Posts Tagged ‘historical’

“Photograph Of Jesus” (2009) – Review #24

Fantastic short doc aimed at showing the breadth and depth of Getty’s Hulton Archive. The challenge for this director has been “how can you show photographs that don’t exist?” Watch the short below and witness the amazing solution to this challenge.

Youtube: 5 stars (137 reviews) / 7 minutes
Directed by: Laurie Hill

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“Kim” (2009) – Review #12

A beautiful film about the Danish member of the resistance during World War II, Kim Malthe-Bruun. The film is remarkable in that it portrays a lover, more than a fighter. In Denmark Kim is relatively well-known as his letters have been studied in school since the war. His letters and diary entries are full or [...]

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“The Shock Doctrine” (2009) – Review #11

Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, who have previously worked on “The Road to Guantanamo”, cast their attention on the work of Naomi Klein. We are in anti-Bush and anti-capitalism territory… which could get boring because we have seen it so many times. All my Red Flags go up with the fast pace of the editing [...]

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“Vashti Bunyan: From Here to Before” (2008) – Review #6

Vashti Bunyan is a singer/song-writer with an interesting story. As a young woman she made a beautiful album and was then forgotten for 30 years. Freak-folk artists like Devendra Banhart and Vetiver brought her back from oblivion  a few years ago and Bunyan is now making music again. She is very delicate, soft-spoken and gentle [...]

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“Arena: Bob Marley Exodus” (2007) – Review #5

I like Bob Marley and so does the director of this film. The film is a portrait of the album “Exodus” and of the year it was made, 1977. Unfortunately it’s also a weak film – it’s exceptionally difficult to understand Bob’s dialect and with no sub-titles most of the audience lost the central points [...]

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