Podcast Episode 26.5 - Ordinary People / 5 Broken Cameras

Greetings, intrepid move fans! For the second half of this episode, Phil and Andrew tackle the highly emotional Oscar-winning drama, "Ordinary People" directed by Robert Redford. This painful but extremely well-acted film is one of the most gut-wrenching, realistic family tragedies ever committed to celluloid. It also won the Best Picture and Best Director prize in 1980. Many devout cineastes consider this a travesty, and portend that "Raging Bull" and its director (one Martin Scorsese) unequivocally should have won those two awards. Before you jump on that bandwagon, loyal listeners and film buffs, do check out "Ordinary People". One thing for sure is that Timothy Hutton deserved his Oscar for that film as much as any actor ever did for theirs. Not the picture-perfect suburban life they had hoped for, perhaps... You can download the podcast here by right-clicking on that link and choosing "save as", or you can use the convenient player located below: Rounding out this rather serious mini-sode is the Palestinian documentary "5 Broken Cameras", directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi. This film takes a personal approach to the larger conflict between Israel and Palestine in that it solely consists of the home movies of the cameraman depicting a local struggle for land between the native Palestinians and the Israeli Army. The title is a poetic reference to the filmmakers' persistent attempts to document this infraction, even after their cameras are destroyed, one after another. "5 Broken Cameras" was the recipient of many international awards and proves that an important story trumps big budgets when it comes to documentary. And here we are, with the titular cameras and the filmmaker himself.

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This episode was published on Jul 25, 2013.

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