For the past forty years, economic policy has been dominated by neo-liberal assumptions that have dictated trade integration, liberalization of domestic markets, de-regulation of industry, flexibility of labour markets and generally the withdrawal of the state from economic regulation. – This is not news. What has been less clear is how these policies came to dominate the minds of our politicians, and in particular how this happened in Europe.
This films questions outdated ‘war on drugs’ policy, and suggests alternatives with examples from Evo Morales’ Bolivia. Today US funding has created civil war-like conditions involving the army, drug lords and political opportunists.
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival has earned a reputation for bold programming. Panelists discuss Jewish identity, values, and politics. Occasionally, the documentaries screened at the festival have provoked protest and anger from within the Jewish American community
It is now 10 years since the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. Such an occasion brings to mind numerous documentary films that have depicted the events from every angle you could possibly imagine.
How can cinema reflect and explain the complexities of the 2008 economic crisis, asks Emma Baus. Three films presented at Cannes this year may answer the question in totally different ways. A fiction blockbuster like Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; a talking head documentary like Inside Job, and a mock trial featuring real witnesses, lawyers and judge: Cleveland versus Wall Street.
Bill Cunningham travels about New York City on his bicycle shooting photos of people. He is a man with immense integrity.
The entirety of the Collapse narrative is director Chris Smith’s attempt to probe the possibility of industrial downfall flounders in his subject’s uncertain authority.
The creators of 2004’s fake hypermarket, Czech Dream, return with a second feature documentary, moving away from their country’s consumerist tendencies and to its knack of being occupied by military forces. Along their journey, the filmmakers are confronted with various presidents, pieces of false information, wartime pop tunes and a wild boar named Jonas.
The “secret war” takes us into the inconcievable reality of a war conducted in the shadow of the Vietnam war. As the film impies, the “secret war” is an ancestor of today’s U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq