Resources for April 15, 2014

Labell, Molly, "14 BOOKS FROM WES ANDERSON MOVIES WE WISH WERE REAL." Buzzle (April 8, 2014)





Gallagher, Paul. "What a pact with the Devil (supposedly) looks like." Dangerous Minds (April 9, 2014)

Dialogic: Resources for April 12, 2014

Tatarska, Anna. "Wonder, Worry and Watermark." Keyframe (April 8, 2014) ["Burtynski and Baichwal, whose MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES stunned viewers, return with more expansive and alarming views of environmental crisis in WATERMARK."]

McNeil, Jeremiah. "The Grand Budapest Hotel: Wes Anderson’s Coming Out." The Cinematic Mind of Jeremiah McNeil (April 12, 2014)

Huerta, Delores and Jose Antonio Orozco. "The Non-Violent Path of Cesar Chavez." Making Contact (April 9, 2014)

"Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future." -- Cloud Atlas (2012)

As a teacher, I'm not interested in just reproducing class after class of graduates who will get out, become successful, and take their obedient places in the slots that society has prepared for them. What we must do--whether we teach or write or make films--is educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world. (15)
-- Zinn, Howard. "Stories Hollywood Never Tells." The Sun #343 (July 2004): 12-15.

Into Eternity Making Contact (March 18, 2014) ["Our world is generating more and more nuclear waste, but have no permanent place to dispose of it. But the nation of Finland has a plan. They’re building an underground cave, to hold thousands of tones of nuclear waste, for at least 100 thousand years. On this edition, we hear excerpts of the film, “Into Eternity”, which explores the logistical and philosophical quandaries around the construction of something that if it works, might very well outlast the entire human race."]