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Category: Articles 2 comments 8 Feb 2007 @ 06:34 by jazzolog : United IndeedThank you for the Lucas Gray video John, and the urgent appeal to US oilmen to stop their massacre. I finally watched the Paul Greengrass film United 93 yesterday, something I confess I've been putting off. But to my surprise the movie, just as film, is nearly perfect...and not at all what I expected. No wonder it is winning awards everywhere for him as director and in best film category. UK film critics gave it best movie of 2006 just the other day, and he won National Society of Film Critics best director last month, and the NY film critics award a couple weeks earlier. He's up for the Oscar too, but against Eastwood and Scorsese. The DVD is out and Greengrass provides a commentary track that is a work of art in itself. United 93 families were involved intimately in the project, and many of the original military and air traffic control personnel play themselves. There are no "movie stars" in it, so at no time do you feel anything except the world change entirely in the midst of ordinary people. This movie tied me in knots for 2 hours straight---in real time. 11 Feb 2007 @ 21:05 by koravya : Confirm Well, Richard, I went on down to the video store and got it, and watched it last night, including the hour long extra feature in which the actors met the families of the passengers. As you said, the whole thing is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking. Thanks for pointing the way. John Other entries in Articles 23 Feb 2010 @ 16:27: What Babies Know 10 Feb 2010 @ 03:39: And Then . . ? 19 Jan 2010 @ 04:57: Boskops 31 Jul 2007 @ 13:40: Picnic 26 May 2007 @ 21:27: Women in Art 13 Dec 2006 @ 04:37: Global Dimming 9 Nov 2006 @ 08:23: Our Desert 30 Jul 2006 @ 18:52: Creativity for Peace 27 Jun 2006 @ 04:31: Mother-of-Pearl 31 May 2006 @ 05:56: Convergence
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5 Feb 2007 @ 13:12, by John Ashbaugh