Holding an All Saints’ Day of American Radicals
di A. O. Scott The New York Times
A note at the end of John Gianvito’s “Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind” cites “A People’s History of the United States,” by Howard Zinn, as the film’s source and inspiration. But while Mr. Zinn’s book is a passionate and partisan chronicle of American radicalism, Mr. Gianvito’s 58-minute documentary strikes a quieter, more elegiac tone.
There is no narration, and virtually no living human beings appear on screen. Instead “Profit Motive” contemplates the violence and struggle of the past by examining the markers and monuments that turn up in graveyards and roadsides across the country. [...]
di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (2665 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 1 Agosto 2008
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