Film

On a more serious note, this looks like a profound and powerful documentary movie (even if it is presented by Leonardo DiCaprio) that I just watched on Apple Trailers - The 11th Hour - kind of an environmental wake-up call to gas guzzling USA.

”The 11th Hour” is the last moment when change is possible. The film explores how we’ve arrived at this moment — how we live, how we impact the earth’s ecosystems, and what we can do to change our course. Featuring ongoing dialogues of experts from all over the world, including former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, former head of the CIA R. James Woolsey and sustainable design experts William McDonough and Bruce Mau in addition to over 50 leading scientists, thinkers and leaders who discuss the most important issues that face our planet and people.
Directed by: Leila Conners Petersen, Nadia Conners
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio
(from Apple.com/trailers)

Just found this trailer on Apple Trailers - The Ten.

Comprised of ten vignettes, each one inspired by one of the Biblical commandments, The Ten is an irreverent but hilarious illustration of how bad behavior makes for good comedy. With each story told in a different style, but containing overlapping characters and themes, the film is a grand burlesque boasting an all-star cast that puts the sin back in cinema.
Directed by: David Wain
Starring: Paul Rudd, Jessica Alba, Winona Ryder, Adam Brody, Gretchen Mol
(from Apple.com/trailers)

Here's the YouTube version of The Ten trailer …

So, as you'll know, I love Mr Deity. But this episode in particular, Mr Deity and the Book, I found both hilarious and poignant.

After studying Advanced Workshop, and in partiular my essay on Joshua and Ricoeur's hermeneutics of suspicion and retrieval, I've been reinvigorated in my search to rediscover the Bible after being wounded by faith, life and the text. Mr Deity indicates many of the themes that I find myself wrestling with, and offers are somewhat anarchic solution - 'Let's Job the guy'. Not necessarily the non-violent path I would have preferred, but probably more humourous, let's face it.

I've been watching Mr Deity for a couple of months now and thought it was about time I shared it here, if you've not seen Mr Deity already.

I came in on episode 3, Mr Deity and the Light, which is just hilarious. But the first episode is great, and obviously, being episode 1, is the place to start.

As I understand it Brian Dalton, the writer and director of Mr Deity who also plays Mr Deity himself, wrote the first episode as a personal response to the Asian tsunami of Christmas 2004. And then, realising that he'd hit on a cracking theme, carried on making episodes of Mr Deity. I've just watched episode 9, Mr Deity and the Book, through the Mr Deity podcast feed in iTunes (or you may like to go to the podcast RSS feed), but it's not available on YouTube yet so I can't put it in here.

Anyway, here is Mr Deity episode 1, Mr Deity and the Evil.

… and Al Franken followed. And God looked and said 'It is good.'

I know it's another trailer, but I love films and this looks like it's going to be another good one. Ok, so it's about US politics, but over here we love looking in from the outside and laughing at how messed up y'all got it over there!

Al Franken: God Spoke is a film out of the same school yard as Farenheit: 9/11 - a comic takes on the politicians and lambasts their best attempts to persuade us all that they're right by showing exactly why they're wrong. In Al Franken's case, the premise is simple: they're liars.

Here's the YouTube.com trailer...

Check out the official site: www.godspokefilm.com.

I watched the trailer for the forthcoming film 'The Ground Truth' on Apple Trailers today - seems like a pretty profound and powerful movie about the reality of life in the modern armed forces.

The blurb on Apple.com's The Ground Truth trailer page says … 'The filmmaker’s subjects are patriotic young Americans - ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq - as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities.'

Here's the YouTube.com trailer:

In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust, and ran without gasoline. In 2002, General Motors pulled the plug on their innovative EV1 electric car, despite an outcry and public protests. By the end of 2005, every car had been crushed and recycled in the GM Desert Proving Grounds.

Who killed the electric car?

Visit the movie site, www.whokilledtheelectriccarmovie.com, to see the suspects and hear the story.

Or watch the Who Killed the Electric Car? YouTube trailer...

October 2006, the movie of the book - Fast Food Nation. Here's the trailer.

A bunch of us are going to see a one-off showing of a film called The Peace! at the mac arts centre in Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, UK this evening (7.30pm, Sunday 15 January).

The film is a documentary made by a couple of peaceniks who interviewed a huge number of the world's greatest peace and justice thinkers between September 2002 and May 2003. They covered a huge range of subjects: 2000 Presidential Elections and September 11, 2001; Afghanistan, Iraq, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction; Saddam Hussein and the inspections; The axis of evil, the coalition of the willing and collateral damages; News, media, concentrations of power and censorship; The Middle East and the old and new colonialism; Civil liberties and human rights; United Nations, International Criminal Court and the Old Europe; War, peace and patriotism; The anti war movement, oil, blood and the voices of dissent.

Is it possible to find interconnecting links?