As a culture we are obsessed with high school. Perhaps we all have regrets about the choices and plans we made as teenagers to shape the futures we picked for picked for ourselves, or perhaps it’s just a setting that’s conducive to a lot of interesting drama, I don’t know, but it’s true you have probably seen a lot of movies about high school. But I don’t think think you will have seen a film that’s quite such a bitingly…
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Grizzly Man 2005
Grizzly Man is the kind of character study that is only possible in a documentary; the character of Timothy Treadwell is too richly complex, strange and tragic for the human mind to make up. Herzog, whose forte is to make films both narrative and documentary about eccentrics at odds with nature, explores Treadwell and his story with a mix of fascination, admiration and disgust.
Not since Gates of Heaven (1978) by Errol Morris has there been a documentary with such…
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Collision 2009
Following the publication of he late great Christopher Hitchens's infamous polemic God is Not Great, Hitch challenged anyone who disagreed with his position that Christianity is ultimately a negative influence on the world to publicly debate him. Douglas WIlson, a Presbyterian pastor and Calvinist theologian, rose to the challenge, which led to the book Is Christianity Good For the World, and the following debates on that subject, which this film documents. Essentially an intellectual road movie, Collision is a fascinating…
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