1998–THE MOST POLITICAL YEAR IN RECENT FILMMAKING Nominations for the best political films of 1998 closed on December 31. Fifteen films have been nominated, a record in the twelve-year history of the Political Film Society. According to the rules governing awards, film directors have been sent notifications that their films have been nominated. Since there […]
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In some cultures a wife is a virtual slave of a husband. In the United States, the days when all women were totally submissive to their husbands are long past. In Surrender Dorothy, directed and written by Kevin B. DiNovis, the protagonist Trevor (played by Peter Pryor) is terrified by the independence of women. A
In contrast, Enemy of the State demonstrates in depth how terrorism and other high crimes can be fought, using the technology of electronic eavesdropping, communication satellites, and computer hacking, thus making privacy obsolete. Although most filmviewers will doubtless assume that the high-tech gadgetry is yet another Hollywood fantasy of director Tony Scott (of Crimson Tide
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In The Siege, nominated for the best film of 1998 raising consciousness of the need to protect both democracy and human rights, Edward Zwick (director of Courage Under Fire and Glory) poses a hypothetical: What if terrorism graduated from retail bombings to wholesale slaughter in New York City? What would government authorities do? Would the
In Predrag Antonijevic’s Savior, the protagonist (Dennis Quaid) spends most of the film as a terrorist. An American whose spouse and son are killed by a terrorist bomb in Paris, throws a bomb in a mosque, joins the Foreign Legion, and ends up fighting for the Bosnian Serbs as a terrorist, inflicting atrocities in acts
THREE FILMS SHOW HOW ANTI-TERRORISM METHODS IMPERIL LIBERTIES In The Siege, nominated for the best film of 1998 raising consciousness of the need to protect both democracy and human rights, Edward Zwick (director of Courage Under Fire and Glory) poses a hypothetical: What if terrorism graduated from retail bombings to wholesale slaughter in New York
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Never before has the filmviewing public been sensitized to the conditions that spawn the American neo-Nazism of the skinheads. In American History X, British-born Tony Kaye zeroes in on race relations within the United States in graphic detail (though he has attempted to dissociate himself from the film because the studio has changed a lot
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“AMERICAN HISTORY X “ NOMINATED FOR BEST FILM ON PEACE Never before has the filmviewing public been sensitized to the conditions that spawn the American neo-Nazism of the skinheads. In American History X, British-born Tony Kaye zeroes in on race relations within the United States in graphic detail (though he has attempted to dissociate himself
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