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So far Andrew Beckerman has created 6 blog entries.

    Surviving Progress

    Written & Directed by Mathieu Roy & Harold Crooks, based on the book A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright
    Produced by Daniel Louis & Denise Robert
    Released by First Run Features
    Canada. 86 min. Not rated
    Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks’ film beautifully pieces together bits of history into an overarching discussion about the meaning and value […]

    By |April 6th, 2012|Documentary, Environmental, Top Picks|0 Comments

      How to Start a Revolution

      Directed by Ruaridh Arrow
      Produced by Arrow & Richard Shaw
      Released by Seventh Art Releasing
      UK/Egypt/Serbia and Montenegro. USA.  87 min. Not rated
      Gene Sharp holds a PhD from Oxford, has held research appointments at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs, and is the founder and senior scholar at the Albert Einstein Institution. Where most academics’ work stays firmly […]

      By |February 27th, 2012|Documentary, Political|0 Comments

        El Sicario, Room 164

        Directed & Photographed by Gianfranco Rosi
        Produced by Serge Lalou & Gianfranco Rosi
        Original story by Charles Bowden
        Released by Icarus Films
        Spanish with English subtitles
        USA/France. 84 min. Not rated
        As many great filmmakers know, the suggestion of violence is often more powerful than seeing it. A hint, a moment, or a fragment gives the audience just enough context by […]

        By |January 25th, 2012|Crime, Documentary, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

          Without a Home

          Directed by Rachel Fleischer
          Produced by Joanna Adler & Fleischer
          Released by Breaking Glass
          USA. 74 min. Not rated

          Rachel Fleischer’s documentary Without a Home is vital. It takes advocacy for a cause and embeds it in a truly moving story. Her film makes the invisible visible and gives a voice to a population, the homeless, that has been […]

          By |November 2nd, 2011|Documentary, DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Recommended|0 Comments

            Where Soldiers Come From

            Produced & Directed by Heather Courtney
            Released by International Film Circuit
            USA. 91 min. Not rated

            Heather Courtney’s documentary Where Soldiers Come From grew out of a wish to tell a real story about the town she grew up in and to rehabilitate the Middle American, small-town stereotype—a hokey, hickish caricature of Red State racism and Tea Party ignorance. The town […]

            By |September 11th, 2011|Afghanistan, Award-winning, Documentary, Post 9/11|0 Comments

              Nostalgia for the Light

               

              Written, Directed & Narrated by Patricio Guzmán
              Produced by Renate Sachse
              Released by Icarus Films
              Spanish with English subtitles
              France/Germany/Chile. 90 min. Not Rated

              Nostalgia is a powerful emotion. It essentially derives its force from a false remembrance of history. Nostalgia, the longing to return home, is never about a real home, but an idealized one, […]

              By |March 18th, 2011|Documentary, DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Foreign|0 Comments