"South of the Border," Oliver Stone's documentary on Hugo Chavez and other South American leftist leaders

Screened last night in NY:

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2009/09/chavez_stone_so.php

What a bland title!

Sounds like a rest stop on I-95 in South Carolina. Do you get a free bumper sticker if you go to the movie?

that's because it is!

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2211

(i went there once when i was maybe seven)

South of Several Borders would be more appropriate

chavez is a dillhole.

But since the turn of the century a turnabout has begun to happen with the arrival of a generation of Bolivarian (i.e., nativist, anti-outsider) leaders with skeptical or contrarian attitudes about US manipulations -- Venezuela's Chavez, Bolivia's Morales, Brazil's Lula da Silva, Argentina's Cristina Kirchner (along with her husband and ex-President Nestor Kirchner), Paraguay's Fernando Lug, and Ecuador's Rafael Correa.

eh this is bs, unless "not a conservative" is a useful enough ideological label fore you, which, for morbs, usually doesn't cut it.

but that's really nothing to do with this movie, which could be interesting. chavez indeed being a dillhole and all.

chavez is a dillhole

better than his US-sponsored enemies, to use Democrat-style rationalization.

Nonsense. Why create false dichotomies?

no, not nonsense, and I'll wait for the film.

So this is opening in NY today, and here are some of the blurbs The Nation sent me:

"I LOVED THIS DOCUMENTARY!"
Bill Maher

"An EYE-OPENING DOCUMENTARY...captures South America in a paradigm shift, wrenching itself free of centuries of colonial control."
Owen Gleiberman, EW.com

"...an INTERESTING and REVEALING film that challenges conventional thinking about Chávez and South America."
Matthew Garrahan, Financial Times

"This film should be MANDATORY VIEWING for every high school senior in the United States."
Jesse Ventura, Former Governor of Minnesota

"...a VALUABLE and INTERESTING CORRECTIVE to the mainstream media's often-atrocious coverage of Latin America, and a fascinating account of the rise of a new generation of political leaders."
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

how much do those fucktards know about South America? Apparently O'Heir's confused about the location of Venezuela.

have you seen Ventura's infomercial about his new book?

you mean the larry king appearance?

no, it's a half-hour thing with some hired interviewer. Very Oliver Stonesque re the conspirators that have run America. (which I generally believe in too, except it's all pretty obvious and boring by now)

Alfred, none of those quotes aren't on a level w/ "Reagan was the greatest Western leader since Chasrlemagne." :)

"This film should be MANDATORY VIEWING for every high school senior in the United States."
Jesse Ventura, Former Governor of Minnesota

:)

I am interested in this movie! I don't claim to know much about these leaders, but Chavez doesn't seem any worse than most US/European leaders and Evo Morales seems interesting. Find Oliver Stone kind of revolting, though =/

Reagan was the greatest Western leader since Chasrlemagne." :)

Good -- I'm glad you know it was a joke!

Chavez doesn't seem any worse than most US/European leaders

Are you joking? I know a couple of reporters he's locked up. And as bad as our political rhetoric is, what comes out of Chavez's mouth is sententious drivel.

Chavez is equal parts admirable and despicable imho. like I'm down with redistributing wealth, not so much with political repression

so he hasn't killed anyone. I like it that he encourages literacy and has his own radio show. he sounds like oprah

His government produces nothing worth reading.

He seems like a guy you could play Xbox with

His next task, the leviathan Secret History of America, tackles received versions of events in the last century, an extension, perhaps, of what he did in 1991’s JFK, when he suggested that the president’s assassination was in fact a high-level conspiracy. The 10-part documentary will address Stalin and Hitler “in context”, he says. “Hitler was a Frankenstein but there was also a Dr Frankenstein. German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support.”

He also seeks to put his atrocities in proportion: “Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, 25 or 30m.”

Why such a focus on the Holocaust then? “The Jewish domination of the media,” he says. “There’s a major lobby in the United States. They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f***** up United States foreign policy for years.”

twat

kind of bummed he didn't make that doc with ahmadinejad

Chavez doesn't seem any worse than most US/European leaders

Are you joking? I know a couple of reporters he's locked up.

these statements don't necessary conflict with each other!

http://www.maduradas.com/indignante-estas-son-las-imagenes-que-maduro-no-quiere-que-veas-sobre-la-agresion-a-estudiantes