Hot Coffee (Saladoff, 2011)
Susan Saladoff's Hot Coffee is the documentary that Inside Job tried so hard to be, informative, educational about a complex subject without being reductive, partisan without being propaganda, and, ultimately, persuasive.
Category: Film Festivals
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Windfall (Israel, 2010)
Less of an indictment of wind energy companies (though it is that to some degree), Laura Israel's documentary is mostly an affirmation of the democratic process.
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John Sayles Interview
“You know, you can’t make a movie about war and occupation without it being about other wars and other occupations."
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Blue Valentine — 1More Podcast Episode 7c
In which Cindy helps Ken talk himself off the fence and into appreciating Blue Valentine. Also, when a film's characters seem to violate your personal moral beliefs, what the NC-17 film has in common with Easy A, and suggestions for how to get the most out of a film festival experience.
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Made in Dagenham — 1More Podcast Episode 7b
The film is as much about the relationships between these women and how they are ennobled and encouraged by one another as it is about their political struggles.
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Amigo — 1More Podcast Episode 7a
In Part II of our Toronto International Film Festival wrap up, Cindy and I discuss two political films--John Sayles's Amigo and Xavier Beauvois's Of Gods and Men--becoming a victim of your own success, and whether or not its fair to compare a director's films to his previous work instead of the rest of the playing field.
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Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow — 1More Podcast Episode 7
In Part I of our Toronto International Film Festival Wrap for 2010, Cynthia L. Morefield discusses space, grief, transformation, her favorite film of the festival and two films that have stuck in her memory. Today's primary focus is on the Sophie Fiennes documentary of Anselm Kiefer's work, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow.
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Anything You Want (Mañas, 2010)
Botto plays Leo, a Spanish lawyer with a wife, child, and healthy masculine disgust at all things homosexual. When his wife dies of a seizure and he can't bring himself to answer his daughter's pleas for a surrogate mom, he gradually begins dressing as the deceased mom to help the child cope.
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Tamara Drewe (Frears, 2010)
Stephen Frears's Tamara Drewe is essentially a Restoration sex comedy set in the English countryside.
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The Illusionist (Chomet, 2010)
So The Illusionist himself could be seen as a symbol of the traditional animator seeing his (or her) craft become a lost art.