When Tim Burton was shopping around his idea for THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, animation was not considered a viable product for the big screen, at least not outside kiddie flicks. Even with the success of his dark and moody Batman franchise, even with the quirky but wildly romantic EDWARD SCISSORHANDS under his belt, and BEETLEJUICE,… Read More »
CRUDE
Click here to listen to the interview with Joe Berlinger (17:47).The best moment in Joe Berlingers documentary CRUDE is when a slick Florida lawyer, attempting to make Chevrons case that it isnt responsible for the environmental catastrophe in the Ecuadorian Amazon mis-speaks. Eduardo Reis Veiga is going over, point-by-point, how Chevron cleaned up the jungle.… Read More »
BURMA VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
BURMA VJ is a riveting cinema verite-style documentary that uses its rough-and-tumble covert camera work to its advantage. Covering the popular uprisings in Burma in 2007 that began as a protest against the doubling of fuel prices and grew so quickly and so virulently that the oppressive military regime saw itself as being threatened by… Read More »
THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE
At the very start of THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE, Anna Wintour, Editor-in Chief of Vogue, and arbiter of what is and what is not fashion in an industry worth serious millions of dollars annually, opines that people who sneer at fashion are actually afraid of it. Beneath her immaculately sculpted and highlighted bob, perfectly applied make-up,… Read More »
EARTH DAYS
Its not like the environmental crisis snuck up on us, a point made in the opening montage of Robert Stones documentary, EARTH DAYS. Starting with John F. Kennedy, ending with George W. Bush, and with every president in between, the looming consequences of living out of harmony with nature are expounded forcefully and with dire,… Read More »
OCEANS
Disneynature’s OCEANS, the follow-up to its earlier EARTH, does a very clever thing by way of getting across its environmentalist message. Instead of hitting the audience over the head with disturbing, heartbreaking images of animals being exterminated in all manner of unpleasant ways by actions of an indifferent humankind, it presents all the equally emotional… Read More »
I’M STILL HERE — THE LOST YEARS OF JOAQUIN PHOENIX
IM STILL HERE: THE LOST YEARS OF JOAQUIN PHOENIX begins as yet another chronicle of celebrity excess and self-indulgence and ends in jaw-dropping excursion into the self-destruction of a once-respected artist. Its one that is all-access, with brother-in-law Casey Affleck recording the pivotal moments of a year in turmoil, the year Phoenix announced his retirement… Read More »
KINGS OF PASTRY
With KINGS OF PASTRY, master documentarians D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus turn their camera onto Frances Meilluer Ouvrier de France competition, and in observing this esoteric discipline, pastry-making at a level of accomplishment that is a marvel of refinement, reveals more than the best way to spin sugar or to recover from a seemingly insurmountable… Read More »
KINGS OF PASTRY – DVD
In KINGS OF PASTRY, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus took the subject of pastry-making at the highest, most refined levels, and showed us a world of artists heretofore unsung by most of us who are only too happy to pop a petit four or a truffle into our mouths for a moments delight. The filmmakers,… Read More »
FORKS OVER KNIVES
FORKS OVER KNIVES is not a sophisticated piece of filmmaking, but it is a very effective one. Filmmaker Lee Fulkerson was not out to make art. He was out to engage in advocacy journalism, the which he does with great success, balancing facts, theories, and case studies, his own included, in pursuit of teaching his… Read More »
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