Monday, 06 February 2012
War
Tags: [U2, War, Taking Chance, Film, No Line on the Horizon, meaning]  ...
Tags: [Griffin, House, I Remember, Happening Again, War]  ...
Tags: [war/dance, northern uganda, lord's resistance, pantongo, documentary]  ...
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Tags: [independence, photographer, compilation, troubardour, cincinnati, compelling, forewarned, interested, beautiful, countries, ]  ...
Tags: [interesting, clumsiness, intriguing, tenderness, upbringing, afternoon, faithless, catholic, distract, awkward, ]  ...
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... unaware, The Artist is a silent film about the silent (film) era. It's set in 1927. It's in black and white. And other than accompanying music, there is no sound. For many, knowing this is exactly why ...
... with a significantly different bend.  A bend towards honesty, entering in, and art crashing into reality.  This is a film about love, yes, but I’d argue it’s more deeply about living and telling an authentic ...
... of homosexuality in an attempt by the filmmakers to turn what Christians have waged as a brutal war into a conversation.  As a Christian, this documentary is hard to watch.  And it should be.  Not necessarily ...
... out the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup. There’s wise-cracking Groucho, as Rufus T. Firefly, the war-mongering cowardly dictator of a country named Freedonia: “You're a brave man. Go and break through the lines. ...
... driven by additional revenue opportunities. (Seriously, Titanic in 3D?) But, Hugo is worth it. Embrace the awkward glasses. Enjoy.  ...
... as the place itself, where compasses don’t spin but point upward. Encounters at the End of the World is a strange film, full of odds and ends, people and creatures alike. Herzog finds volcanologists, a ...
... in the early 1950’s, naming people in the movie industry he knew were Communists. Kazan was greatly reviled for his willingness to testify. As late as 1999, when a 90-year-old Kazan was awarded a lifetime ...
... to be moving away from descriptive, knowledge-based advertising towards a creative experience, bordering on music videos.  Apple should get a fair amount of credit for this trend, but it’s not magic…it’s ...
... absolutely), refers to Aristotle when speaking of morality—and manages to sound like your father (virtue is its own reward), and becomes a materialist when referencing the universal. Our bodies, he argues, ...
... jeans said something to that effect while sipping on a tallboy of PBR. But Miike Snow got me thinking that maybe the issue isn't all the crazy new software the music industry is employing, but the lack ...
... Paris’ twenty arrondissements for one feature film. Here’s why this is interesting. In most films, we are forced toward one perspective, the directors (and/or writers). But if we’ve learned anything from ...
... to define our lives. Daniel Plainview’s story is a warning as much as an exploration; we wonder at the enigma and recklessness of a towering man, whether that haunting phrase is “I want the blood,” or ...
... choices that land him opposite of the law and thus locked up. It is within a community of inmates and wardens [pretty much all old men] that the story unfolds. Despite the fact they never appear on screen, ...
... is a prime example. This story is so contrary to the new norm, it hints towards a familiar reality. What at first might appear to be a plot surrounding a bizarre romance and a dying profession, turns out ...
... in almost slow motion, walking side-by-side towards their redemption. Ugh.]. While Abrams trust his audience to do some heavy lifting with their imaginations he loses that trust in the final scenes as ...
... It unfolds as a visual symphony with five or six movements centered around a core aspect of life:  death, birth, the age of awareness.  The sections are separated by musical cues rather than plot twists.    ...
... childhood fairy tales. Pan’s Labyrinth, however, isn’t your typical “happily ever after” fairy tale.  Rather, it’s a dark, bizarre, haunting story about Ophelia, a young girl growing up in post-Civil War ...
I have long had a theory that some of the best documentary films exits because the filmmakers we’re smart enough to have a camera pointed towards a possible story and then they got lucky enough for a great ...
... laughing and crying over their winsomeness and heartache, we discover what it means to truly be a part of something.  We learn about sacrifice, stewardship, brokenness and love.  Our families serve as ...
... transformative experience. This is the story of Waste Land. Waste Land debuted at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, where a few of us were able to see its premiere and subsequent Audience Award win for ...
... interactions with other people. Simple, of course. Profound, I think so. Watch the movie and make sure to think about this after the last scene. Ok, fair warning: this thing is a little over 6 hours ...
... the Illinoise! to the meditative, hymn-like songs of Seven Swans. He consistently weaves themes and moods and ideas together to create humble yet ardent collage-works. In his warmup-act-of-sorts to his ...
... venue for other musicians to join him in responding and bringing awareness to this horrific issue. This led Dillon into a documentary study on music, which finally became the first feature rockumentary ...
... my ground zero, my reality.  For me, the question is ‘Who could he be?'  ‘Who could he possibly be, given the data that exists and what could his intentions toward us be, what could his relationship with ...
... style="font-size: 9px; margin-top: 2px;"><a href="http://www.lala.com/album/1801721326119947424" title="Hold Time - M. Ward" target="_blank">Hold Time - M. Ward</a></div>  ...
... with any film and warrants me to select it as my top DVD experience of 2009, possibly of all time, at least on an “I can’t stop smiling” level. My Date with Drew became my date with happiness. Never will ...
... It has been our hope not to simply point others towards film and music (of wonder) per say, but to also begin to rethink how we are actually experiencing such mediums. Something we often felt throughout ...
... across a movie called, Freedom Writers. Next to a bad action movie this is the perfect discovery at two in the morning. Freedom Writers is about a young woman named Erin Gruwell (played by Academy Award ...
... band's fans from claiming their songs as irreligious spirituals. Set the sails I feel the winds a'stirring Toward the bright horizon set the way Cast your wreckless dreams upon our Mayflower Haven ...
... And what could his intentions toward us be?  What could his relationship with creation be?  What sort of interventions might he be engaged in?... Is [God] trying to do his best to set things right?... ...
According to recent statistics, approximately 5.4 million people have died over the last decade as a result of the ongoing warfare in the Congo. 2.2 million people die every year as a result of ...
... moves us (higher) incites some innate, beneficent desire to share, to want others to know the tingle, the warmth, the "a ha!", the inside joke, the connection, the lift. This business of communication ...
... lil' George Michael... er, Michael Cera.  As Yi and Cera cross paths midst the (Judd) Apatow circle of friends, Yi's quandaries come front and center. An audience award winner at Sundance this year, Paper ...
... conscious viewer.  Helvetica increased my awareness of the intricacies of typeface and, more significantly, gave me a way to talk about the design and meaning of letters and symbols. Befitting its subject, ...
... yet to upload Gregory into your iTunes libaray. Every summer deserves a soundtrack and This Empty Northern Hemisphere is likely my choice for ‘09. Hemisphere has a sound that demands a warm evening, ...
... all can download that "stem," which is a two second clip of the song which can then (if one has the proper software) be pieced together to create a song... THE song... the banned song.   We're not totally ...
... Nombre all tackle the numerous obstacles of immigrant travel and (non) assimilation.  First time director/writer Courtney Hunt peers into the practice of border smuggling in her 2008 award winning (Sundance ...
...  Winter Hill - Doves   10:03 - Doves   The Greatest Denier - Doves   Birds Flew Backwards - Doves   Spellbound ...
... him and the documentary much better. Regardless of Stein's wardrobe selection, the exploration into the creation of knowledge is an important one. Yes, that's right, I said "Intelligent Design" but ...
... a warehouse in Manhattan that holds a scale model of Manhattan, which of course has a warehouse in it with a scale model of Manhattan in it that has a warehouse….you get the picture. The farther away from ...
My wife and I once spent a week in Ireland.  After days full of hiking and exploring we'd spend our evenings in warm neighborhood pubs sipping from pint glasses, making small talk and waiting for the music ...
While the merit of things done in the name of social justice are debated elsewhere on rednoW, allow us to point towards another example of it. Dark Was The Night is a two disc compilation that boasts a ...
...  There is one exception to this reinvent-ourselves tendency however - the "White as Snow" track.  Here, Bono continues his hymn-like obsession (i.e. "Yahweh") and wraps his anti-war protest song in ...
... of the most beautiful lines of the song lies a certain warning, maybe a warning for listeners, or maybe a warning only meant for Bono himself. "I was speeding on the subway through the stations of the ...
... I was fairly content to think well of Coke and the other companies with their heart-warming and world changing claims via advertisements. That is until a few of the people I was watching with commented ...
... just a call for civil rights (though it could be) - it's a recruitment towards a new world - a new reality - and it begins with hope.  ...
... after pulling out of the theater parking lot, after closing the cover. Emily Dickinson claimed, "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know it is poetry." If her ...
What if Conan O'Brien landed a series of interviews with former President George W. Bush?  And what if, towards the end of hours of slightly interesting political banter, the president admitted that there ...
... And how does one really know? John Patrick Shanley addresses doubt's inevitable place midst these epistemological pursuits - but  rather than warn of such thought, he affirms humanity's uncertain travels. ...
... are That’s someone’s stuff they’re blowing up We’re into growing up Women of the future Hold the big revelations I got a submarine You got gasoline I don’t want to talk about wars between nations ...
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