What does Invasion of the Body Snatchers have to do with the Cold War? Why do so many people know about Ayn Rand? These are just a few of the questions that Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman takes on in his new book, An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War.
Hoberman sat down with Laura for a look at some of those 1950s movies--and some more recent ones--and to discuss the hidden ideology behind monster movies and the not-so-hidden ideology of Ayn Rand movies.
David Brooks panned Avatar in NY Times. They just panned it quietly and called no attention to it. It is not that it didn’t register. They just decided not to echo chamber it cause that would sell more seats. He definitely put it down. That is how it works with NY Times. He attacked it on paganism or something.
They also panned Harlem Requiem which had a very powerful expose of how US elites divide-and-rule the little people who spiral into poverty together! It is so obviously depicted in that film as it would be by an African-American director who grew up with that game.
They knew what they were doing trying to low ball pictures and keep out of the echo chamber anything that will expose the Elite and their MO! Anything that skewers a partisan story they can use in divide-and-rule they love! But, not something that skewers the whole-system with them at the top pushing all the buttons and pulling all the strings!
By planckbrandt on March 28th, 2011 at 2:29 pm