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Television Articles: July 2008![]() [Tue, 22.Jul.08]The possibility of panicky flight hangs over Ido Haar's affecting documentary, 9 Star Hotel. Airing as part of PBS' Wide Angle, The Burning Season examines the complex relationship among Indonesian farmers, global corporate entities, and earth's future. ![]() [Mon, 21.Jul.08]In The Closer, Kyra Sedgwick's Brenda Johnson often walks a fine line between complex and irritating. Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal is not the documentary you might expect. ![]() [Wed, 16.Jul.08]In the second season premiere of TNT's Saving Grace, Grace's pursuit of drama took forms that were both overt and effectively repressed. ![]() [Tue, 15.Jul.08]The first episode of The Cleaner takes its self-appointed contextualizing very seriously. Methodically and cleverly, The Last Conquistador follows the controversy surrounding El Paso's commmisioned statue of Don Juan de Oñate. ![]() [Mon, 14.Jul.08]For his remarkable documentary, filmmaker Jezza Neumann spent three and half months posing as a tourist in order to obtain undercover footage of victims, traffickers, and buyers. ![]() [Fri, 11.Jul.08]The start of HBO's Generation Kill lays out some essential points of focus: the Kuwaiti desert is hot, the firepower is awesome, and the kids in U.S. uniforms are exactly that: kids. ![]() [Thu, 10.Jul.08]Flashpoint is not about the crisis per se, it's not about possible terrorism or even about a crazed individual. Instead, it's about aftermath. ![]() [Tue, 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. ![]() [Mon, 7.Jul.08]Chuck Connelly's story, as recounted in The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not for Sale, is at once fragmented, exasperating, and weirdly predictable. ![]() [Tue, 1.Jul.08]Many stories are told in Election Day, Katy Chevigny's bracing, insightful documentary on what happened four years ago. |
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