If you've ever been trapped in a conversation with someone who's clearly intelligent, but has an unnerving obsession with lecturing you about the end of the world, you'll get a familiar feeling from watching Collapse. The documentary directed by Chris Smith is 80 minutes of Michael Ruppert sitting in a chair, smoking cigarettes and talking about the economy, energy policy, corrupt government interests, the mainstream media and the imminent end of the world as we know it (this is not an exaggeration). Putting aside the content of what he's saying, this documentary is ultimately disappointing because it does little to differentiate itself from the experience of seeing Ruppert simply sitting and giving a lecture.
The film is shot in a basement, with Ruppert the only clear thing in darkness. As he chain smokes cigarettes and tells the camera about everything from peak oil to the how he predicted the current financial crisis,...
The film is shot in a basement, with Ruppert the only clear thing in darkness. As he chain smokes cigarettes and tells the camera about everything from peak oil to the how he predicted the current financial crisis,...
- 6/23/2010
- by Brian Ronaghan
- JustPressPlay.net
With the Gulf of Mexico oil spill still in the headlines, I thought it fitting this week to watch some documentaries about that troublesome black liquid known as petroleum. I'm sure that one day we'll get a film or three specifically about Bp's Deepwater Horizon disaster, and I'm also looking forward to the HBO premiere of the relevant, critically acclaimed Sundance-winner GasLand on June 21 (our own Jette enjoyed the film at the Marfa Film Festival), but for now let me share some thoughts on two very different yet similarly titled docs involving oil, Basil Gepke and Ray McCormack's A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash and Joe Berlinger's Crude.
I'll start with the former, which was released earlier (in 2006) and which is by far the weaker of the two. Honestly, I'm not sure how the film garnered so many positive reviews, as well as awards from multiple film festivals...
I'll start with the former, which was released earlier (in 2006) and which is by far the weaker of the two. Honestly, I'm not sure how the film garnered so many positive reviews, as well as awards from multiple film festivals...
- 5/27/2010
- by Christopher Campbell
- Cinematical
Believe it or not, Mongrel Media, a Canadian film distributor, puts its products on iTunes. Moreover, as far as I know, downloading a film on iTunes is legal. The following is the list of some films and there are Canadian films among them.
Canadian Feature films:
* Away from Her.
* Breakfast with Scot.
* Cairo Time.
* Growing Op.
* How She Move.
* Love & Savagery.
* Nurse.Fighter.Boy.
* One Week.
Foreign feature films:
* Mary and Max.
* The Narrows (2008).
* Scenes of a Sexual Nature.
* Wendy and Lucy.
Documentaries:
* Big River Man.
* Blood on the Flat Track.
* The Corporation.
* A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash.
* Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.
* Flow: For Love of Water.
* Garbage Warrior.
Canadian Feature films:
* Away from Her.
* Breakfast with Scot.
* Cairo Time.
* Growing Op.
* How She Move.
* Love & Savagery.
* Nurse.Fighter.Boy.
* One Week.
Foreign feature films:
* Mary and Max.
* The Narrows (2008).
* Scenes of a Sexual Nature.
* Wendy and Lucy.
Documentaries:
* Big River Man.
* Blood on the Flat Track.
* The Corporation.
* A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash.
* Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.
* Flow: For Love of Water.
* Garbage Warrior.
- 2/5/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Part 2: From Andrew Sachs to Harry Potter
Andrew Sachs Sent the Beeb into cautious compliance meltdown
If Manuel had bothered to pick up his phone, Ross and Brand wouldn't have been tempted to leave their naughty messages, the Daily Mail wouldn't have been able to work itself up into a hypocritical moralistic lather, thousands of people who'd never heard the original show wouldn't have rung in to complain, Russell Brand would still have his Radio 2 show instead of Alan bleedin' Carr, and the BBC wouldn't get all jumpy every time Frankie Boyle made jokes about the Queen's fanny. See Also The Satanic Slut
Steve Jobs Killed the album with his zero-attention-span 'apps'
It was supposed to be so easy. Get your CDs, rip them in to iTunes, put them on your iPod. Then, whenever a latent desire to listen to Reo Speedwagon arose you could sate it right away.
Andrew Sachs Sent the Beeb into cautious compliance meltdown
If Manuel had bothered to pick up his phone, Ross and Brand wouldn't have been tempted to leave their naughty messages, the Daily Mail wouldn't have been able to work itself up into a hypocritical moralistic lather, thousands of people who'd never heard the original show wouldn't have rung in to complain, Russell Brand would still have his Radio 2 show instead of Alan bleedin' Carr, and the BBC wouldn't get all jumpy every time Frankie Boyle made jokes about the Queen's fanny. See Also The Satanic Slut
Steve Jobs Killed the album with his zero-attention-span 'apps'
It was supposed to be so easy. Get your CDs, rip them in to iTunes, put them on your iPod. Then, whenever a latent desire to listen to Reo Speedwagon arose you could sate it right away.
- 12/12/2009
- The Guardian - Film News
Dan Wolman's Tied Hands, the account of a mother and her son who is dying of AIDS, was named best feature film at the 12th annual Palm Beach International Film Festival, which wrapped Thursday.
Nicole van Kilsdonk was hailed as best feature film director for the comedy Johan, while the award for best screenplay went to Scott Dacko for The Insurgents, starring Henry Simmons, John Shea and Mary Stuart Masterson.
Two performers were recognized with an award for best performance in a feature film: Christopher Plummer for Man in the Chair and Gila Almagor for Tied Hands.
A special jury prize for best feature went to Maurice Richard/The Rocket. In addition the jury chose to recognize the cast of Adrift in Manhattan, which includes Heather Graham, William Baldwin, Dominic Chianese, Victor Rasuk and Graham Gremm with a special ensemble award for their "mesmerizing and haunting performances."
Ray McCormack's A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash was named best documentary feature. Lawrence Walsh's Cold Kenya took the prize for best short film.
Audience choice awards were presented to Evan Lieberman's Kathie T., best feature film; Logan Smalley's Darius Goes West - The Roll of His Life, best documentary feature; and Ziv Alexandrony's And Behold, There Came a Great Wind, best short film.
Nicole van Kilsdonk was hailed as best feature film director for the comedy Johan, while the award for best screenplay went to Scott Dacko for The Insurgents, starring Henry Simmons, John Shea and Mary Stuart Masterson.
Two performers were recognized with an award for best performance in a feature film: Christopher Plummer for Man in the Chair and Gila Almagor for Tied Hands.
A special jury prize for best feature went to Maurice Richard/The Rocket. In addition the jury chose to recognize the cast of Adrift in Manhattan, which includes Heather Graham, William Baldwin, Dominic Chianese, Victor Rasuk and Graham Gremm with a special ensemble award for their "mesmerizing and haunting performances."
Ray McCormack's A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash was named best documentary feature. Lawrence Walsh's Cold Kenya took the prize for best short film.
Audience choice awards were presented to Evan Lieberman's Kathie T., best feature film; Logan Smalley's Darius Goes West - The Roll of His Life, best documentary feature; and Ziv Alexandrony's And Behold, There Came a Great Wind, best short film.
- 4/27/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Get big and go green where the two messages coming out of this year's MIPDOC, the annual two-day international nonfiction confab held in Cannes ahead of this week's MIPTV.
The Oscar-winning success of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth has set off a wave of environmental docs that are heating up the international marketplace.
Among them is the ambitious Earth From Above series from France Television Distribution, which uses high-definition technology and satellite imaging to trace environmental degradation; and the green game show "Wa$ted! Waging War on Waste" from the U.K.'s All3Media, in which contestants compete to see who can best reduce their family's environmental impact.
MIPDOC featured a virtual flood of documentaries on the global thirst for oil and the harrowing environmental consequences. Germany's Telepool is selling the award-winning Swiss doc A Crude Awaking: The Oil Crash, France's Tele Images International features 2013-Oil No More and Australia's ABC is hawking Crude, a 90-minute attack on the international oil business.
"Environmental issues are on everyone's lips since 'An Inconvenient Truth, ' " said Bettina Oebel, head of documentary sales at German United Distributor. "The producers and broadcasters are scrambling to develop shows and programs to meet the need."
Many of the hottest global warming titles at the market also are the most ambitious. FTD's Earth cost 1 million ($1.4 million) per episode. New Zealand's TVNZ and National Geographic Television International are shopping around the four-part mega series Ocean, which will be produced by Barrie Osborne, one of the producers behind The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The Oscar-winning success of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth has set off a wave of environmental docs that are heating up the international marketplace.
Among them is the ambitious Earth From Above series from France Television Distribution, which uses high-definition technology and satellite imaging to trace environmental degradation; and the green game show "Wa$ted! Waging War on Waste" from the U.K.'s All3Media, in which contestants compete to see who can best reduce their family's environmental impact.
MIPDOC featured a virtual flood of documentaries on the global thirst for oil and the harrowing environmental consequences. Germany's Telepool is selling the award-winning Swiss doc A Crude Awaking: The Oil Crash, France's Tele Images International features 2013-Oil No More and Australia's ABC is hawking Crude, a 90-minute attack on the international oil business.
"Environmental issues are on everyone's lips since 'An Inconvenient Truth, ' " said Bettina Oebel, head of documentary sales at German United Distributor. "The producers and broadcasters are scrambling to develop shows and programs to meet the need."
Many of the hottest global warming titles at the market also are the most ambitious. FTD's Earth cost 1 million ($1.4 million) per episode. New Zealand's TVNZ and National Geographic Television International are shopping around the four-part mega series Ocean, which will be produced by Barrie Osborne, one of the producers behind The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
- 4/16/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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