Battleship Potemkin (Blu-ray)
Battleship Potemkin still packs a lumpen proletariat wallop 85 years after it was first released
"...The potential poetry of propaganda is a cinematic undercurrent too often overlooked, or looked..."
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April 23, 2010 Screens Review by Marc Savlov
Letters to God
A young boy with cancer writes letters to God, an action that affects the lives of others around him.
"...a busload of faith to believe in this blatant propaganda film...."
April 16, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Insectopedia
Raffles immerses himself in the worlds of his subjects and reports on what he finds and what he experiences in lucid and often beautifully constructed prose
"...and overt ways in which Hitler's World War II propaganda ministers set about equating Jews with vermin of all..."
March 26, 2010 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
Point Austin: Yes, They Did
You've got health care – even in Texas
"...having read it, just based on its opponents." That propaganda will persist, of course, and it won't help that..."
March 26, 2010 News Column by Michael King
The Reich's Right-Hand Man
AFS Documentary Tour presents Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss
"...the power of film as an instrument of hate propaganda, tapped the prominent German filmmaker Veit Harlan to "remake"..."
March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis
Social Studies Debate
Far-right SBOE members are far out!
"...press release scolding Fox News, stating that the conservative propaganda machine "has repeatedly broadcast highly inaccurate information about the..."
March 19, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols
SXSW Showcases
All the SXSW showcases that fit
"...World percussion and some occasional chanting. Mexico's Noise Beat Propaganda mainline indie/pop/New Wave with careful, unsurprising precision, but the..."
March 19, 2010 Music Feature
SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
"...a project that could have been a kind of propaganda comedy in its own right becomes a more confounding,..."
March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner
What If the Problem Isn't the Liberals?
"...contention that, despite the endless right-wing evangelical Republican conservative propaganda about liberals, it is in fact conservatives who hate..."
March 12, 2010 Postmarks
American Exceptionalism Is History With Blinders On
"...about promoting the theory of American exceptionalism. This nationalist propaganda declares that the U.S. is special and superior to..."
Jan. 26, 2010 Postmarks
Paul Hanley's Top 10 Crazy-Ass 'Nam Movies
Viva the Nam's co-creator talks about his inspirations
"..."documentary" hosted by John Wayne. An 11th-hour attempt at propaganda that looks like it was shot on Super 8..."
Jan. 22, 2010 Screens Feature
The Problems With For-Profits and Health Care
"...caused by refusal to properly treat. Contrary to Republican propaganda, it is not easy to file a malpractice suit,..."
Dec. 29, 2009 Postmarks
Until the Light Takes Us
This music documentary chronicles the history, ideology, and aesthetic of Norwegian black metal.
"...and his gorific theatre of pain are high-watt efficacy. Propaganda? Musical snuff film? Practically. Certainly it’s hard to empathize..."
Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez
Russian Circles
"..."When the Mountain Comes to Muhammad," moving prayer and propaganda rather than dirt and rock. Stringed sealant "Philos" tolls..."
Nov. 6, 2009 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez
Point Austin: Abandoning Illusions
Chris Hedges on the inevitable consequences of empire
"...continued to act as a sober conduit for Pentagon propaganda. At any rate, Hedges spoke out against the invasion..."
Nov. 6, 2009 News Column by Michael King
Reefer Madness: Kicking the Drug War Habit
More of the same under Obama's new drug czar?
"...National Drug Control Policy. He amped up the government propaganda about the evils of the devil weed, and during..."
Oct. 2, 2009 News Column by Jordan Smith
The World Is Flat
How King of the Hill helped make Texas three-dimensional again
"...(who became the full-blown recurring character Lucky). So-Called Facts/Government Propaganda..."
Sept. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner
Reefer Madness: The Great Capitol Hemp Heist
See what happens when you try to separate a hemp lobbyist from his inner woody hurd fibers?
"...what happened that he didn't. Misinformation – or, perhaps, propaganda – has been a bane of hemp farming advocates..."
Sept. 4, 2009 News Column by Jordan Smith
In Fog of War, No One Has the Facts
"...gathering, violence through proxies, economic strangulation, and oceans of propaganda. Each incurs opportunity costs on the other: Iran is..."
Aug. 27, 2009 Postmarks
Latest Scummy Republican Propaganda
Does the GOP really want to make body counts a talking point?
Aug. 24, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols
Inglourious Basterds
In this World War II movie, Quentin Tarantino weaves together multiple storylines that coalesce into a literally explosive finale that daringly rewrites history.
"...meditation on the uses and abuses of film as propaganda, and, while not every stylistic tack that's employed services..."
Aug. 21, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Cinemapocalypse at the Alamo Ritz: Die, Nazi, Die!
Quentin Tarantino premieres Inglourious
"...[Spoiler alert!] The Alamo's Minister of Propaganda, Tim League, in a stroke of ballyhoo genius not..."
Aug. 16, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov
A Truly Ridiculous Comparison
"...sign really drove home the problem with the right-wing propaganda that has infected the simple-minded [“Naked City,” News, July..."
Aug. 3, 2009 Postmarks
Austin Cannot Avoid Dirty Air
"...accurate) was from the outset (and remains today) a propaganda tool pushed into being through the efforts of development..."
July 28, 2009 Postmarks
Gig Posters, Vol. 1: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century
GigPosters.com comes to print
"...poster ..."), and influences: Rick Griffin, Bill Hicks, Polish propaganda, Mad magazine, Bill Watterson, Frank Kozik, Picasso, Saul Bass,..."
July 17, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
Will the Real Norma Khouri Please Stand Up?
AFS Documentary Tour presents Forbidden Lie$
"...run-up to the Iraq War it "stank of anti-Arab propaganda" – became keenly interested in "what kind of woman..."
June 5, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis
The Battle of Footnotes
"...Bernays, the "father of public relations" and author of Propaganda) who helped design and market the fluoridation scheme. Pro-fluoride..."
June 4, 2009 Postmarks
Sunnyside: A Novel
Glen David Gold follows his bestselling Carter Beats the Devil with another historical novel, this one starring Charlie Chaplin
"...to push his ideas about the rise of war propaganda and the rise of celebrity, Gold creates a uniquely..."
May 22, 2009 Books Review by James Renovitch
Kerlikowske Promises Change in Drug Policy
Czar says he'll provide audience for all viewpoints
"...waging a war on pot, pumping up and out propaganda, to the detriment of other programs. Indeed, inherent in..."
April 14, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith
DVD Review: François Truffaut's The Last Metro
Truffaut review
"...admirer of her husband's work but later espouses anti-Semitic propaganda via the airwaves and his column in the collaborationist..."
April 7, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov
Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane
