Category: Film
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An Inconvenient Truth, and a Call to Action
For Father’s Day, our family went to see An Inconvenient Truth, a movie I wanted to see … and wanted my children to see. In the film, Al Gore poignantly highlights many of the disturbing impacts of global warming, including natural disasters, droughts, sea level rise, epidemic illnesses and species extinction. Gore makes a compelling…
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Failure, Persistence and Heroism
NPR’s Morning Edition aired a segment this morning called "The Aftermath of Movie Flops", introduced by Steve Inskeep as "a chronicle of failure, [part of] a series on flops, about what happens when the next big thing isn’t." Kim Masters interviewed a number of movie people, who had some gems to share: Laura Zisken (producer…
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The End of Suburbia @ CHAC: Think Global, Live Local
I watched “The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream” last night in the Lower Level of the Capitol Hill Arts Center, preceded by a presentation by Jake Perrine of the Art Institute of Seattle and followed by a discussion led by Eric Magnuson of Bainbridge Graduate Institute [there will…
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Bowling for Columbine: Fear & Loathing in America
While many people went to see Fahrenheit 9/11 this weekend, I finally got around to seeing Bowling for Columbine, the previous, Oscar-winning, documentary produced by Michael Moore. In the movie, Moore explores a number of possible explanations as to why there is so much more gun violence in the USA than in other countries, including…