Weekend Movie Forecast: The International or Gomorrah

Director Linus Phillips spent two years getting to know nine of Seattle’s homeless population; his documentary Great Speeches From a Dying World is a portrait gallery of sorts, with each subject asked to recite a famous speech from history that they felt related to their lives. The Times's Stephen Holden writes that, "given today’s worsening economic climate, the movie carries an extra weight as newly unemployed workers face the possibility of landing on the street without a livelihood. Which of us in our worst nightmares hasn’t imagined a calamitous pile-up of personal disasters that could end in destitution and despair?"