Review: Ex Libris: New York Public Library
No documentary is objective. Even when a nonfiction film lacks narration, a storyline, or Michael Moore, someone has to decide what to leave in and what to leave out. That’s what any kind of art is:...
View ArticleReview: Human Flow
Human Flow is not a documentary by a journalist, or a traditional activist. If it were, it might be 25 hours long, with abundant background on the history of the world’s current refugee disasters and a...
View ArticleReview: Jane
If it seems as though Jane Goodall has always been out there, doing her thing with chimpanzees, she pretty much has: Since 1960, she has been either in Africa studying apes or traveling the world...
View ArticleReview: The Final Year
Reviewed by Robert Horton for Seattle Weekly High on my list of “moviemaking don’ts” is the use of Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’.” Nothing against the song, it’s a true anthem by the Nobel...
View ArticleReview: Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey
Reviewed by Robert Horton for Seattle Weekly Even as an octogenarian, Fred Beckey tried to climb mountains along routes nobody had mastered. We’re not speaking metaphorically here: Beckey—one of...
View ArticleReview: The King
Review by Robert Horton for Seattle Weekly Almost 20 years ago I took off to Memphis by myself and stayed in a motel with a small, guitar-shaped swimming pool. It was across Highway 51 from Graceland....
View ArticleReview: Generation Wealth
Review by Robert Horton for Seattle Weekly If you look at recent headlines and conclude that society is about to implode, the new documentary Generation Wealth is here to confirm your worst fears. This...
View ArticleElvis and the Death of the American Dream, Through Movies
Elvis Presley is ostensibly the subject of The King, Eugene Jarecki’s expansive road movie of a documentary. The award-winning director drives Presley’s 1963 Rolls-Royce across the US, from Mississippi...
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