The premise of “The Age of Stupid” is the following: Sometime in 2055 a custodian (played by Pete Postlethwaite) of a vast human culture library looks back on what went wrong: Why did we humans let Global Warming happen? Through 6 separate stories we get an international view on the effects of Global Warming and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Just like “The End of Suburbia”, “Collapse” deals with global oil depletion. What happens when we run out of the black gold? (hint: it won’t be pretty!) Director Chris Smith does so many things right with Collapse. It’s expertly structured and manages to swing the direction back and forth between “this guy is out of [...]
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 [...]
“Peak oil”, make a note of that term. It refers to the point when world oil production reaches its maximum. After that it’s downhill; downhill for putting gas on your car, downhill for fueling factories, downhill for suburbia, downhill for human society. “The End of Suburbia” manages to paint a convincing pictures of a not-so-far-future [...]
Can be seen January 6th in Denmark! More info on DOX:BIO. “Into Eternity” is like no other documentary you have ever seen. It’s a film that questions how we see the world and offers a peak into the far, far future. If “2001″ were a documentary, this would be it. When I saw the trailer [...]
A very political film with clear ideas about what’s right and what’s wrong about whaling. We get to know a small group of activists who want to expose the dolphin slaughters of Japan. The film is set up like a heist film – a team is put together, they have special tools, they sneak out [...]
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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