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‘Ford v Ferrari’ is the climate change horror film nobody needed
The movie is a celebration of all the American values that got us into the climate emergency and a repudiation of the values we’ll need to get out of it.
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What if virtual reality is our best chance to save the planet?
The Sundance premiere of Racing Extinction was pretty depressing -- but not for the obvious reasons.
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Scorcese doc ‘Surviving Progress,’ featuring Margaret Atwood, is now in theaters
"I think it's important to make a distinction between good progress and good progress. Things progress in the sense that they change. But when they reach a certain scale, they turn out to be dead ends."
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New film about fracking stars Matt Damon, John Krasinski, and maybe you
Ryan Gosling may have saved a woman from a speeding car, but some of our other favorite stars are doing the next best thing: starring in an anti-fracking movie. Gus Van Sant is directing, and the cast includes Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Frances McDormand, probably Hal Holbrook — and, if you can get to Pittsburgh […]
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David Lynch would like you to stop littering OR ELSE
Perhaps to make up for the bad rap he gave to woods, owls, sycamore trees, and the little pine weasel in Twin Peaks, David Lynch apparently also directed a 1991 PSA about littering. It’s almost exactly what you would expect from a David Lynch PSA about littering — there’s even weird jerky dancing AND coffee! — […]
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Green screen: 20 years of environmental films
The first environmental film festival is celebrating its 20th year of using movies to bring green issues to the masses. Founder Flo Stone took a minute to answer our questions before the excitement begins.
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Lights, camera, activism: Filming the story of environmentalism
This OnEarth story was written by Bruce Barcott. In a creaky wood-floor office overlooking San Francisco Bay, the documentary filmmaker Mark Kitchell removes his glasses, runs his hand through his hair, and glares at a computer screen filled with thumbnail images of film clips. Kitchell, 59, is in the throes of a dilemma. He’s spent […]
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Josh Fox scores an Emmy for fracking documentary 'Gasland'
Josh Fox's film Gasland, which exposes the dirty underbelly of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, lost out on an Oscar, but won an Emmy.
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‘Let’s talk about sex’ — and what American teenagers don’t know about it [VIDEO]
“Every day in America, 10,000 teenagers catch an STD, 2,400 young girls become pregnant, and 55 young people are infected with HIV.” Those sobering stats are from a documentary airing on TLC tonight, April 9, at 10 p.m. / 9 central. Let’s Talk About Sex is directed by James Houston, a fashion photographer who came […]