Produced & Directed by Beth Gage & George Gage Written by Beth Gage Released by First Run Features USA. 73 min. Not rated Listening to the passionate and eloquent message of Tim DeChristopher, I was reminded of the famous Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing. A transcendentalist, Channing preached about man’s innate goodness and his ability to […]
Directed by John Kirby & Robbie Gemmel Produced by Daniel Coffin, Gemmel, Libby Handros & Josh Levin Written by Daniel Coffin Released by the Electron Project USA. 87 min. Not rated Cape Spin! An American Power Struggle entertainingly accomplishes an impossible task: fairly documenting the facts and foibles behind both sides of a hot environmental […]
Produced & Directed by Mark Kitchell Written by Tom Turner Released by First Run Features USA. 114 min. Not rated Anyone up to speed with environmental history has read Aldo Leopold’s essay, within he describes killing a wolf and watching the “fierce green fire” fade from its eyes. This evocative and contemplative documentary, tracing the […]
Directed by Werner Herzog & Dmitry Vasyukov Produced by Christoph Fisser, Vladimir Perepelkin, Nick N. Raslan & Charlie Woebcken Written by Herzog & Rudolph Herzog Released by Music Box Films English & Russian with English subtitles Germany. 100 min. Not rated The documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga—which was shot not by director […]
Directed by Jeff Orlowski Produced by Paula Dupre’ Pesmen & Jerry Aronson Written by Mark Monroe Released by Submarine Deluxe USA. 75 min. PG-13 Superstorm Sandy gives the documentary Chasing Ice timely relevance. Through the lens of a modern Arctic explorer, glaciers are seen melting alarmingly fast into waves that have pushed the sea level […]
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 […]