Film
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“The struggle to tell the truth through stories”: An interview with British film and television producer Tony Garnett—Part 2
In a retrospective this summer, “Seeing Red,” the British Film Institute celebrated the work of veteran film and television producer Tony Garnett. The BFI described Garnett as one of television’s “most influential figures,” who “produced and fostered a succession of provocative, radical and sometimes incendiary dramas.” Continue reading
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“The struggle to tell the truth through stories”: An interview with British film and television producer Tony Garnett—Part 1
In a retrospective this summer, “Seeing Red,” the British Film Institute (BFI) celebrated the work of veteran film and television producer Tony Garnett. The BFI described Garnett as one of television’s “most influential figures,” who “produced and fostered a succession of provocative, radical and sometimes incendiary dramas.” Continue reading
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Why bad movies keep coming out and what to do about it By John Pilger
As an inveterate film fan, I turn to the listings every week and try not to lose hope. I search the guff that often passes for previews, and I queue for a ticket with that flicker of excitement reminiscent of matinees in art deco splendour. Once inside, lights down, beer in hand, hope recedes as… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 9 June 2013
9 June 2013 — williambowles.info Where ‘We Steal Secrets,’ The Wikileaks Film, Falls Short ReadWrite The film traces the creation of the Wikileaks site, focusing primarily on Assange’s troubled past and conflicted present. It then quickly touches on several of Wikileaks’ greatest hits – the so-called “collateral murder” video from Iraq, the release of … Continue reading
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Video: Julian Assange Pt.3: On Meeting With Google, Responds to Anti-WikiLeaks Attacks From New Film to Finances
Assange addresses what he calls “attacks on all fronts against WikiLeaks,” from a monetary embargo involving some of the world’s largest financial firms to a new Hollywood documentary on WikiLeaks, “We Steal Secrets.” Assange also discusses a little-known meeting he held in June 2011 with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. We air an excerpt of audio… Continue reading
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"Shadows of Liberty": New Film Explores How Corporate Control of Media Erodes Press Freedoms
Shadows of Liberty: Using individual cases of journalists whose attempts to tell their stories have been muzzled by corporations and the government, the film shows how a corporate-controlled media can silence the truth about issues ranging from war to labor practices. In one instance, CBS refused to re-air an investigation by the prize-winning journalist Roberta… Continue reading
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London Screening of the film Stealing the Arab Spring
This documentary exposes the body of lies that led to the suspension of Libya from the Human Rights Council and generated the Nato-led war to protect the Libyan population. The allegations which claimed that Gaddafi had violently repressed and killed 6,000 of his own people had originated from human rights organisations within Libya and were… Continue reading
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Fracking Industry Goes After Promised Land Film by Meher Ahmad
Before Gus Van Sant’s latest film Promised Land even premiered, the energy industry was up in arms, gearing up to counter the film’s apparent anti-fracking stance with a barrage of “community” responses (read: thinly veiled corporate PR). James Schamus, chief executive of Focus Features the distributor of the film, expressed shock about the attacks on… Continue reading
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2013 Academy Award Nominations: “And the Winner is … The CIA” By David Walsh
In 2012 the American film industry presented an extraordinary contradiction, between those showing an interest in social life and history, on the one hand, and those eagerly endorsing the “dark side” of imperialist policy, on the other. In their own inimitably muddle-headed fashion, the Oscar nominations reflect this divide. Continue reading
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Book/Event: All Knees and Elbows of Susceptibility and Refusal: Reading History From Below
The book All Knees and Elbows of Susceptibility and Refusal: Reading History From Below began as a discussion between two friends, Anthony Iles and Tom Roberts, about the politics of writing history. Neither are trained historians. They have assembled a critical and necessarily partial picture of the practice of ‘history from below’: historiographical tendencies which… Continue reading
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The Summer of Muslim Discontent: It’s Not “The Amateur Film” Stupid! By James Petras
The legacy of imperial intervention in the Muslim world during the first decade of the 21st century, in terms of lives lost, in people displaced, in economies destroyed, in perpetual warfare, exceeds any previous decade, including 19th and 20th century colonial conquests. Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 14 September 2012: 95% of Gaza groundwater ‘not fit for human use’
14 September 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Protesters Injured In Bil’in’s Weekly ProtestIMEMC – Dozens of residents, and a number of International peace activists, marched towards the Annexation Wall, isolating the villagers from their lands, and were attacked by dozens of Israeli soldiers who fired gas bombs at them, and waste-water mixed with Continue reading
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TIFF: Cultural Starwars By Eric Walberg
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival highlights the new direction in filmmaking: Iran is the enemy du jour, but at the same time it is not longer kosher to praise everything Israel does, notes Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Gala London Premiere of The Crisis of Civilization, 29-30 Nov, 7pm, Whirled Cinema
Following the successful UK premiere at the Leeds International Film Festival on Sunday of our documentary feature film, The Crisis of Civilization, we are delighted to announce that we will be holding our FREE 2 day Gala London Premiere at the Whirled Cinema in Camberwell. Continue reading
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I AM NOT MOVING – Occupy Wall Street Movie
16 October 2011 — Ogilvie Film Please share as much as you can, this film is a warning to our elected leaders. To connect to the filmmaker and get updates on new film projects: http://www.facebook.com/OgilvieFilm http://www.ogilviefilm.com Buy song and album at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/versions-prepared-piano/id215661219 UNALTERED MIRRORING IS ENCOURAGED, but please do not change video in any way Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 27 July, 2011: Undercover Forces Captured On Film Kidnapping A Palestinian Child in Jerusalem
27 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Knesset Grants Fundamentalist Settlement Groups Admin “National Gardens” Rights IMEMC – Wednesday July 27, 2011 – 23:40, On Wednesday, The Israeli Knesset approved in Preliminary Reading a law that allows “nonprofit” and nongovernmental fundamentalist Israeli settler groups, especially the El Ad group, administrative Continue reading
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Pilger Film Banned By Lannan Foundation By John Pilger
I am writing to you and a number of other friends mostly in the US to alert you to the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media, ‘The War You Don’t See’, and the abrupt cancellation of a major event at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe in which David Barsamian and I… Continue reading
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Budrus Official Film Website | Just Vision
Budrus tells the story of a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites members of all factions along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction. Success looks improbable until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s contingent that quickly moves to the front lines. Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books London, Newsletter of Events in August 2010
1 August, 2010 — Housmans NEWS 1. Paul Russell’s UK Street Photography Exhibition 2. What is wrong with using Amazon? EVENTS 3. ‘Soho Noir’ with Cathi Unsworth and Paul Willetts 4. ‘Fighting Fascism in London’ with David Renton 5. ‘How to Live Free in London’ with Katharine Hibbert 6. ‘The Short Film Movement’ 7. ‘Dan Continue reading
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Don Mattera on Jerusalema: SA's Oscar Hope…
In Jerusalema, the Hollywood spectre almost consumes the narrative of South Africa’s urban cities, as they struggle to combat and overcome the insidious local and foreign sub-culture of criminality, corruption and the usurpation of our social edifices before our very eyes. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 