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Post by RobertGraves on Jul 9, 2005 23:51:21 GMT -5
I know the story but not the movie...
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Post by wordswordswords on Aug 5, 2005 0:51:30 GMT -5
I just watched a movie that I really liked: Nowhere in Africa(Nirgendwo in Afrika), in German with English subtitles. Bits of the dialogue are in Swahili and in English.
It was made in 2001 and is based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Stefanie Zweig.
It is the story of a German Jewish family who feel obliged to leave their lives in Germany for a job managing a poor farm in Kenya. Their five-year-old daughter Regina is the most captivating of the three, and she seems to share her father's honesty and loyalty to the family unit, in the face of the wife and mother Jettel's weaknesses.
Regina grows older in Kenya and eventually is sent to a British school, where she encounters anti-Jewish sentiment even while the British are diligently waging war against Hitler.
Though this is a grim story, it has very positive elements that save it from being unbearably sad. Most notably, there is Regina, with her openness to new experiences and her acceptance of the world as it presents itself to her.
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Post by Wyndham on Apr 18, 2006 11:36:13 GMT -5
Anybody seen the series of Noam Chomsky lectures, on DVD under the title 'The Imperial Grand Strategy'? Most of it you've probably heard before, some you probably agree with; here, however, Chomsky dishes it up with an anarchist relish. Worth a watch!
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Post by RobertGraves on Apr 18, 2006 16:49:40 GMT -5
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Post by Wyndham on Nov 20, 2006 20:57:46 GMT -5
Anybody seen the documentary 'who killed the electric car?'. Very depressing, but revealing. Odd to think that GM could build a car now that could run 75 mph, for three hundred miles range, with zero environmental impact, but chooses not to.
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Post by RobertGraves on Nov 21, 2006 2:54:08 GMT -5
Over the years I've heard many horror tales of large corporations - especially oil and motor vehicle - quashing innovation.
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Post by RobertGraves on Nov 21, 2006 2:57:25 GMT -5
The new Clint eastwood film is interesting too as it is going to be followed by the Japanese version/perspective. www.flagsofourfathers.net/ |
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Post by RobertGraves on Nov 25, 2006 15:58:05 GMT -5
There's an increasing no. of ex-military speaking out. The irony is that you hardly need to have inside knowledge to know any of this.
Ex-SAS officer hits out at Iraq war 'sham'
A former senior SAS officer has called for the immediate withdrawal of Australia's troops in Iraq.
Peter Tinley was the lead tactical planner for Australia's special forces in 2002 ahead of the Iraq invasion.
He went on to become the deputy commander for the joint special forces group in western Iraq.
Mr Tinley has spoken out against the war, two years after retiring from the military.
The 44-year-old says Australia's involvement in the war has been a strategic and moral blunder.
"I think it's morally bankrupt to actually consider - when you look at the reasons for this conflict and the reasons this Government took us into that war - I think it's an absolute shame and it's a sham and this Government ought to own up to what it's done and make amends," he said.
"I think we can better contribute by our outstanding training regime and I think we could do that outside the country.
"I think it's safer for the Iraqi military, the Iraqi police, if we were to set up some sort of base outside the country and produce an outstanding result in terms of training for their troops."
Mr Tinley says the Australian troops' presence in Iraq is not popular with the Australian people.
"It's not appropriate for us to be in there, there is no particular reason tactically that we should remain there," he said.
"We've done a lot of the work early on in the piece and there's a lot of other ways we can define our contribution to the people of Iraq and our US alliance."
However, Defence Minister Brendan Nelson says the decision to send troops to Iraq was not taken lightly and was in Australia's best interests.
Federal Opposition spokesman Robert McClelland says the Government should listen to Mr Tinley.
"This is a solid, proven SAS officer, saying that we shouldn't have gone into Iraq and we shouldn't be there," he said.
ABC Just in
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Post by wordswordswords on Dec 24, 2006 2:31:40 GMT -5
I've just seen Sophie Scholl: The Final Days and thought it was excellent. I believe there have been a couple of other movies about Sophie Scholl, but I haven't seen them.
She was a member of the White Rose, a group of German young people who mounted a protest against the Nazi government. She and her brother and another young man were arrested for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets--and summarily executed by the guillotine.
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Post by Wyndham on Dec 26, 2006 18:10:28 GMT -5
Was the movie any good Words? I saw that in the store, and almost rented it.
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Post by wordswordswords on Dec 27, 2006 20:30:15 GMT -5
I thought it was excellent--but I haven't seen the two earlier movies that were based on the story of Sophie Scholl. Maybe they were better, though it would be hard to imagine how they could have been better.
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Post by Wyndham on Dec 28, 2006 18:10:15 GMT -5
I'll have a watch for it. Will have to get my wife to watch it with me, however, or wait for her to go out of town for business.
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Post by Wyndham on May 15, 2007 20:01:41 GMT -5
About this time of year, I try to make up for not seeing the Oscar movies. Earlier this week watched the documentary 'Deliver us from evil' and the feature 'The Last King of Scotland'. The first one I found very . . . odd. Strange effect to realise that there are just that damned many weirdos in the world, and the director did a good job of reinforcing the sense of strangeness too -- Father O'Grady speaks dispassionately about his problem 'touching children' and then focus changes and you hear from a teenager the good father sodomised as a child; or hear from a lawyer that he also had intercourse with a nine month old child. No trees, no rope in California?
Last King of Scotland was, I thought, a good movie but a bit of a disappointment. Thought that there just might be a little more . . . splatter? -- considering the subject.
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Post by RobertGraves on May 16, 2007 14:41:45 GMT -5
Just watched 'Last King...' this week and really thought it a fine movie. 300 000 makes for a lot of 'splatter' and there were some pretty gruesome scenes.
I liked the soundtrack - very funky - and that version of Me and Bobby Magee was brilliant!
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Post by wordswordswords on Apr 5, 2008 19:46:48 GMT -5
Just watched a 1994 movie of David Mamet's--Oleanna. Has anyone else seen it?
It puzzled me so much that I'll look into the reviews of it. The dialogue seemed so stilted, and I'm not sure why, except maybe that it began as a play. Or maybe that is how David Mamet thinks academics talk.
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