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New Mexico filmmaker makes a 'pro-truth' film about oil – but he needs to be more open about his own links to pro-oil advocacyFlashback: Have eco movies had their day at the box office? | Leo Hickman | guardian.co.uk
We may come to look back on 2009 as a vintage year for environmentally themed movies and documentaries. We've already seen the release of The Age of Stupid, Food Inc, The End of the Line, Disney's Earth and Yann Arthus-Bertrand's Home, and we currently await the arrival of No Impact Man, Dirt! The Movie, Earth Days and Big River Man, all of which have been creating quite a buzz over the summer, online and at the festivals.
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Or perhaps there's another way for cinema to continue to guide hearts and minds on some of the key issues of our day? The movie screen has been used repeatedly as a social agitator ever since Eadweard J Muybridge, Georges Méliès and all the other cinematic pioneers triggered the era of the silver screen more than 100 years ago. Movies have been helping to form opinions on all sorts of issues – government corruption, the Vietnam war, the power of corporations – for decades.
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What do you think are the perfect ingredients to a campaigning movie? Heart-rending case studies? Memorable cinematography? Or just a powerful, emotive subject thrust between your eye balls via a ripping good yarn?
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