The Gleaners and I: The Ethics of Dumpster Diving
It would be good to make sure that our dumpsters weren't so full in the first place.
Documentary / History Reviews
- Being There: Society, Media, and Stereotyping
- Bright Leaves, Shady Past
- March of the Penguins: Better Living through Anthropomorphism
- Sicko
- The Devil and Daniel Johnston: Who Watches the Madmen?
- Trekkies: Say It Loud, I'm a Nerd and I'm Proud
- Air Guitar Nation: The Apex of Civilization?
- Aristide and the Endless Revolution: What Value Democracy?
- Balseros: Does Place Matter?
- Deliver Us From Evil: Rape, Cover-up, Corruption
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room - Is Ambition Wrong?
- Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine - The Fallacy of an Old Theme
- Grizzly Man: Good Intentions Run Amok
- Helvetica and Manufactured Landscapes: The Triumph of Emotions?
- Maxed Out and In Debt We Trust: The Curse of a Wealthy Age?
- Moog and Modulations: Cinema for the Ear - Meditations on Techno
- Our Brand Is Crisis: Political Entertainment, Political Disaster
- The Corporation: Institutions, Individuals, Ethics
- The Gleaners and I: The Ethics of Dumpster Diving
- Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollack?: The Perils of Expertise
- Word Wars: What's Wrong with Obsession?
- Sicko: Socialism, Capitalism, Health Care
- The Eyes of Tammy Faye: A Lesson in Grace
- How to Watch An Inconvenient Truth
- Yellow Brick Road: A Conversation
cinekklesia :: Documentary / History
February 12, 2008Trekkies: Say It Loud, I'm a Nerd and I'm Proud
They're not in the least self-conscious about something that matters to them...
Helvetica and Manufactured Landscapes: The Triumph of Emotions?
...emotions are not simply one attribute among many in the human condition, but perhaps the overriding attribute.
Sicko
One thing that this movie does well is to illustrate the hopelessness of the American poor.
Air Guitar Nation: The Apex of Civilization?
Air guitar signals the vitality and fullness of a civilization in which ordinary people of modest means can participate....
The Eyes of Tammy Faye: A Lesson in Grace
It is actually a very compassionate and respectful portrait of a woman who had experienced the whole gamut of human emotion....
Sicko: Socialism, Capitalism, Health Care
If we had a more honest debate between the socialists and the libertarians, then we would be forced to deal with the root issues underlying our health-care hand-wringing.
Maxed Out and In Debt We Trust: The Curse of a Wealthy Age?
Whether it be a home mortgage, car loans, student loans, or credit cards, it seems that almost all of us are indebted to someone at some point in time.
Deliver Us From Evil: Rape, Cover-up, Corruption
Because the Roman Catholic Church is, by design, a monolithic/bureaucratic organization, it is simply ill-equipped to deal with sin of this magnitude.
Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollack?: The Perils of Expertise
Defaults can be problematic. By definition, they require no thought or deliberation, and our reliance on default expertise can prove erroneous.