McCain Ads By Hollywood Part II
The Landline : Humor
What if John McCain's negative ads were remade by David Lynch, M Night Shyamalan and Juno director Jason Reitman?
2008
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Lee Atwater's Legacy
Antonino D'Ambrosio : Electoral Politics
Rebel. Liar. Attack dog. Bigot. Stefan Forbes's Boogie Man assesses the enduring damage Lee Atwater did to our political process.
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McCain and W.
Robert Scheer : Electoral Politics
McCain's not a perfect replica, but Oliver Stone's Bush bio-pic reminds us they're two spoiled screw-ups who divided and conquered the country for their high-rolling pals.
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Back Talk: Chris Smith
Christine Smallwood : Back Talk
The filmmaker discusses the American Dream, crummy jobs and his new work, The Pool.
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Back Talk: Guy Maddin
Christine Smallwood
The Canadian filmmaker discusses his new film, My Winnipeg, and the importance of cultivating a personal mythology.
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Summer of the Superhero
Adam Howard : Arts, Culture, & Entertainment
Superhero-themed films are dominating the summer box office. Is it just about the bottom line or our national longing for genuine heroism?
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Torturing Iron Man
Nick Turse : Afghanistan
The Pentagon does a star turn in Iron Man, and the summer blockbuster turns the realities of the war in Afganistan upside down. Will anyone notice?
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Why War, Inc. Works
Jeremy Scahill : Iraq War
John Cusack's War, Inc. takes on a seldom-discussed aspect of the occupation: the corporate dominance of the US war machine.
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Guantánamo Ain't No Joke
Shayana Kadidal : Civil Rights & Liberties
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay is very funny. Nothing about the real place is.
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Her Good Thing
Nathaniel Friedman : Music
The versatile vocalist Mable John, now a novelist and minister, has come a long way since the 1960s soul era that made her (almost) famous.
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Phil Donahue's War
John Nichols : Iraq War
His new documentary is breaking the taboo that says Americans cannot stomach the reality of the Iraq War.
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Un Ballon Est un Ballon
Stuart Klawans
In Flight of the Red Balloon, filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien takes on an unmistakably Parisian story with unbridled creative abandon.
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Fitna's Hateful Crusade
Aziz Huq : Islam & Muslims
The new film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders is the latest in a series of stunts aimed at humiliating and scapegoating Muslims.
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Tracing Slavery's Past
Te-Ping Chen : History
On the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade, a documentarian tries to come to grips with her family's history in the trade.
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The Film We Dreamed
Charles Taylor : Books
In Zeroville, Steve Erickson explores New Hollywood's promise and doom and the dissolution of cinema into spectacle.
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Charlie Wilson's War--and Ours
Robert Scheer : Pakistan
Unlike the plot of the latest Tom Hanks film, the blowback price of our incessant meddling could prove quite high. And even Hollywood can't put a pretty face on that one.
2007
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Amnesia at the Multiplex
Lakshmi Chaudhry : Islam & Muslims
Two films address US adventures in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with a big dose of historical amnesia, political pandering, moral superiority and outraged innocence.
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Chaos, Clocks, Juxtapositions
With the release of the Dylan pastiche I'm Not There, Todd Haynes revises our cultural memory by adjusting familiar clichés.
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Love by a Thousand Cuts
Museums can't get enough of Kara Walker, whose silhouettes of the history of slavery seem to be a nightmare she's trying to enjoy.
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Carter Speaks His Mind
John Nichols : Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
A conversation with the former President on Jonathan Demme's new film, Jimmy Carter Man From Plains, and the difficulty of talking about Israel and Palestine.
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The Cinema of Terror
Christine Smallwood : Terrorism Targeting the US
Three new films--Rendition, The Kingdom and Redacted--take on the clash of civilizations. How does the "war on terror" look on the big screen?
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Strange Culture
Patricia J. Williams : Civil Rights After 9/11
Federal authorities are prosecuting Steve Kurtz under the Patriot Act for using harmless bacteria in his artwork. A new film examines his ordeal.
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The Making of No End in Sight
Charles Ferguson answers questions about his gripping new documentary that takes aim at those who took us to war in Iraq.
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A Hard Look at Hard Time in Israel
Shimon Dotan's documentary Hot House takes a candid and compelling look at Palestinians serving life terms in Israeli prisons.
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Michael Moore's Sicko
Christopher Hayes : Labor Organizing & Activism
Michael Moore's healthcare documentary is less partisan, less outrageous--but more real--than anything he's done before.
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