Somewhere on the internet is a land where communities pretend to live out a survivalist fiction. The avatars of the directors of Knit’s Island spent 963 hours there, creating a fascinating film resulting from their encounter with these communities. The “players” reveal their fears and fantasies, in an at times unsettling blurring of the real and the virtual.
The Palm Desert band Eagles of Death Metal was performing at the Bataclan theater in Paris in November 2015 when terrorists opened fire, killing 89 people. The best friends who formed the band lead us through the horror and its aftermath in this moving documentary about the power of friendship and rock and roll.
水能载舟,亦能覆舟。2008金融海啸之后,全美视引入中资为救市良方。透过反收购美国公司,中资企业如洪流涌进山姆叔叔的金融市场,有人额手称庆,有人看出隐忧。转眼十年快过,积罗夫斯坦遍访华尔街,他的镜头下有大鳄,也有机会主义者,更有注定后悔出镜的业界「消息灵通人士」,进退之间几乎拍成了一齣恐怖片—到处是街客想像不到的秘密交易、巧取豪夺。如果这「故事」有教训,大抵是:知难而退简直是天方夜谭, 失手的下次只会来得更狠更卑鄙。