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Documentary: January 2009
ROOFTOP FILMS @ SUNDANCE: OLD PARTNER REVIEW
By Rooftop Films on 01/26/2009
Filed under: Documentary, Rooftop NewsIn my last post, about The Yes Men Fix the World , I wrote about the more obvious manipulations in documentary filmmaking, acknowledging that every documentary contains subjective choices. Lee Chung-ryoul's wonderful film Old Partner contains more traditional manipulations. The film observes a 79-year-old Korean farmer, his wife, and the ox they've had for 40 years, and from a jumbled (and essentially banal) year in their life, the director crafts a narrative with multiple levels of significance, but with the simplicity, charm and clear emotional arc of a children's book. During the film, the central trinity--father, mother, and (surrogate child)... MORE »
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"CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA"
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OPENS AT IFC CENTER ON FRI., JAN. 23!
By Rooftop Films on 01/21/2009
Filed under: DocumentaryCrips and Bloods: Made in America Short-listed for an Academy Award and distributed by Rooftop Board Member Jim Browne's Argot Pictures New York: One Week Only: Jan 23-29, 2009 IFC Center: 323 Sixth Ave, New York, NY Director Stacey Peralta will be in person for a Q & A at the 7:45 screenings on Friday and Saturday. Los Angeles: Feb 6-9, 2009 Laemmle's Sunset 5 : 8000 Sunset Blvd. Below is Rooftop Films' Artistic Director Mark Elijah Rosenberg's review of the film from Sundance in 2008. Made in America is a radical film about the history of African-Americans in the... MORE »
ROOFTOP FILMS @ SUNDANCE: TYSON REVIEW
By Rooftop Films on 01/20/2009
Filed under: Documentary, Rooftop NewsMike Tyson has still got it. The ability to shock, excite, charm and terrify. When the audience found out before Saturday night's screening that Iron Mike would be at the Q&A, the atmosphere became even more electric than it already was. It felt like one of his heavyweight title fights, buzzing with tension and danger. Tyson has always been a hypnotic figure. For me, growing up in the 1980s, his rise and fall took me from junior high school through college, and his character was as engrossing and crucial to my development as that of Kurt Cobain. Both were flawed... MORE »
ROOFTOP FILMS @ SUNDANCE: O'ER THE LAND (REVIEW)
By Rooftop Films on 01/19/2009
Filed under: Documentary, Environmental Films, Rooftop NewsDeborah Stratman's film O'er the Land is not likely to get a multi-million dollar deal out of Sundance. There is no hot-button issue, no unbelievable scenario, no celebrities, crazy characters, or even much dialogue at all. But to me, this is the type of film I'm most pleased to see at Sundance, the type of film that keeps festivals vital. Stratman's experimental documentary explores America's relationship to nature, technology and violence in a way that is smart, poetic and darkly humorous. At the start of the film, man drifts fleetingly through the landscape. A static shot of the woods... MORE »
ROOFTOP FILMS @ SUNDANCE: REPORTER REVIEW
By Rooftop Films on 01/19/2009
Filed under: Documentary, Political Films, Rooftop NewsNew York Times reporter Nicholas D. Kristof is walking through an impoverished village in central Africa. Little kids are swarming up to him, flies on their faces, bellies distended. The director of Reporter, Eric Daniel Metzgar, says in voice over, "Kristof is here for one reason: to make you care about what's on the other side of that hill." Whether that's a starving child, an adult wracked with disease, or a village slaughtered by a warlord, Kristof wants his readers -- wants the world -- to pay attention. And to help. This curious documentary is operating on multiple levels in... MORE »
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