Okay, so Adam Curtis does not incorporate the personal the way Chris Marker does. And he’s not as funny as Mr. Moore, but his films are so full of ideas each one is a couple weeks worth of conversations. The guy also works archive footage like no other. It all started for us with THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES. It took forever for it to come to video here but now you can order it. And Netflix got it as of Aug 5th this year.
Or you can watch it courtesy of the Internet Archive:
This guy clearly is the World Champion Etch-A-Sketch artist. I just wish he drew funnier pictures.
How old are you when you start to realize that some folks out there just looovve to pull a fast one? What is that makes pranks, cons, rip-offs, and good ‘ol hoaxes so darn fascinating? We can read up on them for hours in our household. And if the grown-ups try to pull the book away from you, just let them know that hoaxes help you learn to think better: it teaches scientific method and the search for a proof.
Naomi Wolf might love America and what it once stood for more than you. She certainly is passionate, and she certainly is doing a lot to attempt to preserve our freedoms. She also makes a good argument that we are on the precipice of losing all that we have come to love. This past Saturday she was on the radio and declared “A coup has taken place!”.
It will make you say “wow”. But can we act? Get rid of our collective sluggishness? She does make a case that the time is now or never.
She plans to put up a tool kit on her website:
myamreicaproject.org
but the tool kit is not up yet, but the trailer for her film is
endofamericamovie.com
The film is available on DVD come Oct 21st.
In her radio interview, Ms. Wolf highlights how Representative Brad Sherman said in Congress that representatives were told in told in private that martial law would have to be instilled if they did not pass the bail out plan. You can see him state this below.
I was on another fun panel yesterday at the Woodstock Film Festival. All of these discussions are part of the ongoing conversation on the future prospects for both Indie and Truly Free film. There’s a lot more that I can write about that panel, but one thing I felt was the filmmakers’ position getting stronger.
We should all become Simpsons characters. Let’s face it, even before they say something, just looking at them makes you laugh. What if when we dreamed we became ourselves but in the Simpsons style?
This seems like a simple and very good idea — even the United Nations is behind it: want to keep some trees on the planet? Pay the people who own them, NOT to cut them down. People pay for them to do the opposite, yet the entire world benefits, particularly the developed nations, i.e. big carbon producers.
