We live in the best of times in which we are able to learn about the world and its incredible diversity of cultures/beings/places/perspectives in a way never historically possible. We live in the worst of times when we are able to isolate ourselves completely from anything different from our own narrow view/conception of the world/reality. The choice is yours!
Monday, January 5, 2015
Spring 2015 Bluegrass Film Society
1/10: Inherent Vice (USA: Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014: 148 mins) [12:50PM at Fayette Cinemark Theater]
1/12: Kin-dza-dza (Soviet Union: Georgiy Daneliya, 1986: 135 mins)
1/18: Selma (UK/USA: Ava DuVernay, 2014: 128 mins) (11:50am at Movie Tavern)
1/26: Wake in Fright (Australia: Ted Kotcheff, 1971: 114 mins)
1/27: Proud Citizen (USA/Bulgaria: Thom Southerland, 2014: 89 mins) [7pm at the Kentucky Theater]
1/28: American Sniper (USA: Clint Eastwood, 2014: 132 mins) [Movie Tavern 6:50PM]
1/31 or 2/1: 2001: A Space Odyssey w/ Live Orchestra (USA/UK: Stanley Kubrick, 1968: 160 mins) [The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1, in the University of Kentucky Singletary Center Concert Hall.]
2/2: The Shooting (USA: Monte Hellman, 1966: 82 mins)
2/9: Dear White People (USA: Justin Simien, 2014: 108 mins)
2/14: The Great Beauty (Italy/France: Paolo Sorrentino, 2013: 142 mins) [One World Film Festival - The Kentucky Theater: 10am]
2/23: The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (Japan: Masahiro Shinoda, 1970: 104 mins)
2/27: Maps to the Stars (Canada/USA/Germany/France: David Cronenberg, 2014: 111 mins) [The Kentucky Theater]
3/2: The Dance of Reality (Chile/France: Alejandro Jodorowsky, 2013: 130 mins)
3/8: Mr. Turner (UK/France/Germany: Mike Leigh, 2014: 150 mins) [The Kentucky Theater: 1 PM]
3/9: Force Majeure (Sweden/France/Norway: Ruben Östlund, 2014: 120 mins)
3/16: Hard to Be a God (Russia: Aleksey German, 2013: 170 mins) [7pm at the IU Cinema]
3/23: The Music Room (India: Satyajit Ray, 1958: 95 mins)
3/26: Blade Runner (USA/Hong Kong/UK: Ridley Scott, 1982: 117 mins) [Worsham Theater: 10 PM]
3/28: Leviathan (Russia: Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014: 140 mins) [The Kentucky Theater]
3/30: It's Such a Beautiful Day (USA: Don Hertzfeldt, 2012: 62 mins)
4/3: It Follows (USA: David Robert Mitchell, 2014: 100 mins) [The Kentucky Theater 7:30 PM]
4/6: Citizenfour (USA/Germany/UK: Laura Poitras, 2014: 114 mins)
4/7: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Japan: Isao Takahata, 2013: 137 mins) [The Kentucky Theater]
4/13: Appropriate Behavior (UK: Desiree Akhavan, 2014: 86 mins)
4/20: The Wall (Austria/Germany: Julian Pölsler, 2012: 108 mins)
4/27: Turn Me On, Dammit (Norway: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, 2011: 76 mins)
5/4: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (USA: Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014: 99 mins)
Resources for January 5, 2015
Juliana, Kelsey and Mary Christina Wood. "The Children's Climate Crusade." Moyers & Co. (January 1, 2015)
"Crime Stories." To the Best of Our Knowledge (January 26, 2014) ["Today, we explore the latest in international crime fiction -- from Israel, Kenya, Denmark, Spain and more."]
Cuff, Paul. "Experiential Art: Musical performance, live cinema, and Abel Gance’s Napoléon." Alternate Takes (February 13, 2014)
Poitras, Laura. "Citizenfour." The Treatment (October 22, 2014)
Donegan, Moira. "Does That Humiliate You?: The Heiress" N + 1 (February 12, 2014)
Deconstructing the opening scene of Once Upon a Time in the West from The Film League on Vimeo.
Gilroy, Dan. "Nightcrawler." The Treatment (October 29, 2014)
"1100 Free Online Courses from Top Universities." Open Courses (Archive)
Gilliam, Holly. "Magnificent Obsessions: The timeless dystopian vision of Terry Gilliam's Brazil." Moving Image Source (June 15, 2011)
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Resources for January 4, 2015
Rape in the Fields The Center for Investigative Reporting (Archive) ["The Rape in the Fields project revealed the persistent sexual abuse and harassment that female farmworkers across the U.S. face. The investigation was a collaboration among CIR, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, KQED-FM, FRONTLINE and Univision. It included a feature-length documentary in both Spanish and English, multiple text pieces and multimedia assets published in June 2013."]
Wikileaks (Media) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)
“Its not that nothing is real; rather everything is real.”— Kathy Acker (1992)
Nastasi, Alison. "We Exist: The Female Horror Directors of 2014." Balder and Dash (December 29, 2014)
Risselada, Brian and Josh Ryan. "Larissa Sheptiko." Syndromes and Cinema #8 (March 29, 2014)
Mother (2009) - Telephoto Profile Shots from Tony Zhou on Vimeo.
Fitzsimmons, Jill. "Meet The Climate Denial Machine." Media Matters (November 28, 2012)
Armstrong, Karen, et al. "Religion in a Troubled World." To the Best of Our Knowledge (December 28, 2014)
Ayers, Bill, et al. "A Matter of Conscience." To the Best of Our Knowledge (January 19, 2014) ["Everybody makes choices. Some of them matter for an hour, others for the rest of your life. For thousands of young people forty years ago, the choice was to go to war in Vietnam or accept the consequences of refusing."]
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Wikileaks (Media)
WikiLeaks has sustained and triumphed against legal and political attacks designed to silence our publishing organisation, our journalists and our anonymous sources. The broader principles on which our work is based are the defence of freedom of speech and media publishing, the improvement of our common historical record and the support of the rights of all people to create new history. We derive these principles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In particular, Article 19 inspires the work of our journalists and other volunteers. It states that everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. We agree, and we seek to uphold this and the other Articles of the Declaration."]
Wikpedia: Wikileaks
Democracy Now: Julian Assange
Twitter: @wikileaks
Resources about Wikileaks:
Aftergood, Steven and Glenn Greenwald. "Is WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange a Hero?: A Debate." Democracy Now (December 3, 2010)
"Anonymous and the global correction: A loosely organised group of hackers is targeting oppressive regimes and says this is just the beginning." Al Jazeera (February 16, 2011)
Appelbaum, Jacob. "'We Don’t Live in a Free Country': Jacob Appelbaum on Being Target of Widespread Gov’t Surveillance." Democracy Now (April 20, 2012)
Appelbaum, Jacob, William Binney, and Laura Poitras. "More Secrets on Growing State Surveillance: Exclusive with NSA Whistleblower, Targeted Hacker." Democracy Now (April 23, 2012)
Assange, Julian. "The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’." The New York Times (June 2, 2013)
---. "End the WikiLeaks Witch Hunt: Julian Assange’s Full Address from the Ecuadorean Embassy." Democracy Now (August 20, 2012)
---. "In Conversation with John Pilger (Extended Interview from the documentary The War You Don't See (2010)." Top Documentary Films (2010)
---. "In U.N. Address, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Urges Obama Admin to End 'Regime of Secrecy.'" Democracy Now (September 27, 2012)
---. "Responds to Increasing US Government Attacks on Wikileaks." Democracy Now (August 3, 2010)
---. "On 'When Google Met WikiLeaks' While He was Under House Arrest.'" Democracy Now (January 2, 2015)
---. "Why the World Needs Wikileaks." TED Talks (July 19, 2010)
---. "WikiLeaks, War and Resisting Government Crackdown." Democracy Now (December 31, 2010)
Assange, Julian and Michael Ratner. "Julian Assange on Being Placed on NSA "Manhunting" List & Secret Targeting of WikiLeaks Supporters." Democracy Now (February 18, 2014)
Assange, Julian and Slavoj Zizek. "Discussion About the Pressing Issues of Our Time." Dialogic [Frontline Club event and Democracy Now Special Broadcast: July 2012]
Attewell, Wes, et al. "Leaky Geopolitics: The Rupturesand Transgressions of WikiLeaks." Geopolitics (July 2012)
Beckett, Charlie, et al. "Information Wars." (February 25, 2011)
Benchler, Yochai. "Fear of a Networked Estate." Radio Berkman (April 29, 2011)
---. "A Free Irresponsible Press: Wikileaks and the Battle Over the Soul of the Networked Fourth Estate." Forthcoming essay in Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (Accessed August 17, 2012)
"Berkman Center’s Citizen Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic Challenge Injunctions Against Wikileaks and Dynadot." Berkman Center for Internet & Society (February 27, 2008)
Branfman, Fred. "The Significance of the Wikileaks Documents." Antiwar Radio (January 6, 2011)
Broudy, Oliver. "Has Assange Turned Me Into An Anarchist?: WikiLeaks wants to topple the Information State. Bring it on." Mother Jones (December 9, 2010)
Burnside, Julian, John Pilger and Andrew Wilkie. "Breaking Australia's Silence: WikiLeaks and Freedom." Vimeo (Video of a public forum held on March 16, 2011 at the Sydney Town Hall staged by the Sydney Peace Foundation, Amnesty, Stop the War Coalition, and supported by the City of Sydney, Australia)
Chomsky, Noam. "On WikiLeaks, Obama’s Targeted Assassinations and Latin America’s Break from the U.S." Democracy Now (May 14, 2012)
Coleman, Gabriella, Peter Fein, and X. "Hacktivism’s Global Reach, From Targeting Scientology to Backing WikiLeaks and the Arab Spring." (August 16, 2011)
"Egypt Today, Tomorrow the World." Crimethinc. (February 2, 2011)
Ellsberg, Daniel. "Julian Assange is Not a Terrorist." Democracy Now (December 31, 2010)
---. "Open Letter to Amazon." [Personal Website: December 3, 2010)
Ellsberg, Daniel, et al. "The New Pentagon Papers: WikiLeaks Releases 90,000+ Secret Military Documents Painting Devastating Picture of Afghanistan War." Democracy Now (July 26, 2010)
---. "WikiLeaks: Why It Matters. Why It Doesn't?" FORA TV (January 19, 2011)
"Governments vs The Left." Best of the Left (January 1, 2011)
Greenberg, Andy. "An Interview With WikiLeaks' Julian Assange." Forbes (November 29, 2010)
Greenwald, Glenn. "Joe Lieberman emulates Chinese dictators: The Connecticut senator pressures Amazon to block Americans from viewing WikiLeaks documents." Salon (December 2, 2010)
---. "The Media Failed on Wikileaks." (December 3, 2010)
---. "The WikiLeaks Afghanistan leak: What will be the consequences of the greatest government leak since the Pentagon Papers?" Salon (July 25, 2010)
Griffin, Ben and Michael Ratner. "Ecuador Grants Julian Assange Asylum; U.S. Seen as "Hidden Hand" Behind U.K. Threat to Raid Embassy." Democracy Now (August 16, 2012)
Hedges, Chris. "The Death of Truth." TruthDig (May 5, 2013)
Hoffman, David. "A Running Tour of YouTube Nation." Open Source (April 19, 2010)
Hrafnsson, Kristinn. "'The Kissinger Cables': Three Years After 'Collateral Murder,' WikiLeaks Explores U.S. Diplomacy." Democracy Now (April 8, 2013)
Leigh, David. "US Cables Leak Sparks Global Diplomatic Crisis: Classified embassy dispatches reveal Saudi king pressed US for military action on Iran and Washington used diplomats to spy on UN." Common Dreams (November 28, 2010)
Leigh, David, James Ball, Ian Cobain and Jason Burke. The Guantánamo files: Guantánamo leaks lift lid on world's most controversial prison." The Guardian (April 25, 2011)
Lessig, Lawrence and Jonathan Zittrain. "Wikileaks and the Information Wars." Radio Berkman (December 9, 2010)
Ludlow, Peter. "WikiLeaks and Hacktivist Culture." The Nation (October 4, 2010)
McDermott, Quentin. "Wikileaks: The Forgotten Man." Four Corners (June 14, 2012)
McGovern, Ray. "In Support of Imprisoned Wikileaks Whistleblower Pvt. Bradley Manning." AlterNet (August 8, 2010)
Michael, Gabriel J. "Here’s why Julian Assange is picking a fight with international relationships professors." Washington Post (August 3, 2015)
Murray, Craig. "America’s Vassal Acts Decisively and Illegally." (Personal Website: August 16, 2011)
Pilger, John. "The siege of Julian Assange is a farce - a special investigation." (November 16, 2014)
"Questions for Secretary Clinton concerning "Internet freedom"." Berkman Center for Internet & Society (February 15, 2011)
Ratner, Michael. "Exposed: U.S. May Have Designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks an 'Enemy of the State.'" Democracy Now (September 27, 2012)
Roberts, Paul Craig. "Our Time of Universal Deceit Needs an Orwell ." Foreign Policy Journal (March 14, 2011)
Rosen, Jay. "The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization." Press Think (July 26, 2010)
---. "The Watchdog Press Died; We Have This Instead." Vimeo (2011)
Scahill, Jeremy. "The World Is a Battlefield: Jeremy Scahill on "Dirty Wars" and Obama’s Expanding Drone Attacks." Democracy Now (April 24, 2013)
Schor, Francis. "WikiLeaks, Ideological Legitimacy and the Crisis of Empire." Truthout (January 2, 2o11)
Slajda, Rachel. "After Getting Amazon To Boot Wikileaks, Lieberman Eyes Other Firms (VIDEO)." Talking Points Memo (December 2, 2010)
"Snowden, Greenwald, Wikileaks & the NSA." Media Roots (May 29, 2014)
Vidal-Hall, Judith. "A press fit for the purpose?: Finding a new model for press and public service broadcasting." Eurozine (December 31, 2010)
Werve, Jonathan. "Wikileaks and Internet Censorship: a comparative study." IndyMedia UK (February 22, 2008)
"Wikileaks 'hacked ahead of secret US document release'." BBC (November 28, 2010)
"Wikileaks Hounded." Reporters Without Borders (April 12, 2010)
"Wikileaks -- Key Players: Meet Eight of the Central Players in the Wikileaks Saga as They Reveal the Story Behind the Story that Took the World by Storm." ABC News (2011)
"Wikileaks: The Truth is Out There." Rap News (December 17, 2010) [Satirical Commentary Video Series -- this is a cultural example of the controversy]
Zeese, Kevin. "Bradley Manning and the Rule of Law." Truthout (January 14, 2011)
Zelaya, Manuel. "The U.S. Role in Honduran Coup, WikiLeaks and Why He Was Ousted." Democracy Now (May 31, 2011)
Friday, January 2, 2015
Resources for January 3, 2015
"Gone Girl." Reel Fanatics #305 (October 30, 2014)
Atkinson, Michael. "Essential Wandering Jerzy Skolimowski and the search for a mythical home." Moving Image Source (June 10, 2011)
Zawia, Alexandra. "Bruno Dumont on Why TIFF Comedy Li'l Quinquin Feels Like 'Self-Parody.'" IndieWire (September 10, 2014)
Clark, Ashley. "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty: A dazzling, deliquescent, take-this-heart love movie." Sight and Sound (February 7, 2014)
Leopold, Aldo. "Thinking Like a Mountain." (1949) Sand County Almanac Oxford University Press, 1987: 129-133.
"Wounded Knee, 1890 – 1973 in photos." Plog (January 2, 2015)
Gott, Molly. "End-of-Year Round-up for Ferguson Protests: More than 600 Arrests, At Least 18 Still in Jail with Serious Charges." More (December 31, 2014)
"This Charming Charlie: Artist Combines Smiths Lyrics And Peanuts Characters In Best Tumblr Ever." The Huffington Post (August 19, 2013)
Resources for January 2, 2015
Greenwald, Glenn. "North Korea/Sony Story Shows How Eagerly U.S. Media Still Regurgitate Government Claims." The Intercept (January 1, 2015)
Taibbi, Matt. "Who Goes to Jail?: On 'The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap.'" Democracy Now (January 1, 2015)
Bale, Miriam. "Dream Job: The idea that working nine to five was once possible may be in itself inspiration to revolt and organize." N + 1 (February 16, 2014)
Mellamphy, Deborah. "The Paradox of Transvestism in Tim Burton's Ed Wood." Widescreen 1.1 (April 2009)
Zadrozny, Brandy. "Texas Gun Slingers Police the Police—With a Black Panthers Tactic." The Daily Beast (January 2, 2015)
"2014 deadliest year in Iraq for civilians since 2006-7 bloodshed: U.N." Reuters (January 2, 2015)
Assange, Julian. "On 'When Google Met WikiLeaks' While He was Under House Arrest.'" Democracy Now (January 2, 2015)
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Resources for January 1, 2015
Schneier, Bruce. "More Data on Attributing the Sony Attack." Schneier on Security (December 31, 2014)
Ivereigh, Austin. "Pope Francis Calls for Action on Climate Change & Capitalism as Planet is 'Exploited by Human Greed.'" Democracy Now (December 31, 2014)
Ivereigh, Austin. ""The Great Reformer": Pope Francis Biographer on How Pontiff Became Star Diplomat & Voice for Change." Democracy Now (December 31, 2014)
Bordwell, David. "On Narrative." Reel Fanatics (September 18, 2014)
Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy from Tony Zhou on Vimeo.
Hudson, David. "Goodbye to 2014: Plus My Own Top Ten." Keyframe (December 31, 2014)
Lee, Kevin B. "Micky vs. Marky: The Same Fight Twice." (Posted on Vimeo: 2012) [Video essay on the 2010 film The Fighter]
Fleischmann, Alayne and Matt Taibbi. "'The $9 Billion Witness' Who Exposed How JP Morgan Chase Helped Wreck the Economy." Democracy Now (January 1, 2014)
Inside Job (USA: Charles Ferguson, 2010: 105 minutes) ["'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China."]
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Resources for December 31, 2014
Zimet, Abby. "NYPD Throw Entirely Inappropriate Tantrum At Funeral After Mayor Suggests They Can't Kill Black Kids With Impunity." The Guardian (December 27, 2014)
Benjamin, Medea. "10 Good Things About the Year 2014." Common Dreams (December 30, 2014)
Bevilacqua, Christina, Paul Lewis and Matthew Pearl. "American Horror Stories." Open Source (October 27, 2014)
Benedict, Steven. "Analysis of Inception." (Posted on Vimeo: 2012)
Beckert, Sven and Craig Steven Wilder. "Capitalism and Chains." Radio Open Source (November 20, 2014) ["A new wave of historians say that the “peculiar institution” of slavery explains more about the present than we’d care to admit: not just how the West got wealthy, but the way that global capitalism evolved in the first place."]
Green-Barber, Lindsay. "3 investigations, 3 new laws: See how The Center for Investigative Reporting’s stories gain macro impact." The Center for Investigative Reporting (October 2, 2014)
"Woman in the Dunes' Golden Anniversary." Current (February 13, 2014)
Lee, Kevin B. "Ask Siri: Why Her Deserves Oscar’s Best Picture." Keyframe (February 19, 2014)
Berger, John. Ways of Seeing NY: Penguin, 1990.
Lee, Kevin B. "What Makes a Video Essay Great?" Press Play (December 29, 2014)
"Listener Questions, What's Ralph Reading." The Ralph Nader Hour (December 28, 2014)
Monday, December 29, 2014
Resources for December 30, 2014
2 or 3 Things I know About Her (France: Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)
Duff, Joe, Clarice Gibbs and Jon Mooallem. "For the Birds." Radiolab (July 24, 2014) ["When the conservationists showed up at Clarice Gibbs’ door and asked her to take down her bird feeders down for the sake of an endangered bird, she said no. Everybody just figured she was a crazy bird lady. But writer Jon Mooallem went to see her and discovered there was much more to this story. Mrs. Gibbs tells us her surprising side of the tale, and together with Joe Duff, we struggle with the realization that keeping things wild in today's world will be harder than we ever would've thought."]
Lee, Kevin B. "Turning Point: The Year in Video Essays." Keyframe (December 31, 2013)
LeGuin, Ursula K. "We Will Need Writers Who Can Remember Freedom." TruthOut (December 29, 2014)
From Ursula K. LeGuin's acceptance speech:
I think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being. And even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom: poets, visionaries—the realists of a larger reality. Right now, I think we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. The profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable; so did the divine right of kings. … Power can be resisted and changed by human beings; resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words. I’ve had a long career and a good one, in good company, and here, at the end of it, I really don’t want to watch American literature get sold down the river. … The name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is freedom.
Phelps, David. "Film Socialisme Annotated: A guided tour through Jean-Luc Godard's most allusive film." Moving Image Source (June 7, 2011)
Kotlikoff, Laurence, Jeff Madrick and Ralph Nader. "The Question of Capitalism." Radio Open Source (October 16, 2014)
Resources for December 29, 2014
Jenkins, Steven. "Grande Fratello Is Watching You: Matteo Garrone’s tough guys, little men and scheming dreamers face up to reality." Keyframe (February 14, 2014)
Neumeier, Ed and Paul M. Sammon. "Starship Troopers." The Projection Booth #99 (January 29, 2013)
Hellman, Monte, Jamie Jenkins and Paul Zimmerman. "Resevoir Dogs." The Projection Booth #101 (February 12, 2013)
Lee, Kevin B. "This Is 45: A Year in Keyframe Video Essays." Keyframe (December 13, 2012)
DiSalvo, David. "The Lessons American Hustle Teaches About The Irresistible Chaos Of Desire." Forbes *December 23, 2013)
Meyer, Robinson. "The Geography of Gratitude." The Atlantic (November 26, 2014)
Aikins, Matthieu and Kathy Kelly. "The Afghan War is Not Over: U.S. Ends 13-Year Combat Mission, But 10,000+ Troops Continue the Fight." Democracy Now (December 29, 2014)
Lee, Kevin B. "The Best Video Essays of 2014." Keyframe (December 29, 2014)
Akins, Matthieu. "The Worst Narco-State in History? After 13-Year War, Afghanistan’s Opium Trade Floods the Globe." Democracy Now (December 29, 2014)
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Resources for December 28, 2014
Nichols, Mike. "On His Filmmaking Style and Directing Actors." Pinewood Dialogues (March 1, 1990)
Lowenstein, Adam and Laura Mulvey. "Peeping Tom." #96 (January 8, 2013)
Bell, James and Foster Hirsch. "Birth of the Method: The Revolution in American Acting." Sight and Sound (October 31, 2014)
Jeremy Hammond /Anarchaos from @AnonymousVideo on Vimeo.
Anonymous Radio Anonops Live
Winter, Max. "Faces in the Work of UNDER THE SKIN Director Jonathan Glazer: A Video Essay by Shaun Higgins." Press Play (December 25, 2014)
Gordon, Keith. Love and Death Projection Booth (January 22, 2013)
Resources for December 27, 2014
Srinivasan, Amia. "On Genealogy." Philosophy Bites (August 2, 2014)
Lazar, Seth. "On Sparing Civilians in War." Philosophy Bites (July 19, 2014)
D'Angelo, Mike, et al. "The Best Films of 2014." The Dissolve (December 18, 2014)
Shahani, Aarti. "Doubts Persist On U.S. Claims On North Korean Role In Sony Hack." All Tech Considered (December 26, 2014)
Carvajal, Nelson and Max Winter. "Video Essay: Women in the Works of Martin Scorsese." Press Play (February 7, 2014)
Wideman, John Edgar. "The Color of Terror." Harper's (March 2004)
Brodey, Sam. "The Worst Segments That Appeared on Cable News in 2014." Mother Jones (December 23, 2014)
Steinbauer, Anja and Terri Murray. "Feminist Film Theory." Philosophy Now #7 (September 13, 2011)
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Resources for December 25, 2014
Kebriaei, Pardiss. "Will Guantánamo Ever Close? U.S. Frees More Prisoners, But Dozens Remain Behind Bars." Democracy Now (December 24, 2014)
Analysis of Blade Runner from Steven Benedict on Vimeo.
Greenfield, Adam. "The smartest cities rely on citizen cunning and unglamorous technology." The Guardian (December 22, 2014) ["Ignore the futuristic visions of governments and developers, it’s humble urban communities who lead the way in showing how networked technologies can strengthen a city’s social fabric."]
Abdelmahmoud, Elamin. "2014: the year that black cinema bounced back in America." The Guardian *December 25, 2014)
Sampson, Benjamin. "Essay Meets Plot: JFK and the Boundaries of Narrative." [in]Transition (December 12, 2014)
Kuehner, Jay. "Who Can Tell of the Heroic Deeds of Israel?: Nadav Lapid’s The Kindergarten Teacher." Cinema-Scope #61 (2014)
Chomsky, Noam. Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda. NY: Seven Stories Press, 1997. [also Excerpts from key sections of the 2nd Edition]
Bucci, Michele. "The Thin Red Line": Staging and representation of leadership and soldiers." (Posted on Vimeo: November 2014)
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Resources for December 24, 2014
Pierce, Charles P. "The CIA & NYPD: Perilous Insubordination in Our Democracy." The Politics Blog (December 22, 2014)
Semley, John. "Berlinale 2014: Boyhood Review." Slant (February 14, 2014)
Boyhood (USA: Richard Linklater, 2014) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)
D'Angelo, Mike. "Devils On Your Doorstep." A.V. Club (October 26, 2009)
Winfield, Nicole. "Pope in blistering critique of Vatican bureaucrats." AP (December 22, 2014)
Balko, Radley. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces. NY: Public Affairs, 2013.
Kolk, Bessel van der. "Restoring the Body: Yoga, EMDR, and Treating Trauma." On Being (October 30, 2014) ["Human memory is a sensory experience, says psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk. Through his longtime research and innovation in trauma treatment, he shares what he's learning about how bodywork like yoga or eye movement therapy can restore a sense of goodness and safety. What he’s learning speaks to a resilience we can all cultivate in the face of the overwhelming events — which, after all, make up the drama of culture, of news, and of life."]
Seitz, Matt Zoller. "All Things Shining, Pt 4 - The films of Terrence Malick: The New World." Moving Image Source (May 31, 2011)
Lakoff, George. "The Brain and Its Politics." University of Oregon Humanities (May 2, 2008)
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Boyhood (USA: Richard Linklater, 2014)
Boyhood (USA: Richard Linklater, 2014: 165 mins)
Boyhood Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)
"From Selma to Snowden, Oscar Speeches Invoke Activism & Calls for Social Justice." Democracy Now (February 23, 2015)
Klinger, Gabe. "What is Boyhood?" Cinema-Scope #58 (2014)
Kohn, Eric. "Was Richard Linklater's 12 Year Production 'Boyhood' Worth the Wait? In a Word, Yes." Indiewire (January 20, 2014)
"Patricia Arquette Delivers Impassioned Oscars Speech About Gender Equality." Truthdig (February 23, 2015)
Semley, John. "Berlinale 2014: Boyhood Review." Slant (February 14, 2014)
Resources for December 23, 2014
Benton, Michael Dean. "My Understanding of Anarchism 4.0" Dialogic Cinephilia (November 5, 2013)
Thrasher, Steven and Graham Weatherspoon. "Calls for Calm After NYPD Union Says Mayor, Protesters Have Blood on Their Hands for Cops’ Murder." Democracy Now (December 22, 2014)
Barber, Dan. "Driven by Flavor." On Being (August 21, 2014) ["Dan Barber is a celebrated young chef — but his passionate ethics and intellect have made him much more. He's out to restore food to its rightful place vis-à-vis our bodies, our ecologies and our economies. And he would do this by resurrecting our natural insistence on flavor."]
Hong, Christine and Tim Shorrock. "The Interview Belittles North Korea, But is Film’s Backstory and U.S. Policy the Real Farce?" Democracy Now (December 22, 2014)
"Video: Entertainer Sings 'Bad, Bad Michael Brown' At Ex-Police Charity Dinner." Crooks and Liars (December 23, 2014)
Raymond, Nathaniel. "Weaponizing Health Workers: How Medical Professionals Were a Top Instrument in U.S. Torture Program." Democracy Now (December 23, 2014)
Wilkerson, Lawrence. "Ex-Bush Official: U.S. Tortured Prisoners to Produce False Intel that Built Case for Iraq War." Democracy Now (December 23, 2014)
Wilkerson, Lawrence. "Bush & Cheney Should Be Charged with War Crimes Says Col. Wilkerson, Former Aide to Colin Powell." Democracy Now (December 23, 2014)
Brown, Humberto, Greg Grandin and Lawrence Wilkerson. ""The War to Start All Wars": Did U.S. Invasion of Panama 25 Years Ago Set Stage for Future Wars?" Democracy Now (December 23, 2014)
Hudson, David. "Cahiers du Cinéma 2014 Top Ten." Keyframe (November 28, 2014)
Monday, December 22, 2014
Occupy Movement (Social Movement)
"The 99 Percent Wakes Up (Occupy Wall St Part 1)." The Best of the Left #538 (October 15, 2011)
"365 Days of Occupy Wall Street—an Anniversary Timeline." Mother Jones (September 17, 2012)
Adbusters ["The Media Foundation: We are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century. Adbusters Magazine: Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Adbusters is a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 120,000-circulation magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces. Our work has been embraced by organizations like Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, has been featured in hundreds of alternative and mainstream newspapers, magazines, and television and radio shows around the world. Adbusters offers incisive philosophical articles as well as activist commentary from around the world addressing issues ranging from genetically modified foods to media concentration. In addition, our annual social marketing campaigns like Buy Nothing Day and Digital Detox Week have made us an important activist networking group. Ultimately, though, Adbusters is an ecological magazine, dedicated to examining the relationship between human beings and their physical and mental environment. We want a world in which the economy and ecology resonate in balance. We try to coax people from spectator to participant in this quest. We want folks to get mad about corporate disinformation, injustices in the global economy, and any industry that pollutes our physical or mental commons."]
Alim, H. Samy. "What If We Occupied Language." The New York Times (December 21, 2012)
Bailey, Kenneth. "Who Shall Occupy Make Demands Of?: The Modern Case of the One-Eyed Monster." Groundswell (November 4, 2011)
Bauwens, Michael, Noam Chomesky and Richard Lang. "Occupy 2.0 (Peer-Produced Politics)." Unwelcome Guests #594 (March 10, 2012)
Benton, Michael Dean. "My Understanding of Anarchism 4.0" Dialogic Cinephilia (November 5, 2013)
---. "A nation starts to mobilize: Something’s happening here." North of Center (October 12, 2011)
---. "Occupy: One Year Later." North of Center (September 17, 2012)
---. "What Does Our Nation Value: Examining Two Cases of Student Demonstrations and Police Responses (or non-responses)." Dialogic (November 10, 2011)
Bogoshian, Heidi and Mara Verheyden-Hilliard. "Big Brother America: Is the United States a Police State?" Loud and Clear (February 15, 2016)
Brown, Pamela. "Rolling Jubilee: Buying Up Distressed Debt, Occupy Offshoot Bails Out the People, Not the Banks." Democracy Now (November 15, 2012)
Brown, Pamela and David Harvey. "1T Day: As U.S. Student Debt Hits $1 Trillion, Occupy Protests Planned for Campuses Nationwide." Democracy Now (April 25, 2012)
Calhoun, Craig and David Graeber. "The Democracy Project." The London School of Economics and Political Science." (April 30, 2013)
Chinese, Vera. "Financial District In Chaos On 'Occupy Wall Street' Anniversary." New York Daily News (September 17, 2012)
Chomsky, Noam. "Direct Action, Occupy and the Power of Social Movements." Rochester Red and Black (April 16, 2013)
---. "The Occupy Movement to the Arab Spring." On Point (June 11, 2012)
---. "Occupy Wall Street "Has Created Something That Didn’t Really Exist" in U.S. — Solidarity." Democracy Now (May 14, 2012)
---. "On America's Economic Suicide." AlterNet (May 4, 2012)
---. "On Corporate Personhood." (University of Colorado-Boulder, April 22, 2011: Video posted on Youtube)
Collado, Suzanne, Frances Fox Piven, and Nathan Schneider. "Roundtable: After 1 Year, OWS Gives Voice to Resistance of Crippling Debt and Widening Inequality." Democracy Now (September 17, 2012)
"Consensus (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall Street)." Meerkat Media Collective (Posted on YouTube: October 13, 2011)
Crosby, David and Graham Nash. "Soundtracking Movements from the 1960s to Occupy Wall Street." Democracy Now (November 10, 2011)
"Declaration of the Occupation of New York City." New York City General Assembly (September 29, 2011)
Devereaux, Ryan, et al. "Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper on Paramilitary Policing From WTO to Occupy Wall Street." Democracy Now (November 17, 2011)
Fang, Lee. "Yahoo Appears To Be Censoring Email Messages About Wall Street Protests (Updated)." Reader Supported News (September 20, 2011)
Finkelstein, Norman. "Norman Finkelstein on What Gandhi Says About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage." Democracy Now (June 5, 2012)
Flores, Dennis, Laura Gottesdiener and Sara Lopez. "Occupy Sunset Park: 99% Solidarity Takes Root in Brooklyn Community Where Tenants Stage Rent Strike." Democracy Now (September 17, 2012)
Flowers, Margaret and Raymond Offenheiser. "Occupy G8: Peoples’ Summit Confronts World Leaders at Camp David, Urging Action on Poverty, Hunger." Democracy Now (May 18, 2012)
Goodman, Amy. "Occupy Louisville: Voices from Social Justice Encampment in the Hometown of Muhammad Ali." Democracy Now (October 24, 2011)
Gosztola, Kevin and Dorian Warren. "Occupy Wall Street Emerges as "First Populist Movement" on the Left Since the 1930s." Democracy Now (October 10, 2011)
Graeber, David. "Can Debt Spark a Revolution." The Nation (September 5, 2012)
---. "Concerning the Violent Peace-Police - An Open Letter to Chris Hedges." N+1 (Reposted with introduction by Michael Dean Benton on Dialogic: February 8, 2012)
---. Debt: The First 5,000 Years. NY: Melville House, 2011.
---. "Occupy and anarchism's gift of democracy." The Guardian (November 15, 2011)
---. "Occupy's liberation from liberalism: the real meaning of May Day." The Guardian (May 7, 2012)
---. "Occupy Wall Street's anarchist roots." Al Jazeera (November 30, 2011)
---. "A Practical Utopian's Guide to the Coming Collapse." The Baffler #22 (2013)
Graham, Stephen. "Police Crackdowns on Occupy Protests from Oakland to New York Herald the "New Military Urbanism." Democracy Now (November 16, 2011)
"Greed is no longer good (Occupy Wall St Part 4)." The Best of the Left #542 (October 27, 2011)
Greenfield, Adam. "The smartest cities rely on citizen cunning and unglamorous technology." The Guardian (December 22, 2014) ["Ignore the futuristic visions of governments and developers, it’s humble urban communities who lead the way in showing how networked technologies can strengthen a city’s social fabric."]
Greenwald, Glenn. "OWS-Inspired Activism." Salon (November 17, 2011)
---. "What's Behind the Scorn for the Wall Street Protests?" Common Dreams (September 28, 2011)
Guersava, Julie. "Occuprint & OWS: Notes on Art as a Weapon for Non-Violent Insurrection." Groundswell (March 21, 2012)
Hanrahan, John. "Local police forces are now little armies. Why?" Reader Supported News (October 16, 2011)
Harkinson, Josh. "Exclusive Video: Inside Police Lines at the Occupy Wall Street Eviction." Mother Jones (November 15, 2011)
---. "Occupy Wall Street—Where Are They Now?" Mother Jones (September 17, 2012)
Harris-Perry, Melissa and Allison Kilkenny. "How Occupy Has Changed the Conversation on Class." MSNBC (September 17, 2012)
Harvey, David. "Urban Uprisings from Occupy Wall Street to the Paris Commune." Democracy Now (April 30, 2012)
Hedges, Chris. "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt." Law and Disorder Radio (July 30, 2012)
---. "Go to Pittsburgh, Young Man, and Defy Your Empire." Truthdig (August 31, 2009)
---. "A Master's Class in Occupation." TruthDig (October 31, 2011)
---. Neoliberalism and Its Effects in the Modern USA." Unwelcome Guests (September 28, 2012)
---. "On 9/11, Touring U.S. Economic Disaster Zones in "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt." Democracy Now (September 11, 2012)
---. "Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand." Truthdig (March 14, 2011)
Hedges, Chris and James Wright. "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt." Lannan Podcasts (December 3, 2012)
"Keeping Wall St Occupied (Occupy Wall St Part 9)." The Best of the Left #556 (December 11, 2011)
Khatib, Kate. "On We Are Many, our new Occupy book." Revolution By the Book (September 11, 2012)
Kilkenny, Allison. "Occupy Wall Street Protesters Swarm NYC Financial District to Mark 1st Anniversary of 99% Struggle." Democracy Now (September 17, 2012)
Knefel, John. "After Weekend Protests See 50 Arrests, Protesters Detained in Early-Morning Action on Wall Street." Democracy Now (September 17, 2012)
Knight, Sam. "In Immigrant Struggle, Occupy’s Presence Still Felt." Jacobin (September 14, 2012)
Leonard, Sarah. "OWS and the Downfall of the Smartest Guys in the Room." Bookforum (November 8, 2011)
Lindorff, Dave. "FBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers." Counterpunch (December 28, 2012)
Mackey, Robert. "Occupy Wall Street: help us reconstruct the 'pepper spray' incident." The Guardian (September 27, 2012)
Maher, Stephen. "Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball and the Plague of the 99%." Monthly Review (December 1, 2012)
Mallis, Alex. Right Here All Over (Occupy Wall St) (7 min. video posted on Vimeo in 2012)
Marchman, Michael. "New Movements of Resistance, USA." The International Institute for Research and Education (2013)
Marut, Ret. "Egypt Today, Tomorrow the World." Crimethinc. (February 2, 2011)
Miller, Anna Lekas. "Occupy vs. Monsanto: Activists, Farmers Fight the Corporation They Fear Will Take Over All America's Crops." AlterNet (February 6, 2012)
Milstein, Cindy. "Democracy is Direct." Revolution By the Book (Pamphlet: 2011)
---. "On Radicalism." Deep Green Philly (November 8, 2011)
Moody, Rick. "Frank Miller and the Rise of Cryptofascist Hollywood." The Guardian (November 24, 2011)
Myerson, J.A. "Quo Vadis Occupy? Mic Check on the State of the Revolution." TruthOut (September 17, 2012)
New York City General Assembly ["This is the official website of the working groups which comprise the New York City General Assembly. Together we work to organize and set the vision for the #occupywallstreet movement. New York City General Assemblies are an open, participatory and horizontally organized process through which we are building the capacity to constitute ourselves in public as autonomous collective forces within and against the constant crises of our times."]
"Notes From the Editors." The Monthly Review 63.7 (December 2011)
"Notes From the Editors." The Monthly Review 63.8 (January 2012)
Occupied Stories
The Occupied Wall St Journal ["The Occupied Wall Street Journal, an OWS affinity group, is one of many media projects participating in the Occupy movement."]
"Occupy! N+1 (Four Issues of this publication available as PDF Files: 2011/2012)
Occupy California
Occupy Graduation
"Occupy Movement." Democracy Now (Collection of ongoing reports)
"Occupy My Heart (Occupy Wall St Part 12)." The Best of the Left #562 (January 4, 2012)
Occupy Together ["The Occupy Movement is an international movement driven by individuals like you. All of us have many different backgrounds and political beliefs but feel that, since we can no longer trust our elected officials to represent anyone other than their wealthiest donors, we need real people to create real change from the bottom up. Organized in over 100 cities in the United States, #occupy aims to fight back against the system that has allowed the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer. We no longer want the wealthiest to hold all the power, to write the rules governing an unbalanced and inequitable global economy, and thus foreclosing on our future."]
Occupy Wall Street [About: "OccupyWallSt.org is the unofficial de facto online resource for the growing occupation movement happening on Wall Street and around the world. We're an affinity group committed to doing technical support work for resistance movements. We're not a subcommittee of the NYCGA nor affiliated with Adbusters, anonymous or any other organization. Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District, and has spread to over 100 cities in the United States and actions in over 1,500 cities globally. #ows is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations. The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and aims to fight back against the richest 1% of people that are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future. The occupations around the world are being organized using a non-binding consensus based collective decision making tool known as a "people's assembly". To learn more about how to use this process to organize your local community to fight back against social injustice, please read this quick guide on group dynamics in people's assemblies.]
"Occupy Wall Street: One Year Later." TruthDig (September 17, 2012)
"Of the people, by the people and for the one percent (Economics)." The Best of the Left #567 (January 18, 2012)
Olsen, Scott. "U.S. Vet Who Nearly Lost Life at Occupy Protest, Brings Antiwar Message to NATO Summit." Democracy Now (May 21, 2012)
Olzen, Jake. "Police Entrapment of Nonviolent Movements." Counterpunch (May 21, 2012)
People Assemblies Network ["The People’s Assemblies Network is an informative and resource platform to support the ongoing democracy protests and open, democratic assemblies in the UK, Europe and throughout the world."]
"Pepper spray is a weapon, not a seasoning (Occupy Wall St Part 8)." The Best of the Left #552 (November 29, 2011)
Pitt, William Rivers. "I Will Occupy." TruthOut (September 17, 2012)
"The police are the 99 percent too (Occupy Wall St Part 7)." The Best of the Left #551 (November 23, 2011)
Ramsey, Nick. "Rewriting Police vs. Protesters." The Last Word (September 26, 2011)
"Resisting The Military Financial Complex (Just Say No To Debt Repayment)." Unwelcome Guests (September 22, 2012)
Right Here All Over: Occupy Wall Street Protests (Alex Mallis and Lily Henderson, 2011: 6 minute video on Vimeo)
"RNC Protests 1." Mic Check Radio (August 28, 2012)
Roos, Jerome. "Beyond Occupy: liberating ourselves from debt slavery." ROAR (September 17, 2012)
Ross, Andrew. "Are Student Loans Immoral?" The Daily Beast (September 27, 2012)
"S17 Anniversary: Where Do We Stand?" Adbusters (September 17, 2012)
Sauter, Molly. "The Visual Life of Occupy Wall Street." Comparative Media Studies at MIT (2012)
Schneider, Nathan. "Occupy, After Occupy." The Nation (September 5, 2012)
Scott, William. "The People's Library of Occupy Wall Street Lives On." The Nation (November 20, 2011)
Shankula, David M.F. "Occupy Lexington — Noon, 9.29.2011, come on down!" Barefoot and Progressive (September 28, 2011)
Sharlett, Jeff and Marina Sitrin. "As Occupy Enters Third Month, a Look at How Protesters Are Building a Global Movement ." Democracy Now (November 16, 2011)
Smith, Yves. "Occupy Wall Street 2.0: The Debt Resistors’ Operations Manual." Naked Capitalism (September 14, 2012)
Solnitt, Rebecca. "Occupy Your Victories." Guernica (September 17, 2012)
---. "You Can Crush the Flowers, But You Can’t Stop the Spring." Z-Net (November 23, 2011)
Stiglitz, Joseph. On The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future; On Occupy Wall Street & Why U.S.-Europe Austerity Will Only Weaken Economic Recovery; On Ways to Lessen Inequality in the United States." Democracy Now (June 6, 2012)
Stolar, Marty. "Jury Trial Begins for Occupy Wall Street’s Cecily McMillan" Law and Disorder (February 17, 2014)
Surico, John. "Marches and Arrests Mark Occupiers Return to Zuccotti." Village Voice (September 16, 2012)
Tabb, William K. "The Crisis: A View From Occupied America." The Monthly Review 64.4 (September 2012)
Taibbi, Matt. "Who Goes to Jail? Matt Taibbi on American Injustice Gap from Wall Street to Main Street." Democracy Now (April 15, 2014)
Taylor, Astra. "Occupy 2.0: Strike Debt. The Nation (September 5, 2012)
"Then they fight you (Occupy Wall St Part 6)." The Best of the Left #547 (November 11, 2011)
Thompson, A.K. "Chris Hedges vs. CrimethInc. on Violence: Will We Get the Debate We Deserve?" TruthOut (September 12, 2012)
Tidal ["Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy."]
Tomasic, John. "Watchdog targets mayors: Stop harassing journalists covering Occupy protests." Colorado Independent (November 16, 2011)
"Unite like an Egyptian (Occupy Wall St Part 3)." The Best of the Left #541 (October 24, 2011)
Verheyden-Hilliard, Mara. "FBI Considers The Occupy Movement A Terrorist Threat: The State of Civil Rights and Public Policy." Law and Disorder Radio (January 7, 2013)
"We Are the Other 99 Percent (Occupy Wall St Part 2)." The Best of the Left #539 (October 18, 2011)
West, Cornel and Chris Hedges. "The People vs.Goldman Sachs." Dangerous Minds (November 6, 2011)
West, James, et al. "Occupy II: What's Happening Now in Lower Manhattan." Mother Jones (September 17, 2012)
"The whole world is, in fact, watching and taking part (Occupy Wall St Part 5)." The Best of the Left #546 (November 8, 2011)
"Why we’re winning (Occupy Wall St Part 10)." The Best of the Left %557 (December 14, 2011)
Wolff, Richard D. "Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism, Pt 2." Law and Disorder Radio (July 30, 2012)
Yates, Michael D. "The Great Inequality." The Monthly Review (March 1, 2012)
"Year of the uprising (Occupy Wall St Part 11)." The Best of the Left #560 (December 29, 2011)
Resources for December 22, 2014
THE WOLVES (DOM JÄVLARNA SKA SKJUTAS) TRAILER / PILOT from NAIVE on Vimeo.
The Thin Red Line (USA: Terrence Malick, 1998) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)
Koresky, Michael and Casey Moore. "What's at the Heart of the Sadness of Christmas Movies? A Video Essay." Press Play (December 20, 2014)
Gillen, Jay. "Educating For Insurgency: The Roles Of Young People In Schools Of Poverty." Maryland Morning (September 15, 2014)
Julien, Douglas. "Revisiting Spike Lee’s 'Racial Slur Montage': Ya Need to Cool that Shit Out." [in]Transition (December 12, 2014)
"The Long Dark Shadows of Plutocracy." Moyers and Company (November 28, 2014)
Hewett, Ben. "We Don't Need No Education." Outside (August 12, 2014) ["At least not of the traditional, compulsory, watch-the-clock-until-the-bell-rings kind. As a growing movement of unschoolers believe, a steady diet of standardized testing and indoor inactivity is choking the creativity right out of our kids. The alternative: set 'em free."]
Yglesias, Matthew. "38 maps that explain the global economy." Vox (August 26, 2014)
Yglesias, Matthew. "Rudy Giuliani says Obama and black leaders incite 'anti-police hatred,'" Vox (December 21, 2014)
Century of the Self (BBC Documentary: Adam Curtis, 2002: Four 60 minute episodes)
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz (December 21, 2014): Critiquing police policies & institutional biases is not "anti-cop," anymore than opposing specific wars is failing to "support the troops."
Sunday, December 21, 2014
The Thin Red Line (USA: Terrence Malick, 1998)
The Thin Red Line (USA: Terrence Malick, 1998: 170 mins)
Bellamy, Jason and Ed Howard. "Conversations: Terrence Malick, Part One. The House Next Door (May 28, 2011)
Beyl, Cameron. "Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line (1998)." The Director Series (March 12, 2018)
Bucci, Michele. "The Thin Red Line": Staging and representation of leadership and soldiers." (Posted on Vimeo: November 2014)
Laity, Adam. "The Role of Landscape, Nature and Environment in War Films." (Posted on Vimeo: 2012)
Richards, Peter. "Terrence Malick (Part One)." Director's Club #130 (June 24, 2017)
Seitz, Matt Zoller. "All Things Shining, Pt. 3 - The Films of Terrence Malick: The Thin Red Line." Moving Image Source (May 13, 2011)
Spencer, Benjamin P. "“Show Me How To See Things the Way You Do: Existentialism in Faith, Philosophy and Film."
Tobias, Scott and Kevin B. Lee. "Terence Malick: The Art of Voiceover." (Posted on Vimeo: 2014)
Terrence Malick: The Art of Voiceover from Kevin B. Lee on Vimeo.
Editing The Thin Red Line, Shaping a Terence Malick Film from Isabel Sadurni on Vimeo.
Resources for December 21, 2014

Coates, Ta-Nahesi. "The United States of Ferguson." Moyers and Company (December 5, 2014)
Greenwald, Glenn and Peter Maass. "Meet Alfreda Bikowsky, The Senior Officer at the Center of the CIA's Torture Scandals." The Intercept (December 19, 2014)
Ingraffea, Tony and Sandra Steingraber. "New York Says No to Fracking: State Bans Drilling Following Grassroots Outcry over Public Health." Democracy Now (December 19, 2014)
PlayTime: Anatomy of a Gag from Criterion Collection on Vimeo.
Sicinski, Michael. "The Deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner: Documents of Barbarism." Notebook (December 9, 2014)
D'Angelo, Mike. "The Manchurian Candidate (1962)." A.V. Club (October 12, 2009)