new theater & video releases; golden age of documentaries; movie recommendations

  • Fri
    Sep 24
    12:30 pm -
    1:00 pm

The Filmosophers Movie Talk

Lucy's been listening to The Filmosophers: "We are in a golden age of documentary filmmaking," says director Lucy Walker (Countdown to Zero), who has two movies out in 2010. "There's been an amazing outburst of talent and action. Audiences are experiencing a new era of world-class filmmaking (that) can have the same impact as a fiction film." The Filmosophers have been excited about this golden age for a long time. Last week we featured the small gem Herb & Dorothy. There's nothing small about Friday's release: Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim's documentary Waiting For Superman opens. The anticipation is high on this film as Guggenheim won his Oscar for what's now the most well known documentary in the last decade: An Inconvenient Truth, the film that paved the way for Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize. The buzz is good on Waiting for SupermanDavid Edelstein of "New York Magazine" and CBS Sunday Morning wrote: "This is one of the most galvanizing documentaries I’ve ever seen." (click on "Read More" to continue)

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