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NOTHING COMPARES

September 21, 2022 By 1 Comment

NOTHING COMPARES

It is high time for a re-appraisal of Sinéad O’Connor. Now best remembered with a tinge of distaste for tearing up a picture of the Pope on “Saturday Night Live” in 1992, the singer is the focus of Kathryn Ferguson’s documentary, NOTHING COMPARES. Centering on O’Connor’s precipitous rise to stardom at barely 21 to the… Read More »

Tagged With: Catholic Church, child abuse, controversy, Ireland, misogyny, music industry, patriarchy, Prince, Saturday Night Live

WE ARE AS GODS

August 10, 2022 By Leave a Comment

WE ARE AS GODS

WE ARE AS GODS, the telling of the remarkable life during interesting times of Stewart Brand, does not fall into the trap of hagiography. Mostly. It is hard not to fall under the spell of someone who, as one talking head puts it, has been at the right place at the right time so often… Read More »

Tagged With: American chestnut, counter culture, de-extinction, ecology movement, green technology, Haight Ashbury, LSD, Whole Earth Catalog, Whole Earth Review, woolly mammoth

FIRE OF LOVE

July 23, 2022 By 1 Comment

FIRE OF LOVE

Dosa infuses her story with a dash of the mythic, honoring her subjects who came to see volcanoes in mythic terms despite being rigorous scientists. There is more here than can be explained in merely factual terms.

Tagged With: lava, Mount St. Helens, pyroclastic flow, sentient lava, thermal suit, volcano, volcanolgists

RISE AGAIN: TULSA AND THE RED SUMMER

June 18, 2021 By Leave a Comment

RISE AGAIN: TULSA AND THE RED SUMMER

Anticipating the centennial of the Tulsa race riots and massacre in 1921, Dawn Porter wanted to do more that remember that criminally ignored chapter in American history. The resulting documentary, RISE AGAIN: TULSA AND THE RED SUMMER, recounts a part of our history that had, similarly, been ignored by all but the survivors, and their… Read More »

Tagged With: DeNeen Brown, Elaine Massacre, lynching, racism, Red Summer, Tulsa Race Riot and Massacre

BREWMANCE

April 11, 2021 By Leave a Comment

BREWMANCE

There could have been no better way for Christo Brock to start BREWMANCE, his documentary love letter to craft beer, than with Jim Koch of the Boston Beer Company. It’s not just that he pioneered craft beer as a commercial venture, and that he was so passionate about it that he personally canvassed bars, sometimes… Read More »

Tagged With: barley, craft beer, homebrew, hops, malt, microbrewery, small business

FRANCESCO

March 26, 2021 By Leave a Comment

FRANCESCO

Click  here to listen to the flashback interview with Evgeny Afineevsky for CRIES FROM SYRIA. FRANCESCO can be classified as a hagiography of Pope Frances. Certainly, what Evgeny Afineevsky shows us of His Holiness is a man of great faith and great, notably ecumenical, compassion. Even when Frances makes a blunder about the sexual abuse… Read More »

Tagged With: clerical sexual abuse, climate change, climate crisis, LGBTQ, papacy, pope, Refugees, social justice, Vatican

A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX

February 2, 2021 By Leave a Comment

A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX

By the end of Rodney Ascher’s A GLITCH IN THE MATIX, you may well be questioning the definition of reality. That, of course, is part of his point. Bur far from a light-hearted romp about the fringe-ish theories that posit our living in a computer simulation, Ascher is interested in more than the Mandela Effect,… Read More »

Tagged With: alternate reality, animation, avatar, base reality, computer simulation, Elon Musk, GANS, Philip K. Dick, sensory deprivation, The Matrix, Third Eye

ALABAMA SNAKE

December 6, 2020 By Leave a Comment

ALABAMA SNAKE

Filmmaker Theo Love wisely begins ALABAMA SNAKE with the only part of this lurid tale of religion, sex, and booze that is not in dispute. That would be when two paramedics drive down a dark country road, on October 4, 1991, sirens and flashing lights off, only to find Darlene Summerford stumbling towards them, clutching… Read More »

Tagged With: Alabama, attempted murder, belief, documentary, Pentecosts, rattlesnake, snake handler, Theo Love, venomous snakes

BELUSHI

November 22, 2020 By Leave a Comment

BELUSHI

Click here for the flashback interview with RJ Cutler for THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE. Early on in R.J. Cutler’s documentary, BELUSHI, Harold Ramis talks about John Belushi’s enormous appetites for everything. It would be his downfall, the appetite for drugs, that is, but Cutler smartly focuses on the other appetites, the enormous ambition, and also the… Read More »

Tagged With: drugs, John Belushi, Saturday Night Live, The Blue Brothers

TRUTH IS THE ONLY CLIENT: THE OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION OF THE MURDER OF JOHN F. KENNEDY

November 21, 2020 By Leave a Comment

TRUTH IS THE ONLY CLIENT: THE OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION OF THE MURDER OF JOHN F. KENNEDY

Full disclosure. I spend every November 22nd watching Oliver Stone’s JFK. Partly because it is so visually arresting, partly for the compelling story, and partly for the nostalgia I have for my childhood home of New Orleans. It doesn’t matter that I knew even before first seeing it that Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner in full… Read More »

Tagged With: JFK, Kennedy Assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, Ruth Paine, Vincent Bugliosi, Warren Commission

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