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Written by Michelle Haimoff
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Thursday, 16 August 2007 |
If a single entertainment item could defibrillate our socially ambivalent culture into taking action against the corrupt state of the corporate world, The Corporation (2004) might be it. In this fast-paced and thorough documentary, filmmakers Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott cross-examine the management of corporate America, as well as its victims and critics, and leave us with a sense of paranoia and distrust that only a library of conspiracy books could match.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 25 August 2007 )
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Written by Erin H. McKinnon
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Thursday, 26 July 2007 |
Photo:scottlowe, Creative Commons, Flickr
By now you likely have heard of Silverjet, the world’s first completely carbon neutral airline. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 13 August 2007 )
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Written by Michelle Haimoff
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Thursday, 26 July 2007 |
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Photo:Amareschal, Creative Commons, Flickr
Bright Leaves, a documentary of North Carolina’s tobacco legacy, is a personal project of filmmaker Ross McElwee. As such, it is part documentary, part home video, part miscellaneous. One’s enjoyment of the film depends largely on the one’s tolerance of McElwee himself, who ranges from moderately funny to distractedly self-absorbed.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 06 August 2007 )
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Written by David Neubert
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Friday, 13 July 2007 |
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They are sexy, they are engaging, they are angry, they embarrass war mongers, they protect our troops, they care -- Oh! And they are HOT BABY. Our friends at Code Pink - Women for Peace got a nice write up in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday. And believe me, I never want to get them thinking that I'm not for peace. I couldn't not handle the pressure. Luckily, most of the Senators who voted for invading Iraq back in 2003 can't handle the pressure either. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 18 July 2007 )
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Written by Jack Hudson
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 |
The backlash on the green trend has finally arrived, and the question now is if the current wave of environmentalism has staying power.
The people at Spiked see environmentalism fundamentally as an emotional spasm, a twitch of guilt and angst, which dresses itself in "frightfully dry statistics" to look grown up. Greenormal argues that "the fact that it is fashionable at the moment gives us no indication as to its prospects, either way." But my favorite recent sentence for clarity and wisdom comes from the New York Review of Books: The genius of the tobacco companies has been to exploit not just the purchasing habits of the young and the addictive centers of their brains, but their dreams for a better life and their constant search through fantasy for meaning and identity.
That's a sentence which says more than it lets on -- not only because the climate change issue (especially the US auto market) is remarkably like where tobacco was in 1950 (which is a grim prospect), but also because it hints that what the people at Spike really want, as do the people giving green awards and organizing Live Earth, is meaning and identity.
Here is the full article from the current New York Review of Books, written by Helen Epstein, the daughter of Barbara Epstein, the NYRB editor who died of lung cancer last year. Barbara Epstein was also the editor of Anne Frank's Diary.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 13 September 2007 )
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