I was able to catch Good Night and Good Luck last night. Really good film about the communist witch hunts in the States during the cold war. Defintely one of the better films I have seen this year. Clooney (who wrote, directed and acted in the film) is really turning into a solid film maker and his partnership with Steven Soderberg has produced some pretty interesting experiments. (K-Street, Solaris) This is the second film Clooney’s has directed. (after Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) The pacing is slow but comfortable and the story is clearly focused on the historical events but stays entertaining. David Strathairn does a great job with a really strong and subtle portrayal of Edward R Murrow. There is one sub plot with Robert Downey Jr that is waste of time but for the most part the film sticks to its guns and hits a poigniant and timely (considering the current American administrations search for terrorists) message about the need for transparency.
Seriously good film.
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I also caught an interesting interview with Robert Fisk about his new book Good Great War for Civilization where he talked about his role as a journalist.
Man, you make bloggers look bad – all these big words in theology and films only hipsters could possibly have heard of….it’s just embarassing for the rest of us! could you tone it down a bit?
heh.
haha super funny
How did you find the site? I just put it up a couple days a go and I have just been using it t test everything. If you have a couple minutes try registering for the message board (catalyst) and see if it works.
It all starts and ends with me being a creepy stalker.
heh.
Actually, I was clicking on the random blog thing on blogspot, and found some guy who’s a pastor in winnipeg – he had a link to a journal “canadian conversation”, or some jibber jabba like that – that had a link to your blogspot -which was something about thinkerlabs. Then I remembered you talking about it, and tried it ala .ca.
pretty amazing, if you think about it.
cheers.