#eugene jarecki

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The first trailer for The King connects Elvis Presley with the decline of America.

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The King (2018)

Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner Eugene Jarecki's new film takes the King's 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America. From Memphis to New York, Las Vegas, and beyond, the journey traces the rise and fall of Elvis as a metaphor for the country he left behind. In this groundbreaking film, Jarecki paints a visionary portrait of the state of the American Dream and a penetrating look at how the hell we got here. A diverse cast of Americans, both famous and non, join the journey.

Directed by:   Eugene Jarecki

Release date:   June 22, 2018

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Festival poster for PROMISED LAND (Eugene Jarecki, USA, 2017)

Designer: Midnight Marauder

Poster source: Midnight Marauder

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A title like Promised Land can be appreciated for its duality: primarily meaning a land of promise but also, in another sense, a land that was promised. We’re talking about the United States of course, or rather filmmaker Eugene Jarecki is in his latest documentary. It’s an abstract road movie, fueled on disillusionment and rock and roll, and one that attempts the quite ambitious task of sketching out a narrative line to link the rise and decline of the nation with the rise and decline of Elvis Presley. If Jarecki struggles a little with this alchemy at times it is because Promised Land is essentially three movies in one: a detailed account of the King’s career; a loose account of the last 80 years of American politics; and a musical performance film. It can be a little jarring to shift between those gears at times but the director has form with this kind of sprawling state of the nation documentary (as seen with The House I Live in) and manages to keep things running along smoothly.

Continue reading our Cannes review of Promised Land.

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Why We Fight Eugene Jarecki UK/France/Denmark/Canada/USA, 2005 ★★★ ..not even the day can say he's sorry.

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A scene from Eugene Jarecki's documentary "Why We Fight".

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If you want to commemorate 9/11 and avoid the clichéd, jingoistic talk about “freedom”, this documentary is one way to do it. In “Why We Fight” (2005), filmmaker Eugene Jarecki takes a hard but balanced look at the American foreign policy and military presence all over the world. Jarecki consciously gave his movie the same name as Frank Capra’s series created during World War II, but his conclusions on the wars after 1945 - from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan - are very different from the justified war against Hitler’s fascism. https://www.instagram.com/p/CTr1yQeqkyh/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Trump, Erdoğan, Johnson, Vučić, Bolsonaro............

......  eine Welt der Narzisten, wohin wird das führen. Corona ist schon schlimm genug. Mangelnde EQ und IQ führt uns aber wohin???? Autokratie? Wir hinterlassen unseren Kindern keinen blühenden Planeten, sondern einen (ver)wüsteten Planeten und das Schlimmste daran ist, wir haben das ganz Leben versucht genau das zu verhindern, aber eben ohne Gewalt.  Kraft des Wissens, der Worte und der Intelligenz, aber, ...wir haben versagt. Denn wir konnten keinen von denen jemals aufhalten... 

Es wird noch viel Tote geben.

https://trumpdeathclock.com thanks to  Eugene Jarecki 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Jarecki