Two fairly recent films illustrate the need for citizens to act as their own authority in matters of morality and ethics. One, The Reader, achieved mainstream success. The other, Even the rain (Tambien la lluvia), illustrates that “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Many have undoubtedly seen The Reader, a 2008 German-American film based on the 1995 German novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink. Starring Kate Winslet, whose […]
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Rethinking Agriculture
There are a growing number of great food- and farming-related documentaries out there. We’ve previously recommended three: Food, Inc., King Corn, and SuperSize Me!. All are exceedingly worthwhile investigations into modern agricultural policies and methods and their impacts on our health, our food system, and our planet. This month we recommend two more: Natural World: A Farm for The Future is wildlife filmmaker Rebecca Hosking’s exploration into farming without reliance on […]
Collections: The search for the missing whole
Searching for Sugarman tells the story of two South African music fans—Stephen Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom—who decide to investigate the disappearance of American singer-songwriter, Sixto Rodriguez, whose music had been the soundtrack to the anti-apartheid movement thirty years earlier. The search is instigated when the men discover that most American music-lovers had never heard of Sugarman, while the story in South Africa is that he had gone out in a […]
September Movies You Might’ve Missed | The shadow
In the 2009 documentary The Shadow Effect, three renowned spiritual teachers—Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, and Marianne Williamson—come together to shed light on the shadow and encourage us each to “do our shadow work” to make peace with ourselves and the world; to acknowledge and embrace our past; and to free ourselves to live a new future. The film is complemented by a book and an online course to support individuals […]
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