Archive for the 'Movies and Television' Category

Let’s Not Elect Actors

August 13, 2007

Here was Robert Mitchum’s solution to the war in Vietnam.

Maybe it’s that kind of nuanced view that gets actors elected…frightening.
Michael

Control Room

August 6, 2007

After hearing about it in this diavlog between Robert Wright and Khaled Dawoud, I just finished watching Control Room. It’s a documentary about Al Jazeera’s coverage of the beginning of the Iraq War.
Watching the documentary, I was immediately struck by the people working at Al Jazeera. The Bush Administration called Al Jazeera the “voice of [...]