UNRATED: A WEEK OF SEX IN CINEMA (NY)

 Posted by Gerald Wright on February 16, 2011 at 1:48 PM
 

Opening February 18 -24, 2011 at NY’s Quad Cinema
In retrospective “Unrated: A Week Of Sex in the Cinema, Philippe Diaz and distributor Cinema Libre Studio have curated a retrospective of six notable films that explore the edgier side of relationships.  Designed to foster a broader dialogue with filmgoers, the showcase allows New York audiences the chance to revisit six popular and controversial films that push buttons and boundaries for their frank and explicit …

Dan Lybarger
Freelance writer and critic from Kansas City
Posted: October 25, 2010 10:51 PM

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DVD Review: South of the Border

Because of his fondness of conspiracies and selective presentations of fact in his narrative movies (sorry Doors fans, they weren’t going to play Woodstock anyway), it’s easy to pigeonhole Oliver Stone as a loon with a camera.
At his best, however, Stone can help viewers discover viable alternatives to the official versions of history and current events. Much of the recent coverage …

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South of the Border DVD Review
by Kam Williams
If you’ve read “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” by John Perkins, then you are well aware of the lengths to which CIA and other agents operating on behalf of the U.S. government and Fortune 500 corporations have gone to install puppets as heads of state in countries all across Latin America. But those still in the dark about America’s role in countless coups around the region, might feel enlightened by South of the Border, as informative a …

Oliver Stone’s
SOUTH OF THE BORDER

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There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it. In SOUTH OF THE BORDER,  Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media’s misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her …

Oliver Stone’s insightful new documentary will introduce North American viewers to the Presidents of Latin America and their leftist revolution when it becomes available on DVD and Blu-ray on October 26, 2010 with over ninety minutes of special features, including a 2010 interview with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

The film chronicles Stone’s travels to South America in the winter of 2009 and tells the story of the rise to power of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and other South American presidents responsible for sweeping changes in the region. The film features intimate conversations with Chávez, Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Néstor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba).

An excellent op-ed by The Guardian’s Seumas Milne sums up the changes underway in South America, citing “South of the Border”: “Both the scale of the transformation and the misrepresentation of what is taking place in the western media are driven home in Oliver Stone’s new film, South of the Border, which allows six of these new wave leaders to speak for themselves. Most striking is their mutual support and common commitment – from Cristina Kirchner of Argentina to the more leftist Evo Morales – to take back ownership of their continent.”

It has been generally standard fare in the media to refer to Venezuela’s Globovision as the “sole opposition-aligned television channel,” as the AP has put it.  Rarely, if ever, is the actual reporting of Globovision put into context, which makes a July 29 Los Angeles Times article all the more amazing.  Chris Kraul and Mery [...]

Mark Weisbrot’s new response to New York Times reporter Larry Rohter’s latest attacks on “South of the Border” was posted on the History News Network site yesterday…

FAIR questions why the Washington Post editorial board would cite an alleged photo of an ELN guerrilla commander drinking Venezuelan beer as evidence of Venezuelan support for the FARC, which is, after all a different armed group.

Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali: brothers in arms Eighteen months ago, Tariq Ali got a call from Oliver Stone: could he help with his new film? The result was a powerful documentary about Latin America – and a new friendship by Tariq Ali Monday 26 July 2010 21.31 BST Almost a year and a half ago I received a phone call [...]