Well that's disappointing
At least we have To Be And To Have. By geezumcraw I love that doc. Adorable children + kind, hyperawesome teacher going about their schoolwork sounds boring, but no, it's captivating. Great film to watch if you're stressed out by frantic pace of life.

Yeah, I'm truly upset about PD too, but this is leavened by my laugh/cry response to Sugar Tits' ranting. Thanks ST!

In '07 I saw Pray's other 2007 doc Big Rig (Surfwise showed at Toronto that year) based solely on his past work as 18-wheelers are not generally a captivating subject to me. Before the screening started I realized that several of the truckers depicted in the doc were sitting right behind me and grew nervous that I…

At last
So great that these are coming out on DVD. After suffering through some awfully tedious experimental work while in film school, Anger (and Deren and Brakhage) perked me right up. The use of pop music soundtracks in many of his films drew my classmates and I in while the visuals rewired our brains. Whoo-hoo.

Race to the bottom
mujinkun states that "if [Nader} had bowed out it's undeniable Gore would have won." This is another bit of "common knowledge" that's never been proven. In fact, looking at the exit polling in FL, a large chunk of Nader voters wouldn't have voted at all or voted for someone besides Gore.<p>
And…

Hegemony
Leaving aside Nathan's actual criticism of the film, I'm rather surprised by the blithe repetition of the widely-held yet mostly untrue idea that Nader is solely to blame for Bush "winning" in 2000. Is this myth - and yeah I'll go so far as to say that - destined to be entrenched in popular history? Is this…