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POV: The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jul.09] :. Nerakhoon looks forward to an unknown future as it also looks back on events obscured by history and media images.

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POV: Inheritance

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Dec.08] :. This notion of "help" -- impossible, necessary -- colors Inheritance, a documentary about living with memories of a Nazi father.

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POV: Soldiers of Conscience

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Oct.08] :. Soldiers' moral struggles tend to remain invisible, like the situations that drive them. Soldiers of Conscience shows the dilemmas and the costs of war.

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POV: Up the Yangtze

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Oct.08] :. Respectful and riveting, Up the Yangtze reveals the complex effects of loss and fear, as well as a kind of relentless hopefulness.

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POV: In the Family

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Oct.08] :. Joanna Rudnick's documentary about BRAC genetic testing charts the complicated process of making decisions in her documentary, in ways alternately informative, distressing, and galvanizing.

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POV: Critical Condition

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Sep.08] :. Roger Weisberg's documentary provides a devastating critique of the U.S. health care system by following four subjects through their daily efforts to find relief, work, or counsel.

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POV: Calavera Highway

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Sep.08] :. Calavera Highway considers the point where it becomes impossible to distinguish between reality and myth, experience and narrative.

 

POV: The Judge and the General

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Aug.08] :. The Judge and the General gives Guzmán the opportunity to reflect on his part in the process of Pinochet's regime and to define the perpetrators.

 

POV: Belarusian Waltz

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Aug.08] :. If Belarusian Waltz seems unsubtle, it also offers some surprises, most involving the women in Alexander Pushkin's life.

 

POV: Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.08] :. With his life and career in one of their several turnarounds, Cash is here an ideal documentary subject, self-aware, passionate, and glad to take the crew along on a tour of places and people that matter to him,

 

POV: Campaign (Senkyo)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Jul.08] :. Kazuhiro Soda's excellent Campaign (Senkyo) is an "observational documentary," quiet and acute.

 

POV: 9 Star Hotel

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Jul.08] :. The possibility of panicky flight hangs over Ido Haar's affecting documentary, 9 Star Hotel.

 

POV: The Last Conquistador

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Jul.08] :. Methodically and cleverly, The Last Conquistador follows the controversy surrounding El Paso's commmisioned statue of Don Juan de Oñate.

 

POV: The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Jul.08] :. Much like the corrido that opens it, The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández means to remember Esequiel and the circumstances of his murder.

 

POV: Election Day

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Jul.08] :. Many stories are told in Election Day, Katy Chevigny's bracing, insightful documentary on what happened four years ago.

 

POV: Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Jun.08] :. Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North wades into U.S. legacies of race and racism with a mixture of good will, nerve, and occasional naïveté.