Happy Election Day, everyone. I’m on my way to the polling place now (I hope you’re doing or have done the same), but I’d like to take just a moment to suggest that–once you’ve fulfilled your Constitutional privilege–you might consider…
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Defying Convention: Musings on Medium Cool
Heralded cinematographer Haskell Wexler’s directing debut, set (and filmed) during the course of the violence-marred, polarizing ’68 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, overcame studio and public indifference at the time of its release to be recognized as a classic, as we note its recent release on DVD and Blu-ray.
Read more →#OccupyWallStreet Movies, Your Primer of Protest
Holy cow, look at all those people in the streets. You’d think it was the Great Depression! Or the 1960s. Maybe a mixture of both? Some time ago, I offered readers a primer of films designed to illuminate the Tea…
Read more →All’s Fair…In Politics And Movies
Having been treated, over the last few months, to a dismaying display of bare-knuckles political hardball at its most venal, it is tempting to assume that such behavior in the political arena is unprecedented. Surely we have reached an all-time…
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