Last fall, when I saw William Gazeckis intriguing documentary, CROP CIRCLES: QUEST FOR TRUTH, I came away wanting to see more. Now that CIRCLES is out on DVD, I get my wish. Though, to be honest, I still want to see more, but then Gazecki has found a topic that is endlessly fascinating and seemingly… Read More »
WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE
I don’t usually hold with films made by committee. They tend to be a study in the blandness of desperation to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Not so with WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE, made by The Video Activist Network, a collective of left-leaning committed filmmakers. The reason is that this particular way of filmmaking… Read More »
THE CORPORATION
Fans of conspiracy theories will be sorely disappointed by the incisive and disconcerting documentary, THE CORPORATION. Whatever dark and paranoid fantasies that contingent has spun over the years about a secret cabal running the world, the facts that filmmakers Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbot and Joel Bakan bring to the screen are worse. Instead of a… Read More »
LIVE NUDE GIRLS UNITE!
Heres an interesting question for you. Suppose youd taken a part-time job to help pay the bills as you raise a kid as a single parent or to put yourself through school. Once on the job, you find out that youre scheduled for shifts based on your hair color. How would you react? How about… Read More »
RIVERS AND TIDES: ANDY GOLDSWORTHY WORKING WITH TIME
May the powers that be bless the Roxie Theater in San Francisco, that fine institution that rescued RED ROCK WEST from direct-to-video oblivion. Now the programmers there have discovered RIVERS AND TIDES, Andy Goldsworthy WORKING WITH TIME, a poetic documentary about the work of that artist whose works balance effortlessly the line between static and… Read More »
TREMBLING BEFORE G-D
Sandi Dubowskis sensitive and intelligent documentary, TREMBLING BEFORE G-D takes an intimate look at lesbian and gay Orthodox and Hassidic Jews who do not want to turn their back on their religion. Unfortunately, their religion turns its back on them with such abrupt finality, that one can only marvel at the tenacity of faith and conviction… Read More »
THE HUNTING OF THE PRESIDENT
After the brouhaha of Whitewater, Monica, and the impeachment had subsided with the end of Bill Clinton’s eight years as president, authors Joe Conason and Gene Lyons revisited the allegations in a dense, fascinating book, ‘The Hunting of the President”, that in four hundred or so pages dissected with stunning clarity just how vast and… Read More »
HELL HOUSE
George Ratliffs HELL HOUSE is a disturbing, fascinating documentary about the non-traditional house of horrors dreamed up by TrinityChurch in Cedar Hill, Texas. Over a decade old, the Halloween attraction doesnt have vampires and ghosts, instead vivid scenes of people committing sins and being dragged to Hell by demons are played out for paying patrons who… Read More »
AN UNREASONABLE MAN: RALPH NADER, HOW DO YOU DEFINE A LEGACY?
There is no doubt that Ralph Nader has been one of the most influential private citizens of the 20th century. Before he got riled up about it, car safety was optional as far as manufacturers were concerned, environmental degradation was the province of wild-eyed counterculture radicals, and food safety was an illusion. By being AN… Read More »
ROVING MARS
What Disney does better than anyone else out there, and has for fifty years, is take real-life science and fill it with all the wonder that the people involved feel for it. ROVING MARS is a prime example. This 40-minute documentary about exploring the red planet for signs of life, past or present, with the… Read More »
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