Foreign Relations Film Festival

Two bloggers for Foreign Policy, Stephen Walt and Daniel Drezner, drew up lists of what they regard as the best movies ever made about international relations. Let me tell you it's barely worth looking at the original two lists when you could read this insightful response instead.

In case you do actually want to read the original lists, here they are: Walt's and Drezner's.

My favorite part of the original lists is when Walt gives an honorable mention credit to The Interpreter saying, "The Interpreter (not that good a movie, but how many films take place at the UN?)" That's my kind of logic, buddy. My husband, James, is a big fan of the UN with many Model UN conferences under his belt and the only other UN-related movie that he could think of was Winning London (Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen at a Model UN conference that makes The Interpreter look like Citizen Kane of UN movies). That being said, The Interpreter was not a good movie ...