Year 2012

Year 2012 is leading me back to my emotional atlas: Pinter and Beckett, Bergman and Welles, these are going to be my mainstay. #writing

— Salik Shah (@salik) January 19, 2012

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The Capra Hyperbole: One Man, One Film

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the Great War in Burma

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Cable Journalism & The Hindu

Cable reporting or cable journalism: 
What is your news organisation doing?

Most of the early reporting on cables that have released, by our media partners and others, is what I call cable reporting. It is to read a cable, to pick out a few quotes, to say who the principal characters are, and then to publish that story. It is not cable journalism. Cable journalism is to read the cables, correlate them with other cables, with interviews of people, with archive searches, with record searches, and investigate the whole situation. And produce something that is more complex, describes a more complex situation. It takes longer but ultimately is the only way to really get at complex situations or situations that occur multiple times in the cable history. — N. Ram interviews Julian Assange (1, 2 & 3)

New Statesman Debate (Video): Report I & II

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Crazy Windmills: Signs of Life

"Whilst in Greece I walked around the mountains of Crete where I came across a valley. I had to sit down because I was sure I had gone insane. Before me lay 10,000 windmills—it was like a field of flowers gone mad—turning and turning with these tiny squeaking noises. I sat down and pinched myself. ‘I have either gone insane or have been something very significant indeed.’ Of course, it turned out that the windmills were for real and this central image became a pivotal point of the film, landscape in complete ecstasy and fantastic madness. I knew as I stood there that I would return one day to make a film. Had I never seen the windmills, I would not have made the connecting between this fantastic landscape and the von Arnim story, which I read only later on." –  On ‘Signs of Life’ from ‘Herzog on Herzog’

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