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Sue Bourne - Interview
I know, this isn’t quite the movie you were expecting to be showcased here.
Looking at the poster, girls getting their Lord of the Riverdance on, you would probably expect to see a movie about girls fluttering about on a stage in their Shirley Temple curled hair, trying to win the affections of judges as they put on a dazzling show of fancy footwork and high stepping legs. You’d be right, to a degree, but this is a documentary I could not recommend high enough to those looking for a good antidote of the steroid-fueled antics of your local superheroes currently decimating the box office.
What I loved most about Jig is the way director Sue Bourne looks at these dancers.
The Archives, Right Here
Check out my other column, This Week In Trailers, at SlashFilm.com and follow me on Twitter under the name: Stipp
Sue Bourne - Interview
I know, this isn’t quite the movie you were expecting to be showcased here.
Looking at the poster, girls getting their Lord of the Riverdance on, you would probably expect to see a movie about girls fluttering about on a stage in their Shirley Temple curled hair, trying to win the affections of judges as they put on a dazzling show of fancy footwork and high stepping legs. You’d be right, to a degree, but this is a documentary I could not recommend high enough to those looking for a good antidote of the steroid-fueled antics of your local superheroes currently decimating the box office.
What I loved most about Jig is the way director Sue Bourne looks at these dancers.
- 6/24/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
Rating: 3.5/5
Writer: Brook Silva-Braga
Director: Brook Silva-Braga
Coming from the Midwest, particularly the economically gut-punched state that is the Mighty Mitten, Michigan, I’ve seen firsthand what the economic crisis, and the outsourcing of jobs that occurred for years prior, can do to an area. A former factory worker myself, I may not have seen my job be handed over to people in a different country, or even simply left behind due to cheaper labor somewhere else, but I have seen areas like Detroit get assaulted when major companies leave the area.
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Writer: Brook Silva-Braga
Director: Brook Silva-Braga
Coming from the Midwest, particularly the economically gut-punched state that is the Mighty Mitten, Michigan, I’ve seen firsthand what the economic crisis, and the outsourcing of jobs that occurred for years prior, can do to an area. A former factory worker myself, I may not have seen my job be handed over to people in a different country, or even simply left behind due to cheaper labor somewhere else, but I have seen areas like Detroit get assaulted when major companies leave the area.
Read more on Review: The China Question...
- 6/21/2011
- by Joshua Brunsting
- GordonandtheWhale
Title: The China Question Director: Brook Silva-Braga Starring: Brook Silva-Braga The discussion of international economics, politics and morals, particularly in a documentary, often turns people away if they’re not watching it for a school assignment. But director Brook Silva-Braga proves in his new movie ‘The China Question’ that when a subject truly affects people, particularly in a negative manner, they’ll be more intrigued to look further into the manner. With the current decline in the U.S. job market, Americans will surely be fascinated with the filmmaker’s questioning of why factory jobs are being shipped to China. They’ll also be curious why products are continuously being produced so cheaply in China...
- 6/6/2011
- by karen
- ShockYa
What does China.s rise mean for America? Through the stories of ordinary people and analysis from the world.s leading experts including Niall Ferguson, Wu Jianmin, Orville Schell, and Susan Shirk, The China Question explores the challenge America faces as China becomes the world.s second superpower.
To understand the economic, political and moral implications of China.s rise, filmmaker Brook Silva-Braga spent over a year traveling both China and America. On a thoughtful, personal journey into corners of the People.s Republic often off-limits to western journalists we meet ordinary people dealing with extraordinary change, and reflect on the twists of fate and history that brought us here.
Featured Interviews:
- Niall Ferguson, renowned economic historian
- Susan Shirk, former State Department official and author of .China: Fragile Superpower.
- Orville Schell, Director of the Asia Society’s U.S.- China Center
- Barry Naughton, author of...
To understand the economic, political and moral implications of China.s rise, filmmaker Brook Silva-Braga spent over a year traveling both China and America. On a thoughtful, personal journey into corners of the People.s Republic often off-limits to western journalists we meet ordinary people dealing with extraordinary change, and reflect on the twists of fate and history that brought us here.
Featured Interviews:
- Niall Ferguson, renowned economic historian
- Susan Shirk, former State Department official and author of .China: Fragile Superpower.
- Orville Schell, Director of the Asia Society’s U.S.- China Center
- Barry Naughton, author of...
- 5/26/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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