Director: Jacob Kornbluth
Run Time: 85 min.
"The advocacy documentary 'Inequality for All,' featuring former
Clinton administration Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, aims to be
economic policy’s 'An Inconvenient Truth,' a left-leaning wakeup call
for most Americans (affluent or not, young or old, Republican or
Democrat) who have no idea just how hyper-concentrated our nation’s
wealth distribution actually is. . . . The difference is that unlike Al Gore, Reich has an engaging sense of humor."
—Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Directors: Andrew James, Joshua Ligairi
Run Time: 85 min.
"No doubt many of you recall the hubbub that ensued several years back
when a group of Mormon businessmen and video retailers began selling 'sanitized' versions of big Hollywood movies like Titanic. The
Directors Guild Of America first protested then sued, arguing that no
one’s allowed to bowdlerize their work without permission. . . . The real story isn't just about intellectual property; it's about the
daily difficulties that the devoutly religious have in trying to
participate in mainstream American culture while retaining as much of
the purity of their own beliefs as they can."
—Scott Tobias and Noel Murray, A.V. Club
Call Number: PN1995.63.U8 C54 2012
Directors: Richard Berge, Nicole Newnman, and Bonni Cohen
Run Time: 116 min.
"On the surface, this dense, dynamic documentary, based on the book by Lynn H. Nicholas, takes on the high drama and difficult moral quandaries of Adolf Hitler's campaign to plunder the great artworks of Europe and the Allied effort to preserve and return them in the heat of World War II. But the story of Nazi Germany's industrialized pillage goes much deeper and the filmmakers expose a chilling facet of Hitler's final solution: the attempt to systematically eradicate Jewish and Slavic culture from top to bottom, as if to sweep away all vestiges of the races Hitler deemed inferior."
—Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post Intellgencer
Call Number: K3791 .R37 2007
Director: Nancy Kelly
Run Time: 74 min.
"The film, in entertaining, brisk fashion, takes us through decades of patchwork agreements that made (and still makes) the San Francisco Bay Area the environmental envy of the world: a teeming urban area that co-exists with its magnificent scenery. . . . With the help of engaging interviews, excellent graphic maps and Lou Weinert's cinematography - his Bay Area landscape shots are beautiful - filmmakers Nancy Kelly and Kenji Yamamoto are able to translate what was essentially an incremental bureaucratic fight into cinematic terms."
—David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
Director: Mary McDonagh Murphy
Run Time: 82 min.
"It gives the fascinating history of how the book came to be, which
involved Truman Capote, a perceptive editor and an act of generosity
that helped give Ms. Lee, the novel’s author, the time she needed to
write. The reclusive Ms. Lee is conjured through old film clips,
published interviews and reminiscences of friends and relatives. . . .
The film’s best moments come from other authors—Wally Lamb and Allan Gurganus are particularly eloquent—who read
passages from the novel and talk about the book’s impact on them and
their writing."
—Neil Genzlinger
Director: Jacob Kornbluth
