean-Luc Goddard
James Ivory
Milos Forman
Mike Nichols
Peter Weir
Arthur Penn
and kudos to:
Terry Zwigoff
David Cronenberg
Brothers Quay
Fritz Lang
Caro et Jeunet
Alfred Hitchcock
Les Blank
Oliver Stone
Guy Maddin
Jan Svankmajer
François Truffaut
M. Night Shyamalan
Spike Jonze
Robert Aldrich
Michael Winterbottom
Werner Herzog
Peter Greenaway
Barry Sonnenfeld
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Woody Allen
Robert Zemeckis
Orson Wells
John Cameron Mitchell
Nicolas Roeg
Percy Adlon
Kenneth Anger
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Richard Lester
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Reviews
Paradise or Oblivion (2012)
Documentary or Science Fiction?
To my mind this is pure science fiction without a plot or characters. Lots of nice computer graphics and narration, but completely visionary futurist projection with no practical application presented. In other words, there is no plan offered as to how to get there from here, which is the absolutely crucial part.
The narrator keeps saying "this will" happen and "that will" happen, but how? Where does the funding come from? How do you get people to all agree on the details? The reason we are approaching oblivion as a species is that, for some strange reason, we can't agree on things. Go figure.
And besides, I believe our problem as a civilization is that we believe technology is the answer when in reality it is the main reason we are in trouble. Our only hope is to downsize and simplify.
American Experience: New Orleans (2007)
Wonderful episode of American Experience
Excellent documentary whose only fault is it's short length. New Orleans has so much fascinating history that this program barely scratches the surface. Could easily, and should, have been at least 6 hours. Better would be 10 hours.
I especially enjoyed the chapter on writers, specifically about Thomas Lanier (Tennessee) Williams and his feelings about the city. I share many of those emotions. Indeed, New Orleans does not seem like it's part of the United States, but an exotique locale with a unique and dazzling culture.
It's hard to believe this has such a low rating here with so few votes. I can recommend this very highly.
10/10
30 Frames a Second: The WTO in Seattle (2000)
Great film that shows what actually happened in Seattle
This film is one man's view of what took place during the WTO protests and not a complete document of events. This is recommended viewing for anyone despite it's very narrow and limited scope.
The events of those days were grossly misrepresent by all of the mainstream media. The reporters on the street, from the local TV stations, were constantly contradicting the anchors in the local news studios and vice versa. The citizens of Seattle were outraged by the mistreatment they suffered at the hands of the police, even a black city councilman was dragged from his car and roughed up on the way to a dinner with the President!
Many lawsuits resulted, the chief of police resigned (a good guy, too), even some of the policemen were outraged. I still haven't recovered my sense of security after seeing police running amok the way they did. Very little of the truth of those days during the WTO conference has made it to the country. It seems the only people who really know what transpired were people who were there. And not just the protesters, if you lived or worked downtown or on nearby Capitol Hill, where the police did incomprehensible things, it was impossible to feel like public safety was in the hands of people who had any humanity or brains. It is widely thought by those educated on these events that the very few, the small group of so-called "anarchists", that went on a brief rampage breaking windows and vandalizing property were being led by paid agitators. There was much evidence for it.
A much better film is 'This Is What Democracy Looks Like', a comprehensive compilation of footage shot by over 30 filmmakers.