[UPDATE: Director Josh Fox is Jon Stewart's guest on The Daily Show tonight and part of the segment involves the natural gas industry's smear campaign to try to discredit GasLand.] Sasha gave us a preview of GasLand a few weeks ago, featuring excerpts from an NPR interview with the film’s director, Josh Fox. The provocative documentary airs tonight on HBO at 9...
One of the most lauded docs at Sundance was Gasland, director Josh Fox’s look at how natural gas companies are using a really dangerous method of extracting natural gas called “fracking,” short for hydraulic fracturing, given the okay by the Bush/Cheney administration, who ran our country into the ground for eight years while the media was still reeling...
There has been much buzz for the Joan Rivers doc – and almost everyone who praises it, does so almost begrudgingly, like they couldn’t believe they would actually like a documentary revealing someone who is already practically over-exposed.¬† Somehow, though, the doc manages to say much about Rivers that hasn’t yet been said, mainly what a hard worker...
This weekend the San Francisco Chronicle caught up with a documentary Sasha first wrote about from Cannes. “Inside Job” couldn’t be more prescient. Started just 19 months ago, the film is a searing examination of the financial crisis of 2007-10 and its catastrophic ramifications, not just for Americans but the world. The crisis spawned the loss of $20...
Valerie Plame and Jordan’s Queen Noor are on hand in Cannes helping promote Countdown to Zero. Hoping to spearhead a movement to reduce nuclear weapons to absolute zero, the producers of An Inconvenient Truth are mounting an effort to raise global awareness of the issue as they did with climate change in their Oscar-winning film 4 years ago. (AFP) A terrifying...
Charles Ferguson is one of the self-appointed truth-tellers – someone whose mission it is in life to bring information to the general public. And what information it is this time around with Inside Job, the story of the most disgraceful case of corruption amid trusted American financial institutions ever perpetrated against the public. ...