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Blanc wrote:
>While you're holed up in your own home-grown survivalist bunker, you could
>watch a movie I just saw made in 1982: Wrong is Right, with Sean Connery
>playing a television global news reporter. It is a satire but is amazingly
>familiar-looking in today's context; involves news reporting, oil in Arabia,
>self-destroying fundamentalist terrorists, suitcase nuke bombs planted in
>NYC. Available at Blockbuster.
Other "must see" bunker TV:
The War Game (1965)
Originally made for British television, this semi-documentary directed by Peter
Watkins was banned from television because it was considered too shocking
and horribly realistic; ("the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to
be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting")instead after a delay it was
released theatrically and won the Academy Award as best feature documentary of
1966. This film shows what could happen in Great Britain if it were under
nuclear attack and the after-effects its survivors would suffer in a post
- -nuclear-war world. "Sequence after sequence inscribes itself in
memory...stirred me to a level deeper than panic or grief. It is more than a
diagnosis; it is a work of art..."--The London Observer. "Unquestionably the
most impassioned outcry against nuclear war yet...a brilliant accomplishment.!-
- -The New York Times. "Now comes a brilliant young English director named Peter
Watkins with a 55-minute dress rehearsal for Hell entitled The War Game, and
finally we have the full physical and psychological horror at Armageddon and
after."--The New Republic. One of the most powerful anti-war movies ever made;
definitely not for the squeamish. United Kingdom, 1965, B&W, 47 minutes.
(available on Amazon.)
"... its pathbreaking and still-powerful juxtaposition of interview,
reconstruction, graphics, titles and the collision of dry data with images of
horror still shock, the grainy black-and-white imagery and use of telephoto,
sudden zooms and wavering focus creating an atmosphere of immediacy unique in
British television. Fifty minutes that shook the world."
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I'm about as unsentimental as it gets, but my palms started sweating just to
remember seeing this. You won't forget it.
~Faustine.
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He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that
will reach to himself.
- --Thomas Paine
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