Three Windows into the Same Room: Documenting the Global Economic Crisis
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The Indypendent
Capitalism: A Love Story Directed By Michael Moore Overture films, 2009 American Casino Directed By Leslie Cockburn Table Rock…
REVIEW: Crips and Bloods: Made In America
By Charlie Bass Struggling to balance the modes of entertainment and enlightenment that so many documentaries face, Stacy Peralta’s…
FILM REVIEW: Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country
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A modest, lean, thoroughly engrossing independent feature by co-directors Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou, Take Out follows one day…
Going For The Kill: A review of “Surrender”
Of the various war-related media focusing on the experiences of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, few can offer the immediacy…
Teen Stories: A Review of “Paranoid Park”
Paranoid Park Directed by Gus Van Sant MK2 Productions, 2007 One of the great joys of filmgoing these last…
Transcendental Misanthropy: A Review of “There Will be Blood”
There Will Be Blood Directed by P.T. Anderson Ghoulardi Film Company, Paramount Vantage, and Miramax, 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson’…
In Apple’s popular iMovie program, there’s a feature called “The Ken Burns Effect” that zooms and pans across still…
The Insurgents Directed by Scott Danko Angel Baby Entertainment, 2007 If Scott Danko’s film The Insurgents showed even the…
The Boom Generation: A Review of the Film “The Bubble”
The Bubble is playing at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas until Sept. 20. There are not a lot of movies being…