Comments | viola_dreamwalk: "We cannot defend freedom abroad while deserting it at home."

viola_dreamwalk

"We cannot defend freedom abroad while deserting it at home."

Nov 17, 2005 11:18

Huh. So maybe I will like the new Harry Potter movie, after all. I thought the first two were deeply, deeply silly, and the the third was visually pretty but poorly scripted. So that review, from a critic who seems to have had the same problems with the first three that I did, intrigues me.

My pick for Best Holiday Viewing, though, remains Good ( Read more... )

good night and good luck, opinions, movies, ed murrow

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device55 November 17 2005, 19:54:36 UTC

"Good night and good luck" looks pretty good...and somehow has mysteriously slipped beneath my radar.

So you've seen it? Good?

viola_dreamwalk November 17 2005, 20:01:31 UTC

We saw it at the Fox Tower last Sunday. It's very good. You'll totally appreciate it.

device55 November 17 2005, 20:03:10 UTC

Awesome. I've been looking for a movie to go to lately...(obviously not very hard)

Also? My heaven is filmed in black and white.

viola_dreamwalk November 17 2005, 20:09:33 UTC

There's jazz and cigarettes and McCarthyism and great close-up shots of people in post-WWII fashions. You'll love it.

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melodylemming November 17 2005, 20:12:23 UTC

I love Good Night, and Good Luck. I don't know why I stopped obsessing about the Red Scare when I hit high school, but there's no reason not to start again.

viola_dreamwalk November 17 2005, 20:22:23 UTC

I've never honestly been all that intrigued by that era, so a lot of the ground the movie covered was new to me. It's really fascinating stuff, and increasingly relevant in the context of current U.S. politics.

I have, on the other hand, always loved reading about Murrow in London during the blitz -- something I discovered in college when I was like, "Hey, who is this Murrow guy, and why is the school named after him?" ;)

melodylemming November 17 2005, 21:56:07 UTC

Murrow's sort of on the edge of my area of interest, as is McCarthy--my favorite parts are a bit earlier--but the whole era really is amazingly relevant today. And then, there are such good stories: the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers...and at one time, my favorite book was a bio of J. Edgar Hoover.

Anyway, for me, Murrow's stint in London is sort of background. Any interesting books/websites you could point me towards?

viola_dreamwalk November 18 2005, 17:58:01 UTC

This might be a good starting place. They have magazine articles, academic papers, book recs and multimedia.

ashkitty November 17 2005, 20:57:34 UTC

Good Night and Good Luck was terrific, wasn't it? We had a special screening here (of course, it's Wazzu) with a discussion panel and stuff, it was really interesting.

viola_dreamwalk November 17 2005, 21:15:01 UTC

I wondered if they would do anything special for it in Pullman. :) Who was on the discussion panel?

ashkitty November 17 2005, 21:46:30 UTC

Glenn Mosely from UI, and...I don't remember who else. A history prof from UI and two WSU people who I actually didn't know.

kerrypolka November 17 2005, 21:05:08 UTC

Good Night, and Good Luck was incredible. It was one of the only movies I've seen where I immediately thought "I'm buying this and watching it over and over" a few seconds after leaving the theater. It's so-- I mean, it's so right. It is a right (righteous) movie. There was spontaneous applause about three times in the theater where I saw it. Just, yes.

viola_dreamwalk November 17 2005, 21:17:04 UTC

It's definitely on my DVD wish list, too. Back when ER first premiered, never in a million years did I think my estimation of George Clooney would just keep going up and up and up...