Posts Tagged ‘film’
Reviving Sylvia Pankhurst’s spirit
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3 Oct 2010Anyone who has read Ferraris for All will know that Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) was a key inspiration for my book. The radical suffragette was not only fervently pro-prosperity but also opposed to the first world war even during the conflict and against population control. Those who want to see the remarkable spirit of this largely […]
- Tags: film, Worldwrite
More dodgy green maths
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2 Oct 2010Franny Armstrong, the founder of the 10:10 campaign against climate change, has mounted a defence of her organisation’s despicable film showing those unconcerned about the issue being blown up. Although 10:10 has issued an apology and taken the “No Pressure” video off the site she is quoted in the Daily Telegraph as saying: “We ‘killed’ […]
- Tags: climate, consumption, environment, ethics, film
Latest Worldbytes available
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27 Feb 2010Watch the latest items on the Worldbytes internet television channel including a report on how Mumbai is embracing consumerism, an item challenging sustainable development and a defence of the freedom to film in public.
- Tags: film, india, sustainability, Worldwrite
On The Road
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7 Jan 2010Frank Furedi argues on today’s spiked that, despite appearances, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is not the one-sidedly bleak post-apocalpytic novel it is often assumed to be. It does make some more upbeat points about the human condition. He is more equivocal about the film version. Meanwhile, a new series of Survivors, another post-apocalpytic tale from […]
- Tags: apocalyptic, book, film, spiked
Avatar savaged
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4 Jan 2010Bill Frezza, a partner at Adams Capital Management, has written a review on Real Clear Markets which is by far the most astute piece I have seen on Avatar. An extract from his article on James Cameron’s epic science fiction movie: “I didn’t see him in the credits but Al Gore, earth’s first carbonless billionaire, […]
- Tags: climate, environment, film
Understanding the apocalpyse
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2 Jan 2010Don’t worry if you’ve missed the apocalypse because another one will be along in a minute. After The Day of the Triffids aired on BBC over Christmas three post-apocalyptic thrillers – The Book of Eli, Daybreakers and The Road – will be out in the cinema in January. Several commentators have remarked on the popularity […]
- Tags: apocalyptic, film, progress, television
Miserable movies
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9 Dec 2009The opening film to the Copenhagen summit, featuring a girl having a nightmare about catastrophic climate change, unwittingly reveals the pervasiveness of contemporary social pessimism. It assumes that our irresponsible actions today will cause devastating problems for our children in the future. The opposite possibility, that human action could improve our lives and those of […]
Apocalyptic movies
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28 Nov 2009Apocalyptic fiction is one way that the pervasive sense of limits in contemporary society is expressed. Two prominent examples discussed in this New York Times article are 2012 (directed by Roland Emmerich) and The Road, based on the Cormac McCarthy book of the same name, which opens this coming week in America. Emmerich was also […]
- Tags: apocalyptic, book, film
The Pelican Brief and Julia Roberts
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18 Aug 2009Until I caught up with the Pelican Brief, the 1993 legal thriller based on a John Grisham novel, on television I had not reallsed how much it reflects the environmentalist spirit of our times. The plot involves a law student (played by Julia Roberts) who stumbles across a conspiracy by a big oil company which […]
- Tags: celebrities, environment, film, television
RSA consumerism debate
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17 Jul 2009For the time being I will limit my comments on this evenings debate at the RSA on consumerism (see 7 July post). Once the audio feed of the event is available on the RSA website I will post a link to this site. I will also post my review of Neal Lawson’s book when it […]
- Tags: book, consumption, ethics, film, speeches, television
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