November 22, 2009
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Film Reviews: May / June 2007

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May / June 2007
by Staff, Utne Reader 
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"What is music?" Members of the Philadelphia Orchestra pause, fidget, and laugh uncomfortably as they try to articulate an answer to this seemingly simple question. But when documentary director Daniel Anker lets the music do the talking by capturing the musicians in rehearsal, backstage, and in their daily lives, they speak eloquently with their instruments. Filmed over five years and on several continents, Music from the Inside Out delves into the musicians' personal stories and their musical passions, which extend beyond classical to bluegrass, salsa, and jazz. It's an unpretentious peek into the lives of the orchestra members and a movie for lovers of all kinds of music. -- Jenna Fisher

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If you can, watch Jennifer Baichwal's stunning new documentary on a big screen. It's the best way to experience this portrait of Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky, whose famous large-scale photographs of "manufactured landscapes" -- enormous sites ranging from Shanghai's skyscraper city to the world's largest dam -- address the vast project of modern civilization and its devastating impact on the earth. Everything depicted in the film stretches farther, longer, and larger than expected, from immense Chinese dumping grounds of waste that evoke abstract expressionist paintings to endless Bangladeshi shipyards that resemble Dali-esque wastelands. Like Burtynsky's work, the film is gorgeous and haunting as it follows the photographer's journey through these giant industrial spaces. How long can humankind's all-consuming path continue? As Burtynsky says, "If we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves." -- Anthony Kaufman


 
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