As expected, the Cannes Film Festival line-up is pretty spectacular with new films from Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrea Arnold and David Cronenberg heading to the fest.
As the days are getting longer and there’s a tiny bit more sunshine in between the showers of rain, that can only mean one thing. The Cannes Film Festival is almost upon us.
Of course, us peasants rarely get to go, but it is fun to read the reactions from the glitzy world premieres as the stars gather in the picturesque town of Cannes.
And this year’s festival line-up is a doozy. We already knew George Miller was heading to the Croisette with Furiosa, Francis Ford Coppola is bringing Megalopolis and Kevin Costner will be premiering his new film, too, but there’s a whole heap of great filmmakers heading out to the beach with their films.
The highlights include Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds Of Kindness,...
As the days are getting longer and there’s a tiny bit more sunshine in between the showers of rain, that can only mean one thing. The Cannes Film Festival is almost upon us.
Of course, us peasants rarely get to go, but it is fun to read the reactions from the glitzy world premieres as the stars gather in the picturesque town of Cannes.
And this year’s festival line-up is a doozy. We already knew George Miller was heading to the Croisette with Furiosa, Francis Ford Coppola is bringing Megalopolis and Kevin Costner will be premiering his new film, too, but there’s a whole heap of great filmmakers heading out to the beach with their films.
The highlights include Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds Of Kindness,...
- 4/11/2024
- by Maria Lattila
- Film Stories
Ahead of a festival kicking off in just about a month, Iris Knobloch, President of the Festival de Cannes, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate, have unveiled the selection of the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
Led by the previously announced major highlight, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, the competition lineup features the latest films from Jia Zhangke, David Cronenberg, Paul Schrader, Andrea Arnold, Sean Baker, Miguel Gomes, Yorgos Lanthimos, Jacques Audiard, Ali Abbasi, Payal Kapadia, and more.
Other sections include the previously new films from George Miller and Kevin Costner, alongside Leos Carax’s personal short C’est Pas Moi, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson’s Rumors, Alain Guiraudie’s Miséricorde, and more.
Check out the lineup below.
Competition
All We Imagine As Light – Payal Kapadia
L’amour Ouf – Gilles Lellouche
Anora – Sean Baker
The Apprentice – Ali Abbasi
Bird – Andrea Arnold
Caught by the Tides – Jia Zhang-ke...
Led by the previously announced major highlight, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, the competition lineup features the latest films from Jia Zhangke, David Cronenberg, Paul Schrader, Andrea Arnold, Sean Baker, Miguel Gomes, Yorgos Lanthimos, Jacques Audiard, Ali Abbasi, Payal Kapadia, and more.
Other sections include the previously new films from George Miller and Kevin Costner, alongside Leos Carax’s personal short C’est Pas Moi, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson’s Rumors, Alain Guiraudie’s Miséricorde, and more.
Check out the lineup below.
Competition
All We Imagine As Light – Payal Kapadia
L’amour Ouf – Gilles Lellouche
Anora – Sean Baker
The Apprentice – Ali Abbasi
Bird – Andrea Arnold
Caught by the Tides – Jia Zhang-ke...
- 4/11/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its 77th edition (May 14-25)
The competition includes films by Andrea Arnold, David Cronenberg, Yórgos Lánthimos, Paul Schrader and Paolo Sorrentino.
Festival director Thierry Frémaux revealed the Official Selection at a press conference at the Ugc Normandie theatre in Paris alongside festival president Iris Knobloch.
Previously announced titles include Quentin Dupieux’s The Second Act, which will open the festival on May 14 out of competition, George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Kevin Costner’s Horizon, An American Saga and Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis.
Barbie director Greta Gerwig will preside over the jury.
The competition includes films by Andrea Arnold, David Cronenberg, Yórgos Lánthimos, Paul Schrader and Paolo Sorrentino.
Festival director Thierry Frémaux revealed the Official Selection at a press conference at the Ugc Normandie theatre in Paris alongside festival president Iris Knobloch.
Previously announced titles include Quentin Dupieux’s The Second Act, which will open the festival on May 14 out of competition, George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Kevin Costner’s Horizon, An American Saga and Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis.
Barbie director Greta Gerwig will preside over the jury.
- 4/11/2024
- ScreenDaily
The enigma that was Pol Pot still remains to this day, with parts of his true story being relatively unknown even Cambodians, in a sense of mystery that was actually cultivated by him during his regime. One of the lesser known facts, which Pot himself kept hidden, was that he grew up in the royal court, as his older brother was a low-level official there, with Chea Samy, one of the greatest artists of Cambodia's ritualistic dance tradition, functioning as his foster mother, and also the one who introduced him to the concept of the particular type of dancing.
Pol Pot Dancing is screening at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
In that fashion, Enrique Sanchez Lansch's film unfolds under three main narratives. The first one is the life of Chea Samy, before, during and after the regime, the second the particular dancing, connected to both the aforementioned and her student, Sophiline Cheam,...
Pol Pot Dancing is screening at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
In that fashion, Enrique Sanchez Lansch's film unfolds under three main narratives. The first one is the life of Chea Samy, before, during and after the regime, the second the particular dancing, connected to both the aforementioned and her student, Sophiline Cheam,...
- 3/14/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
In one of the most compelling films to hold its world premiere at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, archive footage shows an apparently amiable man dressed in black sitting for an interview with a Yugoslav journalist. The year is approximately 1977.
“Comrade, you are the first person to hear my biography,” the man says with a warm laugh.
The man is Pol Pot, the Cambodian dictator then in the middle of his four-year genocidal reign of terror atop his country, a period in which a quarter of the Cambodia’s population perished.
Pol Pot in the Cambodian jungle in 1980.
Director Enrique Sánchez Lansch tracked down the incredibly rare interview in the archives of Serbian TV. Pol Pot almost never spoke to journalists, and rarely, if ever, told the truth about his background. In the 1977 conversation, he paints a humble picture of his childhood – saying he grew up the son of a “peasant farmer.
“Comrade, you are the first person to hear my biography,” the man says with a warm laugh.
The man is Pol Pot, the Cambodian dictator then in the middle of his four-year genocidal reign of terror atop his country, a period in which a quarter of the Cambodia’s population perished.
Pol Pot in the Cambodian jungle in 1980.
Director Enrique Sánchez Lansch tracked down the incredibly rare interview in the archives of Serbian TV. Pol Pot almost never spoke to journalists, and rarely, if ever, told the truth about his background. In the 1977 conversation, he paints a humble picture of his childhood – saying he grew up the son of a “peasant farmer.
- 3/12/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Janyl Jusupjan’s documentary focuses on a young woman getting involved in the male-dominated horseback sport Buzkashi.
Cologne-based sales outfit New Docs has taken world rights to Atirkül In The Land of Real Men, a film receiving its international premiere in IDFA’s Luminous section later this week.
Directed by Janyl Jusupjan, the Czech-produced documentary looks at Buzkashi, a highly popular horseback sport in Kyrgyzstan. The goal is to steal a dead goat from the rival team of riders without being knocked out of the saddle. The film’s main protagonist is a young woman Atirkül, bored with her husband...
Cologne-based sales outfit New Docs has taken world rights to Atirkül In The Land of Real Men, a film receiving its international premiere in IDFA’s Luminous section later this week.
Directed by Janyl Jusupjan, the Czech-produced documentary looks at Buzkashi, a highly popular horseback sport in Kyrgyzstan. The goal is to steal a dead goat from the rival team of riders without being knocked out of the saddle. The film’s main protagonist is a young woman Atirkül, bored with her husband...
- 11/8/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
“Do you see anything that’s happening around you?” urges Paula Beer’s Nadja to Thomas Schubert’s frustrated writer Leon in writer-director Christian Petzold’s Afire. As he strives and struggles to complete his second novel, which bears the ludicrous name Club Sandwich, Leon puts on his blinders to both the interpersonal dynamics of the youthful coterie assembled at a Baltic Sea cabin as well as to the forest fires raging inland. If there’s any temptation to conflate Leon’s writer’s block with Petzold’s own position outside the film, Nadja’s exhortation ought to clear up some of the confusion.
Petzold has long stood at the vanguard of the loose filmmaking collective known as the Berlin School. Along with his academically minded peers, he seeks to look at how Germany’s turbulent history ripples through contemporary German life. Rather than craft cinematic fantasies, flattening those tensions...
Petzold has long stood at the vanguard of the loose filmmaking collective known as the Berlin School. Along with his academically minded peers, he seeks to look at how Germany’s turbulent history ripples through contemporary German life. Rather than craft cinematic fantasies, flattening those tensions...
- 7/15/2023
- by Marshall Shaffer
- Slant Magazine
Film-maker Neary Adeline Hay retraces her mother’s escape from her homeland in this poignant family history and memory piece
With echoes of her sublime debut Angkar, which grappled with the horrors of the Pol Pot regime through her father’s perspective as he returned to Cambodia after a 40-year absence, Neary Adeline Hay’s new documentary is a moving companion piece. Taking on the slippery nature of memory, Eskape revisits the dangerous journey taken by her mother, Thany Lieng, who fled Cambodia for France. As Hay retraces Thany’s footsteps, footage from her trip is entwined with her mother’s recollections, creating a rich and poignant tapestry of familial history.
While Hay’s presence in Angkar took the form of a voiceover, in Eskape the camera often lingers on her from behind, as she gazes at the various places once passed by her mother – suggesting that Hay is simultaneously...
With echoes of her sublime debut Angkar, which grappled with the horrors of the Pol Pot regime through her father’s perspective as he returned to Cambodia after a 40-year absence, Neary Adeline Hay’s new documentary is a moving companion piece. Taking on the slippery nature of memory, Eskape revisits the dangerous journey taken by her mother, Thany Lieng, who fled Cambodia for France. As Hay retraces Thany’s footsteps, footage from her trip is entwined with her mother’s recollections, creating a rich and poignant tapestry of familial history.
While Hay’s presence in Angkar took the form of a voiceover, in Eskape the camera often lingers on her from behind, as she gazes at the various places once passed by her mother – suggesting that Hay is simultaneously...
- 6/19/2023
- by Phuong Le
- The Guardian - Film News
Ivanka Trump broke her silence on her father’s indictment, posting a bland 27-word statement on Instagram Friday morning.
The post read: “I love my father and I love my country. Today I am pained for both. I appreciate the voices across the political spectrum expressing support and concern.”
> 100 Celebrity Kids & Their Famous Parents – Slideshow!
Previous reports stated that Ivanka has been distancing herself from the legal and political chaos surrounding her father.
Ivanka has reportedly wanted to be finished with politics – she has been absent from her father’s public campaign efforts to regain office. In a statement, Ivanka said she has chosen to prioritize her kids and family.
Her husband Jared Kushner called the indictment “troubling” and claimed that it’s evidence that Democrats are afraid of the “political strength” of his father-in-law.
Donald Trump’s indictment is "troubling" and a signal that Democrats are fearful of the former president's political strength,...
The post read: “I love my father and I love my country. Today I am pained for both. I appreciate the voices across the political spectrum expressing support and concern.”
> 100 Celebrity Kids & Their Famous Parents – Slideshow!
Previous reports stated that Ivanka has been distancing herself from the legal and political chaos surrounding her father.
Ivanka has reportedly wanted to be finished with politics – she has been absent from her father’s public campaign efforts to regain office. In a statement, Ivanka said she has chosen to prioritize her kids and family.
Her husband Jared Kushner called the indictment “troubling” and claimed that it’s evidence that Democrats are afraid of the “political strength” of his father-in-law.
Donald Trump’s indictment is "troubling" and a signal that Democrats are fearful of the former president's political strength,...
- 3/31/2023
- by Alex Nguyen
- Uinterview
Donald Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on Thursday. As expected, the former president and his allies reacted with undiluted ire.
Trump responded initially with a pre-written statement railing against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, President Joe Biden, and the “Radical Left Democrats” for what he described as “Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history.” Two sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone they expect Trump to surrender to authorities on Tuesday.
“The Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying to ‘Get Trump,...
Trump responded initially with a pre-written statement railing against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, President Joe Biden, and the “Radical Left Democrats” for what he described as “Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history.” Two sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone they expect Trump to surrender to authorities on Tuesday.
“The Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying to ‘Get Trump,...
- 3/30/2023
- by Ryan Bort and Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
This is courtesy of British-Australian teacher, rights activist, author and cartoonist Colin Cotterill, who, with his Dr Siri series set in Laos of the mid-1970s-early 1980s, evocatively brings out the life, social mores and norms, and politics of this sole landlocked Southeast Asian country.
The time period is equally important in depicting Southeast Asia when it was far from the tourist paradise of today and impacted by superpower rivalry – particularly, Laos, then in the throes of revolutionary change too.
While people usually remember 1970s in Southeast Asia for the Vietnam war – and then the Khmer Rouge’s depredations in Cambodia, Laos was also impacted. Like its eastern neighbour’s Viet Cong, it had a Communist movement (Pathet Lao), also born in France in the 1930s, and active since the end of World War II when colonial ruler France returned to take control. Dragged willy-nilly dragged into the Vietnam conflict,...
The time period is equally important in depicting Southeast Asia when it was far from the tourist paradise of today and impacted by superpower rivalry – particularly, Laos, then in the throes of revolutionary change too.
While people usually remember 1970s in Southeast Asia for the Vietnam war – and then the Khmer Rouge’s depredations in Cambodia, Laos was also impacted. Like its eastern neighbour’s Viet Cong, it had a Communist movement (Pathet Lao), also born in France in the 1930s, and active since the end of World War II when colonial ruler France returned to take control. Dragged willy-nilly dragged into the Vietnam conflict,...
- 2/12/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Directors interested in important, ambitious subject matter didn’t all go extinct with the rise of the Star Wars Generation. Roland Joffé’s first four features are powerful pictures that tell truths that we ought not to forget, with a couple of Award-winning gems right up front. The star power is here as well — Robert De Niro, Paul Newman, Patrick Swayze. The deluxe collector’s box caps a presentation with new extras for each title: The Killing Fields, The Mission, Fat Man and Little Boy and City of Joy.
Directed by Roland Joffé
Region-Free Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator 194, 185, 186, 187
1984 – 1992 / Color / Street Date December 7, 2022 / 525 minutes cumulative / Available from / au 179.95
Starring: Sam Waterston, Dr. Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich; Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons; Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack; Patrick Swayze, Om Puri, Pauline Collins.
Cinematography: Chris Menges (2); Vilmos Zsigmond, Peter Biziou
Original Music: Mike Oldfield, Ennio Morricone (3)
Written by Bruce Robinson; Robert Bolt; Bruce Robinson,...
Directed by Roland Joffé
Region-Free Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator 194, 185, 186, 187
1984 – 1992 / Color / Street Date December 7, 2022 / 525 minutes cumulative / Available from / au 179.95
Starring: Sam Waterston, Dr. Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich; Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons; Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack; Patrick Swayze, Om Puri, Pauline Collins.
Cinematography: Chris Menges (2); Vilmos Zsigmond, Peter Biziou
Original Music: Mike Oldfield, Ennio Morricone (3)
Written by Bruce Robinson; Robert Bolt; Bruce Robinson,...
- 12/20/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Rithy Panh, director of “Rice People” and “S21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine” is an icon of art-house cinema, at once political, unique, and charming. The iconic image may be another of his confections – a palatable work built on uncomfortable facts.
On the incomplete evidence of a 50-minute on-stage dialog at the Busan International Film Festival on Sunday, Panh comes across as simultaneously contrarian and principled. A curmudgeonly veteran and yet a filmmaker still curious to learn.
“If there were no Khmer Rouge maybe I would not be a filmmaker,” he said of the Communist insurgents, who won the Cambodian civil war in 1975 and whose brutality and atrocities he has spent a lifetime documenting and exposing.
Panh’s family lost everything to the marauding Khmer Rouge or during their five-year rule. He was internally deported into the rice fields, escaped to Thailand and later became a refugee sent to France.
On the incomplete evidence of a 50-minute on-stage dialog at the Busan International Film Festival on Sunday, Panh comes across as simultaneously contrarian and principled. A curmudgeonly veteran and yet a filmmaker still curious to learn.
“If there were no Khmer Rouge maybe I would not be a filmmaker,” he said of the Communist insurgents, who won the Cambodian civil war in 1975 and whose brutality and atrocities he has spent a lifetime documenting and exposing.
Panh’s family lost everything to the marauding Khmer Rouge or during their five-year rule. He was internally deported into the rice fields, escaped to Thailand and later became a refugee sent to France.
- 10/9/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
This article contains spoilers for Marvel’s Moon Knight.
Moon Knight Episode 1
Moon Knight is Marvel Studios’ biggest gamble yet on Disney+. Yes, it’s the first one of these pricey series to be led by a character completely new to the MCU, but that character is also a complex and often downright impenetrable one, beloved by his Marvel Comics fans and occasionally mocked by those who consider him to be Marvel’s much less cool version of Batman.
Well, we get precisely zero Batman vibes in this first episode of the new Disney+ show, where we meet the painfully uncool Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac in his element), a timid British museum gift shop employee who thinks he has a sleep disorder. Steven ties himself to his bed every night and seals the door so he can check that he hasn’t been wandering the streets of London during his slumber.
Moon Knight Episode 1
Moon Knight is Marvel Studios’ biggest gamble yet on Disney+. Yes, it’s the first one of these pricey series to be led by a character completely new to the MCU, but that character is also a complex and often downright impenetrable one, beloved by his Marvel Comics fans and occasionally mocked by those who consider him to be Marvel’s much less cool version of Batman.
Well, we get precisely zero Batman vibes in this first episode of the new Disney+ show, where we meet the painfully uncool Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac in his element), a timid British museum gift shop employee who thinks he has a sleep disorder. Steven ties himself to his bed every night and seals the door so he can check that he hasn’t been wandering the streets of London during his slumber.
- 3/30/2022
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
Last week’s judgment of the British High Court against Johnny Depp is still sending shockwaves throughout the entertainment industry. The actor’s gamble that The Sun newspaper calling him a “wife beater” was libellous backfired after the judge found Amber Heard’s version of events believable. He’s now on the hook for substantial legal fees, faces long-term career damage and has already been booted off Fantastic Beasts 3.
The judgment is reportedly also influencing Heard’s career, though in a more positive way. She’s currently preparing to shoot Aquaman 2 in early 2021, in which she’ll reprise the role of Atlantean princess Mera. Over the last year, we’ve heard many reports that Warner Bros. were getting cold feet about the bad publicity surrounding the actress and there’ve been numerous rumors that they’re going to minimize her role or even recast it. Now, however, it sounds...
The judgment is reportedly also influencing Heard’s career, though in a more positive way. She’s currently preparing to shoot Aquaman 2 in early 2021, in which she’ll reprise the role of Atlantean princess Mera. Over the last year, we’ve heard many reports that Warner Bros. were getting cold feet about the bad publicity surrounding the actress and there’ve been numerous rumors that they’re going to minimize her role or even recast it. Now, however, it sounds...
- 11/13/2020
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
The 1970s were a pivotal period in both American and global pop culture. It was the decade that witnessed the birth of the “American New Wave,” with helmers including Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola establishing a new filmmaking vernacular and making their indelible marks on cinematic history.
In India, Bollywood was producing such wildly popular films as “Sholay.” It was the year “Jaws” put great white sharks on the big screen while also unleashing the era of the summer blockbuster. The iconic, surrealistic comedy “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” graced theaters, directed by first-time feature helmers Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. The “soft sounds” of 1975 were evident in the string of mellow and groovy Yacht Rock chart-toppers, from the Captain & Tennille’s “Love Will Keep Us Together,” which earned the Grammy for record of the year, to Neil Sedaka’s “Laughter in the Rain.” Other easy listening tunes...
In India, Bollywood was producing such wildly popular films as “Sholay.” It was the year “Jaws” put great white sharks on the big screen while also unleashing the era of the summer blockbuster. The iconic, surrealistic comedy “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” graced theaters, directed by first-time feature helmers Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. The “soft sounds” of 1975 were evident in the string of mellow and groovy Yacht Rock chart-toppers, from the Captain & Tennille’s “Love Will Keep Us Together,” which earned the Grammy for record of the year, to Neil Sedaka’s “Laughter in the Rain.” Other easy listening tunes...
- 7/10/2020
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
The Japan Foundation Asia Center and Tokyo International Film Festival have uploaded the first of their omnibus film series, “Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2016: Reflections.” This film is in and of itself a compilation of three shorts; industry veterans Brillante Ma Mendoza, Isao Yukisada, and Sotho Kulikar illustrate three tales interrelating Japan to the Philippines, Malaysia, and Cambodia. While their plotlines are disconnected, their political arguments are not. Loosely tied to the theme “Living Together in Asia,” the three films wrest tongue-in-cheek responses to the inherently uneasy power dynamics between wealthy Japan and poorer parts of Southeast Asia. The collection peels back long-standing issues of poverty, servitude, and cross-cultural romance, bringing forth the lingering traces of Japanese (neo)imperialism.
The first and last shorts sing their songs of heartbreak and betrayal the most. The first, Brillante Ma Mendoza’s “Shiniuma Dead Horse,” follows the bleary-eyed amputee Marcial (Lou Veloso), an undocumented...
The first and last shorts sing their songs of heartbreak and betrayal the most. The first, Brillante Ma Mendoza’s “Shiniuma Dead Horse,” follows the bleary-eyed amputee Marcial (Lou Veloso), an undocumented...
- 5/31/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
“Evil will hunt us if we don’t throw it out from us with open palms,” a disembodied voice declares to us in French at the start of “Irradiated,” Rithy Panh’s mesmerizingly bleak montage of war in the 20th century. “At the top of the sky is pain. It always comes as a surprise.” And so the great onslaught begins as the bombs rain down from the heavens and the image cracks into three perfect squares that stretch across the screen in a narrow sliver of light; together they create an anamorphic slot machine of needless suffering.
More often than not, each column shows the same snippet of archival footage, as Nazi rallies bleed into the Khmer Rouge before napalm glazes the treetops of Vietnam. Sometimes, however, the square in the center is out of sync with the two on either side; shots of a bombed out church frame...
More often than not, each column shows the same snippet of archival footage, as Nazi rallies bleed into the Khmer Rouge before napalm glazes the treetops of Vietnam. Sometimes, however, the square in the center is out of sync with the two on either side; shots of a bombed out church frame...
- 2/28/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Filmmaker Rithy Panh’s numerous documentaries, and handful of fiction features, have often been built around the depiction of his native Cambodia under the deadly reign of the Khmer Rouge, during which the director lost his parents and several other members of his family. In movies like S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003), Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (2012) and the Oscar-nominated The Missing Picture (2013), Panh revisited the genocide committed by Pol Pot’s regime in the late-1970s via interviews, re-enactments and even claymation to compensate for the fact that images from the epoch tend to be few ...
- 2/28/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Filmmaker Rithy Panh’s numerous documentaries, and handful of fiction features, have often been built around the depiction of his native Cambodia under the deadly reign of the Khmer Rouge, during which the director lost his parents and several other members of his family. In movies like S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003), Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (2012) and the Oscar-nominated The Missing Picture (2013), Panh revisited the genocide committed by Pol Pot’s regime in the late-1970s via interviews, re-enactments and even claymation to compensate for the fact that images from the epoch tend to be few ...
- 2/28/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
What happens when the music stops? What happens when it vanishes, is banned, or even becomes punishable by death? That’s one of the hooks that draws audiences into Lauren Yee’s Cambodian Rock Band, by turns a boisterous, solemn, and periodically campy new Off-Broadway production that gets its ya-ya’s out — and lets audiences do the same. It reveals the story of one survivor’s journey through the horror of the Khmer Rouge’s reign of terror, which began after the U.S. withdrew troops from Cambodia in the...
- 2/27/2020
- by Steven Pearl
- Rollingstone.com
I thought I’d figured out Hollywood’s prevailing attitude toward firearms. Oscar winner John Legend seemed to sum it up at an appearance in Dayton this week when he said: “The NRA doesn’t represent America,” and “we’re tired of bigotry and hate turning lethal because of easy access to guns.”
Then I saw the trailer for Kasi Lemmons’s Harriet (watch it here) about the fiery anti-slavery resister Harriet Tubman. And I had to start thinking all over again.
Harriet, with Cynthia Erivo in the title role, is set for release by Focus Features on November 1, though it already will be causing a stir at the Toronto Film Festival in early September. Its trailer, currently attached to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, promises an impassioned telling of Tubman’s escape from slavery, her work to liberate others via the Underground Railroad and her...
Then I saw the trailer for Kasi Lemmons’s Harriet (watch it here) about the fiery anti-slavery resister Harriet Tubman. And I had to start thinking all over again.
Harriet, with Cynthia Erivo in the title role, is set for release by Focus Features on November 1, though it already will be causing a stir at the Toronto Film Festival in early September. Its trailer, currently attached to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, promises an impassioned telling of Tubman’s escape from slavery, her work to liberate others via the Underground Railroad and her...
- 8/15/2019
- by Michael Cieply
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix's The Family gives off all the signs of being a conspiracy theory documentary, focused on a secret theocracy that has exerted power over political leaders for decades. Thus, the most shocking part of this docuseries about a fundamentalist organization akin to The Handmaid's Tale's Gilead is that it's entirely true.
In five parts, The Family examines The Fellowship Foundation, a conservative organization based in Washington DC that's best known for the National Prayer Breakfast, a gathering of diplomats and world leaders. Known as "The Family," the foundation organizes Bible studies and prayer meetings but remains opaque about its other operations. Over the years, it has influenced policies and political leadership, borrowing rhetoric from totalitarian leaders to emphasize Christ's messages.
How Did The Family Begin?
Norwegian-born Methodist minister Abraham Vereide founded the Fellowship Foundation in 1935 during a meeting where powerful leaders gathered to block labor organizers. The intimate circle...
In five parts, The Family examines The Fellowship Foundation, a conservative organization based in Washington DC that's best known for the National Prayer Breakfast, a gathering of diplomats and world leaders. Known as "The Family," the foundation organizes Bible studies and prayer meetings but remains opaque about its other operations. Over the years, it has influenced policies and political leadership, borrowing rhetoric from totalitarian leaders to emphasize Christ's messages.
How Did The Family Begin?
Norwegian-born Methodist minister Abraham Vereide founded the Fellowship Foundation in 1935 during a meeting where powerful leaders gathered to block labor organizers. The intimate circle...
- 8/14/2019
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
In fairness, Daenerys, you were warned: In the Game of Thrones, you win, or you die. And Drogon’s not exactly taking you on a victory lap right now.
Yes, the Mother of Bad Decisions And Also Dragons goes to her grave in the series finale, done in by Jon’s quick blade and her own ballooning megalomania. But her successor as ruler of Westeros isn’t her lover/nephew… or his sister… or his other sister… or one of the cleverest men in the land… or even his bookish best friend with a kind heart and a slow sword hand.
Yes, the Mother of Bad Decisions And Also Dragons goes to her grave in the series finale, done in by Jon’s quick blade and her own ballooning megalomania. But her successor as ruler of Westeros isn’t her lover/nephew… or his sister… or his other sister… or one of the cleverest men in the land… or even his bookish best friend with a kind heart and a slow sword hand.
- 5/20/2019
- TVLine.com
‘Wandering Souls’
Director-producer Aviva Ziegler’s feature documentary Wandering Souls will screen on Sbs and at Australian and international film festivals following the world premiere last week at the Cambodia International Film Festival.
The film follows the mounting of a stage production, Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia, which premiered in Melbourne in 2017. The work was created in memory of the two million Cambodians who died at the hands of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge.
Wandering Souls also tells first-hand survival stories of those involved in the creation of the play and of the determination of Cambodians to reclaim an artistic heritage that disappeared during the four years of the reign of terror. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the regime’s overthrow.
Commissioned by the not-for-profit organization Cambodian Living Arts, the play was a first-time collaboration between Cambodian film director Rithy Panh and the country’s premier composer, Dr.
Director-producer Aviva Ziegler’s feature documentary Wandering Souls will screen on Sbs and at Australian and international film festivals following the world premiere last week at the Cambodia International Film Festival.
The film follows the mounting of a stage production, Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia, which premiered in Melbourne in 2017. The work was created in memory of the two million Cambodians who died at the hands of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge.
Wandering Souls also tells first-hand survival stories of those involved in the creation of the play and of the determination of Cambodians to reclaim an artistic heritage that disappeared during the four years of the reign of terror. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the regime’s overthrow.
Commissioned by the not-for-profit organization Cambodian Living Arts, the play was a first-time collaboration between Cambodian film director Rithy Panh and the country’s premier composer, Dr.
- 3/21/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Madam Secretary returned with a story about America's past manipulations in Nicaragua that almost lost American lives in the present.
Involving Dalton's backstory as a CIA operative gave us a rare glimpse into the man who sits in the fictionalized version of the White House.
And as an added bonus, Madam Secretary Season 5 Episode 14 featured Raymond Cruz, who played one of my favorite characters on Major Crimes. I was thrilled to see him again!
I loved the way "Something Better" integrated real American history with a fictional conflict. It was realistic and interesting as well as educational.
The Us really did use CIA operatives to help overthrow an oppressive government in Nicaragua during the 1980s.
This episode did a good job of building on that by creating the unintended consequence of creating another dictator as bad as the first through CIA-sponsored violence.
Elizabeth: There were no easy choices then. Deaths...
Involving Dalton's backstory as a CIA operative gave us a rare glimpse into the man who sits in the fictionalized version of the White House.
And as an added bonus, Madam Secretary Season 5 Episode 14 featured Raymond Cruz, who played one of my favorite characters on Major Crimes. I was thrilled to see him again!
I loved the way "Something Better" integrated real American history with a fictional conflict. It was realistic and interesting as well as educational.
The Us really did use CIA operatives to help overthrow an oppressive government in Nicaragua during the 1980s.
This episode did a good job of building on that by creating the unintended consequence of creating another dictator as bad as the first through CIA-sponsored violence.
Elizabeth: There were no easy choices then. Deaths...
- 2/18/2019
- by Jack Ori
- TVfanatic
Spring theatrical launch for Cambodia-set family drama.
Gkids has picked up Us rights from Bac Films to Denis Do’s feature directorial debut and Annecy 2018 top prize winner Funan featuring Bérénice Bejo and Louis Garrel in the voice cast.
The family animation is based on Do’s family story and centres on Chou, a young woman in 1975 Cambodia who is separated from her four-year-old child when the Khmer Rouge takes over.
Despite the ensuing chaos as Pol Pot’s brutal regime takes hold on the country, Chou vows to reunite her family even if it means risking everything. Do wrote the screenplay with Magali Pouzol.
Gkids has picked up Us rights from Bac Films to Denis Do’s feature directorial debut and Annecy 2018 top prize winner Funan featuring Bérénice Bejo and Louis Garrel in the voice cast.
The family animation is based on Do’s family story and centres on Chou, a young woman in 1975 Cambodia who is separated from her four-year-old child when the Khmer Rouge takes over.
Despite the ensuing chaos as Pol Pot’s brutal regime takes hold on the country, Chou vows to reunite her family even if it means risking everything. Do wrote the screenplay with Magali Pouzol.
- 1/16/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
While we look forward to a plentiful 2019 as far as foreign cinema is concerned (of which we highlighted #300-151 and our countdown #150-1 to anticipate in the coming year), we broaden the horizon to examine projects which look to be ready to premiere sometime in 2020 (with Argentina looking to have major festival representation with six new highly anticipated projects listed below).
#100. Dona Gracia – Amos Gitai
#99. Rendezvous with Pol Pot – Rithy Panh
#98. Admin – Olmo Omerzu
#97. In the Dusk – Sharunas Bartas
#96. Dodo – Panos H. Koutras
#95. Anybody Seen My Girl? 100 Letters to Seryozha – Angelina Nikonova
#94.…...
#100. Dona Gracia – Amos Gitai
#99. Rendezvous with Pol Pot – Rithy Panh
#98. Admin – Olmo Omerzu
#97. In the Dusk – Sharunas Bartas
#96. Dodo – Panos H. Koutras
#95. Anybody Seen My Girl? 100 Letters to Seryozha – Angelina Nikonova
#94.…...
- 1/9/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
With Funan, his feature film debut, Denis Do took on his family’s remarkable history, coming to understand and connect with it in an entirely new way. Set in Cambodia in April of 1975, the animated drama examines a mother who has been torn from her 4-year-old son, struggling to endure the realities of life under the Khmer Rouge regime, while pursuing her lost child.
Born in Paris and raised in three cultures—those of France, China and Cambodia—the director had little connection growing up to the truth of the Khmer Rouge, and what life was really like for those at their mercy. “As far as I can remember, when I was around three or four years old, I was not able to finish my dish, and my mum told me that I had to pay respect to all the victims during the Khmer Rouge regime,” Do recalls. “Because before,...
Born in Paris and raised in three cultures—those of France, China and Cambodia—the director had little connection growing up to the truth of the Khmer Rouge, and what life was really like for those at their mercy. “As far as I can remember, when I was around three or four years old, I was not able to finish my dish, and my mum told me that I had to pay respect to all the victims during the Khmer Rouge regime,” Do recalls. “Because before,...
- 12/7/2018
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
“Morning Joe” frequent guest and historian Jon Meacham said on Friday’s show that Trump reminded him of a world in which Joe McCarthy had become president.
“I think it’s Joe McCarthy,” Meacham said in response to co-host Mika Brzezinski’s question about whether there was a historical parallel to Trump. “I think this is as if McCarthy had become president.”
“Wow,” Brzezinski said off camera.
Also Read: Trump Needles 'Morning Joe' Ratings Again: 'Dead Show With Very Few People Watching'
Meacham then cited a 1968 book on McCarthy by his longtime protégé Roy Cohn — who also has served as an adviser to Donald Trump — and noted that he predicted the American people would tire of Trump the same way they did of McCarthy.
“People got tired of the show. People got tired of having — as Fdr once said — the highest note on the scale repeated again and again,...
“I think it’s Joe McCarthy,” Meacham said in response to co-host Mika Brzezinski’s question about whether there was a historical parallel to Trump. “I think this is as if McCarthy had become president.”
“Wow,” Brzezinski said off camera.
Also Read: Trump Needles 'Morning Joe' Ratings Again: 'Dead Show With Very Few People Watching'
Meacham then cited a 1968 book on McCarthy by his longtime protégé Roy Cohn — who also has served as an adviser to Donald Trump — and noted that he predicted the American people would tire of Trump the same way they did of McCarthy.
“People got tired of the show. People got tired of having — as Fdr once said — the highest note on the scale repeated again and again,...
- 8/3/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
‘Morning Joe’ closed out a full week covering President Trump’s policy of separating the families of undocumented migrant children at the U.S. border with a blunt rebuke to Trump voters: if you voted for Trump, you are a Nazi.
The comparison was made by the show’s longtime contributor Donny Deutsch.
“If you vote for Trump, then you, the voter, you, not Donald Trump, are standing at the border, like Nazis going ‘you here, you here,'” he said. “And I think we now have to flip it and it’s a given, the evilness of Donald Trump. But if you vote, you can no longer separate yourself. You can’t say, well he’s okay, but, and I think that gymnastics and I think that jiu-jitsu has to happen.”
Also Read: 'Morning Joe' Hits Trump Over Border Separation Policy: 'As if George Wallace Won in...
The comparison was made by the show’s longtime contributor Donny Deutsch.
“If you vote for Trump, then you, the voter, you, not Donald Trump, are standing at the border, like Nazis going ‘you here, you here,'” he said. “And I think we now have to flip it and it’s a given, the evilness of Donald Trump. But if you vote, you can no longer separate yourself. You can’t say, well he’s okay, but, and I think that gymnastics and I think that jiu-jitsu has to happen.”
Also Read: 'Morning Joe' Hits Trump Over Border Separation Policy: 'As if George Wallace Won in...
- 6/22/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
The Wikipedia entry for Narcissistic personality disorder (Npd) describes the condition as “a long-term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a lack of empathy.” If there were any doubts about Lars von Trier suffering from a chronic case of Npd (there weren’t), they will be conclusively dispelled by The House That Jack Built, an exceedingly violent and purposely unpalatable film that plays like an extended therapy session.
In the voice-over conversation that opens the film and continues at intervals throughout, the protagonist, Jack (Matt Dillon), discusses his compulsion – savagely killing people, primarily women – with an interlocutor that is only identified much later on. That he’s voiced by the Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who speaks with a nondescript foreign accent, initially gives the impression that it might be von Trier talking. Since it transpires fairly quickly that Jack is a stand-in for the director,...
In the voice-over conversation that opens the film and continues at intervals throughout, the protagonist, Jack (Matt Dillon), discusses his compulsion – savagely killing people, primarily women – with an interlocutor that is only identified much later on. That he’s voiced by the Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who speaks with a nondescript foreign accent, initially gives the impression that it might be von Trier talking. Since it transpires fairly quickly that Jack is a stand-in for the director,...
- 5/15/2018
- by Giovanni Marchini Camia
- The Film Stage
Amy Schumer stars in a well-intentioned but shallow yarn about female body image and self-confidence
There’s an irony at play in the idea of a Hollywood movie about female body image. It’s a bit like getting Pol Pot to make a film about human rights. Not surprisingly, this grindingly repetitive comedy misfires, not least because it fails to see the problem in arguing that we should love ourselves as we are, flaws and lumps and all, while simultaneously mining for yuks the premise of a normal-looking woman (Amy Schumer) who suddenly believes that she’s a world-class hottie.
In addressing unrealistic expectations and low self-esteem – universal girl angst – the film is well intentioned. But, like a few too many films churned out of the predominantly male studio system and marketed to a female audience, you get a sense that, deep down, it doesn’t have a particularly high opinion of women.
There’s an irony at play in the idea of a Hollywood movie about female body image. It’s a bit like getting Pol Pot to make a film about human rights. Not surprisingly, this grindingly repetitive comedy misfires, not least because it fails to see the problem in arguing that we should love ourselves as we are, flaws and lumps and all, while simultaneously mining for yuks the premise of a normal-looking woman (Amy Schumer) who suddenly believes that she’s a world-class hottie.
In addressing unrealistic expectations and low self-esteem – universal girl angst – the film is well intentioned. But, like a few too many films churned out of the predominantly male studio system and marketed to a female audience, you get a sense that, deep down, it doesn’t have a particularly high opinion of women.
- 5/6/2018
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
The set of “Morning Joe” returned to one of their favorite punching bags Tuesday, lacing into Trump physician — and possible future Veterans Affairs Secretary — Dr. Ronny Jackson.
Joe Scarborough returned to Jackson’s greatest hit, in which the doctor lauded the president’s health for an hour to a room full of reporters in January. Scarborough and company couldn’t be sure whether the routine was more reminiscent of Hitler’s doctor or Kim Jong Un’s.
“It sounded like Hitler’s doctor, I’m sorry — his genes are so good — if Hitler’s doctor had a Brooklyn accent,” said Scarborough.
Also Read: 'Morning Joe' Nukes Sean Hannity Over Michael Cohen Disclosure: 'Bold-Faced Lying to His Viewers' (Video)
“It was kind of sick,” added co-host Mika Brzezinski.
Scarborough then walked back the Hitler stuff before then suggesting that Jackson’s glowing description of Trump’s health was more reminiscent of a “North Korean doctor.”
“A North Korean doctor might be a tighter fit. Fearless leader’s genetics are so pure and so strong that fearless leader could live to be 200 years old,” he said.
Also Read: 'Morning Joe': NBC Political Analyst Compares Trump to Hitler: 'This Is a Diseased Republic'
None of this is particularly new, but Jackson is in the news again after his nomination to head the Va ran into some serious speed bumps this week. His confirmation hearings were postponed after lingering questions about his lack of management experience, poor oversight of the White House medical team and other murky accusations of professional misconduct.
Jackson is the official White House physician and has previously served in the same capacity for Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
This was the second time in mere days that Hitler merited a mention on the popular MSNBC morning show. Last week, NBC contributor Anand Giridharadas compared Trump’s rise to the 20th century fascist tyrant. Earlier show have also compared Trump to Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Kim Jong Un.
Read original story ‘Morning Joe’ Rips Trump Va Nominee Ronny Jackson: ‘Sounded Like Hitler’s Doctor’ (Video) At TheWrap...
Joe Scarborough returned to Jackson’s greatest hit, in which the doctor lauded the president’s health for an hour to a room full of reporters in January. Scarborough and company couldn’t be sure whether the routine was more reminiscent of Hitler’s doctor or Kim Jong Un’s.
“It sounded like Hitler’s doctor, I’m sorry — his genes are so good — if Hitler’s doctor had a Brooklyn accent,” said Scarborough.
Also Read: 'Morning Joe' Nukes Sean Hannity Over Michael Cohen Disclosure: 'Bold-Faced Lying to His Viewers' (Video)
“It was kind of sick,” added co-host Mika Brzezinski.
Scarborough then walked back the Hitler stuff before then suggesting that Jackson’s glowing description of Trump’s health was more reminiscent of a “North Korean doctor.”
“A North Korean doctor might be a tighter fit. Fearless leader’s genetics are so pure and so strong that fearless leader could live to be 200 years old,” he said.
Also Read: 'Morning Joe': NBC Political Analyst Compares Trump to Hitler: 'This Is a Diseased Republic'
None of this is particularly new, but Jackson is in the news again after his nomination to head the Va ran into some serious speed bumps this week. His confirmation hearings were postponed after lingering questions about his lack of management experience, poor oversight of the White House medical team and other murky accusations of professional misconduct.
Jackson is the official White House physician and has previously served in the same capacity for Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
This was the second time in mere days that Hitler merited a mention on the popular MSNBC morning show. Last week, NBC contributor Anand Giridharadas compared Trump’s rise to the 20th century fascist tyrant. Earlier show have also compared Trump to Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Kim Jong Un.
Read original story ‘Morning Joe’ Rips Trump Va Nominee Ronny Jackson: ‘Sounded Like Hitler’s Doctor’ (Video) At TheWrap...
- 4/24/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
The set of “Morning Joe” was without co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski Friday, but that didn’t stop the gang of regulars from delivering their usual outrage towards President Donald Trump.
MSNBC regular and NBC political analyst Anand Giridharadas offered his view that Republicans refuse to stand up to Donald Trump was evidence that the country was “diseased” — and yes, he also managed to crowbar in an oblique Trump- Hitler reference too.
“This is a diseased republic in which so many people agree on not speaking truth to power, in which so many people are so motivated by the protection of their careers, that they won’t do the thing that they promised themselves they would do when they were in high school and college reading about the rise of Hitler or reading about corrupt dictators in Africa and they said, ‘you know, if I’m even in a a moment like that — you think to yourself in college — I’m going to be that guy who is brave.'”
Also Read: 'Morning Joe' Compares Trump to Mao, Stalin and Kim: 'We're in the Dear Leader Phase' (Video)
Giridharadas continued:
“We have an entire governing class on the right in which not one person, with a couple of exceptions, is willing to do this suggests to me a very diseased body politic.”
Needless to say, none of what Giridharadas said went challenged, and the conversation swiftly moved into a dryer discussion about the deficit.
Also Read: 'Morning Joe' Nukes Sean Hannity Over Michael Cohen Disclosure: 'Bold-Faced Lying to His Viewers' (Video)
This is not the first time “Morning Joe” has compared President Trump to 20th century dictators. In the past, Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot have all been mentioned as Scarborough, Brzezinski and their guests reach for more arresting comparisons.
Scarborough, however, is notoriously sensitive about comparing anyone else to these dictators. On an airing of his show earlier this month, the former Gop congressman launched into an extended diatribe against Newt Gingrich and Fox News for suggesting as much about Robert Mueller.
“When you start comparing Robert Mueller to Stalin or Hitler, you are not attacking Robert Mueller, you are attacking the United States of America, you are attacking the United States Constitution,” Scarborough thundered in a rant which came complete with a dramatic camera zoom on his face.
Also Read: Scarborough: Trump Lies Just to Get Ann Coulter to 'Stop Mean-Tweeting About Him'
“I ask those leading Fox News, I ask Republicans on Capitol Hill, conservatives across America, are you really comfortable attacking law enforcement officers and personnel who were protecting your children against the next Isis terror attack on American soil, comparing those FBI agents to Joseph Stalin, a man who killed between 25 and 40 million of his own people?”
Watch above.
Read original story ‘Morning Joe': NBC Political Analyst Compares Trump to Hitler: ‘This Is a Diseased Republic’ At TheWrap...
MSNBC regular and NBC political analyst Anand Giridharadas offered his view that Republicans refuse to stand up to Donald Trump was evidence that the country was “diseased” — and yes, he also managed to crowbar in an oblique Trump- Hitler reference too.
“This is a diseased republic in which so many people agree on not speaking truth to power, in which so many people are so motivated by the protection of their careers, that they won’t do the thing that they promised themselves they would do when they were in high school and college reading about the rise of Hitler or reading about corrupt dictators in Africa and they said, ‘you know, if I’m even in a a moment like that — you think to yourself in college — I’m going to be that guy who is brave.'”
Also Read: 'Morning Joe' Compares Trump to Mao, Stalin and Kim: 'We're in the Dear Leader Phase' (Video)
Giridharadas continued:
“We have an entire governing class on the right in which not one person, with a couple of exceptions, is willing to do this suggests to me a very diseased body politic.”
Needless to say, none of what Giridharadas said went challenged, and the conversation swiftly moved into a dryer discussion about the deficit.
Also Read: 'Morning Joe' Nukes Sean Hannity Over Michael Cohen Disclosure: 'Bold-Faced Lying to His Viewers' (Video)
This is not the first time “Morning Joe” has compared President Trump to 20th century dictators. In the past, Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot have all been mentioned as Scarborough, Brzezinski and their guests reach for more arresting comparisons.
Scarborough, however, is notoriously sensitive about comparing anyone else to these dictators. On an airing of his show earlier this month, the former Gop congressman launched into an extended diatribe against Newt Gingrich and Fox News for suggesting as much about Robert Mueller.
“When you start comparing Robert Mueller to Stalin or Hitler, you are not attacking Robert Mueller, you are attacking the United States of America, you are attacking the United States Constitution,” Scarborough thundered in a rant which came complete with a dramatic camera zoom on his face.
Also Read: Scarborough: Trump Lies Just to Get Ann Coulter to 'Stop Mean-Tweeting About Him'
“I ask those leading Fox News, I ask Republicans on Capitol Hill, conservatives across America, are you really comfortable attacking law enforcement officers and personnel who were protecting your children against the next Isis terror attack on American soil, comparing those FBI agents to Joseph Stalin, a man who killed between 25 and 40 million of his own people?”
Watch above.
Read original story ‘Morning Joe': NBC Political Analyst Compares Trump to Hitler: ‘This Is a Diseased Republic’ At TheWrap...
- 4/20/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
The set of “Morning Joe” was especially feisty on Friday, with host Joe Scarborough offering a lengthy denunciation of Fox News and conservatives for their attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller.
“When you start comparing Robert Mueller to Stalin or Hitler, you are not attacking Robert Mueller, you are attacking the United States of America, you are attacking the United States Constitution,” Scarborough said after playing a clip of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Fox News blasting the FBI for using “Stalin” and “Gestapo” tactics.
“You owe Robert Mueller an apology, you owe the men and women of the FBI an apology — and you owe the American people an apology,” said Scarborough in between many dramatic pauses.”
Also Read: Scarborough: Trump Lies Just to Get Ann Coulter to 'Stop Mean-Tweeting About Him'
Gingrich is a Fox News contributor.
“I ask those leading Fox News, I ask Republicans on Capitol Hill, conservatives across America, are you really comfortable attacking law enforcement officers and personnel who were protecting your children against the next Isis terror attack on American soil, comparing those FBI agents to Joseph Stalin, a man who killed between 25 and 40 million of his own people?” said Scarborough.
Comparisons to Stalin — as well as Mao Zedong, Pol Pot and many other 20th century dictators — have been routine on the set of “Morning Joe” over the past year when the subject has been Donald Trump.
Also Read: Trump Blasts 'Untruthful Slime Ball' James Comey as Fired FBI Director Releases Tell-All Book
Scarborough himself has often compared Trump to Stalin:
“Of all the things — the shocking things the president has said, and he’s said so many, channeling Chairman Mao and Joseph Stalin by calling the media ‘enemy of the people,'” he said in an October 2017 broadcast.
“Saying that First Amendment rights, saying the ability of newspapers to write what they want to write is ‘disgusting’ and someone should look into it, may be the most frightening of all.”
Read original story ‘Morning Joe’ Demands Fox News Apologize to Robert Mueller: ‘You Are Attacking the United States’ At TheWrap...
“When you start comparing Robert Mueller to Stalin or Hitler, you are not attacking Robert Mueller, you are attacking the United States of America, you are attacking the United States Constitution,” Scarborough said after playing a clip of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Fox News blasting the FBI for using “Stalin” and “Gestapo” tactics.
“You owe Robert Mueller an apology, you owe the men and women of the FBI an apology — and you owe the American people an apology,” said Scarborough in between many dramatic pauses.”
Also Read: Scarborough: Trump Lies Just to Get Ann Coulter to 'Stop Mean-Tweeting About Him'
Gingrich is a Fox News contributor.
“I ask those leading Fox News, I ask Republicans on Capitol Hill, conservatives across America, are you really comfortable attacking law enforcement officers and personnel who were protecting your children against the next Isis terror attack on American soil, comparing those FBI agents to Joseph Stalin, a man who killed between 25 and 40 million of his own people?” said Scarborough.
Comparisons to Stalin — as well as Mao Zedong, Pol Pot and many other 20th century dictators — have been routine on the set of “Morning Joe” over the past year when the subject has been Donald Trump.
Also Read: Trump Blasts 'Untruthful Slime Ball' James Comey as Fired FBI Director Releases Tell-All Book
Scarborough himself has often compared Trump to Stalin:
“Of all the things — the shocking things the president has said, and he’s said so many, channeling Chairman Mao and Joseph Stalin by calling the media ‘enemy of the people,'” he said in an October 2017 broadcast.
“Saying that First Amendment rights, saying the ability of newspapers to write what they want to write is ‘disgusting’ and someone should look into it, may be the most frightening of all.”
Read original story ‘Morning Joe’ Demands Fox News Apologize to Robert Mueller: ‘You Are Attacking the United States’ At TheWrap...
- 4/13/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
By Michael Atkinson
It is surely a first . an international movie star (Sandrine Bonnaire) making a patient, respectful, thoroughly unnarcissistic documentary about her own handicapped sister, and stumping for policy change as she considers painful mysteries about family and the passage of time in the process. "Her Name Is Sabine" (2007) is a simple, unpretentious piece of work . Bonnaire spends an enormous amount of time simply observing the managed-care home where Sabine, nearing 40, lives now with a handful of other adults with varying modes and manifestations of autism. Slowly, Sabine's history is dripped in . as a child, teen and young adult, she was different, "off," but lucid, literate, energetic and capable of playing Chopin. She went without diagnosis for decades. As her siblings . ten of them . grew up one by one and left home, Sabine, robbed of stimulus, began to deteriorate; a series of hospital stays and hired nurses followed,...
It is surely a first . an international movie star (Sandrine Bonnaire) making a patient, respectful, thoroughly unnarcissistic documentary about her own handicapped sister, and stumping for policy change as she considers painful mysteries about family and the passage of time in the process. "Her Name Is Sabine" (2007) is a simple, unpretentious piece of work . Bonnaire spends an enormous amount of time simply observing the managed-care home where Sabine, nearing 40, lives now with a handful of other adults with varying modes and manifestations of autism. Slowly, Sabine's history is dripped in . as a child, teen and young adult, she was different, "off," but lucid, literate, energetic and capable of playing Chopin. She went without diagnosis for decades. As her siblings . ten of them . grew up one by one and left home, Sabine, robbed of stimulus, began to deteriorate; a series of hospital stays and hired nurses followed,...
- 3/11/2008
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
CANNES -- This movie's English title is a misnomer. The French noun "l'avocat" means attorney, while the English word "advocate" means something entirely different. The subject of Barbet Schroeder's in-depth documentary, included in Un Certain Regard sidebar, is Jacques Verges, a French attorney who has made a career defending unpopular individuals, more than a few considered war criminals and terrorists. But as the old saying goes, one man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. So what Schroeder wants to do is probe the moral complexities in a man capable of defending those who commit heinous crimes.
Verges, who agrees to be interviewed, proves a slippery figure, using his lawyer's guile to sidestep questions and spin facts. But he is a fascinating figure, and "Terror's Advocate" is a fascinating film even if it never completely pins him down. The film should do extremely well in European festivals and art houses although North American viewers' heads may spin as the film leaps through the history of foreign terrorist organizations of the past half-century.
The key thing about Verges is that he was born in Thailand in 1924 or 1925 -- even here he apparently is slippery -- to a mother from Vietnam and a father from Reunion Island, the Indian Ocean island that is part of France. He thus came of age as multiracial in a colonial setting, which as one interviewee notes, means "to be against things," to be anti-establishment, anti-colonialist and anti-government. So even when this seemingly leftist lawyer defends Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, from his perspective he sees the trial as an opportunity to show that French collaborators were no different from evil Barbie.
As a young attorney, he was asked to defend Djamila Bouhired, an Algerian woman who came to symbolize her country's hopes for freedom when she was arrested and tortured by France for planting bombs in cafes in 1957. Eventually, he obtained her pardon after she was sentenced to death. Subsequently, he married her.
But his reward was to be turned into "the husband of Djamila Bouhired" and to be banished to divorce cases. So it was that Verges abruptly disappeared. Last seen at a political meeting in Paris in February 1970, he didn't re-emerge until 1978.
Cultivating an enigmatic image, Verges merely says, "I was among people". He was spotted occasionally by friends in Paris. Theories of his whereabouts otherwise range from Cambodia, where Pol Pot was a friend from student days, to Palestinian camps or even China.
When he returned, he defended terrorists from Magdalena Kopp and Anis Naccache to Carlos the Jackal and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy. When he defended Kopp, German-born terrorist married to Carlos, history repeated itself. He apparently fell in love with his prisoner-client. Only this time she was married and turned her back on him once she was freed.
One can easily get lost amid the endless talking heads of defendants, experts, politicians, historians and attorneys. But what seems clear is that the defining moment in Verges' life came in his aggressive defense of Djamila Bouhired. That young, passionate and committed man was never able to repeat such a pure legal-political act. So he gradually, especially after his eight-year walkabout, drifted from advocate to l'avocat, becoming a man who knows how to legally help a client in the profitable business of terror or who can associate with anti-Semites and quarrel over the body count in the killing fields of Cambodia.
Schroeder eschews narration, letting the interviewees give the time lines and paint the portraits. Thus no one fills in all the blanks or provides a historical context for the many terrorist groups. Schroder also scrupulously avoids passing judgment -- or at least does so only in his selection of what comments or revelations he chooses to include.
A rich symphonic score by Jorge Arriagada helps flavor this visually thin broth of talking heads and a little archival footage.
L'AVOCAT DE LA TERREUR (TERROR'S ADVOCATE)
Magnolia Pictures
A Wild Bunch/Yalla Films co-production with participation of Canal Plus and the Center National de la Cinematographie
Credits:
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Producer: Rita Dagher
Director of photography: Caroline Champetier, Jean-Luc Perreard
Music: Jorge Arriagada
Editor: Nelly Quettier
Running time 137 minutes
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Verges, who agrees to be interviewed, proves a slippery figure, using his lawyer's guile to sidestep questions and spin facts. But he is a fascinating figure, and "Terror's Advocate" is a fascinating film even if it never completely pins him down. The film should do extremely well in European festivals and art houses although North American viewers' heads may spin as the film leaps through the history of foreign terrorist organizations of the past half-century.
The key thing about Verges is that he was born in Thailand in 1924 or 1925 -- even here he apparently is slippery -- to a mother from Vietnam and a father from Reunion Island, the Indian Ocean island that is part of France. He thus came of age as multiracial in a colonial setting, which as one interviewee notes, means "to be against things," to be anti-establishment, anti-colonialist and anti-government. So even when this seemingly leftist lawyer defends Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, from his perspective he sees the trial as an opportunity to show that French collaborators were no different from evil Barbie.
As a young attorney, he was asked to defend Djamila Bouhired, an Algerian woman who came to symbolize her country's hopes for freedom when she was arrested and tortured by France for planting bombs in cafes in 1957. Eventually, he obtained her pardon after she was sentenced to death. Subsequently, he married her.
But his reward was to be turned into "the husband of Djamila Bouhired" and to be banished to divorce cases. So it was that Verges abruptly disappeared. Last seen at a political meeting in Paris in February 1970, he didn't re-emerge until 1978.
Cultivating an enigmatic image, Verges merely says, "I was among people". He was spotted occasionally by friends in Paris. Theories of his whereabouts otherwise range from Cambodia, where Pol Pot was a friend from student days, to Palestinian camps or even China.
When he returned, he defended terrorists from Magdalena Kopp and Anis Naccache to Carlos the Jackal and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy. When he defended Kopp, German-born terrorist married to Carlos, history repeated itself. He apparently fell in love with his prisoner-client. Only this time she was married and turned her back on him once she was freed.
One can easily get lost amid the endless talking heads of defendants, experts, politicians, historians and attorneys. But what seems clear is that the defining moment in Verges' life came in his aggressive defense of Djamila Bouhired. That young, passionate and committed man was never able to repeat such a pure legal-political act. So he gradually, especially after his eight-year walkabout, drifted from advocate to l'avocat, becoming a man who knows how to legally help a client in the profitable business of terror or who can associate with anti-Semites and quarrel over the body count in the killing fields of Cambodia.
Schroeder eschews narration, letting the interviewees give the time lines and paint the portraits. Thus no one fills in all the blanks or provides a historical context for the many terrorist groups. Schroder also scrupulously avoids passing judgment -- or at least does so only in his selection of what comments or revelations he chooses to include.
A rich symphonic score by Jorge Arriagada helps flavor this visually thin broth of talking heads and a little archival footage.
L'AVOCAT DE LA TERREUR (TERROR'S ADVOCATE)
Magnolia Pictures
A Wild Bunch/Yalla Films co-production with participation of Canal Plus and the Center National de la Cinematographie
Credits:
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Producer: Rita Dagher
Director of photography: Caroline Champetier, Jean-Luc Perreard
Music: Jorge Arriagada
Editor: Nelly Quettier
Running time 137 minutes
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