For those who believe the Rapture is imminent, bad news is good news. Environmental catastrophe? War in the Middle East? Declining morals? All signs that Biblical prophecy is being fulfilled, and that we’re perhaps minutes away from The End Of Days and Jesus’ return. The documentary Waiting For Armageddon lets a handful of the devout explain their worldview in greater detail, yet filmmakers Kate Davis, Franco Sacchi, and David Heilbroner don’t go looking for the simple-minded or easily mockable. They talk to pastors, professors, and well-off, well-spoken families, and ask them what it means to live every day ...
- 1/7/2010
- avclub.com
America was founded, in part, by those who sought freedom from religious persecution. And, given the American basic right of freedom of speech, people are free to say whatever they want. Just a reminder. In their new documentary, Waiting for Armageddon (opening this week at Cinema Village), filmmakers Kate Davis, David Heilbroner, and Franco Sacchi take an eyes-wide-open look at the belief of Evangelical Christians in what they call 'The End of Days,' and how these prophesies shape their opinions of modern-day Israel and current U.S. foreign policy. Admirably, the filmmakers let their subjects speak for themselves, and speak they do. The film's subjects - myriad Evangelicals (including two jet-propulsion engineers in Connecticut), members of the Jewish community (here and in Israel) and thoughtful academics - all provide their perspectives on the complicated relationship between the Us and Israel. The Evangelicals support Israel's rights because they believe Israel...
- 1/6/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
First Run Features
Grade: B+
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter By Harvey Karten
Directed by: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner, Frank Sacchi
Written By: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner, Frank Sacchi
Cast: James Bagg, Laura Bagg, Tony Edwards, Devonna Edwards, Dr.H. Wayne House
Screened at: Critics. DVD, NYC, 12/25/09
Opens: January 8, 2010
These folks are meshuga, but film-makers Kate Davis, Frank Sacchi and David Heilbroner do not necessarily think so. Their documentary, "Waiting for Armageddon," avoids political stances, concentrating on a religious movement.s sociology (or is it anthropology)? As you listen to people from the fundamentalist wing of the Evangelical movement, people who are certainly not rubes given their Ph.Ds., their careers in engineering, you.ve got to wonder: what is the Earth coming to?
The people who speak their minds in this exceptionally well-made documentary, which is loaded with dramatic archival films of devastation (including a look at the mushroom cloud...
Grade: B+
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter By Harvey Karten
Directed by: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner, Frank Sacchi
Written By: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner, Frank Sacchi
Cast: James Bagg, Laura Bagg, Tony Edwards, Devonna Edwards, Dr.H. Wayne House
Screened at: Critics. DVD, NYC, 12/25/09
Opens: January 8, 2010
These folks are meshuga, but film-makers Kate Davis, Frank Sacchi and David Heilbroner do not necessarily think so. Their documentary, "Waiting for Armageddon," avoids political stances, concentrating on a religious movement.s sociology (or is it anthropology)? As you listen to people from the fundamentalist wing of the Evangelical movement, people who are certainly not rubes given their Ph.Ds., their careers in engineering, you.ve got to wonder: what is the Earth coming to?
The people who speak their minds in this exceptionally well-made documentary, which is loaded with dramatic archival films of devastation (including a look at the mushroom cloud...
- 12/25/2009
- Arizona Reporter
It's been just nine years since dooms-dayers expected the new millennium to bring the end of the world, yet the cry of "Armageddon" still rings out. Last month alone, Nasa had to allay fears of a 2012 end-of-the-world scenario. And why not? We all know humans are doomed. Either our sun will explode in a few billion years or God's wrath will consume the planet tomorrow. But few Americans have embraced the coming of the End Times as intensely as the Evangelicals profiled in Waiting for Armageddon, a documentary I co-directed with Kate Davis and Franco Sacchi, to be released theatrically in New York City, Providence and Boston in January. In the film, we join Christian Evangelicals on an explosive tour of the future as they see it, from anguish to the sublime perfection of a new world. There are some 50 million Evangelicals in...
- 12/14/2009
- by David Heilbroner
- Huffington Post
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