To coincide with the UK release of Charles Ferguson’s film “Inside Job”, I will be doing question and answer sessions with the audience at various cinemas following showings of the film.
“Inside Job” has been nominated for best documentary Oscar and is most people’s hot tip to win. Watch the trailer for the film.
Read the review of Inside Job from the Evening Standard
For those who fancy seeing the film and would like to meet up after here are the places and times. It would be my pleasure to meet both those who I know from the blog and those who are new to it.
So far it looks like there should be time to meet after the Friday show in Finchley and on Sunday morning/Lunch. Saturday may be a bit packed. We are trying to arrange other things on the Saturday.
Perhaps if you are interested in meeting you could leave a comment to that effect so others can see and we can email to make final arrangements. Does that sound OK?
Exact timings of the showings may vary by 30mins and will be confirmed by the cinemas nearer the time. You may need to book.
Sunday 20th Feb – 16.00 – The Ritzy, Brixton, London
Wednesday 23rd Feb – 18.00 – Fact Cinema, Liverpool
We are also hoping to arrange other dates in Manchester, York and Lancaster and possibly another date in London.
Dave,
Excellent blog. If only we could crow bar you into a daily paper somehow.
A bit off topic, and apologies if you have stated this before – i'm new to the blog and just catching up on your old posts. Do you have a feel for how much of the Irish banking debt was created by Irish citizens/established Irish companies, and how much was created by SPV's and foreign loans?
Keep up the good work.
Well I was going to suggest that this film would be a brilliant way to get people who aren't big into reading interested in this whole travesty that is going on – but then I go and look it up and I can't find it listed under the 'Coming Soon' titles of any cinema in Ireland – not even the IFI in Temple Bar. Which means if its shown at all it'll be March. Right on top of the election unfortunately. Just grrr!
Also Golem, would you consider going on Vincent Brown's show here in Ireland and talking about the situation that happened with Depfa/HRE. Brown has been a champion of alternate voices since all year long. If all the Irish readers of this blog got in touch with TV3 we might be able to pull something off?
All the momentum is building up to just keep on going with the bailouts. And Irish people have shown twice before that they respond obediently when a threatening stance is taken by the EU. (See Nice & Lisbon treaties 2nd referendums) We will need to make a whole lot of people both anrgy and informed if we are to persuade the politicians to change tack.
Depends what the plan is. What were you thinking of on the friday night? Sunday sounds more easy going and possibly more time rather than friday after the showing as that's gonna be quite late.
I love the night myself but sunday feels like it would be less cluttered mentally/physically, plus you would have had a couple of goes by then and talked to other peeps so sunday may be more informative.
Anybody watched Zeitgeist: Moving Forward yet? I think that should be nominated for an oscar, even just for proposing that we make things that LAST. The mixture of annual % growth and finite resource was laid out very well, the absurdity of it all. I've read about the Venus project before but put in context with social problems etc, shame on us all if we let those £%^$&% jokers run amok for much longer.
I have a another song churning in my mind which has come about from the rolling stone piece on GS which has the line,
"Don't hate the player hate the game".
They may be a bunch of !"£$%£$ but it is the game, the system. More regulation, more honesty, whatever. The system is whack. Human life parity should be the goal. Not getting GS to say sorry, be nice and give the money back.
I do think maybe it will take another harsh period of human existence to evolve to a point where it is possible but Guidoromero, I'm ready bro, and maybe everybody else is if they had two minutes to think about it out of this fear induced coma we exist in.
SPV's and foreign loans? Exactly.
Whack Job, not Inside Job.
Sunday, what about you Rich?
Rebecca,
It is nice of you to think I could make a difference. I would be delighted to get the chance to go on Vincent Brown's show.
People just need to hear that there are alternatives to the ubiquitous "we have no choice' and 'the sky will fall in if we don't' messages.
I was contacted some while ago by Ken O'Shea who is editor of News and current affairs at RTE. He said he was interested in me as an alternative voice but felt it would be difficult to put me on a panel beside more august and recognized experts. Maybe he'd think again?
I'd be happy to contact Vincent Brown's show (should have though of this long before now really) and suggest David as a guest.
I've seen the Keiser interview and am an admirer of Golem's work on the whole banking farrago.
Also- I'd like to pop along to the Phoenix which is a treasure of a cinema run by very friendly people and worth supporting.
Love the Phoenix- run by cinema lovers for cinema lovers and is a secret jewel in North London. Highly recommended.
Thanks Golem and Con, I couldn't find a contact email for the Vincent Brown show website (but then I'm sometimes a bit blind like that) so I have sent the request to [email protected]. This is the contact email for the activist section on the politico.ie website and I know they link up with Vincent's show.
Fingers crossed, and please if there are any more Irish people reading, do the same. politico.ie is well worth a visit anyway and should not be confused with the internet gutter that is politics.ie.
LONDON – count me in as a definite.
Agree with young 24k, Sunday may be the more sensible bet, but I could do either.
Rebecca – to contact the news part of TV3 programming, you should email [email protected]
Its a great idea and I wish you luck with it.
I'd love to see Golem on Question Time.
Cool. Pencil me in for East Finchley.
I should be able to do either the Friday or Sunday. Will have to confirm closer to the time. Going through a rare busy period.
I'd love Golem on Question Time too
Re the Question Time suggestion, I have just put Davids' name down as a possible panellist on the website – but it seems they do get a lot of suggestions, so it won't necessarily be printed. One can but try.
Golem/DM: Sunday is best for me, too. Any chance it could happen down in South London since The Ritzy is also there (Brixton)?
24K: Yeah, watched Zeitgeist 2011 this week. Paradigm shifting or what?
Did anyone ever notice that Matt Damon (who does the voice over for the iflm IJ) seems very switched on? Just in terms of his films (as an actor & writer) he seems to be very aware of the truth. . . .
Good idea gorgeous. Here's a link to the question time suggestion page for anybody with a minute spare HERE
teri, I loved the first chapter, if the poor are stressed into death it can also be said that the financial class have no option but to rip us off.
He does seem switched on. He's come along way since Team America
24k: Not being pedantic here but, to the best of my knowledge, Damon was not in Team America. I was referring to his scene in Good Will Hunting where he told the NSA to shove their job offer up their asses so eloquently, his turn in the provocative The Good Shepherd, the anti-Iraq war The Green Zone, etc. etc.
Maybe see you in Brixton with the Golem group meetup? – T
If you click the Team America link you will see a puppet of him although you are right it's not him. A buddy has played pool with him and said he was a safe dude.
Aye be safe to see you there.