From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Gogol Bordello Non-Stop

September 29, 2009

Title:               Gogol Bordello Non-Stop
Director:              Margarita Jimeno
Producer:            Ramon Jimeno (Exec), Margarita Jimeno, Darya Zhuk
Cinema:                Margarita Jimeno
Editor:                  Margarita Jimeno
Music:                   Gogol Bordello
Year:                     2008 (87 minutes) 
Synopsis:  Most American cinephiles will know Eugene Hutz for his role as Elijah Wood’s Ukrainian tour guide in Everything is Illuminated.  Thanks to Margarita Jimeno’s documentary Gogol Bordello Non-Stop, American cinephiles  – and the music fans [...]

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Coming Attractions: The National Parks — America’s Best Idea

September 27, 2009

Ken Burns’ new documentary The National Parks — America’s Best Idea premieres tonight at 8:00 PM ET on PBS.  According to the PBS website;
The National Parks: America’s Best Idea is a six-episode series directed by Ken Burns and written and co-produced by Dayton Duncan. Filmed over the course of more than six years at some [...]

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Burden of Dreams

September 18, 2009

Title:               Burden of Dreams
Director:               Les Blank
Screenwriter:      Michael Goodwin
Cinema:                 Les Blank
Editor:                   Maureen Gosling
Sound:                   Maureen Gosling
Year:                      1982 (95 minutes) 
Synopsis:  For nearly five years, Werner Herzog struggled against all odds to complete his most ambitious project: Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man’s attempt to build on opera house in the Amazon jungle.  Blank captured the unfolding and unraveling of the [...]

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Any Day Now

September 15, 2009

Title:               Any Day Now
Director:              Jeff Wyatt Wilson
Producer:            Charlie Peacock, Kristin Dabbs, Marcus Whitney (Exec), Jeff Wyatt Wilson
Cinema:                Jeff Wyatt Wilson
Editor:                  Jeff Wyatt Wilson
Year:                     2009 (116 minutes) 
Synopsis:  Any Day Now is an enlightening performance documentary that tracks the “Ten out of Tenn” tour in the summer of 2008.  Not unlike the cinema verite style of the 60’s, the [...]

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America’s Lost Band

September 12, 2009

Title:               America’s Lost Band
Director:              Michael Stich
Producer:            Fred Cantor, Michael Stich
Screenwriter:     Fred Cantor
Cinema:                Lauri Moorman
Editor:                  Filmlook
Music:                   The Remains
Sound:                  Clyde Kaplan
Year:                     2008 (76 minutes) 
Synopsis:  “Had these Boston bad boys stuck it out beyond their 1966 debut, we might today be calling them – and not the Stones – the World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band.  As it is, The Remains most certainly [...]

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