Word: propagandas
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...said. McCarthy was amused by a question concerning internet message boards. One viewer of the screening asked if he ever read commentary on his films online, mentioning that he had seen a posting describing “The Visitor” as “liberal propaganda.” “Liberal Propaganda!” McCarthy said. “I’m going to read it now! I hope they’ve seen the movie!” The audience laughed in response. Despite the heavy subject matter of the film, McCarthy seemed...
...life under the Khmer Rouge, he didn't have a lot to go on. He had fled Cambodia as a teen in April 1975, when Phnom Penh fell to Pol Pot's forces, and had lived in Paris his whole adult life. Visual arts - except in the service of propaganda - were banned during the four years of Khmer Rouge oppression, leaving scant images of a period in which nearly 20% of Séra's compatriots died. So he used his imagination, and in 2005 tentatively staged an exhibition of the results in Phnom Penh - his first back on home...
...Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and North Korea's Kim Jong Il without conditions in his first year as President, a promise one senior adviser admits was unplanned and unvetted by staff. Clinton pounced, declaring she would be more careful about whom she met--"I don't want to be used for propaganda purposes"--and later calling Obama's answer "irresponsible and frankly naive...
Scorsese is just one of many top directors who have found release in reality. In World War II, virtually all of Hollywood was mobilized to churn out propaganda films, and directors such as John Ford, Frank Capra, John Huston, William Wyler and George Stevens (all, eventually, Academy Award winners) enlisted in the armed forces and made tough, smart, often inspiring films of fighting men. More recent directors, like Jonathan Demme, Spike Lee and Michael Apted, have alternated studio movies and important nonfiction projects. For a decade after Titanic, James Cameron gave up Hollywood to make deep-sea documentaries...
...frame a broad survey of illegal immigrant hardship. It’s a well-intentioned move to educate the public, but the film’s sweeping view of Mexican working life gives us a simplified picture of saintly illegals that sometimes veers a bit too close to propaganda. Over the course of several days, Carlitos somehow manages to see first-hand all aspects of the Mexican illegal experience: he picks tomatoes with the migrant workers, washes dishes in a restaurant, gets chased by the cops, and even has a run-in with a nasty white drug addict...