Oliver Stone once made brilliant movies like Platoon, which won Oscars for best picture and best director. These days, he’s a tinfoil-hatted fabricator. His new documentary — JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, premiering on Showtime on, you guessed it, Nov. 22 — is rooted in a big lie. It comes 30 years after the premiere of JFK, a film unrivaled in the annals of American cinematic propaganda. Both are based on the undying delusion that President Kennedy was murdered by the Deep State: The Central Intelligence Agency, backed by the military-industrial complex.
- 11/22/2021
- by Tim Weiner
- Rollingstone.com
When Brendan James and Noah Kulwin were trying to figure out what to cover on the second season of their history podcast Blowback there were, unfortunately, a lot of options — after all, the show grapples with the machinations, mishaps, and misdeeds of the American empire. Blowback debuted last year with a widely praised season on the Iraq War, but, for season two, they chose a conflict closer to home: The Cuban Revolution.
The story of the 1959 Cuban Revolution and its aftermath, as James recently told Rolling Stone, presented a “classic,...
The story of the 1959 Cuban Revolution and its aftermath, as James recently told Rolling Stone, presented a “classic,...
- 4/19/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
‘Cold Case Hammarskjöld’ a Documentary Directed by Mads Brügger
Opens in New York and Los Angeles on August 16
**Winner — Directing Award, World Cinema Documentary Competition — Sundance Ff 2019
“This could either be the world’s biggest murder mystery, or the world’s most idiotic conspiracy theory.” And with that sentence, the documentary ‘Cold Case Hammarskjöld’ begins.
In 1961, United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, a kind of boring bureaucrat since taking office in 1952 (at the height of the Cold War), was killed in an airplane crash while en route to cease-fire negotiations during the Congo Crisis, at a time when he was becoming a figure of hope and transformation for the nations of Africa emerging from under the colonial thumbs.
The superpowers had expected the Secretary-General would focus on administrative issues and refrain from participating in political discussion. Hammarskjöld’s reputation at the time was, in the words of biographer Emery Kelèn, “that of a brilliant economist,...
Opens in New York and Los Angeles on August 16
**Winner — Directing Award, World Cinema Documentary Competition — Sundance Ff 2019
“This could either be the world’s biggest murder mystery, or the world’s most idiotic conspiracy theory.” And with that sentence, the documentary ‘Cold Case Hammarskjöld’ begins.
In 1961, United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, a kind of boring bureaucrat since taking office in 1952 (at the height of the Cold War), was killed in an airplane crash while en route to cease-fire negotiations during the Congo Crisis, at a time when he was becoming a figure of hope and transformation for the nations of Africa emerging from under the colonial thumbs.
The superpowers had expected the Secretary-General would focus on administrative issues and refrain from participating in political discussion. Hammarskjöld’s reputation at the time was, in the words of biographer Emery Kelèn, “that of a brilliant economist,...
- 8/13/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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