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District 6 in District 9: The Metaphoric Menagerie
J.K. FowlerWhile the film is ostensibly about how humans and non-humans coexist—peacefully or otherwise—in South Africa, District 9 is much more than a sci-fi depiction of inter-species relations....
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Witness to Genocide
Corrie HulseIn spring 2005, the World Policy Journal was the first magazine to publish the photographs of former Marine Captain Brian Steidle. His undaunted efforts to bring global attention to the...
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These Modern Times
Padmini NarumanchiWhat can the Great Depression teach us about today's Great Recession? In her first installment in a multi-part series on the films of these two economic downturns, Padmini Narumanchi...
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With Health Care, Do Americans Still Need Moore?
Corinne GoldenbergIn 2007, filmmaker Michael Moore released Sicko, a documentary that mocked and excoriated a failing H.M.O. health care system in the United States. Three years later, President Obama...
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Uncommon Beauty
Eric AnthamattenAfter Mohammad Rasoulof made The White Meadows, he and fellow filmmaker Jafar Panahi were sentenced to six years in prison. The Iranian government also banned the pair from filmmaking...
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Blurring the Past and Present
Jika GonzálezSpain's official entry in the foreign film category for the Oscars, Even the Rain, is based on the bloody beginning of the late Howard Zinn's famous A People's History of the United...
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If She is Still There
John SchellhaseChina's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project, on the mighty Yangtze River promises to increase the river's shipping capacity and to deliver electricity to millions...
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Children and 'The Beast'
Andres ZeaLast year, the U.S. Border Patrol detained nearly 450,000 illegal aliens along the Mexican border. The year before, 417 migrants were found dead in the desert or Rio Grande, their journeys...
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The Face of Torture
Eric AnthamattenDrawing on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and the story of Cain and Abel, Eric Anthamatten offers an ethical consideration of torture and the hunt for a faceless Osama bin Laden in...
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Hannah Arendt
Omar BaigThe medium of film both enjoys and is burdened by its own relation to time. A biopic has two hours or so to capture, convey, and do justice to its subject’s life. For Margarethe von Trotta,...
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