Ken Eisen
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Ken Eisen has written for Cineaste, Film Quarterly, and other publications, and teaches film at Colby College, the University of Southern Maine, and the University of Maine at Augusta. He is president of Shadow Distribution, a small, independent film-distribution company, and Railroad Square Cinema, a small, independent theater in Waterville, Maine. He himself is small and independent.
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Gritty Woman
On Hollywood's downtrodden eco-chicks, and how they've changed 0
Posted 3 years, 8 months ago"A working-class hero is something to be," said John Lennon. But for Hollywood, it's more likely to be a working-class heroine -- at least when environmental issues enter the picture.
Charlize Theron in North Country.
Photo: 78th Academy Awards®
This year, Charlize Theron's crusading miner-activist in North Country garnered an Oscar nomination, following in the footsteps of such Academy-lauded turns as Sally Field's in Norma Rae (1979), Meryl Streep's in Silkwood (1983), and Julia Roberts' in Erin Brockovich (2000). While Theron didn't… Read More
The Revolution Will Not Be Discounted
New Wal-Mart documentary may be a sign of upheavals to come 7
Posted 4 years agoLast week's release of Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price -- not, for the most part, in movie theaters, but rather in "churches, family businesses, schools, living rooms, community centers, and parking lots," as the film's website puts it -- marks a high-water moment in leftist media-based organizing.
Image: walmartmovie.com.
Director/producer Robert Greenwald adopted a similar strategy last year with his Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, but that work never scored the 7,000-plus play dates the new film claimed for its premiere… Read More