<em>Minority Report</em> (Spielberg, 2002) — 10 Years Later
May 17, 2012 – 7:56 pm | No Comment

I listed Minority Report as my #1 film of 2002, and ten years later the thing I find most surprising about that fact is how brave I felt and counter-cultural I thought I was being. 

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Chicago (Marshall, 2002) — 10 Years Later
May 7, 2012 – 11:39 pm | No Comment

Chicago

Sometimes in doing these retrospectives, ten years seems like no time at all. At other times, it seems like forever. Read the full story »

Alberto Tihan Interview
April 19, 2012 – 3:30 pm | One Comment
Alberto Tihan Interview

“Make your own work.”

Italy Love It or Leave It (Hofer and Ragazzi, 2011)
April 11, 2012 – 12:29 am | No Comment
<em>Italy Love It or Leave It</em> (Hofer and Ragazzi, 2011)

Italy Love It or Leave It is a modest film, almost modest enough to work. 

The Waiting Room (Nicks, 2012)
April 10, 2012 – 4:14 pm | No Comment
<em>The Waiting Room</em> (Nicks, 2012)

Peter Nicks’s The Waiting Room is the sort of documentary that advocates on either side of the American health care debate could end up pointing at to bolster their ideological claims. 

Mr. Cao Goes to Washington (Chiang, 2012)
April 7, 2012 – 2:46 pm | No Comment
<em>Mr. Cao Goes to Washington</em> (Chiang, 2012)

“The Tea Party does not represent this district, I do.”

Turn Me on Dammit! (Jacobsen, 2011)
April 3, 2012 – 11:44 pm | No Comment
<em>Turn Me on Dammit!</em> (Jacobsen, 2011)

I think the thing that may disarm some viewers who are predisposed to dislike or be offended by Turn Me on Dammit! is that it isn’t really, truly, in the final analysis, about the sex. …

Surviving Progress (Roy & Crooks, 2012)
April 1, 2012 – 1:30 pm | No Comment
<em>Surviving Progress</em> (Roy & Crooks, 2012)

Six years after An Inconvenient Truth, it is depressing, maddening, and probably a little counter productive that the immanent global catastrophe film has become a genre unto itself. What’s the alternative, though, for those who see …