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Chris Smith's newest documentary Collapse follows the passionate tirades of former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter Michael Ruppert. The movie is being compared with the psychological portraits of Errol Morris and has had as much of a polarizing effect on critics as Ruppert himself. Jeannette Catsoulis at the Times says: "Though illustrated here and there with snippets of crude animation and archival film, Collapse — based on Mr. Ruppert’s book “A Presidential Energy Policy” — is for the most part just a man, a chair and a smoking cigarette. The austerity of the surroundings evokes both a monk’s quarters and a prison cell.
"Here, [Smith's] clinical, interrogation-style setup of Mr. Ruppert may be inspired by his subject’s past confrontation with the C.I.A., but it also plucks uncomfortably at the fine line between shining a light on society’s outsiders and exploiting them. Delusional thinker or tragic prophet (he predicted the current financial crisis almost five years ago), Mr. Ruppert emerges finally as an authentic human being, sympathetic even when the film that embraces him is not."
Click on the film stills for more details and reviews for this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include Precious, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Fourth Kind, A Christmas Carol, The Box, Collapse, Turning Green, That Evening Sun, And Now For Something Completely Different, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
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omg, what a terrible choice of movies. ugh. time to catch up on my dvr.
I'm currently at the Savannah film festival, they had a screening of The Men Who Stare at Goats earlier in the week. It was an interesting movie, funny and quirky. It is one of those movies that shows George Clooney can act as opposed to his other new movie Up in the Air where he plays a common elite business man.
Precious is the big closer of the festival this weekend. I cannot wait to see it. When I was in high school the book became very popular amongst teenage girls and I'm surprised it is now part of the curriculum. Coming from a card table where all the "ghetto" novels lay, this book has come a long way and Sapphire deserves all the success she has encountered.
"Common elite" is an oxymoron.
Is that mooseknuckle girl?