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Documentaries Don't Get More Compelling Than 'The Cove'new

The Cove is one of the best documentaries of 2009. It deserves an audience for its aesthetic beauty alone. But the film, like almost every issue-driven doc, lacks much-needed nuance, and audiences should remember to approach anything set out to manipulate their heartstrings with a decent level of skepticism.
New York Press  |  David Berke  |  07-31-2009  |  Reviews

'Unmistaken Child' Crawls Toward Enlightenmentnew

This documentary is a full-immersion glimpse into the ancient traditions of Buddhist reincarnation and one that no filmmaker has ever before explored with this level of freedom and insight.
Austin Chronicle  |  Marc Savlov  |  07-30-2009  |  Reviews

'Unmistaken Child' Depicts an Unquestionably Fascinating Love Storynew

Unmistaken Child is one of the strangest romance films I've ever seen. It tells, in documentary form, the story of Tenzin Zopa, a disciple of Geshe Lama Konchog.
Tucson Weekly  |  James DiGiovanna  |  07-23-2009  |  Reviews

'Outrage' Explores a Caucus of Closetsnew

Our tabloid culture loves to know who's doing who and where. But is this exposure -- often made at the expense of one's privacy -- a social imperative? In the case of closeted homosexual politicians who vote against gay issues, Kirby Dick would say yes.
Boise Weekly  |  Jeremiah Wierenga  |  07-22-2009  |  Reviews

Grotesqueries In Our Groceriesnew

Food, Inc. may not uncover any new information, but it's a stomach-turning indictment of the unnatural American diet.
SEE Magazine  |  Luke De Smet  |  07-17-2009  |  Reviews

Norwegian Death Metal Doc 'Until the Light Takes Us' Aims High(brow)new

Norwegian death metal is a fascinatingly dark corner of the musician-as-fanatic landscape. Until the Light Takes Us is an attempt to create the definitive film on the subject, but directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell instead offer a passive, jumpy synopsis that's more artsy than insightful.
SF Weekly  |  Jennifer Maerz  |  07-08-2009  |  Reviews

Robert Kenner Talks Cloned Meats, Big Agribusiness and 'Food, Inc.'new

Kenner is no stranger to controversial subjects. He won an Emmy for his 2005 "Two Days in October," which examined the domestic response to the Vietnam War during the turbulent fall of 1967. Kenner runs into a even more volatile subject with his new documentary, Food, Inc., an investigate peek into America's big agribusinesses and meat and poultry industries.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Bret McCabe  |  07-07-2009  |  Profiles & Interviews

This Year's Rock Documentaries Are Funny, Moving, Exciting and Tragicnew

This year's crop of rock docs bring us talkes about Arthur Russell, the Monks, the '80s New Haven punk scene, the Hold Steady and Scott Walker.
New Haven Advocate  |  John Adamian, Christopher Arnott and Brianna Snyder  |  06-30-2009  |  Movies

'Food, Inc.': Appetite Suppressantnew

Doomsday opening aside, Food, Inc. largely forgoes bombast, but you don't need the pictures to get the drift here, which is, more or less, that the American food industry is pretty much fucked.
Austin Chronicle  |  Kimberley Jones  |  06-26-2009  |  Reviews

'Burma VJ' is a Journalistic Masterpiecenew

This gripping doc makes an airtight argument for the absolute necessity of a free press, and it should be required viewing for anyone thinking of becoming any kind of journalist.
Austin Chronicle  |  Marc Savlov  |  06-26-2009  |  Reviews

'Every Little Step' Is a Life-Affirming Look at Performancenew

Every Little Step, the absorbing documentary about the 2006 revival of the Broadway hit A Chorus Line — in other words, a movie about the casting of a musical that's about actors auditioning for a musical — is a rabbit hole well worth tumbling down.
The Memphis Flyer  |  Addison Engelking  |  06-26-2009  |  Reviews

'Objectified''s Subjects Plot a User-Friendly Universenew

Gary Hustwit's Objectified is more an appreciation than a critique of something utterly ubiquitous -- in this case product design -- and a few stellar personalities behind it.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Dennis Harvey  |  06-24-2009  |  Reviews

'Food, Inc.': Michael Pollan Tells Us How to Eatnew

Problem is, no matter how much many viewers will (inevitably) agree with all the eat-local, food-miles, and change-big-agribusiness arguments here, we've already had a stomachful from prior books and films. Who else is this movie trying to reach?
Seattle Weekly  |  Brian Miller  |  06-22-2009  |  Reviews

'Food, Inc.' Reveals Hidden Costs on the Menunew

Of all the scary food documentaries, Food, Inc. proves the most powerful and the most neatly packaged. Overall, it serves as a resounding call to action that holds out hope for the future. In the short-term, its perspective on food calls to mind an old quip by Rodney Dangerfield: "At my house, we pray after we eat."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta)  |  Curt Holman  |  06-18-2009  |  Reviews

New Documentary Pays Tribute to Concert Posters Throughout the Decadesnew

Four years ago, as she was working a "cushy corporate television job," Merle Becker (former MTV staffer and founder of indie film company FreakFilms) stumbled across The Art of Modern Rock, a then newly published coffee-table book of rock posters. She says she was "blown away."
East Bay Express  |  Catherine Plato  |  06-17-2009  |  Profiles & Interviews

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