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I attended a “Doc Talk” session on covering war. The panelists were Michael Tucker (Gunner Palace; The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair and the forthcoming Bullet-Proof Salesman) and Ellen Spiro and TV legend Phil Donahue, co-directors of Body of War. Donahue had this to say about journalism: Journalism is about telling people things they don't [...]
Wed, September 12 2007 » Film, Main Page » Comments Off
Saw Takashi Miike's latest effort. Not one of his best, but a fine piece of entertainment none the less. Sukiyaki Western Django is intended to be Miike's homage to the sphagetti western. One famous example of that genre is Django, some elements of which can be seen in Miike's version. SWD starts out in a [...]
Wed, September 12 2007 » Film, Main Page » Comments Off
Not that I get inundated with them, but if you've tried to comment to this blog in recent days and you haven't seen your comment appear yet, you haven't been censored. The piece-of-shit Blogware publishing tool I'm using isn't letting me approve comments. This has been going on for more than a month. Better to send [...]