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'Strange Culture' Desconstructs Documentary Formnew

Lynn Hershman Leeson deconstructs the documentary form in Strange Culture, the Kafka-esque saga of Steve Kurtz, an artist whose work concerns biotechnology and GMO foods.

Orlando Weekly | Jessica Bryce Young | 09-27-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Strange Culture

'Prince of Peace — God of War' Asks Why Christians Support Warnew

While it may seem a distant, simple -- even annoying -- feast of hypothetical subject matter, the underlying question may be an open door into the religious right's base politics. Have they skipped Jesus and leapt straight to the Crusades?

Orlando Weekly | Billy Manes | 09-27-2007 | Reviews

Tags: John Campea, Prince of Peace — God of War

'Postcards From Tora Bora' Examines Kabul Then and Nownew

Kabul is a starkly different city than the flourishing, cosmopolitan center it once was. Osman’s film mixes childish cartoons with man-on-the-street footage to powerful effect.

Orlando Weekly | Bob Whitby | 09-27-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Postcards From Tora Bora, Wazhmah Osman

'New Urban Cowboy' Explores New Pedestrianismnew

New Urban Cowboy documents Michael Arth's valiant efforts and big dreams for the "neighborhood of the future" and provides a model not just of new developments, but new developers.

Orlando Weekly | Ian Monroe | 09-27-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Michael Arth, New Urban Cowboy

'Lillie & Leander: A Legacy of Violence' Explores Southern Paranoianew

What starts out looking like yet another story of a black man wronged by the racist powers-that-be in the early 20th-century Florida Panhandle emerges in the hands of director Jeffrey Morgan as a documentary that is as shocking as it is emotionally engaging.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 09-27-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Jeffrey Morgan, Lillie & Leander: A Legacy of Violence

'The Great Match' Presents a Nonpatronizing One-World Themenew

The Great Match is about the attempts of three far-flung groups to watch the the final match of the 2002 World Cup, going through motions both comical and extreme in their struggle to see the game.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 09-27-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Gerardo Olivares, The Great Match

'Election Day' Eschews the Conspiratorial for the Obviousnew

Katy Chevigny's enlightening documentary eschews the pretensions of voter-fraud overstatement in favor of a real-time portrait of actual poll-station shenanigans.

Orlando Weekly | Billy Manes | 09-27-2007 | Reviews

Tags: election day, Katy Chevigny

'Ballad' Shows the Dark Side of Supporting the Troopsnew

The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez documents the 1997 murder on the banks of the Rio Grande of a 17-year-old high-schooler, Esequiel Hernandez, who was shot by four undercover Marines while walking the family goats near his home in Redford, Texas.

Orlando Weekly | Lindy T. Shepherd | 09-27-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Kieran Fitzgerald, The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez

'Vanaja': More than Masalanew

Written and directed by Rajnesh Domalpalli as his graduate thesis at Columbia University, Vanaja is an engaging and shocking look at class, gender roles and sexuality in rural India.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 09-27-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Rajnesh Domalpalli, Vanaja

'Divided We Fall' Examines Sikhsnew

Kaur's first person perspective of the aftermath of 9/11 seems only intent on clearing up the misconceptions viewers may have had about Sikhs in America.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 09-27-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath, Valarie Kaur