Posts tagged as “Ridley Scott”

What makes for a good life: Scott’s ‘A Good Year’

By Bert Olivier on 30 October 2017

On the way to and back from Tokyo, I treated myself on two viewings (after seeing it once, I could not resist watching it again)…

Ecosocialism can rescue us from ecocatastrophe

By Bert Olivier on 3 May 2016

In Ridley Scott’s recent film, The Martian, there is a scene near the end that sums up the often ignored value of the earth. Astronaut…

Guns, patriarchy and violence against women

By Bert Olivier on 9 March 2013

In Ridley Scott’s (for a male director) astonishingly feminist film, Thelma and Louise (1991), there is a scene-sequence that graphically captures the indissoluble connection between…