The important question The Cove doesn’t answer, because the filmmakers can only venture to guess, is why? The documentary showcases such a strange stubbornness on the part of the Japanese government, working in defense of a minority of unscrupulous fishermen, for the trade of goods that make only a small amount of money and poison [...]

Food Inc. is a movie you don’t want to see. See it anyway. I didn’t want to see it either. I’ve seen a lot of movies like it, and they don’t make me happy. They make me angry. But I keep seeing them, because I want to know what they have to tell me, and [...]

The world has changed drastically since the Up project began in 1964. Our multimedia culture produces virtual worlds like Facebook, YouTube, and the blogosphere. We broadcast our lives to each other daily — some of us hourly or minutely who habitually announce what we’ve had for lunch on Twitter. I wonder if any of us [...]

I.O.U.S.A. aims to be “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Economics,” though I think I might need “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Economics’ for Dummies.” It tries to explain more than two centuries of economic policy in 85 minutes, which is like trying to fit the Atlantic Ocean in a teacup; it needs a sequel, a prequel, a spinoff, and a weekly TV series, and even all that might only be enough to cover the George W. Bush presidency, which, we learn, was both more catastrophic and less catastrophic than we thought it was.

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills is the first of two documentaries about the murders, that premiered on the cable network in 1996. It begins with footage of the crime scene: a secluded, wooded area in West Memphis, Arkansas, where three eight-year-old boys were found murdered and mutilated. These images are among the most horrific committed to the screen. Practitioners of the occult were immediately suspected. Why? Because in such a small, tight-knit community, it’s more comforting..

“It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever,” remarks faded rocker David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean). This Is Spinal Tap is a film that manages to occupy both sides of that line, being as it is a clever movie about stupid people. It is an enormously funny, well-crafted comedy, one of the very best ever made. From the first frame the film blurs the lines between fiction and reality, opening on Marty DiBergi, the director of a documentary about rock band Spinal Tap, played by Rob Reiner, director of This Is Spinal Tap.

Sixty three years post India’s independence, what has happened to the instructions of the father of the Indian country? India is the world’s largest democracy, what is it that we pride ourselves on? Where are the ideals of Gandhi today? - You already know the answer to that. These are some questions that Lalit Vachani documents in his film “In Search of Gandhi” - A film that attempts to trace the remnants of Gandhi and his ideals in the very place in which he was born. In road-movie style this film rides through the geographical locations…

Many would have seen the devastating account of the Brazillian slums and the juvenile violence breeding within them in Fernando Meirelles’ brilliant feature City of God (2002). However, a similar themed documentary film, Onibus 174 (2002) (aka Bus 174), does not get the same attention and credit as City of God. Released late in the [...]

As many of us walk around sporting T-shirts with an image of a figure with a military cap perched on his head (taken by Alberto Korda, it is one of the most widely circulated image in the world), very few of us actually know about Ernesto “Che” Guevara - the man who died a routine [...]

What happens when a determined film-maker of mixed Jewish and Arab (imagine!) descent embarks on a journey to capture the creation of a concrete fence in a part of the world, where impenetrable walls of communal hatred, historical animosity and religious conflicts have already been around for decades?
Simone Bitton, a young dynamic filmmaker, goes on [...]