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Independent Lens: Steal a Pencil for Me

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.May.09] :. Michele Ohayon’s film makes the couple's complicated experience visible in reenactments and via photos and historical footage.

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Independent Lens: Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed in the Mountains

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.May.09] :. In Stranded: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed in the Mountains, impressionistic reenactments don’t provide plot or solicit viewer sympathy so much as they evoke anxiety.

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Independent Lens: Wings of Defeat

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.May.09] :. Wings of Defeat shows that, then and now, the kamikaze pilots were complicated and diverse individuals, not stereotypical fanatics.

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Independent Lens: At Home in Utopia

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Apr.09] :. Michal Goldman's film is a loving tribute to those hopes for a heaven on earth in the Coops.

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Independent Lens: Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Apr.09] :. As much as she is celebrated by her constituents and the documentary, Taking Root, Wangari Maathai maintains her faith in "the people."

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Independent Lens: Milking the Rhino

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Apr.09] :. Milking the Rhino tracks the shifting relations among African wildlife, their human neighbors, and eco-tourists.

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Independent Lens: Lakshmi and Me

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Mar.09] :. In her remarkable documentary, Lakshmi and Me, Nishtha Jain proposes to "cross a line," to film her maid, Lakshmi.

Independent Lens: Arusi Persian Wedding

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Mar.09] :. While the wedding provides compelling visuals and some minor melodrama, Arusi Persian Wedding is most interesting as it integrates its personal stories details within a broad historical context.

Independent Lens: The Order of Myths

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Feb.09] :. It's the careful, unsensational revelation of self-delusion that makes The Order of Myths so devastating.

Independent Lens: Tulia, Texas

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Feb.09] :. As Tulia, Texas follows the many turns of the Drug Task Force case, from the initial convictions to investigations of undercover agent Tom Coleman, it becomes a cautionary tale.

Independent Lens: Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Feb.09] :. As Adjust Your Color recounts, Petey Greene used his groundbreaking radio and television talk shows to influence millions, winning two Emmy awards and varieties of adulation over the years.

Independent Lens: Helvetica

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jan.09] :. Helvetica, the film's experts repeat, is sort of generic -- in the sense that it is familiar and enduring, making readers feel comfortable and reassured.

Independent Lens: Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Dec.08] :. A charming, if aptly peculiar, holiday treat, Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway focuses on the translation of the Maysles' beloved documentary into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical.

Independent Lens: Doc

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Dec.08] :. Sinuous, dynamic, and utterly compelling, Doc remembers the man as his own lifelong project.

Independent Lens: The Atom Smashers

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Nov.08] :. Science, in a previous version of the United States, was part of daily, popular culture, a subject and career considered respectable, even admirable.

Independent Lens: March Point

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Nov.08] :. March Point concentrates on the boys' way out, that is, the movie as a way to tell their story.

Independent Lens: Lioness

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Nov.08] :. Lioness, Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers' understated, affecting documentary on women in combat in Iraq, shows how they operate in a "grey zone," not quite legal, but following orders.

Independent Lens: Knee Deep

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Nov.08] :. Knee Deep is actually less interested in the details of who shot Janette Osborne than in the multiple stories that emerged from the crime.

Independent Lens: Dinner with the President: A Nation’s Journey

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Oct.08] :. Dinner with the President: A Nation’s Journey finds a particular, recurring focus in the question of women's rights.

Independent Lens: Chicago 10

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.08] :. Opening the Fall 2008 season of Independent Lens, Chicago 10 revises old ideas -- about what constitutes history and documentary.

Independent Lens: Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Jun.08] :. Abduction tells the story of 13-year-old Megumi, who was walking home from school in Nigata, Japan, and disappeared.

Independent Lens: Deep Water

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Jun.08] :. Deep Water tracks Donald Crowhurst's voyage over the horizon and into himself, filtered through observations by associates and family members, and amplified by his own logs.

Independent Lens: The Cool School

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Jun.08] :. Exploring the LA art scene of the 1950s and '60s, The Cool School appreciates the love of surface -- the self-performance and artifice, the illusory forward motion and devotion to consumption -- that defines the city.

Independent Lens: Writ Writer

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jun.08] :. As recounted in Susanne Mason's fascinating documentary, Writ Writer, Fred Cruz's story is by turns tragic and inspiring, astonishing and all too typical.

Independent Lens: New Year Baby

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.May.08] :. Traveling to Cambodia in her superb documentary, New Year Baby, Socheata Poeuv hopes to find faces to fill in the gaps in her family's story.

Independent Lens: A Dream in Doubt

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.May.08] :. A Dream in Doubt observes the struggle to understand American justice and oppression as the story becomes increasingly complicated.

Independent Lens: Nā Kamalei: The Men of Hula

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.May.08] :. As Robert Cazimero notes more than once Nā Kamalei: The Men of Hula, his devotion to hula hasn't always been easy.