Promised Land

The Weimar Touch: (R)evolution in Berlin

Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 04.28.2013 | Arts

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The 63rd International Filmfestspiele Berlin delivered the marriage of the personal/universal with flashes of outright genius in films of remarkable emotional depth, variety and originality.

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Berlin Film Festival Gets A Line-Up

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 03.30.2013 | Entertainment

A list of the movies being shown in the official program at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, which runs Feb. 7-17. In competition:...

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Fracked And Fractured: Pennsylvania Residents Gambling On Natural Gas Drilling

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 01.27.2013 | Green

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POINT MARION, Pa. -- Dave Cogar counts down the days until he's fracked. Through a haze of cigarette smoke at the Brass Rail bar here, he laments ...

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The Fracking Front Lines: Here's What 13 Pennsylvania Residents Have To Say About Shale Drilling

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.25.2013 | Green

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Do Pennsylvanians love or hate fracking? Yes. The nationwide release of "Promised Land," Gus Van Sant's drama about the natural gas industry and it...

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ReThink Review: Promised Land -- Fracking Goes (More) Hollywood

Jonathan Kim | Posted 03.26.2013 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, Josh Fox, Gasland, John Krasinski, Fracking, Frances McDormand, Yoko Ono, Gus Van Sant, Environmentalism, Sean Lennon, Matt Damon, Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas, Promised Land Review, Promised Land Movie, Promised Land, Video, Entertainment News

Fracking has received the full Hollywood treatment with Promised Land, a film starring and co-written by Matt Damon, one of Hollywood's biggest and most respected stars. But is Damon's name enough to convince people to see a movie revolving around natural gas drilling?

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Promised Land and the Illusion of Choice

Ann Green | Posted 03.16.2013 | Green

Promised Land gets the deeper issue right, the harder truth: for the landowners approached by gas companies and the people in "gasland" there's not really a choice, there's just an illusion of choice.

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Tracking Fracking Fights

Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.12.2013 | Green

Read More: Job Growth, Fracking, Colorado Fracking, Natural Gas Drilling, Promised Land, Lynne-Peeples, Green News

Welcome to day two of my new blog: Toxic Tracks. Here, I'll be posting short bits of daily news and commentary on environmental health topics. Please ...

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Fracking Causes Friction in Promised Land

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 03.10.2013 | Green

Directed by Gus Van Sant in the tradition of The China Syndrome and Silkwood, Promised Land uses mainstream entertainment to delve into American values, corporate responsibility, and activism.

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Weekend Box Office: Texas Chainsaw 3D Tops the First Weekend of 2013 While Promised Land Tanks

Scott Mendelson | Posted 03.08.2013 | Entertainment

Read More: Jack Reacher, Texas Chainsaw 3D, Les Miserables, Matt Damon, Movies, Django Unchained, Promised Land, Box Office, The Hobbit, The Hobbit an Unexpected Journey, Tarantino, Entertainment News

Texas Chainsaw 3D topped the box office this weekend with a robust $23 million. That this under-marketed film was still able to kick up a solid opening is proof of the franchise's long-standing popularity with genre fans (this is the seventh entry in 40 years).

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What's The Word On 'Promised Land'?

AP | CHRISTY LEMIRE | Posted 01.01.2013 | Entertainment

-- "Promised Land" offers an experience that's alternately amusing and frustrating, full of impassioned earnestness as well as saggy sections. Direc...

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Promised Land Powerfully Highlights What's at Stake for Communities in Fracking's Path

Kate Sinding | Posted 03.02.2013 | Green

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What "Promised Land" is about is a fundamental, and much-coveted, American principle -- that of a community's right to self-determination. The oil and gas industry simply should not be allowed the unique power it has been given to trample on that right.

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Promised Land Something More Than It's Fracked Up to Be

Tom Wilber | Posted 03.02.2013 | Green

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The forthcoming release of Promised Land -- Hollywood's portrayal of the divisive shale gas drama unfolding in rural America -- is by all accounts producing high expectations among anti-frackers and anxiety among drilling supporters.

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Movie Review: Promised Land

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 03.02.2013 | Entertainment

Promised Land was tightly written by Matt Damon and John Krasinski from a story by Dave Eggers. The movie is yet another of Participant Media's co-productions; they are a company that knows how to get behind a broad range of social issues.

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Matt Damon Tackles Fracking In 'Promised Land'

Reuters | Posted 02.27.2013 | Green

* Damon pairs up with Gus Van Sant for third time * Co-wrote script with John Krasinski * Damon says film does not have ...

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Movie Review: A Promised Land Delivers

Carole Mallory | Posted 02.25.2013 | Entertainment

Read More: John Krasinskil Elmier Gantry, Matt Damon, Frances Medormand, Gus Van Sant, Promised Land, Paul Simon, Hal Holbrook, Entertainment News

Matt Damon co-wrote and co-produced A Promised Land, a film about the evils of fracking. This has a boring ring to it. But it is not. Matt Damon fi...

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Yoko Ono, Matt Damon and OPEC Versus American Energy Independence

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 03.04.2013 | Business

Read More: Marcellus Shale Formation, Fracking, Yoko Ono, Gas, New York Times, Abu Dhabi, Matt Damon, Opec, Business, New York City, Promised Land, Business News

Yes, fracking has its problems. But within the few years, that technology has improved significantly, oversight has become singularly sensitized to the downside risks and communities have heightened awareness.

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Movie Review: Promised Land

Marshall Fine | Posted 02.26.2013 | Entertainment

I wanted to like Promised Land and certainly agree with its politics. So why did it feel like a preaching-to-the-converted letdown?

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Matt Damon: Star Power

Edward Flattau | Posted 02.19.2013 | Politics

Read More: Environmental Policy, Promised Land, Matt Damon, Gop Environmental Policy, Oil Shale, Shale Gas, Politics News

What is the right wing really worried about? Perhaps they fear they won't prevail when these films pose a choice between industrial exploitation of the environment for maximum profit, regardless of the consequences, versus protecting the Earth's natural resources in perpetuity.

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Matt Damon: Ben Affleck Turned To Directing Because He Was In 'Actor Jail'

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rosen | Posted 12.06.2012 | Entertainment

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Fifteen years ago, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, old friends as you may have heard, co-wrote and co-starred in "Good Will Hunting," a drama that earned ...

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You Need to See This Movie

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Posted 02.05.2013 | Green

Read More: New York Fracking, John Krasinski, Fracking, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Matt Damon, Promised Land, Green News

Matt Damon and John Krasinski's new film Promised Land answers the question of why even the poorest rural communities are standing up against fracking. Any community that is seriously debating fracking ought to screen this film publicly.

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Matt Damon: Promised Land Co-writer John Krasinski's "Brain Works a Lot Faster" Than Mine

Vanity Fair | Posted 02.04.2013 | Celebrity

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By Bennett Marcus, Vanity Fair While writing the script for Promised Land, Matt Damon and John Krasinski were both moonlighting. "I was on the show...

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A Promised Land

NARRATIVE.LY | Posted 10.23.2012 | New York

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Sipping chai among a sea of baby strollers and Times readers at the Hungarian Pastry Shop on a Sunday morning in spring, Avishai Mekonen is your proto...

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WATCH: Matt Damon Takes On John Krasinski In 'Promised Land'

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rosen | Posted 11.17.2012 | Entertainment

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In August, Focus Features surprised many Oscar prognosticators by setting "Promised Land" for release on Dec. 28. The decision could make the new dram...

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Matt Damon Stirs Fracking Controversy With New Film

Posted 04.06.2012 | Green

Environmentalists are giddy over the news that Matt Damon is starring in an anti-fracking film. Damon's agency confirmed to Politico that the acto...

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King's Eloquence Goes Far Beyond "I Have A Dream"

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2011 | Politics

The best-known parts of "I Have A Dream" have entered into a sort of comfortable familiarity, which allows everyone to view them without being challenged by the more pointed things Dr. King had to say that day.

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