Exploring the lives of Base jumpers.
An early novel by Arthur Miller becomes an outmoded message movie, set back in the Second World War to excuse its squareness, dealing with a middle-aged Presbyterian whose new spectacles make him "look Jewish." For some unapparent reason, his even newer blonde-bombshell wife (Laura Dern, a Marilyn Monroe figure, if …
Hen & Junior farm a secluded piece of land that has been in Junior’s family for generations, but their quiet life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal, and Aaron Pierre, Foe’s mesmerizing imagery and …
Errol Morris documentary, subtitled "Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara." It amounts to a sort of anti-war seminar chaired, hosted, conducted by the eighty-five-year-old former Secretary of Defense (a/k/a "Mac the Knife") throughout the first phase of the Vietnam War (a/k/a "McNamara's War"). What you think of …
British film noir, sufficiently nightmarish and fatalistic and grade-B to merit such classification, and shot in gloomy black-and-white to boot. The storyline, to do with an unemployed would-be writer who makes a practice of "shadowing" anonymous pedestrians for purposes of research, and who one day makes a mistake of shadowing …
The boys' sacred Friday-night poker game gets rocked as never before by the opposite sex: one of the regulars announces his engagement, another develops a hankering for the pizza delivery girl, and a cool blonde on a hot streak crashes the party. A smoothly operating joke machine, in spite of …
Trailblazing food writer and best-selling memoirist Ruth Reichl examines the precarious state of America’s food system. Reaching across political and social divides, she meets with small farmers, ranchers, and chefs risking it all to survive. Through Reichl’s eyes, we see the humanity and struggle behind the food we eat.
Agrochemical propaganda or a controversial look at "Food Evolution"?
Educational as well as motivational film about where our food comes from and where else we can turn. Documentarian Robert Kenner, guided largely by activist authors Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma), goes behind the persistent “pastoral fantasy” of agrarian America (“The reality is a …
Filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) to take a fresh look at our efficient yet vulnerable food system. Since the first film, multinational corporations have tightened their stronghold on the U.S. government. The system at …