by @ Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:28:09 -0700
Robin Good
18 min 48 sec - Mar 20, 2006
The center of the universe this is what I have decided this place is.
.. This is how independent investigative journalist Jon Rappoport started out responding to my video interview questions focusing on media, economic interests influencing the news, grassroots journalism, blogs, and the future of online news.
Jon Rappoport, is the author and chief editor of Nomorefakenews.com, a unique web site, which nonetheless the unorthodox look and apparent lack of order, contains hundreds of extremely interesting articles on topics ranging from HIV to the Iraq war, economy, alternative energy and more.Jon Rappoport has a long professional experience worked as a free-lance investigative reporter, which he has been doing for over 20 years while writing articles on politics, health, media, culture and art for many newspapers and magazines including LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, Village Voice, Nexus, CBS Healthwatch, and several others.
Jon has also appeared as a guest on over 200 radio and television programs, including ABC's Nightline, Tony Brown's Journal (PBS), and Hard Copy. For the last ten years though, Jon has operated largely independently of the mainstream media because, as he puts it, My research was not friendly to the conventional media. A Documentary Portrait of the Catonsville NineA stunningly beautiful, politically potent film about the power and price of protest available on DVD for the first time.
Director Lynne Sachs will donate all of her royalties directly to Viva House Soup Kitchen in Baltimore, Maryland. peace protestA stunningly beautiful, politically potent film about the power and price of protest available on DVD for the first time. Director Lynne Sachs will donate all of her royalties directly to Viva House Soup Kitchen in Baltimore, Maryland.
A documentary about the protest events that made Catonsville, Maryland, an unpretentious suburb...
a flash point for citizens resistance at the height of the war. One of the ten best films released in 2002! mdash;Phillip Lopate, Film Comment To those who think that everything in a society and its culture must move in lock step at times of crisis, INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME might seem to be off-message.
But the film is in essence patriotic...
saluting U.S. democracy as it pays homage to the U.
S. tradition of dissent. Gorgeously crafted!
A film to rave about, as well as reckon with. mdash;The Independent On May 17, 1968, three priests, a nurse, an artist and four others walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and burned them with homemade napalm. INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME is an in timate look at this unlikely band mdash;dubbed the Catonsville Nine mdash;who broke the law in a poetic act of civil disobedience.
The publicity and news coverage from their ensuing trial helped galvanize an American public that was becoming increasingly disillusioned with the Vietnam War. Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the ang ering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house..
. The time is past when good men can remain silent, when obedience can segregate men from public risk, when the poor can die without defense. mdash; The Catonsville Nine INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME explores this protest within the context of these extremely different tim es; times in which foes of Middle East peace, abortion, and technology resort to violence to access the public imagination.
Filmmaker Lynne Sachs has combined volatile, long-unseen, archival footage with a series of informal interviews with Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Howard Zinn, John Hogan, Tom Lewis, and Marjorie and Tom Melville . The meditative result encourages viewers to ponder what obligations they have in times of war, the contemporary relevance of civil disobedience, and the implications of personal sacrifice for the greater good. A complex rumination on the power of protest.
mdash;LA Weekly Intriguing, so inspiring! mdash;Filmmaker Guy Maddin ( The Most Beautiful Music in the World ) A potent reminder that some Americans are willing to pay a heavy price to promote peace. Beautiful, haunting, and evocative.
mdash;Professor of History David Schalk, Vassar College Lynne Sachs (www.lynnesachs.com) makes non-fiction films, videos, installations and web projects that push the borders between genres, discourses, radicalized identities, psychic states and nations.
For the last decade, Lynne's filmmaking has taken her to sites affected by international wars where reality is constituted in the space between a community's collective memory and her own subjective perceptions. This body of work includes: Which Way is East: Notebooks from Vietnam (1994); Investigation of a Flame: a portrait of the Catonsville Nine (2001); www.House-of-Drafts.
org: A Bosnian-American web collaboration (2002), and States of UnBelonging (Israel/Palestine,2006). Her work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, the Jerusalem Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival as well as museums, and alternative exhibition sites in the US and abroad. She has received funding films from the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Foundation and most recently a commission from the New York Public Library.
Lynne teaches in the Film Department at New York University. INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME Directed, Produced, Photographed by Lynne Sachs The Catonsville Nine: Daniel Berrigan, Philip Berrigan David Darst, John Hogan, Tom Lewis, Marjorie and Tom Melville, George Mische, and Mary Moylan BONUS FEATURE: The Sundance Channel's AfterEffect (5 minutes) . A short film about the Catonsville Nine featuring interviews with Daniel Berrigan and Lynne Sachs.
allstar media
3 min 9 sec - Jun 26, 2006
forceful, provocative, outstandingly good NEW YORK TIMES a spare, elegantly made documentary.
.. deserving special attention for the light it sheds on German attitudes toward the Nazi period.
VILLAGE VOICE Until 1923, Rhina was a German village with a predominantly Jewish population. For centuries it had been called the little Jerusalem of Prussia. When the Nazis came to power, the entire Jewish community vanished, most of them into concentration camps.
Today all that is left of the Jews in Rhina is a vandalized graveyard. Now..
. after all these years, those who still inhabit Rhina, discuss their departed neighbors and speak warmly of the old Jewish community. However, the few remaining Jews from Rhina, who are living in New York City, present a sharply different picture of what occurred.
The film culminates in an emotional confrontation when the townspeople of Rhina view a film sequence of their erstwhile Jewish neighbors. This powerful and touching film has won the Adolf Grimme Prize as the best documentary produced for German television, has been mentioned with lsquo;Special Merit' from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has been hailed unanimously in its premiere showings in America. A daring heartbreaker!
No movie in recent memory has translated so clearly the secret language of lovers! - Village Voice
Koch Entertainment
2 min 0 sec - Jul 12, 2006
Watch this trailer and then go to www.eztakes.com to download the full movie to a DVD that you can watch on your DVD player and keep forever.
CHILLING! A spectacular debut. Don't miss it!
- Film ThreatAt the height of her success, alternative rock star Gypsy puts down her violin and walks away from her career. She retreats with Lucian, her musician husband, to the desolation of Cape Cod in winter. There in Lucian's lonely family cottage, isolated from all they worked to achieve, Lucian's long lost brother Jimmy arrives without warning.
Unbeknownst to them, Jimmy (Thomas Jay Ryan, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , Henry Fool ) is seeking a refuge of his own after commiting a horrible murder in Boston. A bizarre connection quickly develops between the alienated Gypsy and the spontaneous, uncensored Jimmy. Here, in the quietest corner of New England, a disturbing tale of obsession unfolds as the demented Jimmy finds himself madly in love with his brother's wife, begging the question: what happens music meets murder?
Reviews One of the most original films of the decade! - SF Chronicle
Koch Entertainment
1 min 48 sec - Jul 24, 2006
Watch this trailer and then go to www.eztakes.com to download the full movie to a DVD that you can watch on your DVD player and keep forever.
CHILLING! A spectacular debut. Don't miss it!
- Film ThreatAt the height of her success, alternative rock star Gypsy puts down her violin and walks away from her career. She retreats with Lucian, her musician husband, to the desolation of Cape Cod in winter. There in Lucian's lonely family cottage, isolated from all they worked to achieve, Lucian's long lost brother Jimmy arrives without warning.
Unbeknownst to them, Jimmy (Thomas Jay Ryan, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , Henry Fool ) is seeking a refuge of his own after commiting a horrible murder in Boston. A bizarre connection quickly develops between the alienated Gypsy and the spontaneous, uncensored Jimmy. Here, in the quietest corner of New England, a disturbing tale of obsession unfolds as the demented Jimmy finds himself madly in love with his brother's wife, begging the question: what happens music meets murder?
Reviews SENSOUS UNNERVING, a thriller set in the disquieting place where worlds collide! - Newsday Writer-director Mark Wilkinson graceffully elides backstories while arranging his converging characters into a neat fugue! - Village Voice
HJN Consulting
4 min 35 sec - Aug 22, 2006
Eliza Neals is a passionate, live singer/songwriter from Detroit who has opened up for George Clinton; played as a guest pianist for Earl Klugh and sang live with Detroit rsquo;s own Kid Rock. As an Indie Artist, her first CD album, ldquo;I rsquo;m Waiting rdquo; was regionally sold out; her new album, ldquo;Liquorfoot rdquo; released in Jan.
2006 received rave reviews from the Village Voice in NYC; and Eliza was nominated for a Detroit Music Award for ldquo;Best Video. rdquo; Legendary producer Louis Resto (Eminem) and Motown songwriter Barrett Strong, ldquo;I Heard It Through The Grapevine rdquo; worked with her on ldquo;Liquorfoot. rdquo; Unsigned Misic Magazine.
com gives Liquorfoot Four Stars...
. 'Forgotton Town' is a song about all the people that are struggling but not HELPED or Remebered as an artist these people touch my heart and I hope they have some light in their struggle. Please give to those in Need around you and the world, onelove Eliza NealsROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL 196 Allen St.
NYC This new album pulls off a more fleshed-out and drama-vocaled electrofunk that triangulates between Bowie's Scary Monsters, A Flock of Seagulls, and Wax Trax Records. Amazon.com Superfortress is sticking to its own path.
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