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This Weeks Movie Reviews: An Inconvenient Truth Directed by Davis Guggenheim. Produced by Laurie David, Lawrence Bender and Scott Z. Burns. Music by Michael Brook and Melissa Etheridge. Featuring Al Gore. Paramount Classics, 2006. PG. 100 minutes. In his concession speech to the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore addressed what he planned to do next. "As for the battle that ends tonight," he said, "I do believe, as my father once said, that 'No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out.'" It's one of the great political speeches of our time. One of the many revelations of An Inconvenient Truth, the superb new documentary about climate change, is that defeat has served the former vice president well. Read more...
The Proposition Written by Nick Cave. Directed by John Hillcoat. Cinematography, Benoit Delhomme. Music, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. Starring Guy Pearce, Emily Watson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, John Hurt, David Wenham and Richard Wilson. First Look Pictures, 2006. R. 104 minutes. More than once, in the course of writer Nick Cave and director John Hillcoat's devastating, effective Australian Western, The Proposition, Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone), says, "I will civilize this land." He says it to criminals and officers; he says it to himself. He stands against a tide of violence and fate on a dry, dusty, 19th century frontier on the other side of the world. What exactly he hopes to accomplish is uncertain, but one thing is clear: He's losing the fight. Read more...
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