GIRL WALK/ ALL DAY- 2012. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Girl Walk / All Day is a feature-length dance music video and tale of urban exploration that follows three dancers across New York City. They turn the city’s sidewalks, parks and architecture into an evolving stage as they spread their joy of movement.”
11/2/12- A good review in today’s NY Times and excellent audience reviews as well. TRDB.
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GIRL WALK/ ALL DAY- 2012. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Girl Walk / All Day is a feature-length dance music video and tale of urban exploration that follows three dancers across New York City. They turn the city’s sidewalks, parks and architecture into an evolving stage as they spread their joy of movement.”
11/2/12- A good review in today’s NY Times and excellent audience reviews as well. TRDB.
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RADIO UNNAMEABLE- 2012. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Legendary radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized late night FM radio by serving as a cultural hub for music, politics and audience participation for nearly 50 years. Long before today’s innovations in social media, Fass utilized the airwaves for mobilization encouraging luminaries and ordinary listeners to talk openly and take the program in surprising directions. Radio Unnameable is a visual and aural collage that pulls from Bob Fass’s immense archive of audio from his program, film, photographs, and video that has been sitting dormant until now.”
Great reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
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CHASING ICE- 2012. Synopsis by Netflix. “This mesmerizing and beautifully shot documentary from National Geographic photographer James Balog offers a clear vision of climate change as time-lapse cameras across the Arctic reveal glaciers melting and disappearing over a period of years.”
Just a few professional reviews and they are all good. TRDB.
11/9/12- A very good review in today’s NY Times. TRDB.
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ORCHESTRA OF EXILES- 2012. Synopsis by Netflix. “This inspiring documentary focuses on Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman, who rescued hundreds of Jews from the holocaust and founded the globally renowned orchestra that would eventually become the Israel Philharmonic.”
10/26/12- Fairly good review in today’s NY Times and by most professional critics as well. Audiences have uniformly enjoyed it. TRDB. Netflix Streaming.
5/24/13- I liked this documentary very much as it once again showed the will of the Jewish people to not only live but to thrive as well. TRDB.
9/15/13- I saw this movie again in preparation for a talk I’m giving in Florida in October. I liked it just as much. TRDB.
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DINOTASIA- 2012. Synopsis by Netflix. “One of our favorite natural history subjects, the good old dinosaur, gets a makeover and then some in this fantastically ambitious and groundbreaking documentary. Based on cutting-edge paleontology and the latest fossil records, DINOTASIA presents a series of vignettes about dinosaurs – both familiar faces and some we have only found out about in the past ten years.”
10/26/12– Weak review in today’s NY Times and by other professional critics as well for this new documentary narrated by Werner Herzog. Audiences have liked it. TRDB.
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LONG SHOT: THE KEVIN LAUE STORY- 2012. Synopsis by Netflix. “Though born with one arm, Kevin Laue is determined to pursue his dreams and win the approval of his deceased coach father. This inspiring documentary follows Laue’s highs and lows as he works to become college basketball’s first one-armed player.”
10/26/12- A good review in today’s NY Times and OK reviews in general. TRDB.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY- 2012. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Filmmaker Ross McElwee finds himself in frequent conflict with his son, a defiant young adult who seems addicted to and distracted by the virtual worlds of the internet. To understand the growing distance between himself and his son, McElwee travels back to St. Quay-Portrieux in Brittany for the first time in decades to retrace his own journey into adulthood. He also hopes to track down his first employer, a photographer named Maurice, and Maud, a woman with whom he was romantically involved. Photographic Memory is a meditation on the passing of time, the praxis of photography and film, digital versus analog, and the fractured love of a father for his son.”
10/12/12- A good review in today’s NY Times– I think! TRDB.
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SPLIT: A DEEPER DIVIDE- 2012. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. ” Split: A Deeper Divide carries the riveting investigation into the partisanship paralyzing our politics initiated by the critically-acclaimed SPLIT: A Divided America – further revealing a shocking political portrait of a nation even more profoundly polarized and deeply divided than before. The thought-provoking documentary explores the historically unprecedented partisan rancour plaguing our country and our politics through extraordinary access to some of the sharpest minds analyzing politics and society today including Senator Bayh (D-IN), Senator Hagel (R-NE), Lawrence Lessig (Director, Foundation of Ethics; Harvard), Grover Norquist (American for Tax Reform) Jacob Hacker (Director, Institution for Social and Policy Studies; Yale), Ezra Klein (MSNBC), Robert Kaiser (Washington Post), Norm Ornstein (AEI), Thomas Frank (Wall Street Journal), Noam Chomsky (MIT), Robert Putnam (Harvard), Jesse Jackson (Rainbow/PUSH Coallition), Nicholas Kristof (NY Times), Tucker Carlson (Fox News), Amy Goodman (Democracy Now) among others – for commentary as insightful as it is entertaining. The film moves beyond the headlines of sound-bite battles pitting conservatives vs. liberals to the deeper questions of why – why have we become two Americas? what are the forces – social, cultural, economic – that divide our nation so deeply that we are unable to even discuss our differences? SPLIT: A Deeper Divide is an unflinching look at our fractured nation that offers a much needed non-partisan perspective on what lies beneath the divides splitting the country. The documentary is an absolute must-see before the election.”
10/12/12- A fair at best review in today’s NY Times. TRDB.
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A WHISPER TO A ROAR- 2012. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “This rousing documentary examines how protesters dedicated to democracy and nonviolence have changed the political landscapes in five tumultuous countries — Venezuela, Egypt, Malaysia, Ukraine and Zimbabwe — that have been ruled by corrupt regimes.”
10/12/12- Good review in today’s NY Times. TRDB.
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