[AGL] an Al Gore film?
Wayne Johnson
cadaobh at shentel.net
Mon Apr 17 14:59:11 EDT 2006
So. just how "grave" can Al Gore get? He was pretty "grave" whilst trying
to get elected as a recall. About as warm as a sack of cement most of the
time.
wgJ
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Subject: [AGL] an Al Gore film?
> “An Inconvenient Truth” is not likely to displace the boffo numbers of
> “Ice Age” in Variety’s weekly grosses. It is, to be perfectly honest (and
> there is no way of getting around this), a documentary film about a
> possibly retired politician giving a slide show about the dangers of
> melting ice sheets and rising sea levels. It has a few lapses of mise en
> scène. Sometimes we see Gore gravely talking on his cell phone—or gravely
> staring out an airplane window, or gravely tapping away on his laptop in a
> lonely hotel room—for a little longer than is absolutely necessary. And
> yet, as a means of education, “An Inconvenient Truth” is a brilliantly
> lucid, often riveting attempt to warn Americans off our hellbent path to
> global suicide. “An Inconvenient Truth” is not the most entertaining film
> of the year. But it might be the most important.
>
> <http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060424ta_talk_remnick>
>
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