Mubi is partnering with the Mill Valley Film Festival, opening today and running through October 16, to present a selection of films you can watch for free.
You might begin with a taste of the finest from the Golden State, Deborah Koons Garcia's Portrait of a Winemaker: John Williams of Frog's Leap, which is also a tribute to one man's economically viable answer to the growing problem of water scarcity.
The subject of another portrait by the filmmaker is Rob Hopkins. Her interview with founder of the Transition Movement, a response to climate change and shrinking supplies of cheap energy, takes place in the original Transition Town, Totnes, England. Hence, the title: Transition Town Totnes.
Robert Redford narrates Will Parrinello, John Antonelli and Tom Dusenbery's The New Environmentalists (image above), a collection of portraits of activists from around the world who have won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. "What...
You might begin with a taste of the finest from the Golden State, Deborah Koons Garcia's Portrait of a Winemaker: John Williams of Frog's Leap, which is also a tribute to one man's economically viable answer to the growing problem of water scarcity.
The subject of another portrait by the filmmaker is Rob Hopkins. Her interview with founder of the Transition Movement, a response to climate change and shrinking supplies of cheap energy, takes place in the original Transition Town, Totnes, England. Hence, the title: Transition Town Totnes.
Robert Redford narrates Will Parrinello, John Antonelli and Tom Dusenbery's The New Environmentalists (image above), a collection of portraits of activists from around the world who have won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. "What...
- 10/6/2011
- MUBI
Feeling the oncoming pressures of winter in the big city? Take 30 minutes to enjoy the lush landscapes of Nepal and Tibet in this Tff 2009 short film. Director Will Parrinello; Richard Gere; Composer Steve Messina ©Getty Images, photo credit: Amy Sussman Though better known as an actor, Richard Gere was at the Tribeca Film Festival last year in support of a short film he narrated called Mustang: A Journey of Transformation. The story is one close to Gere's heart, given his decades-long association with Tibetan issues and culture. In the 30-minute film, director Will Parrinello explores the efforts to strengthen and sustain 15th-Century Tibetan culture through support and historical restoration of Tibet's sacred sites. The film captures the magic of the land known as the Forbidden Kingdom of Mustang, which finds itself nestled between Nepal and Tibet, and which has been off-limits to Westerners for 50 ...
- 11/4/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
Director Will Parrinello; Richard Gere; Composer Steve Messina ©Getty Images, photo credit: Amy Sussman Though better known as an actor, Richard Gere came out to the Tribeca Cinemas Sunday afternoon in support of a new project, the short film Mustang - A Journey of Transformation. The story, which Gere also narrated, is one close to Gere's heart, given his decades-long association with Tibetan issues and culture. In the film, director Will Parrinello explores the efforts to strengthen and sustain 15th-Century Tibetan culture through support and historical restoration of Tibet's sacred sites. (Watch the trailer here.) Other voices in the film include His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the King of Mustang, and Luigi Fieni, the chief art restorer. Tribeca Shorts Programmer Sharon Badal enthuses, 'Short documentary films are wonderful true-life stories that engage us, inform us, and entertain us simultaneously. Mustang invites us into a rarely seen world and is a...
- 5/4/2009
- TribecaFilm.com
"Nothing can stop the march of an informed people" is one of the many messages found in Rick Goldsmith's stirring documentary about newspaperman-author George Seldes, an educational and mostly reverential portrait of a muckraker who never compromised on principles and rarely passed up a chance to take on the powerful and corrupt.
Playing an Academy Award-qualifying one-week run at Laemmle's Monica, "Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press" is also an enriching encounter with the issues behind reporting the news in this century, such as the sometimes insidious relationship between advertising and editorial policy.
In his first feature-length documentary, producer-director-editor Goldsmith employs a punchy, direct style reminiscent of a hard news story. Ed Asner gives voice to many of Seldes' writings, culled from his innumerable articles, letters and many books, while Susan Sarandon provides the just-the-facts narration.
More than 500 photographs, headlines and articles are used graphically as is incredible archival footage from many sources.
Most remarkable is Seldes himself, who is perfectly lucid and engaging at age 98. (He died at age 104 in July 1995.) Interviewed at his Vermont home, surrounded by hundreds of unanswered letters and still working on an old Underwood typewriter, Seldes couldn't be gentler, although his professional voice made dictators and despots tremble through the decades.
The son of Russian Jewish immigrants who lived in the utopian Jewish colony of Alliance, N.J., Seldes first made waves in 1909 as a cub reporter for a Pittsburgh paper, where his story about a rapist preying on co-workers in a local business was killed when the advertising department used it as blackmail against the man's employers.
Exposing the "prostitution of the press" became a lifelong mission of Seldes, but his career as a foreign correspondent in World War I, the young Soviet Union and 1920s Italy made him a tireless opponent of official and self-imposed censorship. In 1924, he reported on Benito Mussolini's links to the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti, an anti-fascist, and was eventually expelled from the country.
In the late 1920s and '30s, he began a series of books critical of the so-called free press, covered the Spanish Civil War with his wife, Helen, and warned repeatedly of the "really great war for which youth is being prepared."
In 1940, he and Communist writer Bruce Minton founded the newsweekly In Fact. They had a falling out after a year, but Seldes continued putting out the publication for a decade, influencing politicians and youthful truth-seekers from Daniel Ellsberg to Ralph Nader (who are among several interviewees in the film).
His exposure of the hazards of cigarette smoking was in stark contrast to the misleading advertising of the industry that was ubiquitous in American newspapers and magazines.
The list of fights goes on, including major campaigns against the National Association of Manufacturing and J. Edgar Hoover. With the Cold War in full swing, Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his anti-communist crusade helped bring an end to In Fact, but Seldes continued to write books and eventually appeared in Warren Beatty's "Reds" as one of the "witnesses."
Truly an American original, Seldes' legacy is one that speaks courageously to a new generation that must never forget another of his benchmark statements: "A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press."
TELL THE TRUTH AND RUN:
GEORGE SELDES
AND THE AMERICAN PRESS
Goldsmith Prods.
Producer-director-editor Rick Goldsmith
Writers Sharon Wood, Rick Goldsmith
Music Jon Herbst
Cinematographers Stephen Lighthill,
Witt Monts, Will Parrinello, Vic Losick
Narrator: Susan Sarandon
Voice of Seldes' writings: Ed Asner
With: George Seldes, Ralph Nader, Daniel Ellsberg, Victor Navasky, Marian Seldes
Color/black and white
Running time -- 111 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Playing an Academy Award-qualifying one-week run at Laemmle's Monica, "Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press" is also an enriching encounter with the issues behind reporting the news in this century, such as the sometimes insidious relationship between advertising and editorial policy.
In his first feature-length documentary, producer-director-editor Goldsmith employs a punchy, direct style reminiscent of a hard news story. Ed Asner gives voice to many of Seldes' writings, culled from his innumerable articles, letters and many books, while Susan Sarandon provides the just-the-facts narration.
More than 500 photographs, headlines and articles are used graphically as is incredible archival footage from many sources.
Most remarkable is Seldes himself, who is perfectly lucid and engaging at age 98. (He died at age 104 in July 1995.) Interviewed at his Vermont home, surrounded by hundreds of unanswered letters and still working on an old Underwood typewriter, Seldes couldn't be gentler, although his professional voice made dictators and despots tremble through the decades.
The son of Russian Jewish immigrants who lived in the utopian Jewish colony of Alliance, N.J., Seldes first made waves in 1909 as a cub reporter for a Pittsburgh paper, where his story about a rapist preying on co-workers in a local business was killed when the advertising department used it as blackmail against the man's employers.
Exposing the "prostitution of the press" became a lifelong mission of Seldes, but his career as a foreign correspondent in World War I, the young Soviet Union and 1920s Italy made him a tireless opponent of official and self-imposed censorship. In 1924, he reported on Benito Mussolini's links to the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti, an anti-fascist, and was eventually expelled from the country.
In the late 1920s and '30s, he began a series of books critical of the so-called free press, covered the Spanish Civil War with his wife, Helen, and warned repeatedly of the "really great war for which youth is being prepared."
In 1940, he and Communist writer Bruce Minton founded the newsweekly In Fact. They had a falling out after a year, but Seldes continued putting out the publication for a decade, influencing politicians and youthful truth-seekers from Daniel Ellsberg to Ralph Nader (who are among several interviewees in the film).
His exposure of the hazards of cigarette smoking was in stark contrast to the misleading advertising of the industry that was ubiquitous in American newspapers and magazines.
The list of fights goes on, including major campaigns against the National Association of Manufacturing and J. Edgar Hoover. With the Cold War in full swing, Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his anti-communist crusade helped bring an end to In Fact, but Seldes continued to write books and eventually appeared in Warren Beatty's "Reds" as one of the "witnesses."
Truly an American original, Seldes' legacy is one that speaks courageously to a new generation that must never forget another of his benchmark statements: "A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press."
TELL THE TRUTH AND RUN:
GEORGE SELDES
AND THE AMERICAN PRESS
Goldsmith Prods.
Producer-director-editor Rick Goldsmith
Writers Sharon Wood, Rick Goldsmith
Music Jon Herbst
Cinematographers Stephen Lighthill,
Witt Monts, Will Parrinello, Vic Losick
Narrator: Susan Sarandon
Voice of Seldes' writings: Ed Asner
With: George Seldes, Ralph Nader, Daniel Ellsberg, Victor Navasky, Marian Seldes
Color/black and white
Running time -- 111 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/14/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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