Interview
with Kim Barker
author of The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan (2011)
The war-reporter whose funny and moving memoir about Afghanistan and Pakistan inspired the recent film Whiskey Tango Foxtrot starring Tina Fey.
Movies
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Film (2016)
Directed by Glenn Ficarra and
John Requa
Screenplay by Robert Carlock
Based on the memoir
The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days
in Afghanistan and Pakistan
by Kim Barker
With Tina Fey, Margot Robbie,
Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina,
Billy Bob Thornton
A wonderfully done and surprisingly amusing account based somewhat loosely on the life and career of Kim Barker who became a war correspondent in Afghanistan in 2003.
Further reflections on
Hail, Caesar!
Film (2016)
Written and Directed by
Joel and Ethan Coen
With Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand
Considering narrative choices in the Coens’ portrait of 1950s Hollywood.
Where To Invade Next
Film (2015)
Directed by Michael Moore
A terrific travelogue with incisive commentary about social welfare practices abroad that Moore rightly argues should be implemented in the United States.
Hail, Caesar!
Film (2016)
Written and directed by
Joel and Ethan Coen
With Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand
A hilarious send-up of Hollywood in the 1950s, with, though they’re a bit hard to find, some serious overtones.