Archive for 'Movies/TV'
Writer J.D. Shapiro, who wrote the movie ‘Battlefield Earth,’ apologizes to viewers and explains how the bomb came to be – NYPOST.com
“Let me start by apologizing to anyone who went to see ‘Battlefield Earth.’
“It wasn’t as I intended — promise. No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn’t really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those.”
via Writer J.D. Shapiro, who wrote the movie [...]
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Chat Roulette: everything you ever wanted to know
chat roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.
This video came my way via David Pogue, my favorite tech writer from the New York Times. Catch David on Twitter: @Pogue.
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Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Image of Women | Watch Free Documentary Online
Great short film—actually a lecture—by Jean Kilbourne on the extent of advertising’s dehumanization of women and perpetuation of destructive stereotypes about both genders.
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Image of Women | Watch Free Documentary Online.
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Keith Olbermann: Kill the Bill
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Birth of a Surgeon ~ Full Episode | Wide Angle
Brilliant video of the training of midwives in sub-Saharan Africa in life-saving surgical techniques, such as Cesareans and hysterectomies. One in 22 women there dies in childbirth. More than 600,000 women die every year in childbirth worldwide.
“WIDE ANGLE travels to Mozambique, where a bold grassroots initiative to train midwives in advanced life-saving surgery has [...]
Movie: Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2006) is a compelling film about the aftermath of the Bosnian war in the 1990s. Set it Grbavica, a quarter in Sarajevo that was held by Serbs fighting for Milosevic’s “Greater Serbia” and engaged in ethnic cleansing, this film is a story of what happens after the soldiers leave. [...]
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria clip
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria clip from Frameline Distribution on Vimeo.
Dir. Victor Silverman & Susan Stryker
2005 57 min. USA
EMMY® Award-winning “Screaming Queens” tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States — a 1966 riot in San [...]
Katherine Goldstein: Food, Inc.: HuffPost Bloggers Weigh In Video
Katherine Goldstein: Food, Inc.: HuffPost Bloggers Weigh In Video.
The new movie reminds me of Supersize Me, the excellent documentary about a guy who ate nothing but McDonald’s grub for a month. I haven’t seen Food, Inc. yet, but an issue that has bothered me for a long time is the way agribusiness has co-opted school [...]
Paul Newman
“The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor or the good and the evil, the biggest of all difference between people is between those that have had pleasure in love and those that haven’t.” — shown in a tribute on the 81st Oscars.
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Sean Penn-Oscars
Sean Penn gave a moving speech. I agree. I’m glad he won. It’s also got to be about worldwide equality for women. One of the greatest evils still is the governments/societies that promote dehumanization of women. Men are throwing acid in women and girls’ faces! We need an uplifting of all who are downtrodden–young, old, [...]
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