Film

My guest this week is the documentary filmmaker Robert Stone, whose latest work is "Earth Days."

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He tweaked the Academy for being a “commie and homo-loving” crowd, thereby taking the sting out of those epithets.read more

Like others before it, this was a voyeuristic look at the Third World’s poor and vulnerable. There was no sense of history, no glimpse of peoples’ struggles and really no dignity.read more

The Progies are the “un-Oscars” annually awarded by the James Agee Cinema Circle – an international group of left movie critics and historians -- for the Best Progressive Films and Filmmakers of conscience and consciousness. The envelopes please.read more

The PROGIE NOMINEES ARE
For best picture: "Milk," "Che," "Battle in Seattle," "The Visitor," "Waltz with Bashir," and "Wendy and Lucy." For best actor...read more

My guest this week is Ellen Spiro, co-director of the film "Body of War."

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“I didn’t set out to be a political activist,” says the director of Boys Don’t Cry and Stop-Loss. “I’m just a human being who’s moved by certain things, and if certain things break my heart, I set out to fix them.”read more