The RP's Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Film

The Politics of Film

Super 8, the film directed by JJ Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg, has been marketed heavily for the  past year.  Now, the first critics have been allowed to screen it.  They were allowed to tweet their thoughts.  /Film has a good rundown of what everybody thought. [/Film]

At the Cannes Film Festival last week, director Lars Von Trier really stepped in it.  In a strange diatribe, he said that he "understood Hitler" and claimed he was a Nazi.  He was banned from...