Recently read books and movies I, Others? like

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Speaking of that Israel-Palestine situation as we recently were. I got a chance to see a new movie, seemingly without theater distribution in the USA...(only opened in Palestine and Germany, says IMDB) called Cinema Jenin, which I would recommend.

documentary whose theme could be stated thus: Can a simple cultural good---an old movie theater---be reopened and be beyond politics in a place where everything that is done is (necessarily?) political? 

In Jenin, Palestine. With Israel having to approve and 'work with'? Mutual ' working with'? Scores of volunteers, Israelis and Palestinians, needed. Self-determination, where does that stand when
GERMANS provide most of the money? And the Director of this movie is German? Another layer
Of being occupied? 

Meandering, hard to follow, (cause in media res w no explanations), with an offscreen bad happening and onscreen discussion of whether guns should be allowed, for example.

It is one of those movies which touches on much in its particular reality. 


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On Feb 5, 2013, at 1:55 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you very much for your suggestions! Especially Departures, that
> I obviously missed.
> 
> Did you perhaps see Nobody Knows
> (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408664/?ref_=sr_1)? I can recommend
> that.
> 
> J
> 
> 2013/2/5 Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>:
>> Some folks are paranoid or perhaps just wisely cautious  these days about
>> personal info but I'm going to list a few media inputs I have found
>> worthwhile lately and would love to hear from others.
>> 
>>  This is Terrance Mckenna doing a wonderfully rich lecture about Finnegan's
>> Wake. He also delves into Marshall Mcluhan and many interesting and
>> appropriate  side trips http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq9jmELA00U
>> 
>> The Japanese film Departures I found to be beautiful.
>> 
>> The Tao Te Ching in a variety of translations
>> 
>> Gary Snyder's  Practice of the Wild
>> 
>> The Man Who Planted Trees by Jim Robbins  ( This is not the famous short
>> story  but a nonfiction work by a NYT science writer about a man who had a
>> near death experience that caused him to start making clones of the largest
>> and oldest trees in North America and now other bioregions. It leads into
>> fascinating current science on trees.)
>> 
>> When the Moors ruled Europe  ( Netflix)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>