I’ve been wanting to break my LoveDox hiatus for a long time, but I didn’t know it would take a gardening documentary with a religious twist to get me back to writing reviews. Paul Gautschi has been a gardener for 55 years. After years of working hard in his garden with little to show for [...]
Colin Beavan decided to live one year without having any negative impact on the environment. What does that mean? It means only buying local, not using anything disposable (including diapers, plastic containers and toilet paper!), not taking the elevator, only using public transportation, not using electricity and not producing any waste. All in a small [...]
The recent films we have been reviewing; “Collapse”, “The World According to Monstanto” and “Death of Suburbia” all deal with the end of the infinite growth paradigm. And while films such as “Food Inc.” shows some light at the end of the tunnel for food production, the Dutch film “Food = Waste” flips on a [...]
Also known as: “Le monde selon Monsanto” and “Controlling our food”. Monsanto, in case anybody was in doubt, is pretty far from winning the love of the people. Former producers of Agent Orange, they now produce pesticides and Genetically Modified seeds and growth hormones. They have a horrible record and seem to leave misery and [...]
Here’s a new formula for “issue” documentaries: 1. Find a sympathetic guy who went into “issue” with no preconceptions and expecting no wrong-doing 2. Get guy to describe how he was shocked to find that the things were much worse than imagined 3. Illustrate story with other interviews, if possible get wrong-doer to decline interviews [...]
A lovely short-doc about a guy with a passion: soda pop. John Nese runs a shop with over 500 kinds of pop and he’s exactly the guy you’d want to serve you when you can’t decide which of the 15 Cherry Cola brands is right for you. Lovely! Watch the film here: Youtube: 5 out [...]
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