RE: [Videolib] Fwd: Video Business Online - MPAA, others call

Chuck McCann (cmccann@mailer.fsu.edu)
Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:16:37 -0400

Films from the Right can challenge suspections of reality just as films from the Left can do. Or, and also in my case as a Left lending person, suspections of our belief system. In a liberal democracy like the United States, everyone should, and does, have a right to voice their opinion, and it is equally a right for those opinions to be heard.

Some of the classic arguments on this:
 
Age of Reason =96 Thomas Paine
Areopagitica =96 John Milton
The Necessity of Atheism =96 Percy Bysshe Shelley
On Liberty =96 John Stuart Mill
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom =96 Thomas Jefferson

C.

At 10:29 AM 6/21/2007, Chris McNevins wrote:
This b= egs the question: what is reality?
 
This i= s why I've become apolitical (albeit with leftist leanings....)
 

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From: owner-videolib@lists.berkeley.ed= u [ mailto:owner-videolib@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Gary Handman
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Subject: RE: [Videolib] Fwd: Video Business Online - MPAA, others call f or new anti-piracy campaign[Scanned]

Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain Begins to Die
Examines "the truth behind the lies of Fahrenheit 9/11". This film attempts to correct the record when it comes to the left's attacks on President Bush, the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the war in Iraq and Kerry's 20-year tenure in the Senate. Directed by Kevin Knoblock. Washington, D.C. : Citizens United, c2004. 71 min. 



Michael Moore Hates America
A controversial documentary that examines the filmmaking methods of
director Michael Moore. Michael Wilson humorously satirizes Moore's own
dogged pursuit of GM President Roger Smith in Moore's 1989 documentary
"Roger & Me." As he travels from Coast to Coast, Wilson
encounters celebrities, writers, politicians and everyday citizens in a
candid and often surprising account of the cultural dialogue in modern
America. Written, produced and directed by Michael Wilson.  c2004.
93 min. =20
At 12:46 PM 6/19/2007, you wrote:
"What's wrong with Ken Burns?"

Well, confining my comments to just his baseball documentary, how about his
assumption that 90% of what matters in baseball history took place in either
Boston or New York?

As to the politics of current documentarians, I tried to think of some
recent documentaries with a conservative political leaning and could think
of none. Is this because there aren't any, or because of a vast left-wing
conspiracy? (There might be other reasons I suppose...)


Mike Tribby
Senior Cataloger
Quality Books Inc.
The Best of America's Independent Presses

mailto:mike.tribby@quality-books.com

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