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Tag Archives: Documentary
Saturday Matinee: Lessons of Darkness
By Martin Purvis Source: The Film Sufi Werner Herzog’s documentary films lie at an extreme distance from the Anglo-American tradition of documentary filmmaking. Part of that distance can be linked to the distinction between two fundamental stances towards the depiction of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Cult Film, Documentary, Gulf War, Lessons of Darkness, Science fiction, Werner Herzog
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Saturday Matinee: Stranger at the Gate
How Many Strangers Are At the Gate? By David Swanson Source: Let’s Try Democracy Spolier Alert: if you want to watch an excellent 30-minute film without knowing what happens, scroll down and watch it before reading any of these words. … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video, war, war on terror
Tagged Documentary, Joshua Seftel, Mac McKinney, Short Film, Stranger at the Gate, war
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Saturday Matinee: A Glitch in the Matrix
Sundance 2021 Review: Rodney Ascher’s Hybrid Doc A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX Simulates Belief By Martin Kudlac Source: Screen Anarchy “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” Philip K. Dick Sundance regular Rodney Ascher returns on … Continue reading
Saturday Matinee: The Wobblies
Classic Film Review: One of the Great Labor Documentaries is restored — “The Wobblies (1979) By Roger Moore Source: Movie Nation “The One Big Union,” they called it, an organization that would represent every worker laboring for “The Man.” Unlike the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Film, Labor, Oligarchy, Saturday Matinee, society, State Crime, Video
Tagged activism, capitalism, Deborah Shaffer, Documentary, free speech, labor movement, Stewart Bird, The Wobblies, workers rights
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Saturday Matinee: Hero – The Extraordinary Life of Mr. Ulric Cross
Hero – the extraordinary life and times of Ulric Cross By Stephen Spark Source: Soca News Hero has landed. Frances-Anne Solomon’s film about the life of Ulric Cross – eight years in the making ‑ has finally reached London, though only for a … Continue reading
Saturday Matinee: Time Warp Vol 1-3
Documentary Review — “Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time” By Roger Moore Source: Movie Nation Ask a hundred film buffs what their favorite cult film is, and you’ll get 500 answers. Because nobody wants to limit that pick … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged cult movies, Danny Wolf, Documentary, Illeana Douglas, Irv Slifkin, Joe Dante, John Waters, Kevin Pollak, Paul Fishbein
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Saturday Matinee: Theaters of War
A documentary about the U.S. military’s editorial control over thousands of Hollywood’s films and television programs. Source: Media Education Foundation If you’ve seen Top Gun or Transformers, you may have wondered: Does all of that military machinery on screen come with strings attached? Does … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, propaganda, Psy-ops, Saturday Matinee, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Documentary, Matt Alford, Media Education Foundation, Oliver Stone, propaganda, Psyops, Robin Andersen, Roger Stahl, Theaters of War, war
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Desultory Heroics 