Jonathan Franzen writes most convincingly about love when writing about birds. In 2010, his love for them inspired a New Yorker essay that followed a band of activists called the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (Cabs) to trapping sites around the Mediterranean. Cabs's mission is to fight south-European poachers, who every year illegally slaughter millions of migrant songbirds for food, money, and sport. Franzen's essay, "Emptying the Skies," describes in stomach-churning detail the poachers' methods of capture, and now that essay has inspired Douglas and Roger Kass's poignant documentary.
Like the essay, the film takes the side of the activists. It introduces us to Andrea Rutigliano, th...
Like the essay, the film takes the side of the activists. It introduces us to Andrea Rutigliano, th...
- 4/22/2015
- Village Voice
Emptying The Skies Music Box Films Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: B+ Director: Douglas Kass, Roger Kass Cast: Peter Berthold, Sergio Coen Tanugi, David Conlin, Jonathan Franzen, Martin Hellicar, Alex Heyd, Axel Hirschfeld, Piero Liberati, Andrea Rutigliano Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 4/15/15 Opens: April 22, 2015 Everyone should take an eco-vacation in Costa Rica where you can admire birds like the Toucan, the Tricolored Heron, the Pinnated Bitron, and a hundred other species. You’ll probably think: beautiful birds like these are lucky. They will never be eaten by human beings. That’s true in Costa Rica where environmental laws protecting the woodlands are strictly [ Read More ]
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- 4/17/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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