Monday, February 22, 2016

Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011): Preserving A Way of Life

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Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) chronicles the day-to-day work life of 85-year-old Jiro Ono, a world-renowned sushi...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

UK and Netflix's *River* and the Urban Environments

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In one of the early episodes of the UK series River (available on Netflix), the series' flawed protagonist John River ( Stellan Skars...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Dark Days (2000): A Narrative of Environmental Adaptation

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Marc Singer’s documentary Dark Days (2000) reveals much about homeless living in Amtrak tunnels beneath New York City. To construct its narr...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

More Green Planet Films: Solutions to Environmental Problems

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Monde Films, Abundance on a Dry Land documents solutions to drought issues in California.  In California,  the agriculture industry is suffe...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Green Planet Films: Responses to Climate Change

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Directed by Ruth Chao, Red Ice (2014) argues that the sudden melting of the Greenland ice sheet triggered "a red alert on the Poles...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

Early Food Documentaries, Multiple Modes and Genres

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Food as a basic need has played a central role in documentary films as early as the Lumiere Brothers’ 1895 view, Repas de...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Thanks for a Successful Embarras Valley Film Festival!

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SPEAKER Film critic Chuck Koplinski has been participating in the EVFF since it inception in 2004.  Having studied cinema at Columbia Colle...