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The Atom: A Love Affair
Logline: A feature documentary revealing the tragicomic true story of our relationship with that most controversial energy source, nuclear power – as told by those who were there. After 7 turbulent decades, is the atomic love affair coming to an end?
Elevator Pitch:
Nuclear power is one of those divisive, “hot button” topics people can never agree about. But how did we get here? “The Atom: A Love Affair” reveals an oft-forgotten history through frank testimony from major players on both sides of the Atlantic – including politicians, scientists, engineers and campaigners. Their dramatic recollections are brought to...
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
The Atom: A Love Affair
Logline: A feature documentary revealing the tragicomic true story of our relationship with that most controversial energy source, nuclear power – as told by those who were there. After 7 turbulent decades, is the atomic love affair coming to an end?
Elevator Pitch:
Nuclear power is one of those divisive, “hot button” topics people can never agree about. But how did we get here? “The Atom: A Love Affair” reveals an oft-forgotten history through frank testimony from major players on both sides of the Atlantic – including politicians, scientists, engineers and campaigners. Their dramatic recollections are brought to...
- 6/30/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Two powerful documentaries look at the ever-growing wealth gap, and introduce us to some of those struggling through the resultant financial insecurity. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m a raging hippie leftist
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Are you angry? Are you angry about everything? Are you angry about how you haven’t had a real raise (or any raise at all) in 10 years yet the price of everything keeps going up? Are you angry because it feels like you will never pay off your student loans? Are you angry because there’s no way in hell you will ever enjoy the same standard of living as your parents did? Are you angry because you’d rather not set your kids (if you can afford to have kids) on the hamster wheels of consumerism yet you don’t want...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Are you angry? Are you angry about everything? Are you angry about how you haven’t had a real raise (or any raise at all) in 10 years yet the price of everything keeps going up? Are you angry because it feels like you will never pay off your student loans? Are you angry because there’s no way in hell you will ever enjoy the same standard of living as your parents did? Are you angry because you’d rather not set your kids (if you can afford to have kids) on the hamster wheels of consumerism yet you don’t want...
- 4/27/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Watching how the rich get richer makes for sobering viewing in a slick documentary
Related: ‘Why aren’t we earning enough to live?’ – how The Divide lays bare global inequality
Taking its lead from Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s book The Spirit Level: Why Equality Is Better for Everyone, Katharine Round’s good-looking, slickly produced documentary provides yet another reminder of the growing divide between rich and poor in the UK and Us. In a world in which poverty breeds ill health and debt is big business (adverts for Wonga and DollarsDirect intersperse the interviews), Round speaks to families on the breadline and venture capitalists on the make, none of whom seems happy. Noam Chomsky talks wearily about the myth of “informed consumers making rational choices”, while former Deutsche Bank VP Alexis Goldstein recalls Wall Street’s adoration of “fuck you money” – an amount so vast that you can...
Related: ‘Why aren’t we earning enough to live?’ – how The Divide lays bare global inequality
Taking its lead from Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s book The Spirit Level: Why Equality Is Better for Everyone, Katharine Round’s good-looking, slickly produced documentary provides yet another reminder of the growing divide between rich and poor in the UK and Us. In a world in which poverty breeds ill health and debt is big business (adverts for Wonga and DollarsDirect intersperse the interviews), Round speaks to families on the breadline and venture capitalists on the make, none of whom seems happy. Noam Chomsky talks wearily about the myth of “informed consumers making rational choices”, while former Deutsche Bank VP Alexis Goldstein recalls Wall Street’s adoration of “fuck you money” – an amount so vast that you can...
- 4/24/2016
- by Mark Kermode, Obsverver film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Katharine Round’s documentary, inspired by The Spirit Level, is a short, sharp shock about the failings of free-market economics
There is a certain type of pundit who will elaborately explain that he believes in equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome – but is in reality deeply uninterested in both. It is perfectly natural for the self-made businessmen and bootstrap entrepreneurs to feel that their grinding hard work entitles them to hard-won privileges, like unequal opportunities for their children.
Related: ‘Why aren’t we earning enough to live?’ – how The Divide lays bare global inequality
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There is a certain type of pundit who will elaborately explain that he believes in equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome – but is in reality deeply uninterested in both. It is perfectly natural for the self-made businessmen and bootstrap entrepreneurs to feel that their grinding hard work entitles them to hard-won privileges, like unequal opportunities for their children.
Related: ‘Why aren’t we earning enough to live?’ – how The Divide lays bare global inequality
Continue reading...
- 4/21/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Katharine Round’s documentary, inspired by The Spirit Level, is a short, sharp shock about the failings of free-market economics
There is a certain type of pundit who will elaborately explain that he believes in equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome – but is in reality deeply uninterested in both. It is perfectly natural for the self-made businessmen and bootstrap entrepreneurs to feel that their grinding hard work entitles them to hard-won privileges, like unequal opportunities for their children.
Related: ‘Why aren’t we earning enough to live?’ – how The Divide lays bare global inequality
Continue reading...
There is a certain type of pundit who will elaborately explain that he believes in equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome – but is in reality deeply uninterested in both. It is perfectly natural for the self-made businessmen and bootstrap entrepreneurs to feel that their grinding hard work entitles them to hard-won privileges, like unequal opportunities for their children.
Related: ‘Why aren’t we earning enough to live?’ – how The Divide lays bare global inequality
Continue reading...
- 4/21/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★☆☆ It's safe to say that Katharine Round and Gordon Gekko would not see eye to eye if asked whether greed was good. The British filmmaker's subtly profound documentary, The Divide, laments the growing inequality between the super rich and all us plebs below them. Round's film is yet another rallying cry for the masses to rage against the machine, but one which retains a sickening sense of history repeating itself. Burning with injustice, even helplessness, it is a commendably even-handed indictment of capitalism that leaves an undeniably bitter taste in the mouth.
- 4/21/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The documentary film reveals the toxic social divisions caused by low pay for Us and UK workers
Janet, a Walmart shop assistant in Louisiana, is so visibly stressed by working in a very understaffed store that a customer tells her she looks as if she’s going have a heart attack. Rochelle, a care worker in Newcastle, is miserable that her hours are so long that she can’t get home to put her children to bed. She also wishes she was better paid so that she didn’t owe £4,000 in catalogue bills, from buying clothes and shoes on credit for her children. Leah, a KFC worker from Richmond, Virginia, works six days a week, but is still behind on her rent and juggles calls from debt-recovery companies. Everyone in Katharine Round’s new documentary, The Divide, is struggling, trying to improve their lives; everyone is feeling the pressure. This...
Janet, a Walmart shop assistant in Louisiana, is so visibly stressed by working in a very understaffed store that a customer tells her she looks as if she’s going have a heart attack. Rochelle, a care worker in Newcastle, is miserable that her hours are so long that she can’t get home to put her children to bed. She also wishes she was better paid so that she didn’t owe £4,000 in catalogue bills, from buying clothes and shoes on credit for her children. Leah, a KFC worker from Richmond, Virginia, works six days a week, but is still behind on her rent and juggles calls from debt-recovery companies. Everyone in Katharine Round’s new documentary, The Divide, is struggling, trying to improve their lives; everyone is feeling the pressure. This...
- 4/11/2016
- by Amelia Gentleman
- The Guardian - Film News
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