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Finding Hope Down in the Dump: A Visit with Tiao Carlos dos Santos, Champion of Rio Garbage Pickers

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 08.29.2012 | Green
Read More: Lucy Walker, Sebastiao Carlos Dos Santos, Waste Land, Rio+20 Earth Summit, Jardim Gramacho, Rio De Janeiro, Leila Monroe, Nrdc, Lisa Kaas Boyle, Tiao Carlos Dos Santos, Slater Jewell-Kemker, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

Jardim Gramacho is no longer the densely populated village of scavengers and recyclers captured so provocatively in the film Waste Land. One of the largest open-air landfills on the planet, the facility was recently closed just weeks before The Rio + 20 Earth Summit.

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Searching for a Balance With Nature and Self

George Heymont | Posted 06.30.2012 | Arts
Read More: Shokunin, Lucy Walker, Film, Tsunami, Masuhiro Yamamoto, Tohoku, Jiro Ono, The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, Daniel Gelb, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Video, Foreign Films, Sushi, Japanese Films, Japanese Movies, Arts News
George Heymont

Jiro Dreams of Sushi is balanced between the story of a remote and complex father and capturing the fine art of making sushi and photographing it in the immediacy of its freshness. It is also filled with surprises -- like watching how someone gets a live octopus into a plastic bag!

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lucy walker trash

Posted 09.04.2011 | Green
Read More: Recycling, Toyota, Landfills, Lucy Walker, Green, Trash, Slidepollajax, Waste Land, Garbage, Green News

Director Lucy Walker spent months filming the stories of garbage pickers working at Rio de Janeiro's Jardim Gramacho, one of the world's largest landf...

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The 30th Istanbul Film Festival: Egyptian Film Wins the Golden Tulip Award

Karin Badt | Posted 06.18.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Turkish Cinema, Tulip Prize, Canon 7d, Sexual Abuse, Elisa K, Istanbul Film Festival, Jonathan Nossiter, Lucy Walker, Microphone, Ahmad Abdalla, Jardim Gramacho, Rio Sex Comedy, My Only Sunshine, Pandora's Box, Muniz, Waste-Land, Child Victims of Sexual Abuse, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

Two of the most delightful films I saw at the Istanbul Film Festival this past week took place in Rio. One, a documentary called Wasteland by British ...

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5 Must-See Indie Films

Leonard Maltin | Posted 05.31.2011 | Arts
Read More: The-Father-of-My-Children, Win Win, Film, Waste Land, In a Better World, I Love You Phillip Morris, Thomas Anders Jensen, Lucy Walker, Vik Muniz, Best Foreign Film, Mia Hansen-LøVe, Jim Carrey, Tom Mccarthy, Susanne Bier, Oscars, Leonard Maltin, Hollywood, Arts News
Leonard Maltin

By Leonard Maltin With so much mediocrity on display at the multiplex, it's cause for celebration when terrific new movies from two world-class filmm...

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Green Films Going for the Gold

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Josh Fox, The Warriors of Quigong, Waste Land, Fracking, Environmentalism and Art, Academy Awards, Vik Muniz, Jennifer Redfearn, Geefwee Boedoe, Environmentalism and Film, Environmentalism, Ruby Yang, China, Film, Brazil, Carteret Islands, Papua New Guinea, Gasland, Lucy Walker, Let's Pollute, Environment, Hydrofracking, Oscars, Hydraulic Fracturing, Sun Come Up, Green News
Bill Chameides

While the popularity and relevance of the Academy Award ceremony have waxed and waned over the years, movies have remained a good bellwether of America's interests.

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Docu-Drama: Surprises and Snubs for the Best Documentary Oscar

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Slidepollajax, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Tim Hetherington, Restrepo, Fracking, Afghanistan, Lucy Walker, Thierry Guetta, Sebastian Junger, Street Art, Charles Ferguson, Gasland, The Oscars, Oscars Best Documentary, Banksy, Waiting for Superman, Marwencol, Charter Schools, Josh Fox, Inside Job, Waste Land, Rethink Reviews, Jonathan Kim, Movie Reviews, Rethink Interview, Films, Oscars-2011, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

It's a good time to dust off your queue and take a look at some of the best documentaries of 2010 while we can still remember them.

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Vik Muniz's Garbage-Art Transforms A Waste Land Into A Nominee & Award Winner

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Rio De Janeiro-Brazil, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lucy Walker, Vik Muniz, Recyclable Materials, Arts News
Brad Balfour

Brazilian conceptualist Vik Muniz has been making remarkable photo-constructs and garnering accolades within the fine art world for years including su...

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WATCH: FILM: New Visions of the Apocalypse

Spread ArtCulture | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Lucy Walker, Tuvalu, Kisa Lala, Film, Apocalypse, Countdown to Zero Movie, Kana Tomoko, Acqua Alta, Venice, Richard Hardy, New York City, Beautiful Islands Movie, 2012, Arts News
Spread ArtCulture

By Kiša Lala "Acqua Alta in Venice, An image from "Beautiful Islands," Horizon Features" A recent surge in apocalyptic films indicates the mood ...

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The Nuclear [Movie] Renaissance, or: Bad Idea, James Cameron

Rizwan Ladha | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Charles Pellegrino, The Last Train From Hiroshima, Nuclear Disarmament, Manhattan Project, Nuclear Weapons, Lucy Walker, Hiroshima, James Cameron, Nagasaki, Lawrence Bender, World War II, Countdown to Zero, Movies, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Rizwan Ladha

I'm noticing what might be a curious trend lately in Hollywood: movies are being made about nuclear weapons again.

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ReThink Review: Countdown to Zero -- How I Learned to Start Worrying

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Robert Oppenheimer, Gulf War, Lawrence Bender, Highly Enriched Uranium, Lucy Walker, Terrorism, Gulf War Syndrome, Hiroshima, Rethink Reviews, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Cold War, Afghanistan, Iraq, Rogue States, Countdown to Zero, Terrorism. Countdown to Zero Movie, Nuclear Bomb, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

America's willingness to use nuclear weapons poses one of the globe's biggest threats. As Countdown to Zero illustrates, it's time we take that threat off the table.

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Thoughts on the 65th Anniversary of Hiroshima Day

Lucy Walker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Hiroshima Anniversary, Countdown to Zero Movie, Countdown to Zero, Lucy Walker, Hiroshima, Politics News
Lucy Walker

I fear that we might all be like the "walking ghosts" of Hiroshima -- having survived the initial attack, we are alive only by virtue of a ghoulish time lag between the onset of the nuclear period and the full realization of its horrific consequences.

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Feeling Powerless About Nuclear Weapons? Try "Zero"

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Nagasaki, Lucy Walker, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Nuclear Weapons, Participant Media, Hiroshima, Countdown to Zero, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, David Krieger, World News
Steven Crandell

Have you seen the new documentary Countdown to Zero? If not, get thee to a cinema post haste. You will see remarkable footage of one of the most interesting characters of the 20th century, J. Robert Oppenheimer.

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ReThink Interview: Lawrence Bender and Lucy Walker on Countdown to Zero and Nuclear Weapons

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Dirty Bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, Lucy Walker, Ronald Reagan, Robert McNamara, Rethink Reviews, An Inconvenient Truth, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear, Jonathan Kim, Nuclear Weapons, Rethink Interview, Dr. Strangelove, Lawrence Bender, Countdown to Zero, Radiohead, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Wmd, Centrifuge, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Highly Enriched Uranium, Nuclear Power, Missile, Food Inc., Plutonium, Uranium, Mikhail Gorbachev, Albert Einstein, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

Why are nuclear weapons so far off our collective radars when they retain the potential to extinguish millions of lives -- if not all life on the planet -- in mere minutes?

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'Countdown To Zero' Urges Lowering The Number Of World's Nukes...To Zero

HuffPost | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Nuclear Weapons, Valerie Plame Wilson, Countdown to Zero Movie, Lucy Walker, Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Lawrence Bender, Countdown to Zero, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Movie Trailer, Video, Impact News

Do you know how many nuclear weapons there are in the world? What about the nations that have them? Further...how are those nukes protected? These are...

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Waste Land -- Recycling as an Artistic Statement

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Lucy Walker, Landfills, Vik Muniz, Environmentalism and Film, Waste, Artist, Trash, Documentary Film, Brazil, Green News
Bill Chameides

The inspiration for the movie Waste Land was in part sparked by a visit to New York City's mammoth Fresh Kills, formerly the world's largest landfill.

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Sundance Celebrates Documentary Filmmaking (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Video, Sundance Film Festival, Lucy Walker, Mark Lewis, Alex Gibney, Documentary, Sundance, Film, Davis Guggenheim, Entertainment News

Four documentary giants gathered in Park City, Utah, for a celebration of documentary filmmaking during the Sundance Film Festival. Alex Gibney ("C...

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