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New Ruppert doc "Collapse" (4 posts)
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Posted 15 years ago #
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Some reviews. I wonder if they left out the 9/11 stuff...
http://edendale.typepad.com/weblog/2009/09/toronto...
Ruppert sees his recent Oregon sexual harassment ruling as an attempt to limit the influence of the film.
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Very positive Variety review:
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117941131.html?ca...
Less wake-up call than four-alarm fire, "Collapse" forces its audience to witness the testimony of Michael Ruppert, an independent writer and researcher who believes that everything -- industrial civilization, at least -- is falling apart, soon to vanish completely. In other words, it makes countless other political documentaries look like episodes of "Teletubbies." Unnervingly persuasive much of the time, and merely riveting when it's not, Ruppert's talking-head analysis gets the Errol Morris treatment from director Chris Smith ("American Movie"), whose intellectual horror film ranks as another essential work, one well deserving of play in major cities -- provided they're still around.
Off-camera, Smith can be heard asking questions such as, "Aren't you leaving out the possibility of human ingenuity?" What the director himself leaves out -- to the benefit of Ruppert's larger argument, perhaps -- is mention of the man's 9/11 conspiracy theories, not counting a brief shot of the author's article, "9/11 and Insider Trading."
Posted 15 years ago # -
If he'd made a film from his 9/11 book, would the review have been as good? Apparently verboten, so it would be ignored, despite being the same person with the same skills.
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