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... But the reason I think I like this film is that it gave me a very different vision of how to deal with those feelings of injustice. Instead of dealing with injustice purely by being angry the Yes Men ...
... mantra since the inception of rednoW to simply point others to experiences of wonder. These two lists (music, film ) are attempting to do nothing else. Film s Few things cultivate wonder in us more than ...
... control, the lonely traveler quickly becomes the center of attention.
Throughout the film we are made to wonder why Eli cares so deeply for the book. While uninterested in the religious control craved ...
... our mantra since the inception of rednoW to simply point others to experiences of wonder. These two lists (music, film ) are attempting to do nothing else.
Albums
Music has always possessed a certain ...
... it is rare for a film to come along that one can engage with on a level that simply makes one feel good; to experience a visceral moment of happiness. My Date with Drew is that movie. My Date with Drew ...
At the onset of 2009, a few of the writers here at rednoW decided to embark on a little experiment: See 100 film s. In the midst of this endeavor, we could not help but rethink what rednoW is all about. ...
... enmeshed. But, can the power of words be lost? What happens if it is? And how is that power restored? A few years ago at the Sundance Film Festival (2006), I encountered the film "Forgiven." On the ...
... design that makes it, well, so good?
In the Documentary Objectified, the second part of a three-film "design trilogy" (read a write-up on the first film of the trilogy, Helvetica here), director Gary ...
... The Wild Things Are. He was making a film about one of America’s favorite children’s books, which happens to have a minimalist story line. How do you do not lose the simplicity of this story while stretching ...
... sucking for some other group of people. It is amazing because Moore actually calls capitalism “evil“ in his film . Of course it is an evil that he is trying to gain from by promoting his film on a program ...
... numbed by the numbers? Reporter, a feature documentary premiering at this year's Sundance Film Festival, tackles such a subject matter. This HBO Documentary film (produced by Ben Affleck) tells the story ...
... on the task of cooking her way through Julia Child’s massive cookbook, “Mastering The Art Of French Cooking,” in one year, blogging her journey as she goes. The other half of the film is the story of ...
... Heart stands uniquely against a backdrop of predictable film s this summer. It explores an array of questions we rarely ask but frequently experience. And if this philosophical quest bores you, who doesn't ...
Helvetica surprised me. That is, the 2007 documentary about the ubiquitous typeface surprised me. Gary Hustwit released his film on the 50th anniversary of the typeface's introduction, an anniversary ...
The tension surrounding the immigration debate has been the launching point for many film makers in recent years. Film such as In America, In Between Days, Fast Food Nation and the recently released Sin ...
... Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (what a name), who took the task seriously as he literally peers into the “lives of others” in his Oscar winning film Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others). With ...
... the prospect of an intellectual discussion and academic inquiry regarding Intelligent Design, it does not succeed in actually creating this dialog within the film . However, the documentary possesses an ...
No one creates film s quite like Charlie Kaufman. Best known for his screenplay for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kaufman constructs stories filled with strange details that demand his audience ...
... of immortality have often, in literature, film and story, come to one of two options for how humans would live if faced with immortality. One option would be to see time as something that no longer confines ...
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After repeating the song a half dozen times, I could not forgo thinking of HBO's recent film Taking Chance. Based on the harsh realities of the Iraq War's death toll, director Ross Katz decides to ...
"You gotta give ‘em hope" is Harvey Milk's mantra throughout Gus Van Sant's biopic of the San Francisco politician/gay rights activist. Despite the film 's tragic and looming ending, it is difficult not ...
... had been no real evidence to go to war with Iraq? Such an implausible scenario is precisely the story of Ron Howard's Oscar-nominated film , Frost/Nixon. Having resigned the presidency on the heals of ...
... In the Oscar-nominated film Doubt, writer/director John Patrick Shanley goes against this notion of a nicely wrapped Hollywood story when he chooses to leave the film 's central question unanswered. Doubt ...
James Marsh's documentary Man On Wire is captivating on many fronts. The film tells the story of the French, high-wire-walker, Philippe Petit's illegal performance between New York City's World Trade Center's ...
I love moments in film s. The bus scene in Almost Famous. John Cusack holding up the boombox. Falling Slowly being played in the back of a music store. While they don't tell the whole stories they are a ...
This past week a number of rednoW members and friends headed to the Sundance Film Festival to look and listen in on the quiet artistic dialogues taking place in the backroom, underneath the roar of the ...
... a broken-down oldpro wrestler who is loved by scores of people... except those who knowhim (his daughter and his love interest, Marisa Tomei). The tension of the film is found in the three major characters' ...
... of the story. Reviewers acknowledge its simplicity with astonishment, as if they are surprised that such a conventional story, a love story at that, has moved them so much. The film is beautiful, few ...
... BD Going On - Gnarls Barkley 5 YEARS TIME (Noah and the Whale) - British folkish group who adapted their name from the film The Squid and the Whale - which sounds about right after you listen to a few ...
When we began discussing what film s stood out under the umbrella of "wonder" this year, numerous film s came to the table. Dark Knight was an early favorite, taking the classic good versus evil narrative ...
... it is simply what we happened to engage with in 2008 that has caused us to think more about what is going on in this world, in our lives and the reality behind it all. Film s Few things cultivate wonder ...
... they are worth your time and money. But do check back in the next week, we will announce our rednoW album (and film ) of the year. Think we missed something? Tell us what and why....we're all ears. Adele: ...
In 1960 Disney Studios adapted a well-known children's novel by Eleanor H. Porter into a film by the same name: Pollyanna. The character, a young orphan girl who finds the good in every situation, no matter ...
... for a feature film by Hilary Swank. John's first work of non-fiction, Reasons to Believe, a portrait of American Christianity, was published in February 2008. For more on John and his work (including his ...
How does a beautiful idea begin? When does that idea become art? Eyelids, a short film shown this year at Cannes and the Chicago International Film Festival, began in 2007 as a doodle on a post-it note. ...
The promotion for Trouble the Water says the documentary is, "not about a hurricane. It's about America." Kimberly Rivers Roberts film ed Hurricane Katrina barreling down on the 9th Ward with her personal ...
... This is also evidenced by how Craig Detweiler and John Marks' film "Purple State of Mind ," about the political and religious divide in our country, seems to resonate with so many people (Click here ...
... the sign of a great movie or merely a conflicted audience? How many readings are possible? How many readings are helpful? What might be the film makers' intent? The Dark Knight is all about choices. Christopher ...
... opening dialogue of the video is an edit of a monoluge from the narrator in the 1993 film “Alive.” It chronicles the true story of the Uruguayan rugby team who’s plain crashed in the ...
When Werner Herzog received an invitation from the National Science Foundation to visit its Antarctic headquarters, he made it clear that he was in no mood to make another film about "fuzzy penguins". ...
if anyone remembers pigman shouting “pins and needles, pins and needles” in the “great” film PCU back in the 90’s, you may remember it was because he found a movie that had ...
Often we receive requests for film suggestions for... you know... "that" type of film . Realizing that "that" is often a representation of particular interests on this site, we have begun working on a "help ...
... on our basic needs. In a strange paradox, depression can make life very complicated and extraordinarily simple. A friend recently shared this short film with me. The narration comes from an interview ...
this past november i posted about the film 'what would jesus buy? ' which was playing in select theaters around the country. it was a hard film to find for most people, but it has thankfully hit ...
