tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post410020856250542553..comments2024-03-08T04:06:20.301-05:00Comments on TrustMovies: A sad, shocking education: Maria Iliou's SMYRNA: A Cosmopolitan City, 1900-1922TrustMovieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01130460547029155342noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post-13379174246543240692018-09-05T17:57:53.703-04:002018-09-05T17:57:53.703-04:00Hi, Angela--
I just looked on Amazon USA but could...Hi, Angela--<br />I just looked on Amazon USA but could find no trace of the film. Nor on YouTube, except as a short trailer. I would suggest trying to locate and reach its director, Maria Iliou. Look for her page on Wikipedia and see if you can find a way to reach her. She certainly would have a copy of the film and/or know how your could somehow view it. Good luck!<br />--Jim@TrustMoviesTrustMovieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01130460547029155342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post-64913958887944942362018-09-05T11:19:09.658-04:002018-09-05T11:19:09.658-04:00Having just read Giles Milton's 'Paradise ...Having just read Giles Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Smyrna 1922, I am really eager to source a copy of this film.<br />I live in the UK, can anybody help?<br />Angela D <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06316031949116548689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post-75339755664780677502014-05-10T23:01:29.998-04:002014-05-10T23:01:29.998-04:00Many thanks for highlighting the film! Many thanks for highlighting the film! Alex K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00935147697651384795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post-60517929875699542472013-04-17T16:28:40.098-04:002013-04-17T16:28:40.098-04:00Clearly, this movie is stirring up some shit. Alwa...Clearly, this movie is stirring up some shit. Always "anonymously," of course. I don't know quite what to make of the above comment. But anyway, thanks for the mention of East Roumelia (or East Rumelia) which I knew nothing of but now do, having looked it up and read a bit about it. <br /><br />Movies have so much to teach us -- and so, it seems do some of the folk who comment on this blog. Thanks! (But I am still not sure what a "nigrasiate" is, if you'd care to define that term....)TrustMovieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01130460547029155342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post-86822249422612272262013-04-17T09:57:11.413-04:002013-04-17T09:57:11.413-04:00Bristol Commission found atrocities by Greece in 1...Bristol Commission found atrocities by Greece in 1919 Smyrna. Constantinople offered control of Black Sea but offended comitata that rapes East Roumelia. Greeks went to Smyrna and Alexandria because of 1893 national bankruptcy. Trojans were Hittites like Solomon's mom. Send islamosoviet nigrasiates back as kebabs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post-30216755506236271472013-04-06T16:37:07.178-04:002013-04-06T16:37:07.178-04:00Perhaps the Turks are getting blamed, Anonymous, b...Perhaps the Turks are getting blamed, Anonymous, because they were the ones who handled the actual slaughter. Not "humanity," but the Turks who did the deed. You gonna blame the Brits for the Turks' genocide of the Armenians, too? I hope not.<br /><br />Sure, there is always a behind-the-scenes story, and you are right about some of what you say. But the movie does allude to this, as I point out in the review with my nod to the "Great Powers" working behind the scenes. I suppose the film could have included ALL these facts that you mention, but that would have been another movie, and a much longer one, too.<br /><br />Those "same games of concealment" you mention are the reason for the existence of Wiki-leaks and their like, and also a reason to keep the internet as free and fair as possible. We shall see how well that works out....<br /><br />Thanks for commenting, though I do wish more of you would use your real names.TrustMovieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01130460547029155342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post-72951110497435776062013-04-06T00:51:18.781-04:002013-04-06T00:51:18.781-04:00The Brit empire which set the whole thing in motio...The Brit empire which set the whole thing in motion is completely left out. A few glimpses of David Lloyd-George, but that's it. The money for guns to Nationalists in the Balkans gets not one mention. The oil in Basra which put the Ottoman Empire in their sights to begin with gets not one mention. The fact the Brits wanted what the Turks had gets not one mention. The fact the Brits set the Greeks up in their quest gets not one mention. That they were setting up the Arabs in the same quest further south gets not one mention. Yet, all that is documented by historians not interviewed in the film. Oh yes, David Lloyd-George, a hapless career politician from Wales. And, just who might he taking arrows for? <br /><br />Meanwhile, the same games of concealment of real cause and effect are played today on Metropolitan types all over including NYC sophisticates. It is right to show this film to NYC audiences today. But, I am not sure what they are going to learn from it to apply to the world that is being taken from them. The real games that set the whole thing in motion are left out. Yet, they are still being played unseen by filmmakers and certainly these historians (although some of them might know what they are doing). Orwell said it is what is left out that is the biggest lie. There is a big lie left out of this movie while "humanity" or Turks get blamed. Brits then "ruling the waves" had nothing to do with it...Bankers and war materiel lobbyists had nothing to do with it...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com