tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post117576458200629574..comments2023-10-25T12:49:50.074+01:00Comments on The Old Socialist Unity Blog - we have moved: “Wind that Shakes the Barley”,ANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05901425044840795347noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-84358528543799910512007-04-16T09:19:00.000+01:002007-04-16T09:19:00.000+01:00Just so you know: the SUN blog's (atom)feed is goi...Just so you know: the SUN blog's (atom)feed is going haywire. Posts during July 2006 are being recorded on the feed as April 14th this year.<BR/><BR/>I understand this happens occasionally with Blogger but if you check and find that is the case, maybe you should let your readers know.<BR/><BR/>You feed currenlty reads it thsi way:<BR/><BR/>The Socialist Unity Blog<BR/><BR/> * Better than chocolate.... - 16-Apr-2007 - Louisefeminista<BR/> * Badges Of Dishonour - 15-Apr-2007 - Tawfiq Chahboune<BR/> * Kids playing footie threatened with ASBOs - 14-Apr-2007 - Louisefeminista<BR/> * The Red Planet in 1973 - 14-Apr-2007 - AN<BR/> * Sheridan's web of deceit<BR/><BR/>when you margin reads the recent posts as:<BR/><BR/># Better than chocolate....<BR/># Badges Of Dishonour<BR/># Kids playing footie threatened with ASBOs<BR/># The Red Planet in 1973<BR/># A Tale from behind the Wall<BR/># Private Equity – what response from the trades uni...<BR/># Carnival of SocialismDave Rileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05319742357589026156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-1175906351058015502007-04-07T01:39:00.000+01:002007-04-07T01:39:00.000+01:00Mr anonymous.I find it hard to understand why peop...Mr anonymous.<BR/><BR/>I find it hard to understand why people feel the need to post anonymously, what are you afraid of?<BR/><BR/>The fighting was largely in rural Ireland, but surely you cannot deny that the main turning point was the occupation of the Four Courts in Dublin in 1922, and the suppression of that by force (and with british help) by Free State forces? In Dublin. If we wanted to make political sense of the civil war you have to locate the political dispute there.ANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901425044840795347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-1175789190097539632007-04-05T17:06:00.000+01:002007-04-05T17:06:00.000+01:00hifyi- rural ireland was 'the centre of the action...hi<BR/><BR/>fyi- rural ireland was 'the centre of the action'<BR/><BR/>and 'the main players' were the rural flying columns<BR/><BR/>so loach choices were perfectly well informed<BR/><BR/>which is more than i can say for...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-1175777235083644872007-04-05T13:47:00.000+01:002007-04-05T13:47:00.000+01:00Yeah, Cox is a piss-poor director I agree (though ...Yeah, Cox is a piss-poor director I agree (though I liked Sid and Nancy and Repo Man)but he was bloody marvellous when he presented Moviedrome.<BR/><BR/>I mean, c'mon, Pontocova was the best..Louisefeministahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08279991897445225597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-1175776047294553622007-04-05T13:27:00.000+01:002007-04-05T13:27:00.000+01:00BUt then Cox made probably the worst ever film on ...BUt then Cox made probably the worst ever film on the subject (artistically worst!) with "walker",<BR/><BR/>even more remarkable as the same story, about the same perosn, had been brilliantly made by Pontocova in Burn/Quemada.ANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901425044840795347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-1175775627725956092007-04-05T13:20:00.000+01:002007-04-05T13:20:00.000+01:00"He said this was a finding decision, because even..."He said this was a finding decision, because even if you get the funding to make the more ambitious film, you lose control".<BR/><BR/>Well, that is certainly true but also if you are filming something considered "controversial" or don't have the usual "happy" ending i.e. all tied up with a nice bow. <BR/><BR/>Oliver Stone was told to make changes to the film Salvador by Warner Bros as he was "portraying America in a bad way". Well, it is hard to portray imperialism in a postive light! Stone relented and changed a couple of lines. <BR/>Incidentally, Alex Cox gave the best potted history of American imperialism when he introduced the film Salvador in the early 1990s on BBC 2 - Moviedrome.<BR/><BR/>The film Seven nearly got canned as David Fincher was filming the "wrong" ending and pressure was applied to him by the producers to change the ending. But fortunately the cast said they would walk if changes were made and the producers relented.Louisefeministahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08279991897445225597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-1175772404362708632007-04-05T12:26:00.000+01:002007-04-05T12:26:00.000+01:00To be fair to Loach, it may have been impossible t...To be fair to Loach, it may have been impossible to get funding for a film-Bio of Liam Mellows for example, or to have filmed in Dublin.<BR/><BR/>There was an intesating inteview some years ago in the SWP's ISJ with John sayles, who was asked why his film matewan cut off at exactly the point the stroy got really interesting in real life, the raising of a 20000 strong red arm y of West Virginia miners and the march on the state capital.<BR/><BR/>He said this was a finding decision, because even if you get the funding to make the more ambitious film, you lose control.<BR/><BR/>So a film that included the seige of thr Four Courts would have needed a big budget, that would have come with strings from the backers. That is maybe why Ken Loach was forced out into the countryside.ANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901425044840795347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-1175770592668385642007-04-05T11:56:00.000+01:002007-04-05T11:56:00.000+01:00Nah, I didn't think Loach's latest offering was te...Nah, I didn't think Loach's latest offering was terrible (more ok) but Hidden Agenda was definitely terrible. He should have spent more time building and developing the characters. <BR/><BR/>And I read somewhere that Loach had severe problems (no surpise there!) getting funding and when he did it was stipulated he had to have American actors (he originally wanted the main woman character to be from west Germany)Louisefeministahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08279991897445225597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-1175766291631636602007-04-05T10:44:00.000+01:002007-04-05T10:44:00.000+01:00I think "Barley" is average rather than terrible.I...I think "Barley" is average rather than terrible.<BR/><BR/>I am suprised it was so over praised, but then again most of the brit left have hardly deigned to notice the victory of imperialism in the North right here and now, so a critical view of 80 years ago is hoping for too much.<BR/><BR/>:o)ANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901425044840795347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-1175766096623396872007-04-05T10:41:00.000+01:002007-04-05T10:41:00.000+01:00I remember seeing Loach's other film on Ireland, H...I remember seeing Loach's other film on Ireland, Hidden Agenda and thinking it was terrible. The reason being is that Loach was desperate in getting the politics across he simply forgot to develop the characters into something meaningful. They ended up so 1-dimensional. <BR/><BR/>I also feel overly hectored at after watching one of his films.Louisefeministahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08279991897445225597noreply@blogger.com