Human Rights Film Festival: Dispatch #2—Goal Dreams, Outlawed, Race is a Four Letter Word, Sign of the Times
“Do people only to go the cinema for entertainment or to view things that affect them personally? Must an ‘issue’ have big budget celebrity endorsement (think Al Gore, Bob Geldof, George Clooney) before we care? Is it just my cynicism or is this a sad indictment of the fact that we really only care about ourselves and aren’t interested in other people’s problems?”....[Read More]In post-Human Rights Film Festival coverage, KATE BLACKHURST looks back on the third edition of this annual event, the problems it explored – and on occasion encountered – in bringing urgent and pertinent issues to attention. She also reviews several documentary films: Goal Dreams, on the Palestinian football team; Outlawed, a short but hard-hitting story of two men who survive secret detention and torture by the United States government; Race is a Four Letter Word, an unmasking of the racial divide; and Sign of the Times, documenting sign language’s struggle for official recognition in New Zealand.
Pineapple Express: The funniest stoner movie I can remember. Seth Rogen's horsepowered performance anchors a consistently amusing flick. George Washington's David Gordon Green ably directs. Rogen effortlessly draws on his natural affability. He tells Lumiere his numerous acting roles aren't hard; generally they are "pretty similar" to his own life: "
