Silverdocs Film Festival 2010
Reviews are based on a scale of 1-5, where 5 is an excellent film and 1 is a documentary that's worth more as a frisbee than a DVD.
There are three main sections that are considered in the overall process: Technical, Informative and Entertainment. While not all documentaries are meant to merely inform you of a specific topic, the hope for this category is that you take something away from the film (and hopefully it's not a surly disposition). The other two categories are fairly self-explanatory, so without further ado, click on the film review you'd like to learn more about.
Kids Grow Up, The
Parenting is a two-way street for Doug Block and his college-bound daughter, Lucy, in this affectionate documentary that toes the tricky balance between letting go of a child and keeping a candid account of the memories. Block combines childhood footage with tapes of present-day conversations betwee… Read review »
Reviewed on April 12, 2011
Barbershop Punk
Is “The Man” controlling the vertical, the horizontal, and the channel you’ll be on? In a privatized American Internet, is big business “Big Brother” or does the free market protect and serve the needs of the average citizen with its invisible hand? With the simple act of swapping files, barbershop … Read review »
Reviewed on April 12, 2011
My So Called Enemy
Defying generations of prejudice, six Israeli and Palestinian girls join together to try to move beyond the cycles of violence that have plagued their communities, as recounted in this earnest and compelling documentary. In 2002, as tensions once again rise between Israel and Palestine, the girls jo… Read review »
Reviewed on April 05, 2011
South of the Border
Eager to investigate how the U.S. media has depicted Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, director Oliver Stone journeys south to interview the man himself and speaks with several other South American presidents in the process. Among the distinguished subjects in Stone's probing and controversial docum… Read review »
Reviewed on April 05, 2011
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