Milford Thomas CLAIRE is a subtle and bewitching work of art in which innocence has the same driving force and emotional impact as the cynical irony of so many contemporary films. This is a silent film made in the 21st century that captures that genre with a startling accuracy and a palpable reverence. Further, it… 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 »
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 »
CHESS PLAYER, THE
Connoisseurs of first-rate filmmaking, silent or talking, should drop everything and find Raymond Bernard’s THE CHESS PLAYER. This French classic from 1927 has been newly released on video and DVD by Milestone, purveyor of some of the finest films ever made. The time is 1776 during the Russian occupation of Poland. While that may seem… 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
SOMETIMES IN APRIL
In SOMETIMES IN APRIL, Raoul Peck (Lumumba), has taken the specific story of the Rwandan genocide of April 1994 and made manifest the universal implications of the events. There is plenty of culpability to go around and Peck is not shy about pointing fingers, but he is also not shy about pointing up the greater… 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 »
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