10/11 Films, Conference Examine Orwellian Themes
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Two decades after 1984, the title year of George Orwell's classic novel, two movies and a mini-conference will be presented at Humboldt State University to examine the book's language and politics.
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The Hollywood writers strike, the iPhone and the "hyper-tabloidization" of television news are among the American Film Institute's "Moments of Significance" for 2007.
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Documentarians say that the upswing of activism in filmmaking is not merely an election-year phenomenon.
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Blade Runner. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Star Wars Those were the days. Whatever happened to intellectually challenging science-fiction flicks? By Jason Silverman.
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âLook,â an unsettling, rudely funny but not entirely credible feature by the writer and director Adam Rifkin, is an ensemble narrative for the age of public surveillance.
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"Land of Plenty," Wim Wenders' portrait  of a post-9/11 America gripped by paranoia and poverty, filled  screens at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, just days  before the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Amid a slew of real  documentaries and richly detailed nonfiction books illuminating  the ways in which America's current leadership has used deceit  and misinformation to advance its political agenda and engineer  greater repression comes a fake documentary trying to do the  same thing.
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The cameras get turned on Michael Moore for a change at the South by Southwest film festival, where the documentary "Manufacturing Dissent" will have its world premiere.
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A big aviation-security conference suddenly becomes a no-fly zone for reporters. What are its promoters trying to hide? In 27B Stroke 6.
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Oscar award winning filmmaker Michael Moore, left, comments on the censure to his documentary &quot;Fahrenheit 9/11,&quot; during an appearance at &quot;The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,&quot; Friday, Oct. 15, 2004, at the NBC studios in Burbank, Calif.
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The Michael Moore media train rolls on. The activist, whose film Fahrenheit 9-11 galvanized film audience this summer will have two new books out this fall. One The Official Fahrenheit 9-11 Reader will be a companion to the DVD release to the ...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 is astounding. Not as much as a film - although it is cunning and moving â-ut as an event. What makes it an event is the fact that it is an effective and independent intervention into immediate world politics.
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Politics had top billing at the Toronto film festival last night with the screenings of The Motorcycle Diaries and a drama about post-apartheid South Africa.
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A screening of the movie âJumperâ at M.I.T. brought Hollywood and scientists together to discuss quantum physics and teleportation.
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The popularity of political films may signal a change in the way Americans choose to be informed.
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Sexual oddities and sexual abuse, the ravages of war, the challenges of immigration, human disabilities and the writerÂs life: all will be recurring themes at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
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Michael Moore's anti-Bush polemic "Fahrenheit 9/11" will compete for the Directors Guild of America's documentary filmmaker award, along with pictures that take viewers to Mongolia, Calcutta, North Carolina and the Middle East, the DGA said Wednesday.