We thought we’d do something a little more ambitious with this week’s Sympatico/MSN movie gallery — to tie into the release of “The Cove”, we’re looking at eight similarly activist documentaries.
And yes, I know I left out “Titicut Follies”, which actually led to real change in an American psychiatric institution. But it wasn’t expressly intended as a work of activism — well, no more so than any of Wiseman’s other films — and besides, we covered it last time, so there.
Hey Norm. If you can find a decent, legal, DVD copy of American Dream around, please let me know.
Also, no mention of Waco: Rules of Engagement? Not a declared activist film, but still has a certain impact…
Mark B.
Mark, Buena Vista released “American Dream” on disc a few years back — you can find it for a song at Amazon.
And I did think about “Waco”, and “Paradise Lost” as well … they just didn’t quite make the short list. That’s always a problem with these things — if I included everything I wanted to, the galleries would be so big they’d lose all meaning.