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Blue State
Written By: Michelle Haimoff
2007-05-04 11:51:32
Blue State is a movie about a guy who so completely devotes himself to John Kerry’s 2004 campaign because of his hatred of George W. Bush, that he swears to move to Canada if Bush is reelected.


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Bright Leaves
Written By: Michelle Haimoff
2007-07-26 10:13:46


Bright Leaves Tobacco
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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Finding Our Voices: Stories of American Dissent
Written By: Miranda Marquit
2008-07-02 15:53:29
Finding Our Voices: Stories of American Dissent
Photo: jcolman, Creative Commons, Flickr
One of the things that bothered me in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the lack of debate over the merits of the invasion.

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In the Valley of Elah
Written By: Jack Hudson
2007-09-14 01:08:32
In the Valley of Elah is a new film from Paul Haggis (director and writer of Crash, writer of Million Dollar Baby, among others).

I should say at outset I am ambivalent about Haggis’s work. In previous films, he tends to write “on the nose,” choppy, emotionally overwrought scenes that shove their message directly at the audience. Crash had some great performances and moments, but breathlessly raced from one emotional payoff to the next in a way that flattened everything. And the plot of Crash was wildly improbable.


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PBS's "Hot Politics"
Written By: Michelle Haimoff
2007-04-26 10:51:49
On Tuesday, April 24, I went to a screening of a PBS Frontline episode on global warming at Goldcrest Post Screening Room. The title of the show was “Hot Politics,” and the show examined why the US government has failed to take appropriate measures to combat the issue of global warming.



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