In this episode of the half-hour BBC series World Weddings, director Maziar Bahari fulfills the network’s mandate of crafting a lighthearted piece on marriage – in this case, an HIV positive former drug user searching for a wife – and illuminates more everyday aspects of a culture rarely seen in western media…
Back in 2005, the journalists in Maziar Bahari’s documentary were already commenting on the increasing dangers faced when covering war zones in the Middle East, in which press passes and credentials no longer guaranteed safety or cooperation, and being a western press agent almost ensured their status as perfect ransom targets or props for a media campaign to shock the world with filmed murders…
Tales of Rebel Pedagogues on Blu from Twilight Time: Evolutionists vs. Creationists in Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind (1960) + losing one’s ‘prime’ in Jay Presson Allen’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).
Stanley Kramer’s film version of Inherit the Wind may be a unique case in which a film not only eclipses the existence of original Broadway play upon which it’s based, but attempts to fill in some of the play’s factual omissions within Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee 1955 fictionalized version of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial…
Bucking the clichés of the ‘benevolent teacher’ classics like Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939) and The Browning Version (1994), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is the flip-side in which vanity, selfishness, and delusion rule. Jay Presson Allen’s 1968 play and subsequent film adaptation (both derived from Murial Spark’s 1961 novel) is no less provocative nor raw than when originally released in 1969…
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