Saturday, December 28, 2019

Dialogic Cinephilia - December 28, 2019

Benton, Michael. "Around the World in 15 Films (13)." Letterboxd (2019)

---. "Favorite First-Run Films Seen in a Theater in 2019." Letterboxd (2019)

Biénzobas, Pamela. "Cinema in Awe: Roma." Fipresci (December 2019) [Fipresci Grand Prix - Best Film of the Year 2019 award winner]

Binney, Bill. "NSA Whistleblower – Government Collects Everything You Do." The Real News (April 17, 2019) ["Abby Martin interviews former Technical Director of the National Security Agency, Bill Binney, who blew the whistle on warrantless spying years before Edward Snowden released the evidence. They discuss the US empire's mass surveillance program and dangers of the Intelligence Industrial Complex."]

Cullors, Patrisse and Ken Rosenberg. "Bedlam: Film Shows How Decades of Healthcare Underfunding Made Jails 'De Facto Mental Asylums.'" Democracy Now (December 27, 2019) ["Are prisons and jails America’s “new asylums”? A new documentary looks at how a disproportionate number of underserved people facing mental health challenges have been swept into the criminal justice system, where they lack adequate treatment. Nearly 15% of men and more than 30% of women in jails have a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, major depression or bipolar disorder. For many of them, jail is their first point of entry into mental health treatment. The documentary “Bedlam” was filmed over five years in Los Angeles County’s overwhelmed and vastly under-resourced Emergency Psychiatry Services, a jail warehousing thousands of psychiatric patients, and the homes — and homeless encampments — of people who are living with severe mental illness. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and will air on PBS “Independent Lens” this April. The film features many people, including Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who share their personal experiences with family members’ chronic psychiatric conditions that have pushed them into the path of police officers, ER doctors and nurses, lawyers and prison guards. We speak with Cullors, who shares her experience with seeking help for her brother Monte, who has lived with schizoaffective disorder since he was a teenager, and director Ken Rosenberg, an addiction psychiatrist affiliated with Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City whose own sister struggled with schizophrenia."]

Jenkins, David. "Little Women." Little White Lies (November 25, 2019)

Seitz, Matt Zoller. "The Films of the 2010s: The Tree of Life." Roger Ebert (November 6, 2019)

Shultz, Christopher. "The Best Horror Novels of the Decade." LitReactor (December 6, 2019)

Temple, Emily. "The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the Decade."  Literary Hub (November 5, 2019)

The Tree of Life (USA: Terence Malick, 2011) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

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