Peter Bowen at FilmInFocus pointed me towards this striking Roger Ebert piece entitled “Death Panels: A Most Excellent Phrase.” Weighing in on the current health reform debate from the perspective of a man who has endured several life-threatening illnesses and operations in recent years, Ebert illustrates his article with images and film clips from a movie that shows us what a real death panel would actually be like.

From Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc: