Looking back at 2011, I would say that it was a great year for documentaries. Here are four that I had the pleasure to see, learned a lot from, and reviewed. They are listed in date order, because ranking them would be apples and oranges. The dates and links are those of my reviews, which could be earlier than official release dates, in cases in which I was able to see a preview.
- January 6, 2011: There But for Fortune, Kenneth Bowser's vivid, incisive movie about Phil Ochs, second only to Bob Dylan in the opinion of many, certainly above Dylan in some ways ... more relevant than ever in view of Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring ... look for it on PBS in 2012 ... details on the movie's Facebook page
- January 18, 2011: Default: The Student Loan Documentary, Aurora Meneghello's movie about usurious bank practices regarding student loans ... one of the main causes of Occupy Wall Street ... look for it on PBS in 2012 ... details on the movie's Facebook page
- August 14, 2011: Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness, known as the Yiddish Mark Twain, Aleichem showed - and this movie by Joseph Dorman shows - a first-rate understanding of media on the level of Marshall McLuhan, in the centenary of McLuhan's birth ... details on the movie's Facebook page
- September 2, 2011: Connected, Tiffany Shlain's triple threat movie, one part bio-doc about her father Leonard, one part history of media ala Marshall McLuhan, one-part about the growing interconnectedness of our world now expressed in Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring ... details on the movie's Facebook page
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