Molly Ivins Movies
- 2004
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Three weeks after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, filmmaker Robert Taicher and a small film crew drive from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. and New York City to examine the various issues surrounding the tragedy and American foreign policy by speaking with typical Americans, government officials, foreign policy experts, and journalists. With the invasion of Afghanistan underway, and an unanticipated war with Iraq also raging, a variety of individuals including Senator George McGovern, syndicated columnists Robert Scheer and Molly Ivins, former Chief UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, Noam Chomsky, former General Anthony Zinni, former Terrorism Czar Richard Clarke, and Howard Zinn all offer their input on the subjects. Other topics include the history if the Cold War and CIA interventions from the 1950s through the 1970s, American support of the Afghan resistance during their war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s, the United State's two wars with Iraq, and the Bush administration's tactics in the War on Terror and the implications they have on 21st Century global security. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- 2004
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Onetime political consultant Paul Stekler directed this documentary on a heated battle for a state representative's seat. In Texas, a state with a long history of voting in GOP candidates, Rick Green seems a sure thing to be elected as a staunch conservative who declares himself "raised on Rush Limbaugh." However, a minor scandal over financial matters threatens to derail Green's campaign as his young Democratic challenger, Patrick Rose, begins showing real strength in local public-opinion polls. Last Man Standing looks at the Green versus Rose race, as well as the machinery behind modern elections; the film includes interviews with Texas journalist Molly Ivins and White House advisor Karl Rove. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- 2004
This deeply critical and often humorous documentary opens with President George W. Bush's acceptance of the 2000 Republican nomination and Bush's assertion that each U.S. president must be fully responsible for his actions. It then moves forward in time to examine the extent to which Bush failed to live up to this oath, via eviscerating commentary from numerous left-wing spokespeople including Arianna Huffington, Michael Moore, Bill Maher, Al Franken, and others. Peter Coyote narrates. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
