Our nation’s deadly epidemic of obesity is the focus of “Fed Up,” an effective new activist documentary from director Stephanie Soechtig (“Tapped”) and executive producer Katie Couric (also narrating the film). Sharing a producer (Laurie Lennard) with the Oscar-winning “An Inconvenient Truth,” the doc clearly hopes to do for this health crisis what that film […]
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“The Gatekeepers”
In the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Gatekeepers,” a gripping recounting of the history of the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli filmmaker Dror Moreh has achieved a remarkable feat. Not only in creating a powerful, passionate, and clear-eyed examination of an exceedingly complex subject, but in miraculously convincing all six surviving former heads of Shin Bet, Israel’s secret […]
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“Planet of Snail”
“Planet of Snail” is the final presentation in the Dryden Theatre’s “Cinema Guild” series, which has screened a wide-ranging selection of recent movies from the foreign and independent film distributor, and it’s as sweet and life-affirming a film as you could ever wish to see. The South Korean documentary, from director Yi Seung-jin, offers a […]
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NEWS BLOG: A couple of fracking films worth watching
Most people probably think of “Gasland” when they think of fracking documentaries. But really, it’s just one of several good films on the topic. This week, I’ve had the opportunity to watch a couple of them. One of them, “The Sky is Pink,” is a free, short film put together by “Gasland” director Josh Fox. […]
