Brett Morgen

At first, director Brett Morgen was just intending to shoot some quirky commercials about a basketball-crazed town in a back corner of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. But then he realized he had found a real-life Northern Exposure, and he decided to make an eight-part television series there. What emerges is a symphonic, sympathetic rendering of Red State America. Morgen locates the lyricism of rural life — a patriarch walking in the woods with his grandson, codgers mixing it up at the diner, show more an extended family out ice fishing. But he also effortlessly captures percolating drama: a flare-up between Natives and whites, a botched attempt to slaughter a pig and, of course, the never-say-die fortunes of the scrappy basketball squad, the Nimrods, a name whose modern meaning is a far cry from the biblical "mighty hunter." (PS)

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2023 movie #80. 2022. A kaleidoscopic exploration of David Bowie's work. His music, acting, interviews and art. Not a biopic. I've been a Bowie fan since forever and this was great. Lots of concert footage and a wide selection of his music. It's long (over 2 hrs) but worth it.

Very interesting, intriguing view of famous primatologist who studied up close chimpanzees for many years in Gombe Tanzania. Her husband was a videographer. She gave the chimpanzees names. She was first of a kind with chimpanzees.

Ein dokumentarisches Porträt der 1934 geborenen britischen Primatenforscherin Jane Goodall. Der Film greift auf 16mm-Farbaufnahmen aus den 1960er-Jahren aus dem National-Geographic-Archiv, andere Archivaufnahmen und aktuelle Interviews mit der heute 83-Jährigen zurück und zeichnet ein facettenreiches, dichtes Bild einer Unerschrockenen. Dabei geht es neben den wissenschaftlichen Leistungen und ihrem Privatleben auch um Goodalls Rolle als Frau, die im männlich geprägten Forschungsbetrieb show more und als öffentliche Figur mit Vorurteilen zu kämpfen hatte. - Sehenswert ab 14. show less