Terribly Happy (Milwaukee Film Festival)
A morose screw-up policeman finds himself demoted to the position of Sheriff in a very distant, very tiny bog town, far far from the hustle and bustle of Copenhagen. There is nothing to see over the totally flat landscape in any direction. The town’s inhabitants – the same eight or so that we [...]
Posted at 6:01 pm on October 20, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Uncategorized | Tagged: 2008, academy award, frygtelig lykkelig, henrik ruben genz, jakob cedergren, Milwaukee film festival, noir, offbeat, terribly happy, twin peaks, weird | read on
Crude (Milwaukee Film Festival)
Remember how Texaco dumped more oil than the Valdez spill into some pits in Ecuador over decades and gave thousands of humans and wildlife cancer and other terminal maladies? …No? Ah, that’s why they made Crude. Ecuadorian lawyer Pablo Fajardo teamed up with fairly brash but usually endearing Houston lawyer Steven Donziger [...]
Posted at 5:58 pm on October 20, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Uncategorized | Tagged: $27 billion, 2009, brother's keeper, chevron, crude, documentary, joe berlinger, lawsuit, pablo fajardo, paradise lost, rafael correa, steven donziger, sting, texaco, trudie styler | read on
