Welcome to the 90th edition of the Carnival of Cinema. Each week we display the best film-related posts submitted from around the world.
This week we have a plethora of great articles so let's get down to it.
With all of the political hoopla happening in America right now, its fitting we start things out with a post about politics in film.
Josh Xiong of the
BRITANNICA BLOG considers
if The Dark Knight actually qualifies as a neo-conservative narrative.
Fighting terrorists, identifying evil and calling it by name, utilizing private funds to better humanity, self-reliance, etc... doesn't sound like a leftist yarn to me. Then again, the ways things are going right now the guy from the far left talks like he's from the middle right and the guy from the middle right acts like he's from the middle left and ignoring the far right. Meanwhile the bulk of us are left squarely in the middle crying with our pockets turned inside out - I have no idea what's going on anymore.
Next on the conservative front is the
SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Darrell who takes
a look at movies with a dystopian theme. Darrell told me this post was inadvertently inspired by a post from this site. Not sure how to take that.
Why is it that when filmmakers show the future it's always dank, littered with crap and oppressive. Everybody's got to be so dang miserable about everything. Things are great and they're getting better. People living 100 years ago would kill to have the rich, full lives we yawn at today.
Since we can't get our view of the future rights, let's take a look at our past.
MANNY THE MOVIE GUY offers up a list of his top movies from the summer of '08.
Click over and see his list.
Not to be outdone, Hercules Rob of
THE ENTERTAINMENT BLUR submits his list of the top movies from the summer of '08 as well. Once you're done with Manny's list,
hop on over to Rob's place and check out what he has to say.
Keeping the historic trend, Margaret looks at
Goodbye, Mr. Chips over at her site
THE EARTHLY PARADISE. She says of the film "
Goodbye, Mr. Chips follows the protagonist through his entire life, showing the audience the disappointments, tragedies and triumphs that make up a teacher's life. It's an indisputable classic."
There you go, its indisputable. Get over it.
...and CUT and PRINT!
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Other carnival editions:
Carnival of Cinema: Episode II
Carnival of Cinema: Episode III
Carnival of Cinema: Episode XI
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A great edition, as usual. Thank you for including my post!
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