POV

Reviews

POV: Soldiers of Conscience

By Cynthia Fuchs

Soldiers' moral struggles tend to remain invisible, like the situations that drive them. Soldiers of Conscience shows the dilemmas and the costs of war. [16 October 2008]

POV: Up the Yangtze

By Cynthia Fuchs

Respectful and riveting, Up the Yangtze reveals the complex effects of loss and fear, as well as a kind of relentless hopefulness. [8 October 2008]

POV: In the Family

By Cynthia Fuchs

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. [1 October 2008]

POV: Critical Condition

By Cynthia Fuchs

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. [30 September 2008]

POV: Calavera Highway

By Cynthia Fuchs

Calavera Highway considers the point where it becomes impossible to distinguish between reality and myth, experience and narrative. [16 September 2008]

POV: The Judge and the General

By Cynthia Fuchs

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. [19 August 2008]

POV: Belarusian Waltz

By Cynthia Fuchs

If Belarusian Waltz seems unsubtle, it also offers some surprises, most involving the women in Alexander Pushkin's life. [12 August 2008]

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

By Cynthia Fuchs

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, [5 August 2008]

POV: Campaign (Senkyo)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Kazuhiro Soda's excellent Campaign (Senkyo) is an "observational documentary," quiet and acute. [29 July 2008]

POV: 9 Star Hotel

By Cynthia Fuchs

The possibility of panicky flight hangs over Ido Haar's affecting documentary, 9 Star Hotel. [22 July 2008]

POV: The Last Conquistador

By Cynthia Fuchs

Methodically and cleverly, The Last Conquistador follows the controversy surrounding El Paso's commmisioned statue of Don Juan de Oñate. [15 July 2008]

POV: The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández

By Cynthia Fuchs

Much like the corrido that opens it, The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández means to remember Esequiel and the circumstances of his murder. [8 July 2008]

POV: Election Day

By Cynthia Fuchs

Many stories are told in Election Day, Katy Chevigny's bracing, insightful documentary on what happened four years ago. [1 July 2008]

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

By Cynthia Fuchs

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. [24 June 2008]