http://hesomagazine.com/film/pop-zeitgeist-a-bummer-trip-to-the-end-of-the-world/ Photography, Music, Documentary Film, Social Justice Beer - Cultural Pugilist Fri, 17 May 2013 04:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://hesomagazine.com/film/pop-zeitgeist-a-bummer-trip-to-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-810 Best Documentary Films of 2011 – HESO Magazine Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:59:02 +0000 http://hesomagazine.com/?p=3871#comment-810 [...] Even as it becomes more mainstream, the lines of modern documentary film are ever blurring. No longer is documenting, “what is real?” the most apt, but rather, how do we instill the viewer with a big enough sense of awe at the world (and universe) around them to get them to become activists themselves? Take the fictionalized, The Tree of Life. Does it matter that it’s not technically a documentary? With his fifth directorial effort Terrence Mallick went with Big concepts (Life, The Universe, Everything), big stars (Brad Pitt), and big organic visuals that stun with their naturalistic analogue feel rather than digitally deceptiveness. Despite president of the jury Robert De Niro declaring it difficult to choose a winner,The Tree of Life won the Palme d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival competing against such notables as Pedro Almodóvar’s La Piel Que Habito, and Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia. [...]

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