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FINAL BALLOTING FOR BEST POLITICAL FILMS OF 2002 Many films were pre-nominated for Political Film Society awards for 2002. Since Political Film Society rules require the number of nominated films to be reduced to no more than five in each category, members voted in January to narrow the choices. Accordingly, the final ballot appears below: […]

VOTING CONTINUES TO NARROW THE CHOICES FOR THE BEST POLITICAL FILMS OF 2002 Political Film Society rules require that the final ballots of the nominated films for awards each year may have no more than five films per category, so a ballot went out on January 1 to all Political Film Society members to narrow

POLLS CLOSE ON NOMINATIONS FOR BEST POLITICAL FILMS OF 2002 December 31 was the last day to nominate films for Political Film Society awards for 2002. Political Film Society rules require the number of nominated films to be reduced to five in each category. Accordingly, a ballot below: There were seven nominated films for the

THE FILM MAX ASKS WHETHER HITLER’S CAREER IN POLITICS WAS INEVITABLE Max, directed by Menno Meyjes, is ostensively about German art critic and dealer Max Rothman, but more importantly is a biopic of Adolf Hitler in the years 1917-1919. The film purports to show a critical turning point in the life of Hitler–and of the

A BLACK NAVAL OFFICER FINDS PEACE SEARCHING FOR HIS PSYCHOLOGICAL ROOTS Antwone Fisher, a young African American in the U.S. Navy decided one day to write the story of his life. Ten years later, his autobiography, with some fictionalization, has now been portrayed on the screen. The story so deeply touched Denzel Washington that he

A SINGLE FATHER ESTABLISHES A PRECEDENT TO GET BACK HIS CHILDREN IN EVELYN When Evelyn begins, Desmond Doyle (played by Pierce Brosnan) is celebrating Christmas together with his wife and their three children in Dublin; the year is 1953. Earlier, Desmond lost his job and had been spending so much time drinking at the local

A SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION EMERGES IN TO END ALL WARS The early comment in To End All Wars by a Scottish soldier characterizing World War II as the second “war to end all wars” somehow tells us that we are to view a film that will make us think. Based on the book The Miracle on

AUSTRALIAN “HALF-CASTES” DENIED RIGHTS ALONG THE RABBIT-PROOF FENCE The longest fence in the world bisects Australia for 1,500 miles. Farmland is on one side of the fence, which thus serves to prevent rabbits from invading the crops; hence the name “rabbit-proof fence.” Building and maintaining the fence placed some European settlers into contact with the

THE QUIET AMERICAN DEAFENINGLY PROCLAIMS THE FOLLY OF REGIME CHANGE In 1945, when Ho Chi Minh read the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, modeled after the American Declaration of 1776, American warplanes flying overhead dipped down to show approval, and the Vietnamese in the square below cheered. The United States and Ho Chi Minh’s forces were

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE FEATURED IN ARARAT Ararat, directed by Atom Egoyan, is a film about a film. We see only a few scenes staged for the background film, entitled “Arara,” which might have been an exciting epic about the death of one million Armenians in 1915 by the government of Turkey, which forced them on a