U.S. support for South American military dictatorships was a fact of geopolitical life during the Cold War. The U.S., often covertly through the C.I.A., assisted governments in combating insurgents—guerrillas officials branded as terrorists. Today, the U.S. still favors fascist governments over democratic ones since the former accommodate U.S. business interests while the latter oppose exploitation […]
Daily Archives: June 14, 2007
From the United Kingdom, France and the U.S., Paul Greengrass’s United 93 is moving and accomplished—not so stunning, of course, as Greengrass’s Bloody Sunday (2001), but estimable nevertheless. And humane, toward the hijackers—one ought to be prepared for that—as well as the passengers.
I cannot say that I am able to follow all the plot elements of Jon Jost’s Rembrandt Laughing. Jost himself has explained that he was aiming to tell the story “without telling the story”—indirectly, elliptically; and some early-Godardian business involving gangsters defeated my comprehension. But what a marvelous movie this is—and one with renewed relevance […]
Dennis Grunes 