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Godar about the love of cinema

Since Hodar said that it is necessary not to shoot political cinema, but to make a movie politically, any of his films about the cinema are also a kind of policy. The other day, the translation of Jean-Luka Godard was available at a press conference on the film “Name: Carmen” in 1983: “I think that cinema can only be for love stories. Military films - about the love of boys for weapons; Gangster films - about the love of boys for theft ... This is a movie, in my opinion. And what was brought by the “new wave” was new: Truffo, Rightt, I and two or three other directors-we brought something that does not exist anymore, or something that never existed in the history of cinema; We loved cinema more women, more money, more of war. We loved the cinema more. I, as I often say, made me open my life. It took time. It took me thirty years. All because I had to actually go beyond what I was designing on the screen with my own hands. ”

McConachi will play a rebel from the south

“Free state of Jones” is the name of the new project of the screenwriter and director Gary Ross, in which Matthew McConahi will be withdrawn. The plot is built around the story of Newton Knight, the leader of one of the largest uprisings in the history of the Civil War. McConahs will be played by Knight, a resident of the County Jones (Mississippi), who deserted the Confederates from the army after the state of Law 20, who freed citizens who own 20 or more slaves, from military diligence. Jones and his fellow countrymen founded their own state in the swamps-"Free state of Jones."

CIA funded a cartoon on Orwell

In honor of the 60th anniversary of the DVD, the British animated film “Cross Courtyard” was released based on George Orwell of the same name. In 1954, the picture was solemnly presented to the UN in New York and received high grades of critics. At the same time, the production of the film was secretly funded by the CIA. This circumstance was thoroughly hidden until in 1974 Everett Howard Hunt wrote about this in his book “Secret: Memoirs of the American Secret Agent”. In January 1950, after the death of Orwell, the CIA sent Hunt to the widow of Orwell to obtain the rights to the film adaptation of the "cattle yard". Rumor has it that Hunt allegedly promised Mrs. Orwell to a meeting with her beloved star - Clark Gaible. Read more about this story here .

Bertolt Brecht in a Mexican prison

The Vienna Film Festival showed the film by the veteran of the German documentary of Thomas Haise “Städtebewohner” (“Citizen”) about the prison for minors in Mexico City. Three years ago, Haise first got out for filming abroad, to Argentina, and, apparently, now decided to repeat his experience in Latin America. As the Hollywood Reporter writes aptly, "perhaps Khaise left Germany for his last film, but Germany did not leave him." In the picture, the central place is occupied by the verses of Bertolt Brecht, or sounding as a orders of voice, or embedded in the mouth to one of the heroes. In general, the film shows a poetic transformation of the Mexican prison into a kind of shelter for fallen angels, shot in the spirit of the sky over Berlin Wenders.

Polanski nearly arrested in Warsaw

Advisor to the President of Poland accused the United States of absolute ignorance , given their desire to arrest Roman Polanski at the opening of the Jewish Museum of History. Recall that Polanski has been put on the search by the US police since 1977 for sex with a 13-year-old girl. Last week, the US authorities contacted Polish officials to find out the circumstances of the appearance of Polanski at the ceremony in Warsaw, the director of the museum was also interrogated. Tomash Nalesch, adviser to President Bronislav Komorovsky, said that it was extremely inappropriate to prepare the arrest of the “Holocaust’s Child” (Polanski’s mother in Auschwitz) in Poland during the opening of the museum, the exposition of which emphasizes the role of the country as a safe refuge for the Jews for centuries.

"Politics of Love" Russell

It seems that David O. Russell is ready to return to his old project-long-built Nailed . This is a strange comedy about an unspecified waitress who received a head injury. The girl goes to Washington on the Crusade for the truth and meets the young congressman there. It is planned that the waitress will be played by Jessica Bill, Congressman - Jake Gyllenhall. The project has already received a new name - "Politics of Love."

Racism in Hollywood

Harry Belafonte, a legendary singer, actor and activist, received a named after Gina Hersholt. At the same time, the actor was talking about racism in Hollywood. Belafonte began by condemning Hollywood to be condemned by racism, noting that films such as “Birth of the Nation”, “Song of the South” and “Tarzan - Monkeys are produced”, demonstrate “racial inferiority and unwillingness to identify with nothing of African”. True, he graduated from Belafont on an optimistic note - a progressive policy and all that. Recall that the award named after Gina Hersholt is an irregular prize, awarded by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences for an outstanding individual contribution to the cause of humanism.

Power according to Harun Faroka

And again about Harun Faroka. E- FLUX magazine has prepared a tribe to the director. The editorial column says : “Faroki films lead us to the idea that the real cruelty of power, which uses the advanced forms of technology, goes far beyond the use of physical violence over the human body. Violence manifests itself in a kind of boredom, in the actual functioning of power as boring, not interesting and technical on the surface, but ultimately authoritarian and inaccessible. It is at this point that the skill of Faroka begins in the definition of cinema as a historical moment of the meeting between technology and seduction. Cinema has always been the name of a machine for the merger of war and entertainment, propaganda and pornography. ”

Stone wants to make a film about Putin

Oliver Stone would like to make a film about Vladimir Putin . He stated this during a visit to Moscow to prepare the project about Edward Snowden. “I would have interviewed [Putin] to show my point of view that the Americans do not want to hear about,” said Stone. “I would like to make a documentary about him.” Oliver Stone also met with Putin this week.

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In conclusion-watch the video in which Kate Blanchett recalls Gof Whitlam, the former Australian Prime Minister and Labor. The Uitlam government has held a number of important political and economic reforms: the abolition of the death penalty and universal military duty, the provision of universal medical care and the introduction of free education in universities. At the same time, Whitlam was the only prime minister in the history of Australia, detached from his post.