FILMS Reichardt’s film confirms the elementary truth that real, engaging drama exists in life, not in the pointless activities of fantasized super-heroes of various shades and stripes. By Joanne Laurier 20 February 2009 Wendy and Lucy by Kelly Reichardt (Old Joy, 2006) is an honest picture of American life—in other words, a very rare occurrence in [...]
“The crisis over sexual abuse by members of the priesthood underscores the profoundly reactionary and anachronistic character of the Catholic Church as an institution. Its corrupt and hypocritical officials, living like kings, preach against sin and vice, oppose birth control and abortion, inveigh against homosexuality, enthusiastically advocate censorship and intellectual repression, universally ally themselves with the powers that be and generally make life miserable for tens of millions of people. …”
FILMS By Joanne Laurier 10 January 2009 Directed by Stephen Daldry, screenplay by David Hare, based on the book by Bernhard Schlink These questions introduce the production notes of The Reader, the new film directed by Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours). The movie, adapted from the 1995 bestselling novel by Bernhard Schlink, attempts to examine the [...]
Duplicity: The essential unseriousness of it By David Walsh 27 March 2009 Written and directed by Tony Gilroy In Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton (2007), George Clooney played a law firm’s “fixer,” called in when one of the firm’s senior partners suffers a mental collapse while taking a deposition in a lawsuit against a large and sinister conglomerate. [...]
The Protests in France and the New Anti-Capitalist Party Nathan Rao France has just gone through another day of mass strikes and protests against the hard-Right government of president Nicolas Sarkozy. The protest action is hugely popular in opinion polls and comes on the heels of another successful but smaller day of action on January [...]
“Chi non lavora, non fa l’amore” By Gaither Stewart (Dateline: Rome) A popular Italian evergreen from the 1970s depicts a contemporary conundrum for many Europeans: “Chi non lavora, non fa l’amore” go the lyrics. The woman tells her man, “If you don’t work, there will be no love-making in this house. If you strike and [...]
Establishing an “Arc of Crisis” ORIGINALLY at Global Research, July 10, 2008 Many would be skeptical that the Anglo-Americans would be behind terrorist acts in Iraq, such as with the British in Basra, when two British SAS soldiers were caught dressed as Arabs, with explosives and massive arsenal of weapons.[1] Why would the British be [...]
Dateline: Global Research, March 28, 2009 Newspaper reports seem surprised at how high banks are bidding for the junk mortgages that Mr. Geithner is now bidding for, having mobilized the FDIC and Fed to transfer yet more public funds to the banks. Yet bank stocks are soaring: that is what is bidding up the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), [...]
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