I loved this! I love different cultures. I really got into this doc. Although, I feel that she wanted to give up the responsibility of her kids. She wanted her freedom more. Thank you for this!
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Issues 08 - Economy It's the economy, stupid. It was true in 1992, but the economy has never been more front and center in American's minds than it is now. The extraordinary $700 billion financial rescue plan that President Bush signed into law on October 3rd is at best only the start of a journey to an unknown destination. For some perspective, watch these wide-ranging documentaries that tackle essential elements of our economic crisis, from a look at our nation's addiction to debt, to the struggles of living paycheck to paycheck--from the unbridled corruption on Wall Street, to the environmental impact of profits-first industrial policies. A divorced mother of two returns to her home and children in Bolivia after 15 years of struggling for a better life in Israel, only to find her family members have become strangers. A WORKING MOM is a story that demonstrates the extremes that individuals will go to in order to save their families--sometimes saving and losing them in the same act. Latest Comment
Posted 10/14/08 by Lassie
I loved this! I love different cultures. I really got into this doc. Although, I feel that she wanted to give up the responsibility of her kids. She wanted her freedom more. Thank you for this! AUTUMN’S EYES is a compelling documentary about a 3-year-old girl who tries to navigate through the harsh reality of severe poverty, her teenage mother’s incarceration and looming foster care. Charming, obedient, and unable to fully comprehend the severity of her environment, Autumn is shielded from her own reality. Caught between the innocence of childhood and the growing necessity to be an adult, she represents hope to a family of women caught in the cyclical web of abuse, incarceration and poverty. AUTUMN’S EYES captures this impressionable time in this child’s life, and ask the greater question: is there truly hope for a child growing up in these circumstances? Through the perspective of a little girl, AUTUMN’S EYES explores this perilous state of hope. Latest Comment
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In America’s earliest days, there were barn-raising parties in which neighbors helped each other build up their farms. Today, in some churches, there are debt liquidation revivals in which parishioners chip in to free each other from growing credit card debts that are driving American families to bankruptcy and desperation. ‘In Debt We Trust’ is the latest film from Danny Schechter, “The News Dissector,” director of the internationally distributed and award-winning WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception), an expose of the media’s role in the Iraq War. The Emmy-winning former ABC News and CNN producer’s new hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans are being strangled by debt. It is a journalistic confrontation with what former Reagan advisor Kevin Phillips calls “Financialization"--the “powerful emergence of a debt-and-credit industrial complex.” While many Americans may be “maxing out” on credit cards, there is a deeper story: power is shifting into fewer hands. And with frightening consequences. Latest Comment
Posted 11/28/08 by adrian
I find it funny that the film speaks of the impending financial doom that we’re currently experiencing. I find it sad that we’re going to bail out these financial institutions that are doing this! We just sent them 700 billion more because they have us so enslaved that we could not live without them. So when their greed finally got the best of them good ol’ GW and the folks we elected… bailed them out by sending them more of our money for free !!! When will it end? The answer as of right now looks like never! “Skid Row” is a 50-square block area in downtown Los Angeles where an average of 90,000 homeless and transient people live on any given night. More than just a place - it’s a way of life, a mind set, the last resort for those who have given up on society and, in many cases, themselves. In the feature documentary SKID ROW, Pras Michel - one third of the successful hip-hop band The Fugees - lives on the streets of Skid Row for nine straight days and nights as a homeless person. The entire time he and his crew are undercover, using surveillance cameras. His journey is a difficult one, riddled with hunger, exposure to the elements, criminals, drugs and danger. It is also life-changing...as Pras learns not only how to fend for himself, but discovers the dark, very human and, at times, humorous underbelly of Los Angeles. Latest Comment
Posted 11/27/08 by matthew
thought it to be very informative until of course it stopped 10 minutes in and started over..... that was frustrating! In this first of its kind “dramatic-documentary-musical,” essayist Lewis Lapham and an all-star cast (including Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Altman, James Baker and Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.) take two young Ivy-League graduates on a tour of the corridors of power. This “astonishing”, “coruscating” satire poses the question: Is it better to rule the world, or to save it? Appearing on the screen are a range of leaders and commentators from across the political spectrum, among them: the late Robert B. Altman, James A. Baker III, Bill Bradley, Harold Brown, Hodding Carter III, William T. Coleman, Jr., Walter Cronkite, Barbara Ehrenreich, Vartan Gregorian, Doug Henwood, Mike Medavoy, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., John Perkins, (a.k.a., the economic hit-man) Samuel Peabody, Pete Seeger, Lawrence H. Summers, Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., William Howard Taft IV, the late Kurt Vonnegut and Howard Zinn. Latest Comment
Posted 10/26/08 by Stephen
And with all the change over the past 50 years, there really hasn’t been any until now. With the 2008 election, is real change finally achievable? Even when Obama is elected? Is this so called grass roots upswell real and if it is, will it last? The working Americans have not been united on any one thing in over 60 years. So the ruling class has been able to enslave them (nickel and dime them) for all these years. And now when the ruling class institutions have crashed the working people let them bail themselves out with our tax dollars.
WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY? follows Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir as they go on a cross-county mission to save the Holidays from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt! The Shopocalypse is upon us...Who will be $aved?
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Posted 12/31/08 by mateo
“Unfortunately at the end of this film it seems like Reverend Billy is more concerned about his message and agenda than that of Jesus. An obsession with material goods isn’t much better than an obsession with yourself and your agendas.” Somewhat valid point, but it seemed to me that Billy was not trying to spread christianity, he was merely using christmas and the whole reverend schtick as a proxy to point out just how ridiculous our consumer society has become and how an event that is supposed to be a celebration of the birth of a (fictional) man who championed charity has been subverted to become a tool of capitalist pigs with the goal of increasing profits and enslaving the world by pacifying the masses with another mind-numbing illusion of necessity, playing on humans natural tendency to compete for status regardless of the cost. |
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