The September Issue Articles

BEST DOCUMENTARY The Beaches of Agnès, Agnès Varda Veteran filmmaker Agnès Varda remembers her life's beaches, sand dunes, sun rays, and more. Burma VJ, Anders Østergaard In 2007, thousands of monks took to the streets of Burma to protest the military government's brutal anti-democratic policies. The Cove, Louie Psihoyos Beautiful, intelligent dolphins are abused and slaughtered to provide entertainment and fodder for ugly, stupid people. [...]

Peter Travers in Rolling Stones: "It begins again. Here I am in Park Cty [sic], Utah, where Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary by trying to bust through the gloom of a nation's economic crisis and the growing pissy impatience among audiences for any movies that don't have cute dogs or horror scenes in 3D. What does that mean for indie films [...]

Sundance 2009: US Documentary Competition   The General by Natalia Almada   Art & Copy (Director: Doug Pray; screenwriter: Timothy J. Sexton) Rare interviews with the most influential advertising creative minds of our age illustrate the wide-reaching effect advertising and creativity have on modern culture. Boy Interrupted (Director: Dana Perry) An intimate look at the life, mental illness and death of a young man told [...]