Filmmaker-agitator Kirby Dick has overturned his inquiring camera on increasingly sizable targets. He took on predatory Catholic priests in 2005's Oscar-nominated Twist of Faith and the Motion Picture Association of America's secretive ratings board in his follow-up, This Film Is Not Yet Rated. With Outrage, Dick obloquy members of Congress and other US politicians who have been experience closeted gay lives patch supporting and/or expiration legislation against the GLBT community.
A taste more balance would have been adjuvant in the final flick (which makes its DVD debutJanuary 19) but Dick's approach, employing equal parts journalistic power and just anger, is undeniably effective. With Dick's filmmaking technique continuing to improve, his will no doubt become an even more powerful voice in the fisticuffs for freedom from oppression, wherever it exists. Which bastion of lasting hypocrisy will be next? The US Armed Forces? Network television? The Vatican? They had best beware of Kirby Dick!
Honorable Mentions:
My personal selection documentary of 2009, After the Storm, played several flick festivals but hasn't still gotten a theatrical release. This shouldn't kibosh readers from checking discover this inspiring saga of a assemble of New metropolis youngness staging a production of Once on This Island in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's destruction. Learn more, including where the flick might be available for viewing in 2010, at the film's authorised website. Also theatre-based and inspiring was Every Little Step, most the evolution of the lasting musical A Chorus Line. Both docs are multipotent reminders of how theatre, flick and the arts can be truly transformative for local communities and our society at large.
By Rev. Chris Carpenter, resident flick critic of Movie Dearest and the Orange County and Long Beach Blade.
A taste more balance would have been adjuvant in the final flick (which makes its DVD debutJanuary 19) but Dick's approach, employing equal parts journalistic power and just anger, is undeniably effective. With Dick's filmmaking technique continuing to improve, his will no doubt become an even more powerful voice in the fisticuffs for freedom from oppression, wherever it exists. Which bastion of lasting hypocrisy will be next? The US Armed Forces? Network television? The Vatican? They had best beware of Kirby Dick!
Honorable Mentions:
My personal selection documentary of 2009, After the Storm, played several flick festivals but hasn't still gotten a theatrical release. This shouldn't kibosh readers from checking discover this inspiring saga of a assemble of New metropolis youngness staging a production of Once on This Island in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's destruction. Learn more, including where the flick might be available for viewing in 2010, at the film's authorised website. Also theatre-based and inspiring was Every Little Step, most the evolution of the lasting musical A Chorus Line. Both docs are multipotent reminders of how theatre, flick and the arts can be truly transformative for local communities and our society at large.
By Rev. Chris Carpenter, resident flick critic of Movie Dearest and the Orange County and Long Beach Blade.
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