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NJCher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 09:06 AM
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Where "Inconvenient Truth" is Playing in NJ
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Got this off the "Inconvenient Truth" Web site:

NJ
Edgewater
6/2/06
Edgewater Multi 16
NATAMU
07020
NJ

Egg Harbor Twsp
6/30/06
Towne Stadium 16
Tri OH
08232
NJ

Montclair
6/2/06
Claridge
Clearview
07042

NY Times Review:

Warning of Calamities and Hoping for a Change in 'An Inconvenient Truth'
By A. O. SCOTT

CANNES, France, May 23 — "An Inconvenient Truth," Davis Guggenheim's new documentary about the dangers of climate change, is a film that should never have been made. It is, after all, the job of political leaders and policymakers to protect against possible future calamities, to respond to the findings of science and to persuade the public that action must be taken to protect the common interest.

But when this does not happen — and it is hardly a partisan statement to observe that, in the case of global warming, it hasn't — others must take up the responsibility: filmmakers, activists, scientists, even retired politicians. That "An Inconvenient Truth" should not have to exist is a reason to be grateful that it does.

Appearances to the contrary, Mr. Guggenheim's movie is not really about Al Gore. It consists mainly of a multimedia presentation on climate change that Mr. Gore has given many times over the last few years, interspersed with interviews and Mr. Gore's voice-over reflections on his life in and out of politics. His presence is, in some ways, a distraction, since it guarantees that "An Inconvenient Truth" will become fodder for the cynical, ideologically facile sniping that often passes for political discourse these days. But really, the idea that worrying about the effect of carbon-dioxide emissions on the world's climate makes you some kind of liberal kook is as tired as the image of Mr. Gore as a stiff, humorless speaker, someone to make fun of rather than take seriously.

In any case, Mr. Gore has long since proven to be a deft self-satirist. (He recently told a moderator at a Cannes Film Festival news conference to address him as "your Adequacy.") He makes a few jokes to leaven the grim gist of "An Inconvenient Truth," and some of them are funny, in the style of a college lecturer's attempts to keep the attention of his captive audience. Indeed, his onstage manner — pacing back and forth, fiddling with gadgets, gesturing for emphasis — is more a professor's than a politician's. If he were not the man who, in his own formulation "used to be the next president of the United States of America," he might have settled down to tenure and a Volvo (or maybe a Prius) in some leafy academic grove.

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/movies/24trut.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1149256973-h6BYg6Vu2cpr19RPmYqECQ




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