I’ll cut Regina Weinreich a huge amount of slack for producing and directing a documentary on one of my favorite writers of all times: Paul Bowles. (This is a documentary that I have not seen, incidentally…at least not that I can recall — Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider.) But I have no idea what she [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mEOxi8trrII Docfest: Donor Unknown Reviewed by Thomas Roche for SF Appeal Director Jerry Rothwell’s 2010 film Donor Unknown has its final Docfest screening tonight at 5pm at the Shattuck. It tells the story of 20-year-old JoEllen Marsh, a Pennsylvania girl with two mommies who’s always wanted to learn about her biological father, an anonymous sperm [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Vk1XbyFv51k The truly great documentary How to Start a Revolution screens again this weekend at SFIndie’s Docfest. This isn’t some abstract exploration of modern life; it’s an example of revolutions get made in places like Egypt. Give a damn about American politics, economic justice, Occupy Wall Street? I suggest you track this film down, or [...]
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Posted 20 October 2011
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Tagged: bosnia, burma, documentary, documentary film, egypt, from dictatorship to democracy, gene sharp, How to Start a Revolution, indonesia, insurgency, iran, kyrgyzstan, nobel prize, occupy wall street, revolution, ruaridh arrow, san francisco, thailand, venezuela, zimbabwe
http://youtu.be/zFELcWf47Bk Docfest: Patagonia Rising (Chile, 2010, dir: Brian Lilla) Reviewed by Thomas Roche for SFAppeal SFIndie’s 10th Annual San Francisco Documentary Film Festival continues this week, unleashing a wave of provocative documentaries at the Roxie and the Shattuck Cinema. In keeping with its revolutionary mandate, Docfest never fails to seek out documentary work that showcases [...]
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