HSDF 23/24/27
Oct. 27th, 2007 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serninMore films:
Freeheld - excellent - dying New Jersey police officer fights to transfer her pension benefits to her partner
Out Of the South - good - six gay men in Los Angeles talk about leaving the Rural South
The Old Gray Lady: Arkansas' First Newspaper - good - history of the first newspaper in Arkansas, the Arkansas Gazette (eaten by its rival in 1991)
Gimme Green - average - biased look at the chemicals and efforts that are used to keep a suburban lawn
Trashed - average - shows you where the trash goes, surprise, it's a landfill
Middle Fork of the Saline River - bad - student production about a local river with biologists rambling on about the wildlife and plants
Watching the Waters Rise - bad - student production about the flood of 1927
King Corn - good to a point - two guys in their early 20's move to Iowa to grow an acre of corn. I was fine until the guy reached into the stomach of a live cow through an open wound.
Soldiers of Conscience - excellent - soldiers have always had an option of filing as a conscientious objector, a look at some of the Iraq War objectors
Runner's High - excellent - teenagers from Oakland, CA train and run the Los Angeles marathon
Film Class - excellent - filmmaker teaches Black Bedouin women filmmaking
Chain of Life - excellent - artisan who uses wood stamps (an almost extinct technique) to create a kimono - BONUS filmmaker was in attendance in a hand-stamped kimono
Talk to Me - bad - man makes a movie of photographs and messages from his answering machine
Boodog: How to Roast a Mongolian Marmot - bad - I had to close my eyes while a group of Mongolian men killed and cooked a marmot
Dick-George, Tenn-Tom - average - look at Nixon's visit to Alabama for the dedication of a waterway
In Your Purse: Archaeology of the American Hand Handbag - average - look at the contents of 100 purses
Motodrom - average - I had to close my eyes while motorcycles circled around a big barrel-shaped stadium thing
When the Light's Red - average - man questions giving money to panhandlers at intersections
The Fighting Cholitas - excellent - indigenous Indian women in Bolivia who jump into the wrestling ring every Sunday in their traditional multi-layered skirts
Hush - bad - film footage scooting forward and backward seconds at a time while a female narrator describes the drug/alcohol/sex abuse in her family
Freeheld - excellent - dying New Jersey police officer fights to transfer her pension benefits to her partner
Out Of the South - good - six gay men in Los Angeles talk about leaving the Rural South
The Old Gray Lady: Arkansas' First Newspaper - good - history of the first newspaper in Arkansas, the Arkansas Gazette (eaten by its rival in 1991)
Gimme Green - average - biased look at the chemicals and efforts that are used to keep a suburban lawn
Trashed - average - shows you where the trash goes, surprise, it's a landfill
Middle Fork of the Saline River - bad - student production about a local river with biologists rambling on about the wildlife and plants
Watching the Waters Rise - bad - student production about the flood of 1927
King Corn - good to a point - two guys in their early 20's move to Iowa to grow an acre of corn. I was fine until the guy reached into the stomach of a live cow through an open wound.
Soldiers of Conscience - excellent - soldiers have always had an option of filing as a conscientious objector, a look at some of the Iraq War objectors
Runner's High - excellent - teenagers from Oakland, CA train and run the Los Angeles marathon
Film Class - excellent - filmmaker teaches Black Bedouin women filmmaking
Chain of Life - excellent - artisan who uses wood stamps (an almost extinct technique) to create a kimono - BONUS filmmaker was in attendance in a hand-stamped kimono
Talk to Me - bad - man makes a movie of photographs and messages from his answering machine
Boodog: How to Roast a Mongolian Marmot - bad - I had to close my eyes while a group of Mongolian men killed and cooked a marmot
Dick-George, Tenn-Tom - average - look at Nixon's visit to Alabama for the dedication of a waterway
In Your Purse: Archaeology of the American Hand Handbag - average - look at the contents of 100 purses
Motodrom - average - I had to close my eyes while motorcycles circled around a big barrel-shaped stadium thing
When the Light's Red - average - man questions giving money to panhandlers at intersections
The Fighting Cholitas - excellent - indigenous Indian women in Bolivia who jump into the wrestling ring every Sunday in their traditional multi-layered skirts
Hush - bad - film footage scooting forward and backward seconds at a time while a female narrator describes the drug/alcohol/sex abuse in her family
